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Samples of Senior Exit/Farewell Speech

"Past Present" Day 2: Compare/Contrast and Rhetorical Devices

Today we will:
 Read chunk #2 of "Past Present" by Jimmy Santiago Baca (Page 5, Paragraph 14-Page 9, Paragraph 28) together as a class.

**Remember, we want to identify and analyze his writing strategies for ideas we can use for our own compare/contrast narratives that we will begin brainstorming for tomorrow.**

After we complete the reading, you and your partner will (both partners need to write out the answers in their essay packets for credit (35 pts.):
Answer the following questions using the RACE strategy (restate/answer/cite/explain):

Analyzing Meaning #1-3 and Discovering Rhetorical Strategies #1-4.

**Please be prepared to share your answers with the class for discussion.**

Notes from Tuesday 5/24:

Title: "Past Present"
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Genre: personal narrative/ comparison/contrast

Speaker (who is speaking--what do we know about him/her?)—author—Baca; was in prison out 12 years.  Now a writer/making a movie/father/husband

Occasion (time and place of the writing? what prompted the writing?)--
he went back to his former prison to make a movie and feels himself reminiscing about his former life

Audience (who is he speaking to? may be more than 1)--
former inmates, current inmates, people who have never been in prison, people who have had similar experiences, himself

Purpose (what does the speaker want each audience to think or do?)--

to tell others what it was like, understand his own transformation

Subject (the basic topic of the piece?)—the author a former prison inmate goes back to his former jail and compares/contrasts his current and former self

Tone—depressed, angry, disappointed, nostalgic

"Past Present" by Jimmy Santiago Baca

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?)--

To be passing at the 5-week you must...Taking a break from the "justice" unit, we will get back to it on Monday-Thursday of next week

1. Turned in your RITS packet (at least a portion of it)
2. Taken the RITS test
3. Turned in your RITS essay (Part A and Part B)  (SEE LAST FRIDAY'S POST FOR HELP)

Other 5 week assignments include:
4. Quick Write #4
5. Quick Write #5
6. RITS quiz 4 (2.2)
7. Close-reading worksheet RITS
8. various in-class assignments (that cannot be made up)

PLEASE RETURN ANY BOOKS THAT YOU HAVE BORROWED, AS THE OFFICE WILL BE ASKING FOR A LIST OF NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BOOKS OUT. THIS INCLUDES THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.

For extra-credit today (for the 5-week) you may (50 pts): 
1. The RITS packet of additional articles
a. annotate each article (underline, highlight, make notes)
b. Choose 3 of the sections (in bold) and explain in a paragraph or 2 how this information is critical to your understanding of the play A Raisin in the Sun
*c. You can also do the extra questions in the back of the packet

2. Castle Learning--log in and complete any available assignments (10 pts. each)
PLEASE TURN IN A SLIP LETTING ME KNOW WHICH ONES YOU FINISHED AND THE DATE FOR CREDIT. (let me know if you need to clear your password)


Remember our next week schedule is as follows:
Monday-133 (finish "Words" questions)
Tuesday-139
Wed--139
Thurs--139
Friday--OFF

Thursday 5/19:Please be in class on-time to take your assessment!!

Today is your Post-Assessment for English IV--report to 139, unless you receive test accommodations. Mrs. Chambers will be proctoring your exam in 139.

Do your best, take your time. 

See you Friday in 139.

Room Schedule: Unless Anything changes this is our schedule until prom 6/3.....

Thursday 5/19--Room 139 for District Post-Assessment (unless you get extended time/test read, etc.)
Friday 5/20--Room 139
Monday 5/23--Room 133
Tuesday 5/24--Room 139
Wednesday 5/25--Room 139
Thursday 5/26--Room 139
Friday 5/27--OFF
Monday 5/30--OFF
Tuesday 5/31--Room 133
Wednesday 6/1--OFF
Thursday 6/2--Room 133
Friday 6/3--Room 139 (senior breakfast, etc.)

Questions (set 1) "Words"

Answer each question with TEXTUAL EVIDENCE from today’s reading. They will be collected at the end of class.
 Questions for “Words” section 1
1. How is Andy’s behavior different than normal? How can you tell?
2. What do we know about Andy so far? Mellisa?
 3. Where did the Meekers get their money? How is Mellisa’s dad different?
4. What is strange about Mellisa’s run-in with Jackson? Why are both of them worried?
5. What is ironic about Andy’s intentions?
6. What does Andy’s letter say that lets us know why he is doing this?
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 Questions for “Words” section 2
7. Why did Andy plagiarize?
8. What is described as being like a prison? Explain.
9. How is justice seen here? Or how is a wrong made right?
 10. Explain the repetition of, “They’re only words” (79).
 11. What is Andy’s continued punishment?

"This Isn't Kiddy Court" ---Judge Judy Sheindlin: 20 pts. DUE TODAY ONLY!!! PAGES 103-109

DIRECTIONS: EITHER Copy each question down and leave room for the answer/or restate and answer off the board:

1. What is the subject--what is it basically about?
2. What is the occasion- why is she writing this now?
3. What is her intended audience- who is she addressing? (can be more than 1)?
4. What is her purpose- what does she hope to accomplish by writing this (can be different per audience if more than 1)?
5. What is her tone- attitude towards the topic?
6. Explain her 8 recommendations: 1 for each numbered section.
7 . COMPARE AND CONTRAST Judge Judy to the judge and his daughter in yesterday's folk tale "A Quality of Mercy"? Who was more merciful? Who do you believe is a better judge and why?

Group Work Questions "A Quality of Mercy"---to be turned in at the end of class today

Today we will:
1. Answer multiple choice questions on the quiz page (NOT A QUIZ JUST A READING GRADE)
2. Answer the 2 written questions below for credit---due today!!!

Copy the following questions down---1 on each side of a sheet of paper you can turn in

Pg. 83-86
1. “A Quality of Mercy” ends with the phrase “the kingdom was ruled with more kindness than justice required” (PG 86)—what does this mean?
*explain the quote
*relate it to the overall theme of the story

**Use the RACE STRATEGY TO ANSWER--EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS WITH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE AS SUPPORT

2. Do you agree or disagree with the following 2 statements:
*Justice was served by the judge in this situation.
*The decision was fair to both the merchant and the young man.

**Use the RACE STRATEGY TO ANSWER--EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS WITH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE AS SUPPORT

Example below:

Continue to work on Parts A and B of the RITS essay--we will only have today and tomorrow in class to work. I would aim for finishing one of the two today.

Worksheet for format help

See example on the board in class today and reposts below of yesterday's online help:

Helpful links:
MLA format sheet
Personal Narrative template
Style Sheet for writing a scene from a play

RITS Test today!!! Raise your hand with any questions. NO TALKING!!

No books!!!
Character map/page of notes only!!
Please take your time!!

If you finish early, you may work on:

• Your packet questions (that are also due today) 
• Quick Write #5 and the worksheet that goes with it (from yesterday) due by Friday at the latest
• the EXTRA CREDIT (Act 3 analysis on the back of that same sheet from yesterday)

Tomorrow we will start the RITS essay assignment!

Friday 5/6

*In my absence, you may have this time to get caught up on missed work mainly: qw #4 with the worksheet that goes with it, packet questions for RITS, any reading you may have missed, study for the test
*Remember, the test for RITS is Tuesday as well as the packet is due!
Enjoy the weekend!

*Email me any concerns I will check it periodically throughout the day

Last Day of Reading! RITS test Tuesday 5/10 and packet due as well

Directions: Copy the following question below in red on a blank sheet of paper that can be answered and turned in today before you leave class.

Exit Visa #2: 
One of Mama's last few lines of the play are stated below :

(To Ruth) "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain..."

• What do you think she means by this?
• Do you believe that Walter will change for good? 
• Is this ending a "happy" ending for the Youngers?

Today we will:

•  finish reading the play: pages 140-151
• We will watch the conclusion of the movie 
• You can work on your packet questions (finish the packet at the point)

epitaph--a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone

Read Act 3: Pages 130-140

Step 1: Copy the double-entry journal quotes onto your chart for 2.3:

Step 2: Read Act 3 pages 130-140

Step 3: Copy the following quote from Act 3 onto a sheet of a paper and explain what Asagai is trying to explain to Beneatha to the best of your ability (exit visa) DUE TODAY BY THE END OF CLASS!

What you just said--about the circle. It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd but those who see the changes are called "idealists"--and those who cannot, or refuse to think, they are the "realists." Act 3, page 134

Step 4: Text-based questions (packet) through # 72

vocab:
idealist-a person who represents things as they might or should be rather than as they are
realist-a person who represents things as they are instead of how they might or should be 
martyr-a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, 
or cause.

Today we will:--At the end of the class, all 3 of these things will be taken for a grade.

• Begin by taking Quiz #4 for RITS on ACT 2--you may use your book and notes. (MAKE SURE YOU TAKE THE QUIZ THAT SAYS PERIOD 7/8)
• Second, finish the two-sided worksheet from yesterday and Quick Write #4
• Third, you can work on the questions in your RITS packet--you should be done up to #63
• *When you are finished with all of these things, work on the Anticipation Guide I handed you on the way in today...If you are running too far behind on classwork, it will be considered HOMEWORK.