AGENDA Leveling Sentences  Ladder of Abstraction Burger Village Activity SSR

Ladder of Abstraction Based on S.I. Hayakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction model, think of a specific object that you know well and develop a ladder of abstraction (reading from bottom up) that has at least six levels.

Leveling Sentences Level One  Controlling Sentence Level Two  Clarifying Sentences Level Three  Completing Sentences

Burger Village Thesis: Eating at Burger offers several advantages. (Level 1) Identify the major reasons (Level 2)  (4 total) 1A, 1B, 1C List the supporting details for each reason (Level 3)  (3 for EACH major reason)

AGENDA Sedaris excerpt Holidays on Ice James Frey: Truth in Memoirs SSR/Conferring **Examine the elements of truthfulness in memoirs

Holidays on Ice Chart sentences by level See the heartbeat

The Glass Castle Pick an excerpt (5 sentences minimum) Chart the sentences Determine whether Walls gave her writing a heartbeat.

James Frey A Million Little Pieces Discuss the level of truthfulness required when writing a memoir.

AGENDA Book Talk: Brain on Fire Rhetorical Vocab (Interruption) Formative Feedback SSR/Conferring ** Define Interruption Schemes **Analyze opportunity for improvement in analysis

Rhetorical Vocab Interruption (2) Omission (2) Repetition (6) Comparison (6) Balance (8) Word Play (9)

Formative Feedback FA #1 Transfer (p. 1-3) = 4 points FA #2 Editing and improvement (p. 4-6) = 10 points  Claim, quotes, set scene, looping, additional annotations GRAPESSS: Sedaris (p. 7-8) = 8 points GRAPESSS: Current Event (p. 8-9)= 18 points  16 for each GRAPESSS (x2 each)  2 for Annotated Article TOTAL FORMATIVE POINTS: 40 points

Missing formative assignments You will NOT receive points for your summative assessment until you’ve shown ALL of your formative assessments to Mrs. W

AGENDA Rhetorical Vocabulary (Omission) SSR/Conferring Homework:  GRAPESSS Analysis on NEW Current Events article. Print, annotate, analyze article.  Write analysis on separate sheet of paper.  Bring it class tomorrow.  THIS IS A SUMMATIVE EVALUATION!

SSR/Conferring AP 30 Book Challenge: YOU CAN DO IT!

AGENDA Summative Analysis #1

Focus Question #5 (Summative Assessment) New York Newsday writes, “Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have.” In a well-developed essay, explain how Jeannette Walls’s language choices and recall of childhood memories raise debate for the validity of her memoir.