Transcript Do Now: Reading Check

Do Now: in your JOURNAL
Have you ever found yourself in a completely new
environment? Though you may have viewed pictures
or a brochure depicting the location, suddenly you
are taking it all in---in person!
What was that experience like? Were you
comfortable or uncomfortable? Overwhelmed or
pleasantly surprised? Disappointed or overjoyed?
Explain your experience in a quick write.
Add to your NOTEBOOK
ALLUSION:
A REFERENCE TO A
WELL-KNOWN PERSON, EVENT, OR PLACE
FROM HISTORY, MUSIC, ART, OR OTHER TEXT.
Reading Pico Iyer’s “Where Worlds Collide”
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As we read, mark the allusions in the
notes section.
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Think about where else in the world you
have heard of these references.
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What is the effect of these allusions?
Practice Deconstruction of Prompt pg. 52
1.
Subject
2.
Speaker
3.
Type of Essay
4.
Task
5.
Hints
TAG statement frames
T: Title
A: Author
G: Genre
◦ In the __(genre)___, “___(title)____,” __(author)__
shows/conveys….
◦ __(author)_’s _(genre)__ , “___(title)____,” allows one
to see….
◦ “___(title)____,” a __(genre)___ by __(author)_,
supports/proves the idea that…
Use HANDOUT
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PARAGRAPHS
Do Now: Write in your Notebook
Colon: Sets off a series in a list, after a complete
sentence.
The picnic supplies are ready: paper plates, napkins, utensils,
cups, and ice.
Semicolon: Separates two complete sentences when one
begins with a transitional word (however, then, etc)
Everyone is ready for a picnic; however, the rain has started.
Combine these sentences
1.
The blue skies they saw on TV are
scarcely visible from here. It is just
smoggy haze, billboards, and gray streets.
2.
They can see the familiar signs of Hilton,
Hyatt and Holiday Inn. Further out, the
City of Angels awaits them.
Parenthetical Expressions
Give extra information – add flavor, a
tidbit of information, or an extra thoughtinto a sentence—usually not in
parentheses strangely. They are NOT
essential to the sentence.
 The headmistress had been in India, I
suppose, fifteen years ago.
 Strawberry jam, for instance, doesn’t make
a good spaghetti sauce.
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Appositives
A type of parenthetical expression
 A NOUR or NOUN Phrase placed next
to another noun, usually to help identify it
or give more information about it.
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Appositive or Parenthetical?
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Uncle Charlie, when he was told about the
escaped fleas, broke out in a blush.
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The hangman, a grey-haired convict in the
white uniform of the prison, was waiting
beside his machine.
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Cobras, although they are essentially moody,
like an occasional chuckle.
Appositive or Parenthetical?
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We spotted Tom Hanks, the movie star, at
the cafe yesterday.
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The tone of her letter, however, brought
tears to Fang’s eyes.
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"My father, a funny man with a subversive
wit, is trying to decide which of his eight
children he will take with him to the
county fair."
Go to your
paragraph about
Pico Iyer’s essay.
Add in a
parenthetical
expression.
Exit Slip: In Journal