HANDOUTS

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Semester 2:
Week 5:
Synthesis Essay Rubric:

Sources A-F (6 pages in a zip file. If you have trouble opening it, please email me and I will email it to you instead.):


Week 4:
Grammar Worksheet on Sentence Structures:


Week 3:
Nickel and Dimed:






Week 2:
Power Ranger's Timed Writing:

Period 4 Grammar Packet #1:

Period 4 Grammar Packet #2:

Period 5 Grammar Packet #1:

Period 5 Grammar Packet #2:


Week 1:
Syntax Exercise:

Sample Kingsolver Essays:




Week 16:
Barbara Kingsolver excerpt:

Kingsolver page 3 (There is an error in the document above. The first two pages are okay, but you need to download and print out the following document for page 3):

Malcolm Gladwell, excerpt from Blink:

Voice lesson 8:


Week 15:
Reading List:

Winter Love Package:

Annie Dillard, "Living Like Weasels":

Brainworms:






Week 13:
Amazing Race Rubric:


Week 12:


Week 10:
4 Modes of Discourse:


Week 9:
Diction 7:


Week 8:
"On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner:

"Homeless" by Anna Quindlen:

Diction 6:

Amazing Race Super-Mini Research Project:

Grammar Handout:


Week 6:
Rhetorical Devices Log:

"Coming Home Again"

"Coming Home Again" Questions:

Los Angeles Notebook:

Voice lessons:




Week 5:
Race and Ethnicity:


Week 4:
Diction #3:

Your RUBRIC thus far:


Week 3:
Diction #2:

"Where Nothing Says Everything":


Week 2:


Week 1:
Course Outline:

Cheating & Plagiarism Contract:

Voice Lesson, Diction #1: