English 11 Noodleblog

1. Identify the parts of the American Dream that appear in each of your essays/story. They don’t have to be obvious, though they might in the Declaration of Independence as part of the very definition of the American Dream comes from that document.  For example, they could be present as a shared belief between the writer and his audience that the writer counts on for his argument.
2. Collect details from your story that show/prove that the parts of the American Dream you identified are really there. You’ll use these for your paper.  For example, if you identify the right to a pursuit of happiness as a part of the American Dream in one of your articles, ask yourself “what was it in your article that made you think that?”  There’s your detail.  A detail can be a quote, an anecdote from the article, an idea in the article, etc.

Rough drafts will be due on Monday, October 5th.  We will have all day Thursday (10/1) to work on them.  Remember we will have a quiz on SAT Vocab Week 4 on Friday.

Thoughts on Work Ethic

Some of you (yes, I know not all) have used class time very poorly so far, spending most of your work time socializing while I’m busy helping those who are struggling.  That tells me that you aren’t worried about having time to work on this at home, thus you must have plenty of time to work on it at home.   If that is the case, we can use class time for other things and increase the pace of this class a fair deal.