Due tomorrow

Make sure you have completed you reading of the Fall of the House of Usher for our Halloween discussion.

Colonial Authors Paper Due tomorrow!

Both the paper copy and electronic copy of your Colonial Author's Paper are due tomorrow! You final should be turned in with the rough draft copies stapled beneath it. Your electronic copy should be submitted by the end of lunch tomorrow.

Remember in addition to getting scores on Analysis, Transitions, and Conventions, you will be receiving an addition score that factors in timeliness, completion, academic honesty (avoiding plagiarism), rough draft scores, and getting your digital copy turned in.

Due Monday

Bring a printed rough draft of body paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Colonial Authors Essay for revisions in class on Monday.

Due Friday

The rough draft of the introduction and first body paragraph of your Colonial Authors paper will be due this Friday. Here is a chart that will help explain the assignment and help you outline your paper.

Test information for the content test on Wednesday is available below.

Unit 1 Content Material

Literary Devices:
o Aphorism,
o Personification
o Periodic Structure
o Allusion, Metaphor
o Parallel Structure
o Metaphysical Conceit
o Epanorthosis
o Rhetorical Questions
o Rhetorical Appeals

Title of Passages we’ve read

o General History or Virginia
o Of Plymouth Plantation
o Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
o Wonders of the Invisible World
o Dialogue…Gout
o Autobiography
o Poor Richard’s Almanac
o Speech in the Virginia Convention
o Declaration of Independence
o The Crisis
o To his Excellency, General Washington

Authors of Passages we’ve read

General time period, dates, and purpose of passages we’ve read

You will need to be able to identify excerpts from the passages we’ve read

Info

Please have the Franklin Autobiography reading completed by Thursday.

Below are some usage rules powerpoints.

Usage 1
Usage 2
Usage 3

Due Tuesday

Read Franklin's "Dialog Between Franklin and the Gout". (99-104)