FCA #3: Oceania vs. Winston
FCA #3:
How does the Oceania soceity control its people?
How does Winston struggle against that control?
20 pts: all ten sentence makers
10 pts: 5 pg words
20 pts: 4 Insight/Evidence pairs
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E11: FCA # 4 (honors)
Are dreams essentially like Gatsby’s, in which, at the moment of achievement, you pass on to the next big goal or dream?
FCA’s:
10 pts. Effective thesis
20 pts. Insight/Evidence/Complication/Implication 2x
20 pts. Meaningful sentence variation with advanced syntax
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E10: FCA #2: Portia the Merciful?
Prompt: Is Portia in Merchant of Venice merciful or merciless in her treatment of Shylock and others?
FCA’s
20 pts) clear, controversial thesis
15 pts) properly cited evidence
10 pts) concession/refutation
5 pts) permanent FCA’s (0 run-ons, 0 fragments, o homonyn errors)
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FCA #2: Huck’s good man
Prompt: What is a good person to Huck?
FCA’s
5 pts) Engaging Hook
15 pts) Controvertible thesis
20 pts) 2 evidence sandwiches: an insight/evidence pair
10 pts) meaningful sentence variety
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Honors English 11: FCA #1 Hannah Dustan
Prompt: Compare and Contrast the rhetorical strategies of 2 Dustan authors.
25 pts) Insightfully connected Thesis and Topic Sentences
20 pts) Effective Quote integration
9 pts) 3 or Fewer “to be” verbs
6 pts) FCA form
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E10 FCA #1: “This I Believe” essay
FCA #1: Draft your “This I Believe” essay in 40 minutes in class
25 pts) Clear, strong voice
15 pts) Effective Anecdote
10 pts) 0 homonym errors, 0 run-ons, 0 fragments
5 pts) FCA form
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English 11—American Literature
English 11 syllabus
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English 10 Syllabus
The Greatest Class on the Planet
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Junior Honors English outline
Honors English 11
Here’s an outline for your Uncle Tom’s Cabin argumentative essay. Please remember that, once you set yourself up with notes and an outline, you should only take 45 minutes for the drafting of the essay. Give yourself the final 5 minutes to revise because, hey, it’s an English paper.
Hook
Arg overview
thesis
point 1
support
point 2
support
point 3
support
Concession/refutation
(e.g. what an opposing view might be, followed by a logically sound rebuttal)
Confirmation
(e.g. after discussing the opposing views, you need to confirm your new view synthesizing your original thesis)
Conclusion
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comp 4.3: short story with suspensive sentences
Create a short story from your own imagination, 1-3 pages in length, typed double-space, one inch margins.
Draft 1 due Thursday May 28th, 2009
Draft 2 due Friday May 29th, 2009
Final due Monday, June 1, 2009
FCA’s: 1) 2 suspensive sentences at either end of the story
2) character development focused on 1 character
3) resolve 1 issue or theme
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