Arrangement and Form

Your homework tonight consists of reading pages 13-26 in the Language of Composition and blogging the assignment on page 26.  This assignment and the reading are designed to introduce you to the concept of organization in your essays and expose you to the various types of organization commonly seen in writing.

• Remember that we have our first vocab test tomorrow.
• Kyle, sign up for a blog (you know which Kyle I’m talking about)!  Then email your blog address to mr.giddings@comcast.net or agiddings@fife.k12.wa.us.  You are the lone holdout.

Political Cartoons

For Tomorrow

Read pages 10-11 in our textbook and do the assignment on page 12 tonight.  Read the assignment carefully so that you are sure to do all that you need to—it’s a short text, but it is pretty packed. 

One great place to find many, many political cartoons for this assignment is slate.com.  There is a menu on the left that allows you to search cartoons by topic.  Remember to pick a cartoon that deals with an issue that you know something about.  That will help a great deal.  ;)  

Insert your cartoon into a blog post (unless you cut it out of the newspaper, though it would likely be online as well) and blog your analysis in response to the criteria in the book.  We’ll pull them up on the projector tomorrow to talk about them.  Be prepared to present your cartoon to the class. 

Notes

• As mentioned in class today, we are also taking our second timed write tomorrow.
• Vocab 1 quiz on Friday.

Paper Due Tomorrow!

Remember that your papers are due tomorrow (2/4/09).  As I said in class, you can get the MLA formatting instructions from the MLA at OWL link on the AP menu to the left.  I (and Ms. Robison who you’ll likely have for AP or College English next year) prefer that you NOT double-space your heading or include your name/page number in the heading.  Here are a couple of examples of what that would look like. 



To do page numbers, use the insert page number function in your word processor to put a page number in the upper right hand corner.  Then edit the header and type your last name followed by a space in front of the page number. 

If you are technically challenged and this poses a major cognitive meltdown, breathe.  The technical difficulties with the Activeboard in the lab today prevented me from demonstrating how to do this, so this format will not be required until the next paper.  Just try to get it as close as you can.

Also, please remember to bring your books tomorrow.  As noted in class on Monday, you should read pages 4-9 in your book by class tomorrow.