WEEK 8

 YOUR WORK:

We're literally in the home stretch!

No, wait. That's wrong. We're not literally in the home stretch because we're not all on horses making the last turn before racing to the finish line. Literally doesn't work here. Some of you need to look back at your "Literally" sentences. If you lost points and want them back, you can revise them. Re-read the LBGB entry!

Now here's your work...

1. ACT Q set (Passage IV, beginning with "Comic books...")  Corrections.

2. Reading skills practice....

a. Skill Builder 1

b. Skill Builder 2

Check here for the corrections for 2a 2b 


3. GO HERE. Read each of the five passages and answer those questions. Set your timer for 42 minutes (that's the same pace as the ACT test, but you'll be answering 48 questions instead of 40 in 35 minutes). You'll be reading these passages:

1. "Men of Brewster Place"
2. "Personality Disorders"
3. "A Poem of One's Own"
4. "How to Build a Baby's Brain"
5. A pair of passages: "In Orbit" and "On July 20th 1969" 

4. In week 5, you watched this video on context and framing. Make sure you're including these strategies in this week's essay.

5. This week we'll leave the SAT and start with the ACT style prompts.  Go HERE for the prompt.  

DUE FRIDAY @ MIDNIGHT.

WEEK 7

Good morning!

Sorry - I know it's not on the agenda, but I need to add in another two-week / catch-up post. I've decided last minute to do the men's retreat this weekend. So yes, we'll end up going a week longer.

YOUR WORK:

Everything is due NEXT Friday, 3/20, at midnight.

1. LBGB...

A. Read chapter 4. 

B. Explain in your own words the five "AVOIDS" in the Style & Usage section.

C. Write a sentence using each term in the pair correctly:

    possible / plausible

    shall / will

    who / whom

D. Write three sentences, each using the word literally in a corret way.     

2. The videos have you getting out your green textbook. Ignore that. I posted a pdf of all the exercises here. Show me your work and post your scores. Also, check your scores from last week's exercises. A few of you didn't tell me how you did, so you may need to score those again. Show me the ones you got wrong.  

Watch this video on modifier problems ...

and this video on case forms. The video cuts in a little after the beginning, but that's ok. You'll hear what you need to hear. I'm more concerned with you knowing how the objective case works (that's where problems tend to show up) than the subjective case.


3. ACT Q set (Passage III, beginning with "The formal tradition..."). Corrections.  *Make sure you do this Q set after the two videos from #1. 


4. Revise the Paul Bogard SAT prompt. Most of you need to read the prompt again VERY CAREFULLY. It lays out how to organize it pretty clearly: evidence, reasoning, and appeal to emotion (or other style/persuasive technique like word choice). Remember, your job in that essay to show HOW he builds his argument, so use the terms that describe persuasive writing. Most of you can also use a lot of you wrote in the first draft. It will just need to be re-arranged.


5. Go HERE for SAT prompt #2. Remember to use the language of the prompt itself to guide your writing (the basic language about evidence, reasoning, and other elements, doesn't change from one prompt to another, so get in the habit of organizing your essay that way.) NO REVISIONS THIS TIME! So proof it carefully.


Have a great two weeks!