We read "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. Then we worked with partners (or more) and completed the DIDLS Organizer and attempted 5 AP Styled Multiple Choice questions.
You will submit both of these on www.quizlab.com
Today we are in the computer lab. We will do our first imitation exercise. Then you will have time to work on quizlabs.
Imitation exercise explained here:
This is an imitation exercise designed to help you improve your writing style. Using pen and paper in class, copy the passage below quickly. I will collect these in the first 15 minutes of class.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
