1. PDN: Write your answer in your notes.
How do you write a bad, like really bad, essay?
What kind of advice do you typically see in “how to” articles?
Keep notes this week. I will be checking them at the end of the next week.

2. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

3. Class Discussion
What do you predict the essay will say based on its title?
What might the author’s purpose be here?

4. “Principles of Poor Writing”: page 411 Read each section of bad writing advice
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view?
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

5. Application of Irony: Please add to your notes.
Consider what you feel like you are an expert in (exclude social media please because of its overuse as a topic).
Now, you write a paragraph instructing the reader on completing some kind of process (laundry, driving a car, etc.) and be ironic throughout (tell the reader the opposite of what they would expect out of that list).

6. PDN:
Does anyone here speak a second language fluently?
Discuss in your group how you feel or have felt learning a new language. What is that experience like? Have you ever spoken that language in a foreign country?

7. Group Discussion
What do you think the story “Me Talk Pretty One Day” will be about?
Discuss in your groups one of your most embarrassing or “out of your comfort zone” stories.

8. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

9. Read “Me Talk Pretty One Day”
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view?
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

10. Write-to-text:
Now add that story about being out of your “comfort zone” to your notes, using one of the literary elements you identified.
Highlight the use of that literary element.

11. PDN
Pick up the summer reading assignment that applies to you (AP and all other classes).
Pick-up one copy of Models for Writers.
Achieve final level-set due Friday by 2:14pm.

12. “Most Important Day”: Add to notes
PDN: Jot down how you think Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, learned to read and write.
What characteristics do you think she had to have in order to overcome such a challenge?

13. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

14. “Most Important Day” page 76
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view?
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

15. Most Important Day
Flip through the photos on your phone.
Select the one that is most memorable.
We are going to write about it.

16. Write-to-text: Add to your notes.
Write a short paragraph about your most important day, utilizing one literary element in particular to serve your purpose.
You cannot talk about the day you were born.
Highlight where you utilized a particular literary element to serve your purpose (describing your most important day).

17. “In Praise of the F Word”: Add to your notes
PDN: Based on the title, what do you think this essay will be about? What word might the author be talking about? (Hint: it’s not the curse word. You won’t get credit for answering that.)
Do you think school puts too much emphasis on grades and not enough on learning? Or vice versa?
Remember your Achieve Level Set is due Friday at 2:14

18. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

19. Discussion Question
In your experiences talking to teachers, counselors, friends, and family, and in your own personal experiences, do you think students are prepared enough for college? What could schools be doing more or less of to help students prepare for the challenges in college?

20. “In Praise of the F Word” page 552
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: (think of nonfiction elements)?
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

21. Write-to-text: Add to your notes.
Style- an adjective to describe the person’s way of writing Elements of style: Now, use some of those elements that you identified in the essay in a paragraph where you describe some of your experiences in school that relate to grades, getting “A”s and failure.

22. “Salvation”: Add to your notes.
When in your life have you committed to something that you later regretted (a job, social event, a class, an activity, etc.)?
Did you leave that commitment or stick with it and how did you feel about it?

23. Making and following through on commitments- add to notes
Stop at 7:16
Do you agree with his claim that memories are the cause of our failing to meet our commitments?
What other reasons do you think there are for people not following through on their commitments?

24. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

25. Finished the Reading- Discuss the following in your groups.
What is the author’s answer to why we don’t follow through with commitments (through his narrator)?

26. “Salvation” page 228
What element is most present and emphasized in this text: style and diction (connotation)? (You must focus on these two today. There are no other options available).
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

27. Write-to-text: Add to your notes.
Write about a time you felt guilty over lying to someone in your life (or a time maybe you didn’t feel guilty, but probably should have). Use at least three words with a positive or negative connotation that help convey your attitude towards the story you are telling (highlight them).

28. “Shame”: Add to your notes
Make a list of words and ideas you associate with the emotion shame, embarrassment, or being self-conscious.
Where and when do you see these emotions occurring the most?

29. Self-conscious- add to your notes
What things do you do that people have pointed out that make you feel self-conscious?
Do you think teenagers are more or less self- conscious about themselves and the things they do? Why or why not?

30. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

31. “Shame” page 278
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view?
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

32. Write-to-text: add to your notes
Write about a time that someone made you feel shame or someone you know. Please change people’s names in your story or leave them out entirely.
Use at least three strong verbs (with positive or negative connotations) that contribute to your description.

33. “On Dumpster Diving” Add to notes
PDN: Are you the kind of person who likes to throw things away or keep them? What helps you decide what to keep and what to throw away?

34. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

35. “On Dumpster Diving” page 591
Discussion: Add to notes: Was this author able to convince you at all about the benefits of dumpster diving? Or why not? What was effective or ineffective in their argument?

36. “On Dumpster Diving” page 591
What literary element is most present and emphasized in this text: character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view? One of the two must be irony.
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

37. Write-to-text:
Write a short paragraph explaining something you are experienced with as a means to argue that more people should do it. Use two literary elements in your paragraph to develop it.

38. “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” pg. 239
PDN: If you were a witness to a crime, what would you do and why?

39. Short Story Unit
Purpose: To identify and analyze the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, irony, and point of view).

40. “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” pg. 239
Discussion: Do you think this essay is still relevant today? Do you think this kind of violence and inaction concerning violence happens today? Why or why not?

41. “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” pg. 239
What nonfiction element is most present and emphasized in this text: claims, evidence, interviews, bias, propaganda, facts, opinions, text structure, etc.
Why would the author focus on that literary element and what is its purpose?

42. Write-to-text
Write a short paragraph about whether you agree with the author, that it was immoral for these people not to call the police, or if it was okay what they did.

43. Preparing for Socratic Seminar
PDN: Collect notes at the beginning of class. Make sure they are stapled if you have multiple papers and make sure you have your name on it.

44. Making Generalizations
Make generalizations about short stories.
Consider how the length of a short story impacts what the author can and can’t accomplish.
Consider what topics and themes authors tend to take up in short stories.
Consider where short stories might be published and to what audiences.

45. Reflection
Write about which short story was your favorite and why? (In preparation for the Socratic Seminar tomorrow.

46. Prepare for Socratic Seminar tomorrow
Use the handout I have provided to prepare answers to the questions posed in the Socratic Seminar tomorrow.
Normally, I would tell you to work with your group mates, but for this one, because you are getting credit for contributing to the discussion, you might want to keep your comments to yourself so that you don’t repeat during the discussion.