Regents Review for Wednesday

Print out the Regents text here and bring it to class Wednesday.

Regents Review: The Beginning

Assignment for Wednesday: Read the test from beginning to end. You'll find it here. Now write a response in which you identify the sections of the tests, and then for each section state what skills the section will require you to possess and what preparations you will need to undertake to be successful.

Fixing errors on non-fiction essay

Homework for Monday: Print out your non-fiction essay (persuassive/argumentative). On a separate sheet of paper, rewrite based on comments. Fix all grammar/spelling issues. Fix writing issues (for example, if your topic sentence was off base, rewrite it). For fixes you're not certain of, ask other students in the class to give you feedback.You MUST go the blog to place sentences you're unsure of, and even if you don't place a sentence on the blog, you must go to the blog by Sunday night, and offer at least two suggestions for fixing problems students place on the blog.

Use of blog for feedback:

1) Go to blog posting (www.vilbigwriting.blogspot.com)
2) Under the comments section (you might need to register), write the entire sentence in which the correction was suggested.
3) Capitalize the word or words over which the blue bubble was located.
4) In parenthesis at the end of the sentence write the heading of the blue bubble.

Example: The officials defended THERE decision. (there/their/they're)

Poetry Portfolio

Due Wednesday, May 15

Three love poems (at least one using a fixed meter -- iambic pentameter, or other meters, 8 syllable lines, six syllable lines, etc.)

Three poems of social commentary or protest

Two narrative poems These can include the poems we worked on in class or not as you choose.

They must be typed.

Rubric:

* Is there evidence of engagement and energy on the part of the writer?

* Do the poems use language in surprising ways (literary devices, juxtaposition, etc)

* Do the poems as a whole catch fire, breathe life into life, dance, roar, shout out with joy, or conversely, go quietly, almost at a whisper, yet incisively turning the heart over with their truths?