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Here are the slides for the presentation I gave in class on Thursday.

For Monday, 4/28 write a “school-based” story from your later childhood in your writer’s notebook. Then choose your best childhood writing so far, type it into a Google Doc and share it with me. We’ll workshop the stories beginning on Monday.

Special Request: Also on Monday the counselors will be coming to class to have you complete an exit survey. Go to the Judge College Counseling web page and try to log in to the Family Connection web site. If you’ve forgotten your password, please have it emailed to you before Monday, so that this won’t take too long to do in class. Thanks.

For block day 4/29 or 4/30:

• Read the Declaration of Independence on p. 448
• Answer questions 1-8 on p. 466 after reading Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Take three photos of a student at their locker from three different perspectives (e.g. full-body portrait, waist-up, macro, up shot, down shot)

Write a narrative of an early childhood event from key places. Your second piece of writing, the one-syllable essay is due 4/21 in your writer’s notebook.

Friday, 4/18, is the vocabulary quiz.  Monday is the essay and test.  Students who are presenting their films for extra credit should have all the movies in class for Tuesday.  Make sure you know where in the movie your scene is.

On Friday, 4/11, we completed a memory map of the neighborhood of your early childhood.  For homework, write a story inventory for the key parts of the map.

For Thursday, 4/17, read the introduction to chapter 7, Classification. Bring your book with you to class.

What’s Abbey’s purpose for writing Desert Solitaire?  How well did he achieve that purpose?  Use examples from the beginning, middle and end of the book to support your point.  Write this in your writer’s notebook and turn it in on Friday, April 11.

In what order does Abbey encounter these places? Escalante River, Forbidden Canyon, Hite, Hole in the Rock, Kane Creek Landing, Music Temple, San Juan River, Trachyte Creek, Wingate Cliffs,

In class today, we read the introduction to chapter 6, Illustration, in Frames of Mind and the essay “English is a Crazy Language” by Richard Lederer. In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following for Friday, 4/4. How does Abbey use illustration in the chapter “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”? Is that his most effective rhetorical technique?