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PSAT PREP WILL BEGIN WHEN THE BELL RINGS

PLEASE OPEN COMPOSITION BOOKS, WRITE TODAYS DATE

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the best answer beside it.
1. Favoring economy of are clipped, broken into sections,making theoutcome of the game expression in writing, the and split apart by long rests. -------. professor urged students toward a ------- rather than an ------(A) garnished (A) successful . . assured prose style. (B) improvisational (A) spare . . ornate (C) fragmented (C) dull . . foreseen (D) interesting . . predictable (E) exciting . . uncertain (B) boring . . questionable

(B) terse . . opinionated

(D) cautious (C) personal . . academic (E) uniform (D) baroque . . embellished

(E) repetitive . . Intricate

3. Some fans feel that sports 2. Alfred Schnittkes musical events are ------- only when the compositions are -------:phrases competitors are of equal ability,

SHOULD YOU TAKE THE PSAT ?

THE

SAT IS A TEST THAT IS REQUIRED FOR MOST COLLEGE APPLICATIONS. THE PSAT IS THE PRACTICE VERSION.
IN Mother Tongue, AMY TAN TALKS ABOUT TAKING STANDARDIZED TESTS AND THE DIFFICULTY OF THEM FOR NONNATIVE SPEAKERS. OUT YOUR COPY OF Mother Tongue

TAKE

MOTHER TONGUE BY AMY TAN

Tan's article is essentially a literacy narrative because it discusses events about language use from her past (whether good or bad) and reflects on how those events influence her writing today.
EACH TABLE WILL GET A PARAGRAPH CARD AND WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION IN SMALL GROUP

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SHARE YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE CLASS

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO SPEAK DIFFERENTLY TO DIFFERENT AUDIENCES?

?You cannot talk to your friends the way talk to your teacher
Your answers

Attitude

with parents not appropriate because you need to show respect

Different

languages have different forms of you.

different ages differently

Addresss

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CONNECT TO

AUDIENCE AND AUTHORS PURPOSE in

THE

GETTYBURG ADDRESS

What is the authors purpose?

Watch/listen

to a short video The Gettysburg Address

you listen, use handout of the text to write down key words and questions in left margin. When speech is over, write a summary statement of the authors purpose.

As

Where does the author state his purpose? Where do we learn the reason for the speech?
To

consecrate the cemetery is why he is there. But he simply takes it to a higher level and in the last paragraph really states his reason for being there. Remember it is the civil war. What were they fighting about? a summary statement about what he sees as the unfinished work which those who fought here so nobly advanced ?

Write

Create a thinking map of characteristics of his audience

On

sheet of colored paper- come up with a title for your thinking map.

title______________________________

American Citizens

Create a thinking map of the characteristics of his audience

title______________________________ (Identify what makes them want to listen)

They are mourning

American Citizens

Connections
Why did Martin Luther King begin his I Have a Dream Speech referencing Lincolns address?

For homework - 10 pts

Find

and print out a news article on a topic that interests you

FOR TOMORROWS IN-CLASS WRITING

NO

INTERNET?

If you do not have internet access please use in class computers during lunch tomorrow.