Due February 12, 2020 (1P, Recitation, Vocab)

1 Paragraph (write all three if you want to get ahead!) 
Recitation (same part of The Gettysburg Speech as last week)
Vocabulary Words  

1 Paragraph

Choose one of the "state topics" you want to write about. You may use your ABC Book for inspiration.

Our final essay will be 5 paragraphs long:
Intro, Two Topic Paragraphs, Conclusion

NOTE: Our next assignment will be to write two more body paragraphs AND your introduction. If you want to work ahead, you may. Please submit only ONE PARAGRAPH to me next week.

Here are the IEW & Tusal* tools you need to include in your paragraph:
all dress ups
all openers
1 M3
2 DECs
1 OWL

Vocabulary Words

	Melodramatic adj. extravagant or exaggerated	The melodramatic play was well liked by the audience.
	Modest  adj. simple and humble adj. small in size or amount	They moved into a modest house in the countryside. I received a modest sum of money for my help at the company event.
	Modify  v. to change, alter, or tweak	The scientist plans to modify the gene so that it wouldn’t carry the disease.
	Momentous  adj. historically significant	Her win in the election will make it into history books - it was momentous.
	Novel  adj. new, innovative	We are looking for novel ways to approach the project.
	Nuance  n. a subtle difference in meaning	Body-language experts even understand the nuances of facial expressions.
	Null  adj. legally void and ineffective	The judge declared their contract null.
	Objectivity  n. judgment based on observations instead of emotions or opinions	In scientific research, objectivity is of utmost importance.
	Obsolete  adj. no longer used; rare or uncommon	Historians assumed record players would be obsolete by now, but in fact they’re making a huge comeback as retro treasures.
	Omnipotent  adj. almighty and all powerful	Only God is omnipotent.

FYI:

IEW tools =
dress ups, openers, DECs

*TUSAL tools =
M3s  (Magic 3s)
OWLs  (Outstanding Words - Lexicon)
                    AKA: Advanced Rhetorical Devices

Due February 5, 2020 (3 Perspectives, Gettysburg Address, Vocabulary)

Write a story from different perspectives . . . 
In each perspective:

• each dress up
• 5 openers
• 1 DEC
• 1 or 2 M3s
• ARDS: Anaphora or Epiphora/Epistrophe  AND one more ARD - your choice

The Gettysburg Address (divided for memorization purposes)  

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

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.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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Know your vocab!

	Insatiable  adj. can’t be satisfied	A vampire’s thirst for blood is said to be insatiable.
	Inversion  n. a reversal	The culture’s norms were an inversion of our own.
	Invoke  v. to call on; to appeal to (e.g., a higher power)	The shaman attempted to invoke a demon.
	Irreconcilable  adj. incapable of being in harmony or agreed upon	The couple’s differences were ultimately irreconcilable, giving them no choice but to break up.
	Lament  v. to feel sorrow for; to mourn	Susan lamented her missed chance at going to Europe with her high school class.
	Locomotion  n. movement Lucrative  adj. capable of making a lot of money; profitable Malicious  adj. harmful, spiteful Malleable  adj. capable of being molded or changed Materialistic  adj. superficial; focus on material possessions	Physics involves the study of locomotion. Writing books isn’t a particularly lucrative career, unless you are J.K. Rowling The malicious spirit drove out the inhabitants from their home. Children’s minds are malleable but only for so long. Many people accuse Americans of being materialistic

I thought that this might give you some inspiration!

Due: January 29: ABC BOOK, vocab, start recitation memorization

Welcome back everyone!
Due next week (January 29): 

1) ABC BOOK on a state  
dress ups, openers, DECs (2), M3s (2), and ARDs (2)
2) Next 10 vocabulary words
3) Learn the last part of our next recitation. 

The Gettysburg Address (divided for memorization purposes)  

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

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.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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Please note;
Portfolio submission will be on April 22, 2020

This is what you should have (and keep) up to date in your PORTFOLIO:

RESUME
ESSAYS to date
RECITATIONS
VOCABULARY
EXAMPLES OF DRESS-UPS, OPENERS, DECs, M3s, ARDS, VOCABULARY WORDS