Silly Bus
This tool never fails to help students practice writing and get thoughts where they can be seen. It's money in the bank as far as points.
What is a notebook.
This essayist travels the world like a rock star reading essays. He was in Flagstaff a few weeks ago, but it was past a certain English teacher's bedtime.
Who is David Sedaris?
This comma needs to go!
Fast-Freddy's favorite foods are, ham, bacon, tamales, fried chicken, and, of course, carne asada.
What is the comma after are?
"I was a coward. I went to war."
Who is Tim O'Brien?
This use of technology from the following tools is not acceptable in any essay for this class: paraphrasing or quoting an academic essay; using information from a professional journal; using AI as your own writing or thinking; taking a passage from a database.
What is plagiarism?
This is the number of three-to-four page essays DE students will write during our course of study.
What is three?
Rather than writing an autobiography, he chose the art of fiction to better tell his war stories based on his real-life experience.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
This is the punctuation mark needed right here a colon.
What is a colon after "here"?
"In all fairness, the teacher hadn’t meant to stab the girl, but neither did she spend much time apologizing, saying only, 'Well, you should have been vkkdyo more kdeynfulh.' "
Who is David Sedaris?
Students have an extra day for each excused absence beginning...
What is "the day they return to school?"
This is the assignment, based on CCC and English 12 learning objectives, students will have more time to do this year during third quarter. It's similar to writing an essay but presented in a different medium.
What is multi-media project?
This author, like the main character he wrote about, often left society to figure out his life.
Who is John Krakauer?
This punctuation mark is needed to fix the run-on.
Fast Freddy was excited about his trip to Cabo, he nearly lost it when he couldn't find his passport.
What is a semicolon after Cabo?
"Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips,
decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips."
Who is Patrica Smith, "Hip-Hop Ghazal."
This new subject is a "continuous, evolving study in this course."
What is media literacy?
Students' final DE grade for the 2024 Spring Semester will appear on these two transcripts.
What is their CHS transcript and their CCC transcript?
One of the most decorated essayists of the 20th century, she wrote about people otherwise dismissed in society, such as Mrs. Weidel and her daughter, Ruth. Both had been abused and forgotten.
Who is Joyce Carrol Oates?
This phrase needs these three punctuation options.
The scenic and wild Verde River the only free-flowing river in Arizona can be a wild ride in the spring runoff.
What is "the only free-flowing river in Arizona"?
Commas, dashes, or parenthesis can be used.
The scenic and wild Verde River, the only free-flowing river in Arizona, can be a wild ride in the spring runoff.
"To push open a door into such silence: the absolute emptiness of a house whose occupants have departed."
Who is Joyce Carrol Oates?
These offenses are never tolerated and will result in removal from class.
Name two.
What are "inappropriate language, racial slurs, insults unwanted suggestions, and disruptive behavior of any kind"?
This is the order of three-to-four page essay topics students have written--and will write.
What are "Wild" literary critique, "Carried" literary critique, and underrepresented authors/subjects essay.
"Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master."
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
A colon cannot follow either of these two parts of speech:
Say one to be correct!
What are a linking verb or a preposition?
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Yea, Krakauer quotes this dude a lot!
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
We will read these two masterpiece essays during this quarter. Name one by title and author.
What are "Letter from Birmingham Jail," by MLK, and "Civil Disobedience," by Henry David Thoreau?