Introduction: This year we have both read (ie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, etc.) and written (college essay, RITS assignment, etc.) personal narrative and compare/contrast essays. We will need to use the skills we learned this year in order to finish our last assignment.
Purpose: In preparation for writing a senior farewell narrative, we are going to read "Past Present" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. In this personal narrative, the author compares/contrasts his experience both as a prisoner in San Quentin, and his return as an author/filmmaker.
Culminating Assignment: We will analyze this work and the author's methods of writing (SOAPSTONE/COMPARE/CONTRAST, RHETORICAL DEVICES, ETC.) in order to help craft our own personal narrative essay that compares/contrasts our first/last day at McKinley High School.
Please copy the following information on the front page of an essay booklet:
Title: "Past Present"
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Genre: personal narrative/ comparison/contrast
Speaker (who is speaking--what do we know about him/her?)--
Occasion (time and place of the writing? what prompted the writing?)--
Audience (who is he speaking to? may be more than 1)--
Purpose (what does the speaker want each audience to think or do?)--
Subject (the basic topic of the piece?)--
Tone (what is the author's attitude towards the topic?)--
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