Tuesday, November 6, 2012

WRITING: Due Friday: Read and Critique "Air and Water" and "Sam's Story"

LITERATURE:

Due Thursday: Reread pages 3-21 of FAHRENHEIT 451 (carefully). Answer the think questions -- a typed paragraph on each. Prepare for the Thursday's quiz covering pages 3-21.

Due Friday: 2nd Reading Bowl Project

Due Monday: 3 Body Paragraphs due on your 5-paragraph essay on selected graphic novel.

 BODY PARAGRAPH

WHAT IT NEEDS TO INCLUDE:

1)           Paragraph Point (fully explained)

2)           Proof of the Point

              a) Set up the context

              b) Describe/Quote the Panel

              c) Give page number (p. 32)

              d) Explain how evidence proves point.

1^ST BODY PARAGRAPH

Throughout the graphic novel, Jin faces bullying and when he does so, author Yang draws the character surrounded by blackness (1). In the section “Everyone Ruvs Chin-Kee,” Jin Wang, playing Danny, actively tries to separate himself from Chin-Kee, his Chinese cousin, but is unsuccessful and faces the ridicule of bullies. (2a) After some students pull their eyes and taunt him with the words “Ah-So,” Danny walks through a school into a hallway of blackness. (2b)  (p. 121). (2c) Here, Danny feels the shame of being different and that shame is connected to the absence of color. (2d)