ORANGE DAY

COLLEGE PREP
1. Collect paper...but first, go through and underline thesis statement and circle backstory
2. College Essay
-begin with discussion of what a college essay should look like
-go over the rubric for your essay (voice, sentence variety, lead)
-discussion of voice, tone, and style
-"voice game" writing....list 5 things that make you happy

HONORS ENGLISH
1. College Essay
-read examples from Clayton Kennedy, BC, Shakespeare, etc.
-mini-lesson on sentence variety and alternating sentence beginnings (replacing NOUNS with adjectives, prep phrases, appositives, participle phrases, etc)
***Remember that your college essay (the one of your choice) is due Monday after vacation. Remember the three FCAs (voice, sentence variety, lead!). It is DUE, even though you may not hand it in that day...we still have some work to do with editing, revising, etc

ENGLISH 12
1. Vocabulary test
2. "Herb Johnson-The God of Canton" by Garrison Keillor
-read aloud
-discuss: what could you POSSIBLY have in common with Herb, an 1800 pound former athlete?
3. Writing
-with Macs, begin writing the crafted response from CS Lewis: "We read because we want to know we are not alone."
-You all did very well writing in class today, and your homework is to finish this paper for Monday. Be sure to remember that our FCA (focus area) is STRONG INTRODUCTION!! See the notes we took on intros from last class....be sure your intro has good "backstory." As an example of backstory, see the short paragraph below (the italicized is the backstory).

Every single day, we see judge people we don't know. We see them in the school cafeteria, sitting alone, we see them in the library, and we see them in the hallways. There's a famous expression about not judging a book by its cover, and I think, unfortunately, that we do that all the time. Sometimes I feel like people dont really now me; people see me, a wicked awesome and cool looking English teacher at WHS, and think I have always been this way. The same is true for Herb Johnson in Garrison Keillor's story. Many look at him and think he is just a regular old fat guy. What people dont realize is that Herb used to be a star football player, and Mr Goldsmith used to be a Humpback whale. CS Lewis's quote trule applies to me and "Herb Johnson, God of Canton."