Nov 22, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9, Home Page Feature
Creating Contexts for Irony Previously, we talked about reading for context in “Smart” by Shel Silverstein. Today you will be writing contexts to make situations ironic. The Task (in class) Create contexts to make the situations in Alanis Morissette’s song actually...
Nov 19, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9
UPDATE: 11/19/13 As we discussed in class today, you may choose to accept the score you earned, convert it into a grade (using the scale below), write the short reflection (see the instructions below) and be done with this assignment. However, you may also choose to...
Oct 17, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9
Even this blog post on my teaching website fits into a genre – what do you think? While you’re pondering that question, here is the Take-Home Genre Write Assignment and its accompanying two writing excerpts that you’ll use for the...
Oct 8, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9
WARNING: The Oatmeal website is absolutely hilarious, produced by a local guy and can also be terribly profane. You’ve been warned. CHALLENGE This is a true story. On the morning of Oct. 8, 2013, I went to The Oatmeal website and took this test. For reals. No...
Sep 11, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9, Journalism/HSM
Summary news leads are the foundation of most effective straight news writing. I’m convinced that if you can learn how to write a good summary news lead, you can write in just about any style – mostly because the discipline that comes with summary news writing...
Jun 12, 2013 | E9 Honors, English 9
