Advanced Composition

1
Advanced Composition

• Reminders
• Time Capsule Essays Due Next Class
• Binders (with dividers and paper) due next Monday

2
What Defines You?

• On a sheet of paper number 1-5
• List 5 things that define you.
• I am not looking for adjectives to describe your
  personality but what defines who you are today?

3
Today you will analyze all aspects of your FULL
name.
4
My Name

• Follow along as I read a chapter from House on
  Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros titled My Name.
• As I read the chapter, jot down thoughts,
  feelings, questions, quotations, etc.
• Be prepared to discuss.

5
Insert Video
6
Your Turn

• Complete the handout analyzing all aspects of
  your name.
• Choose one of your important elements from your
  analysis and highlight it.
• Compose a poem centered around that element of
  your name.
• Assignment Due Monday
• The poem should be typed (you are free to play
  around with fonts and sizes).
• The poem should be at least 25 lines.