Tuesday, 1/19/10
Copy homework into assignment
book. Note different days for Pinks Sheet and Vocabulary.
Intro to 600 Words/Week and types
of essays. First due date: 1/26.
You need to turn in essays in at least 3 different
styles by the end of the year.
Writing Styles: (R) Eyewitness Report (L) Response to Literature
(E) Evaluation (P) Persuasion (T) Technical Writing (P-S) Problem-Solution
10 minutes to get started. Here are a few ideas:
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(P) What if people routinely live to be 150-200 years old?
Convince us it would be good or bad.
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(R) If your dog (cat) could talk, what would it say about
you and your family? Show an important incident from your pet's POV.
(Remember the 5 W's and the 5 senses.)
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(T) How to.. -choose the best… -impress your teacher… -fix…
-improve your grades…-do… - make… (Make it entertaining! Make
it educational!)
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(L) Compare and contrast characters from two of the stories
we have read this year. Example: How are Jonas and Dally similar? What
can we learn from their experiences?
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(T/P) Invent a new class to be offered here at Laguna...Convince
the administration that it would be a good addition.
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(E) Reviews: Best/worst burgers, cds, movies, video games,
software, websites, etc. (Describe, evaluate, give reasons/suggestions.)
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(P/E) Sports Predictions and Evaluations: Who's going all
the way? Which power forward should the Lakers get? Best running
backs in football? Most overrated? What makes you think so?
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(P/E) What is the best word, and why? Show all the ways to
use it. (Keep it clean!)
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(P-S) How can we deal with the trash problem here at Laguna?
Show at least two possible solutions.
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(R) Recount the most exciting/scary/important event you have
ever witnessed. Make us feel like we're there (5 W's/5 Senses).
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(P-S) Show an issue/problem that you feel we have here at
Laguna, and offer your solutions (2+) to it, and reasons why your solutions
would work.
120 Seconds.
MWA.