Courage Essay 2011

Click here to access Courage Essay Introduction

Click here to access the Introduction to 5-Paragraph Essay PowerPoint Lecture


Rough Drafts are due in Mrs. Nuth's emailbox (nuthenglish@hotmail.com) by Monday, September 12, 4 PM.
Final Drafts are due in Mrs. Nuth's hand (printed on paper) on Friday, September 16 by 3:20 PM.

Journal #3: 8-Sentence Paragraph on Courage

What is courage?

Write an 8-sentence paragraph in which you define the word courage, and then include details to support your definition.

Journal #2: 8-Sentence Paragraph Practice

After viewing the examples on the PowerPoint linked below, plan and write a polished 8-sentence paragraph on your favorite anything.  It could be your favorite band, your favorite food, your favorite sports team, your favorite subject, your favorite book, etc.  Complete this in your journal/composition book.

Link to Intro to 8-Sentence Paragraphs PowerPoint

Journal #1: Letter to Nuth-Kajtaniak

In 2-3 paragraphs (8-sentence paragraphs), write a letter to Ms. Nuth in your journal that focuses on the following:

- How do you feel about reading and writing?  Be honest.
- Explain why you feel the way you do.
- Discuss your personal history with reading and writing.  What can you remember about reading and writing during your childhood?
- What are your favorite and least favorite things to read and write?

2-3 paragraphs, 10 points

9th Grade Literary Terminology Link

Link to Lit Terms Handout

Personality Bag Assignment - Due Friday, August 25

Link to Personality Bag Assignment

Journal #28: "Star Spangled Banner," Hendrix-style

Write down a paragraph reflecting on the two versions of the "Star Spangled Banner" that you experienced in class today:  The Beyonce version and the Hendrix version.  Which did you prefer?  What do you think was the underlying message of both versions?  How did they make you feel, specifically?

Journal #27: Intro to Native American Literature

Write down everything you (think you) know about Native Americans.

Applying SOAPSTone Literary Analysis to Romeo and Juliet

1.  Subject:  What is (briefly) happening in your assigned scene?
2.  Occasion:  All writers are influenced by the larger occasion: an environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue. What are the rhetorical occasions in your scene?  Are there visions, memories, debates, monologues,  jesting, and/or fighting within your scene?
3.  Audience:  To whom is this scene directed?  Who was the audience of Shakespeare's plays?
4.  Purpose:  Why do you think Shakespeare included this scene in the play?  What is the purpose of the scene in the larger context of the play as a whole?
5.  Speaker:  The voice that tells the story.  Which characters are in your scene and what are their roles in the scene.  In their dialogue, what literary devices and figurative language do you notice? Describe them!  Metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification?  Irony?  Symbolism?
6.  Tone:  What is the attitude or vibe of the scene?  Is it humorous, suspenseful, gloomy, exciting, or a combination of both?  (Later in your essay, you will comment on how you've interpreted and even changed the tone in your re-creation of the scene.)

Journal #26: Contrasting the Text and the Film

In two or more paragraphs, discuss the differences you notice between the film version and the text of Romeo and Juliet, paying specific attention to the setting, characterization, plot, additions, and deletions.  Due on Thursday, April 7.