1. Do Now: Notebook
Have you ever found yourself in a completely new environment? Though you may have viewed pictures or a brochure depicting the location, suddenly you are taking it all in---in person!
What was that experience like? Were you comfortable or uncomfortable? Overwhelmed or pleasantly surprised? Disappointed or overjoyed?
Explain your experience in a quick write.

2. Add to your Vocab Section
Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or other text.

3. Reading Pico Iyer’s “Where Worlds Collide”
As we read, mark the allusions in the notes section.
Think about where else in the world you have heard of these references.
What is the effect of these allusions?

4. Practice Deconstruction of Prompt pg. 52
Subject
Speaker
Type of Essay
Task
Hints

5. TAG statement frames T: Title A: Author G: Genre
In the __(genre)___, “___(title)____,” __(author)__ shows/conveys….
__(author)_’s _(genre)__ , “___(title)____,” allows one to see….
“___(title)____,” a __(genre)___ by __(author)_,
supports/proves the idea that…

6. Share our Paragraphs

7. Do Now: Write in Vocab Section
Colon: Sets off a series in a list, after a complete sentence.
The picnic supplies are ready: paper plates, napkins, utensils, cups, and ice.
Semicolon: Separates two complete sentences when one begins with a transitional word (however, then, etc)
Everyone is ready for a picnic; however, the rain has started.

8. Combine these sentences
The blue skies they saw on TV are scarcely visible from here. It is just smoggy haze, billboards, and gray streets.
They can see the familiar signs of Hilton, Hyatt and Holiday Inn. Further out, the City of Angels awaits them.

9. Parenthetical Expressions
Add Voice to text by adding opinion into a sentence—usually not in parentheses strangely.
The headmistress had been in India, I suppose, fifteen years ago.
Strawberry jam, for instance, doesn’t make a good spaghetti sauce.

10. Appositive or Parenthetical?
Uncle Charlie, when he was told about the escaped fleas, broke out in a blush.
The hangman, a grey-haired convict in the white uniform of the prison, was waiting beside his machine.
Cobras, although they are essentially moody, like an occasional chuckle.

11. Appositive or Parenthetical?
We spotted Tom Hanks, the movie star, at the cafe yesterday.
The tone of her letter, however, brought tears to Fang’s eyes.
"My father,  a funny man with a subversive wit, is trying to decide which of his eight children he will take with him to the county fair."

12. Go to your paragraph about Pico Iyer’s essay
Go to your paragraph about Pico Iyer’s essay. Add in a parenthetical statement.
Exit Slip: In Notebook