Week 8 - Getting Your Expository On!

Here we are folks!  Reading and navigating through informational/expository text.

Tuesday HW - Page 2 (right) in your NB. Use the template to summarize/analyze Troubled Tongues.  Use all of the info we discussed in class, your notes, handouts, and annotations.  Please annotate, mark the text for NCAA's Double Standard piece.  We will navigate the text tomorrow.  You will be expected to do a written piece that summarizes and analyzes this text.  Notice a pattern?

We will continue this week to decipher evidence, appeals, and specific diction found in expository pieces.  Expect to experiment with at least 3-5 more more articles.  You will get credit for your work completion, participation, and effort.

Here are a list of essential questions that we are exploring.  Please be a part of this process.  Use the resources, handouts, discussion, annotations, and your classmates to explore your understanding further.

1. What are the features of expository text?  - see the notes you took on 10/25 (pg.1 right in NB)
2. How do writers introduce ideas?
3. How do readers distinguish between the topic and author’s message?
4. Why do writers write expository text (purpose) and what actions or thoughts do they provoke?
5. How do authors organize their ideas in order to get their point across? (introduce / conclude)
6. What types of evidence do author’s use in expository text?
7. What is effective evidence? (observation vs. speculation, anecdotes vs. facts / statistics)
8. Who is the author and how does their background influence the writing? How does the author’s lens influence the writing?
9. Is their a bias present in the article?
10. Who is the target audience and how have they been appealed to? (Ethos / Pathos / Logos)
11. What are effective transitions to connect ideas?
12. What is formal style in writing? How can one effectively voice their opinions academically and still make themselves heard?

If you need extra guidence...please come and speak with me.  Here is the heads up!
You can expect TWO assessments for this unit.
1. Your own expository piece.  Topic/Issue of your choice.  You must clear it with me.  This will be due on Wednesday 11/16.  You will use the mentor texts we are reading to find specific language and diction you can use in your own writing.  You will need to have a minimum of TWO resources.
2.  You will be expected to write a summary/analysis for an article you HAVE NOT seen.  You will be expected to respond without any resources.  The notion is that you will have spent the weeks practicing and implementing the template and other resources. This assessment will be during the week of 11/14.

Other assignments - Book Project.  You will sign up this week.  Remember - there is an honor system in place here.  If you do not like your book choice - no one is forcing you to read it.  Rather pick up another selection.  Choose a related art, music, writing component that compliments your talents.  If you have a unique idea....then clear it with me!  Ownership folks.  Ownership.

I hope this update is helpful.  See you in class.

Samakosky