-Sit with your same groups in the same spots as the past two workshops. (Groups are on back wall.)

-Take out your rhetorical devices packet for Act III.‘

-If you finished last week’s reading and recorded device posts into your graphic organizer: -Work with one or two others around you to

share the devices that you found.

-If you did not read and record device posts:-finish reading -scan through pages 100-112 (last week’s hw.)

-look for examples of rhetorical devices that you can copy into your Act III packet.

English Binder MaintenancePassed Back Now

-“Block Party” Questions & TDA Writing

-Summer Reading Packets Binder Flap or any section, then leave home

-All Vocab Quizzes Get correct answers from peers, then place in Vocab

-All Vocab Charts Vocab

-Our Town Act I Study Questions Literature

• prompt will involve theme development within the play– Your ideas from the first two

paragraphs may come in handy, though you can address different devices and themes in this response.

• needs to be written entirely in class– This includes the outline

included within your Act III packet.

– We need you to get practice doing on-demand, in-class writing in preparation for the PSSAs and future tests.

• Format / Organization– should include multiple paragraphs (4-

5 paragraphs; move beyond one-paragraph writing)• Refer to outline in Act III packet

– Consider body paragraph organization:• by rhetorical device• by act in the play• by theme

• Preparation Now / Tonight– You can use any materials except a

prewritten outline and a prewritten response

– So, go back into your packets and posts, and more fully write out analysis points for strong devices / themes.

– Create a notes page with the strongest device examples and themes listed or in a brainstorming web.

Notes, Tips, Suggestions: Our Town Culminating T.D.A. Response

Agenda Books Due Tomorrow, 11/5:

-Our Town, Act III Study Questions -Prepare for culminating Our Town T.D.A. by: 

-reviewing your packets and book for devices that develop theme.

 -considering which devices seem to best develop

theme 

-considering which theme seems most developed throughout the play.