Expos Comp 4 (Period 4) Assignments

Agenda: 1/25/12

 

1. Read through Ch. 10

2. Write out and answer study guide questions for Chs 9 and 10.

 

Ch 9

1. List at least five ways the Chris McCandless is like Everett Ruess.

2. There are three theories of Ruess' disappearance.  Summarize each.

 

Ch 10

1. List the eight steps to a positive identification of Chris McCandless.

Agenda: 1/23/12

 

1. Turn in Chris' ITINERARY through Ch.6.

2. Read through Ch. 10 this week.

3.In JOURNAL write out and answer study guide questions.

 

Ch. 6. 1) How did ron Franz and Chris meet?  2) Summarize Franz's previous life. 3) Why do you think Franz wanted to adopt Chris?

Ch. 7. Explain the connection between Chris' sexual ambivalence and his yearning for the wilderness. 

Ch. 8. Summarize the stories of: 1) Gene Rosellini  2) Joh Mallon Waterman  3) Carl McCunn

Agenda: 1/13/12

 

1. SWBAT summarize key events.  IN YOUR JOURNAL, make a bullet point CORONER'S REEPORT (p. 13-14).

2. Beginning with Ch. 3, start keeping track of all dates and occurances in journal.

3. Vocab--10 words.

Agenda: 1/10/12

 

1.  Write a 500 word essay about the most memorable or best thing that occurred during your Christmas break.

 

2.  Read the Author's Note and Ch.1. of into the Wild.  Quiz on Thurs.

11/28/11

 

Agenda:

 

1. SWBAT combine simple sentences into a sentence with compound elements (Quarterback).

 

2.  SWBAT write a letter to the editor by attacking the logical fallacies in the original text--"Hounding the Innocent."  Due Wed. 11/30

11/22/2011

 

Agenda:

 

1. SWBAT read, chunk, and gist new material, like Hounding the Innocent, by Bob Herbert.

 

2. Summary due Monday, the 28th.

11/17/2011

 

Agenda:

 

1. SWBAT correct sentences with misplace and danglins modifiers on P 75 in the yellow grammar text.

 

2. SWBAT use basic rhetorical analysis to write a letter to the editor about Rifkin's "Change of Heart about Animals."

11/14&15

 

Agenda

 

1. Back to chunk and gist in "Change of Heart"

2. The summaries

3. Argument analysis (the rhetorical square)

11/09/2011

 

Agenda:

 

1. The value of emotion:

2. Summarize: "Change of Heart'

3. Vocab 130 words.

11/8/2011

 

Agenda:

 

1. Parallelism, p.70

2. Read and Talk; 3 discussion question p.32 (blue book)

3. Read, chunk, and gist "Change of Heart," p.33

For Thurs. 11/9--Vocab. 130 words, and summary of "Change of Heart."

11/3/2011

 

Agenda:

 

1. Reducing sentences, P 67

2. Ways to Persuade, Unit 3, P 29

3. Homework: vocab and book report.