Modes Project

NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION Points to Remember

1. Focus your narrative on the “story” in your story— that is, focus on the conflict that defines the plot.
2. Vary the pace of your narrative so that you can summarize some events quickly and render others as fully realized scenes.
3. Supply evocative details to help your readers experience the dramatic development of your narrative.
4. Establish a consistent point of view so that your readers know how you have positioned yourself in you story.
5. Represent the events in you narrative so that you story makes its point.




PROCESS ANALYSIS

Points to Remember

1. Arrange the steps in your process in an orderly sequence.
2. Identify and explain the purpose of each of the steps in the process.
3. Describe the special tools, terms, and tasks needed to complete the process.
4. Provide warnings, where appropriate, about the consequences of omitting, reversing, or overlooking certain steps.
5. Supply illustrations and personal anecdotes to help clarify aspects of the process.

Thematic Unit - Quiz

So - today we will be taking a quiz (it's open book) on the thematic unit.

It's more of a - DID YOU READ quiz.  It's not to punish you.  

After the quiz we should talk about what you learned by reading this unit, and we should practice your poem for POL.

Homework

1) Start memorizing your poem
2) Read the next ten pages in chapter 8 (the river reader)
3) Start prewriting for narration essay (MODES PROJECT)

Modes Project

Today, we are going to go over you poem for POL; go over you ideas for the "MODES PROJECT"; and finish reading "Digging".

Homework

1) Come up with three or four ideas for "themes" for your modes project
2) Find 1 Poems for POL
3) Read 1st 10 pages on Chapter 8 (Thematic Unit on Survival) in the river reader

Modes Project

PROJECT OVERVIEW

1)   Student will read “Resources for Writing” (Thematic Unit – Survival) in their Riverside Reader pages 493 – 563.

The purpose of this aspect of the assignment is to further their understanding of seven different rhetorical modes of development and to show them a model for the writing project that they will be doing.  Reading the selections, which are all on the same topic, the Internet, but which utilize the various “modes of development”.

2)   Read two additional essays of their choice of each mode and write a précis (posted on their blog) for each.  These readings should come from The Riverside Reader.  While students are doing this aspect of the project the class will be studying and working with various modes in class.

3)   Write six papers on the same topic, each in a different mode. 

Each paper should clearly demonstrate the distinct characteristics of the mode.  Before writing the student should review the different chapters for tips on purpose, audience, strategies, and in some cases, potential pitfalls.  Especially important will be the “Points to Remember” charts handed out during the writing.

Students will choose a topic that is well known and interesting to them and broad enough that they can readily adapt it to six different treatments:  1) narration, 2) analysis, 3) compare and contrast, 4) classification, 5) definition, and 6) persuasion

Topics that have be suggested include: shopping, a favorite sport, school, friends, teenagers, grades, parents, teacher, TV, movies, reading, dating, music, holidays, fashion, presidential elections, politics, religion, vegetarianism, health, food or cooking, nature, etc.

Each paper should be approximately 500 words, labeled with the mode of development, double-spaced, typed, have a creative title, and a word count at the end.

Total project should be approximately 3000 words.

Each paper will be workshopped in a group setting and discussed 1-1 with teacher.

PROJECT will be due at SPRING BREAK.  

Other Due dates: Thematic Unit read ("Survival") by 1/20. There will be a quiz on it.

Narration Essay (draft) due 1/23

Analysis (draft) due 2/4

Compare and Contrast (draft) due 2/13

Classification (draft) due 2/25

Definition (draft) due 3/6

Persuasion (draft) due 3/13

FINAL drafts due 3/23 (when you return from Spring Break).