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Here are the notes from our first discussion of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. We’ll continue the discussion on Wednesday. Today in class you are to complete the following activities: Watch and deconstruct this famous attack ad from the 1988 US presidential election. Use this version of our deconstruction worksheet and the language of persuasion document in Google docs to complete this. Feel free to work together. Share your individual deconstruction in a document with . . . → Read More: IB L&L: May 02, 2012 – Media Deconstruction & Comparative Writing Please see this link for your final exam review sheet. This document is also in the shared Handouts folder for unit 6. Please feel free to prepare as much as you’d like for this exam by preparing responses to the provided prompts based on the texts given. Please read this post, follow the directions, and complete your journal before Wednesday, your responses to groupmates before Friday. Thanks! Here is a poem from the National Book Award winner Lighthead by Terrance Hayes entitled “Shafro.” Please read it and fill in the third circle of your 3-Way Venn diagram on the subject of “Black male mentality,” comparing the handling of this subject with Giovanni’s. By way of context, check out the trailer for Shaft, the . . . → Read More: Reading: IB L&L – Poetry: “Shafro” by Terrance Hayes Check out these sample responses to question 3 from the mock exam, compare them to your response, and plan a revision accordingly. Please have a revised draft by Monday, March 26. Please watch this video and read the Nikki Giovanni poem “On Hearing “The Girl With the Flaxen Hair” for discussion in class tomorrow. Please have a look over this document outlining our next essay project beginning next week. Come prepared to ask any questions and to start work immediately on this cornerstone assessment. |
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Slaughterhouse Five IOC Model – p. 149-151
IOC Example – Slaughterhouse Five
Here is the modeled IOC example from class today, November 14, 2012. The outline is below: