Winter's Night Blog

We will begin working on creating our own commercials for the next unit.

But first—

this week we will finish up our About a Boy essays. We will work on our essays on Monday, so be sure your outlines are chock full of quotations. This will make it simple to write a draft in class, since you know what you will write; you just have to concentrate on keeping a formal tone and communicating your ideas clearly. If you are stuck, email me or come talk to me before school on Monday. This is the longest essay we've written, but Hornby gives us plenty to write about. We are taking it slow to make sure each step is perfect before we move on. Plus, this assignment will be graded several times. Some of you are falling behind; this is a good chance to catch up. As always, you can raise your grade on a paper if you come talk with me about it and turn in a revised copy. If you don't finish the draft in class, take it home so we can edit them in class on Tuesday.

The advertising unit will begin late this week or early next week, depending on when we wrap up the essays. Be thinking about a product you would like to sell, while finding commercials and advertisements that employ the rhetorical devices we discussed last week.

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