Senior Writing

Complete and Submit Portfolio

Go over Unit 3 Test – Retake Options

After school Wed or Thur

In class on Fri

Unit 4 – Lesson 1 and 2

Analyzing an argument via commercials

Portfolio – Final Work Day - Monday

• Portfolio Assembly• Finish Revising• Two key elements of success – Revision and Follow

Directions• Use your Ten Errors guide as you revise• Be sure to review comments

• Save often as you work• Be sure you have typed or written draft with MY

COMMENTS behind your final: About Me/Philosophy, Employment Skills, Article Report (from Turnitin), Activity/Recommendation, Argument (from Turnitin), and Application Essay.

Tuesday – Submission Day

• Please come in and sit at a table of 3 or 4.• Please put electronics away – there is no need of them today.• There is an instruction sheet on the table. • General Idea – swap portfolios to review and check for errors or

omissions. Fix if possible.• Today is not a work day. If you treat it as such, it will affect

your reflection page.• Share your portfolio with your group. Must read aloud one

piece.• Complete Reflection form• Celebrate

Learning Target:Demonstrate ability to edit for sentence errors, punctuation, agreement and case, and modifier errors.

Wednesday/Thursday

Unit 3 Retake, Parallelism, Reference, and How to write analysis for Exam

GO OVER UNIT 3 TESTPlease find all instruction pages for Units 1, 2, 3.

Discuss retakes

Unit 4, Lesson 1

• Parallelism – means making words, phrases, or clauses that are linked sound the same.

• Example: After school I drive my little sister home, do my homework, and cooking dinner.

• “cooking dinner” does not match the rest of the list. • Revision: After school, I drive my little sister home, do

my homework, and cook dinner. • Review Lesson 1 – p. 55 and do exercise 1 at bottom of

it.

Complete Les. 1, Exercise 1

• Review the explanation on top of P. 55• Do Exercise One on bottom of P. 55. 1-4• After correcting, do p. 56 – • Correct p. 56• Bring in a resume for tomorrow – we will discuss

parallelism in reference to them.

Thursday

Correct Unit 1-3 Review

• Focus on what you know.• Clarify what you do not

Correct Parallelism p. 56

• Recognize something as not parallel

• Recognize there are multiple ways to correct

Pronoun Reference

• Pronoun Reference – Lack of clarity for a pronoun: he, she, it, them, they, that, which.

• Requires rewriting and for YOU to make a decision on meaning.• Many of you said “they” in your article report. Sometimes you meant the

articles; sometimes you meant an animal, a person, or the subject you were writing about. This created confusion as to who “they” referred.

• http://www.towson.edu/ows/modulepro.htm

The supervisors told the employees they would be getting a bonus.

So who is getting the bonus?

Do and Correct p. 58.

Do Final Mastery Review – for Friday P. 63-69

Learning TargetDemonstrate ability to recognize errors in parallelism and reference.

Demonstrate ability to recognize techniques used by advertisers and to recognize audience and purpose of commercials and their techniques.

Analyzing Arguments with in Commercials

• Product?• Audience?• Techniques: Pathos, Ethos, Logos, and others

(bandwagon, glittering, exaggeration, understatement, individuality, etc.)

• Consider main method, effectiveness for given audience.

Analysis

• Intro – Summary of ad, identify product

• Body – minimum of 3 paragraphs – discussing three different techniques –

• ID technique

Give examples

Explain examples

Comment on examples

• Conclusion• sum up what was

most used• comment on its

effectiveness • connect to audience • other reflections on ad

Practice analyzing

• Example 1 SF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I

• Example 2 VW• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0• Example 3 MJ and B• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1shK-j_u6LI• Example 4P http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6q0ft48Jpw

Friday

• Correct Final Mastery Review – Friday• Unit 3 Retake• Practice putting together an analysis of a commercial