Thursday+October+31+Pre+AP

Today's Learning Objective
Students will read and comprehend an essay, noting style, tone, and writing strategies specific to the author's audience.

Bell Work: Appositives
Choose 3 of your tone words from the crossword puzzle list. Words:
 * 1) snarky
 * 2) sardonic
 * 3) caustic
 * 4) indignant
 * 5) disdainful
 * 6) incensed
 * 7) irreverent
 * 8) ribald
 * 9) vehement
 * 10) laudatory
 * 11) reverent
 * 12) nostalgic
 * 13) didactic

Write a sentence with each. Include either an appositive phrase or an absolute phrase in each sentence. Underline the phrase and label it APP for appositive or ABS for absolute. (Look at your notecards to review absolute phrases!)

Close Reading/Analysis
With your partner, complete the questions for Amy Tan's essay, "Mother Tongue." Discuss as a class.

= This I Believe =

Read, annotate, and listen to Amy Tan's essay, "Saying Thanks to My Ghosts."