Major assessment for the Essay unit. Dates and criteria

Hello 12s,

Here you will find the major essay criteria and due date. We will use each class between now and then to prepare you for this test weight in-class essay.

Outline and plan (purpose/audience/diction/forms/devices)Due: Nov. 3  (homework check in class)
In-class essay: Nov. 7th.
This gives us (including today, 4 classes and one weekend to prepare before your essays are due)

• You are writing on the following prompt: 'Some people's problems are other people's opportunities.'(You are encouraged to spend time imagining how you might creatively deal with this prompt. We will have time to discuss in class. Come with your questions.)

    On the top of the essay you must list: 

2 Forms:

Purpose:

Diction/s:

Audience:

Device/s:

•   forms and novel methods(devices) you intend to use as per handouts/essays we've read/in-class notes/discussion. 
• Again, the essay shall be inclusive of 2 forms. You'll declare and blend a combination of narrative/descriptive/comparison/persuasive/argumentative/expository. Choose 2 and employ/combine them.
• You may bring an outline to the write but it may have no sentences on it. Rather this ought to be a skeletal map of the shape of your ideas.
•  You will be assessed equally on form and sophistication/effectiveness of content(meeting your declared purpose for your declared audience). So I'll look at both how and what you are saying. 
•   Be aware of your perspective/diction/form/ rhetorical devices (see examples below) as they all fit together to achieve your purpose.
• The essay will be marked according to the above and based on the Synthesis rubric found on the provincial exam website. The closest I can get you is this Rubric link scroll to page 11 please. Where you read 'text' insert 'rhetorical devices/forms'

   Below is a short list of some elements you may choose to employ:

Some 'novel methods' we have been reviewing:

Forms:  expository, comparison, argument, persuasion or,narrative, descriptive

Rhetorical devices:  Analogy, jargon, aside, editorial, rhetorical question, appeal to authority, logos, ethos, pathos

Literary devices: metaphor, simile, irony, (single or sustained), imagery repetition, allusion, onomatopoeia (and more)First person, objective/3rd person, second person,

Levels of diction:  See hand out. Ensure you use academic diction for part of it even if you employ another level too.

Please do not write a paper with your tutor and spend a weekend memorizing it. That is not helpful preparation for your life as a thinker/writer. 

Rather,  explore possible ideas and map out how you could fulfill the above criteria to meet your purpose. Be curious and creative and try to have a good time with it. If you are enjoying it, likely your reader will too. If you are bored, your reader will be bored. Have a playful attitude if you can.

I look forward to answering you questions and seeing what you've dreamed up over the weekend.

Cheers,

Ms. S

Suitcase Lady assignment

Hi all,

Unfortunately, this blog post got lost and so you are allowed to have an extension if you would like. Respond to the following and submit not later than Oct. 26th.

Suitcase Lady

1.      What does the opening description achieve?

2.     What do the many quotations do for the description?

3.     Discuss the irony of the ending.

4.     “With her words she spins herself a cocoon” states McLaren in Paragraph 8. How appropriate is this metaphor?

Thanks,

Ms. S