Essential Questions

What is the right balance of power between an individual’s need for expression and society’s need for control?

*Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

*How it Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston

-Students will be expected to write informal responses to the texts as directed. These informal writings will include thoughts, connections to own experience, questions about the text, words, images, phrases or details that make an impression, along with identification of the author’s purpose, audience, and tone.

-Rhetorical Analysis paragraphs based on close reading of text

- Personal Narrative incorporating elements of Narration and rhetorical strategies and devices

-Personality inventory/quiz

-Current events / debates

-Analyze and interpret samples of purposeful writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies.

-Use effective rhetorical strategies and techniques when composing.

-Write for a variety of purposes.

-Create and sustain original arguments based personal observation and experience.

-Gain control over various reading and writing processes, synthesis of sources, drafting, revising/rereading, editing, and review.

-Demonstrate understanding of the conventions of the conventions of citing primary and secondary sources.

Rhetorical Strategies to Achieve Your Purpose – activities from Quiet and Whistling Vivaldi

4 corners discussion

How does the author use language and techniques of language to community the community’s need for control?

Necessity vs. Extravagance

Thematic Statements

Text dependent Questions

Right balance of Power in people’s life

Text dependent Questions

Requirements of Personal Narrative Essay

Notes on style and how to arrange paragraphs

Writer’s Workshop

Narrative Pre-Writing, Drafting

Writer’s Workshop – Personal Narrative

Writer’s Workshop – Personal Narrative