Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Tuesday August 29, 2017

Honors English 10: Today students completed a peer review of their tone and diction analysis. (I have copied the peer review below.)Tomorrow, students need to turn in their rough draft, peer review, annotations and final draft.

HOMEWORK: complete tone and diction analysis. Work on vocab. Students are strongly urged to buy these upcoming texts that we will be reading this quarter:

Link to buy Of Mice and Men:
https://www.amazon.com/Mice-Men-John-Steinbeck/dp/0140177396/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504028330&sr=8-1&keywords=of+mice+and+men

Link to buy Lord of The Flies: 
https://www.amazon.com/William-Golding-Lord-Flies/dp/B0082T0H3G/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504028434&sr=1-7&keywords=lord+of+the+flies



English 10: Today students worked on vocab. Then, we worked on finishing the annotations from yesterday.

HOMEWORK: Finish ALL annotations. Work on vocab.



Honors Peer review sheet:

“Diction and Tone Writing” peer review

Author of writing piece:
Reviewer:

Diction writing piece
Is the author’s name present?                      Yes                   No
What adjective is used to describe the dicition?     _________________
Is it a quality adjective?        Yes                   No                   Explain:
Does the author use the term “diction?”                 Yes                   No
What verb is used to describe the dicition?_________________
How does the author explain the function of the diction (impact of the author’s word choice)? Does it make sense?


Identify the two examples of diction the author used:



Rubric score:

Explanation of score and recommendations for revision:



Tone writing piece
Is the author’s name present?                      Yes                   No
What adjective is used to describe the tone?          _________________
Is it a quality adjective?        Yes                   No                   Explain:
Does the author use the term “tone?”                     Yes                   No
What verb is used?_________________
How does the author explain the tone? Is it a solid analysis of the author’s attitude towards the subject? Does the subject they identified make sense?


Identify the two examples the author used to discuss tone:




Rubric score:

Explanation and recommendations for revision:




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