Letter to the Editor Due 12-3-10

Please make sure that they are in the box before friday.  Thanks!

Rubric for writing assignment 11-23-10

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/writing/rubrics/features.pdf

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/writing/rubrics/conventions.pdf

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/writing/rubrics/content.pdf

Writing Assignment Revolutionary War 11-18-10

Procedures

1. I will share with students several examples of recent letters to the editor. Include samples from local newspapers and national newspapers.

2. I will explain that newspapers in this country have published written opinions since the American Revolution. These letters or editorials expressed strong and passionate opinions about our country’s fight for independence. Students will be required to  write their own letters to the editor as if they were living during the Revolution. Our letters should express our opinions about how the war is going and a desired outcome. Each letter must make clear:

• where the writer is from—the American colonies or Britain;

• the writer’s sympathies—loyalist (that is, faithful to the crown) or patriot (that is, favoring the American cause)—and support for that position; and

• the newspaper’s sympathies—loyalist or patriot.

3. We will review the fundamentals of writing a letter to an editor (or of writing an editorial):

a) Tell the reader specifically what you are writing in response to—usually, to an article, an editorial, or a column previously published in the newspaper.

b) Announce your position.

c) Give evidence in support of your position, making sure that the details you include are relevant, fair, and reliable.

d) Appeal to both a reader’s logic and a reader’s emotions.

e) Acknowledge that the newspaper and some readers may hold an opinion different from yours. Show why your position is superior to theirs; in other words, show what’s wrong with their position.

f) When appropriate, conclude your letter with a call for action by the readership.

4. We will select an issue appropriate for a 1780 letter to the editor. Possibilities include the following:

• John Paul Jones’s exploits at sea

• Benedict Arnold’s behavior

• Guerilla warfare by patriots in the South

5. After we draft our letters to the editor, we will exchange letters with a partner for peer evaluation. We will check each other’s letters for the following problems:

• Insufficient support

• Unclear organization

• Overstatement or hyperbole (we will talk about this)

• Fallacies of reasoning (such as either-or thinking, red herring, attacking the person instead of the position)

6. We will revise before final copy is turned in

NEW EQ 11-15-10

How did NC's role impact the revolutionary war?

NEW EQ 10-27-10

What events led up to the Revolutionary War?

New Vocab for Chapter 4

amend
blockade
boycott
converge
dissarray
import
leery
Loyalist
pardon
Patriot
sedition
survey
tallow
Tory
unalienable
Whig

Chapter 3 Quiz 10-25-10

Open book quiz today, please come prepared!

NEW EQ 10-21-10

How did the French and Indian War affect the Carolina colony?

"Slave Ship" story due

The story will be due on thursday and friday depending on what core you are in.

Writing Assignment "Slave Ship" 10-5-10

Write a personal account from the point of view of one or more people on a slave ship. 

·    One page in length

·    You may use fictional characters

·    You will need to be descriptive on what it was like- sight, smell, taste

·    Am I gaining a better understanding of what a slave ship was like from reading your story?

REFER TO RUBRIC FOR DETAILS!!

Due- NEXT WEEK