Whats Next Thinking About Life After High School

What’s Next? Thinking About Life After High School Expository Reading and Writing

Module Focus: • Introduce students to reading & writing rhetorically • Teach students to organize& manage information from text & online research • Teach students to generate questions about ideas, arguments & perspectives • Teach students how to understand writing as a response to an audience, situation, or intention. Works Covered: Graff, Gerald. “Hidden Intellectualism. ” They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Pérez, Angel B. “Want to Get Into College? Learn to Fail. ” Education Week 31. 19 (2012): 23. Print. Final Assignment: *College Essay or Personal Narrative

Supplemental Articles Rodriguez, Joe. “ 10 Rules for Going to College When Nobody Really Expected You To. ” Student Sites. Sun. Shine Web Enterprise, 4 June 2012. Web. 1 Aug. 2012. <http: //studentsites. net/ 10 -rules-for-going-to-college-when-nobody-really-expected-you-to/>. Schlack, Lawrence B. “Not Going to College is a Viable Option. ” Education. com, n. d. Web. Mar. 2013. <http: //www. education. com/reference/article/Ref_Going_College_Not/>. “The 10 Most Common Excuses for Not Going to College and Why They’re All Wrong. ” every. Circle. com, n. d. Web. Mar. 2013. <https: //everycircle. com/ec/articles/tenexcuses. htm>. University of North Texas. “Why Go to College? ” How 2 Choose. University of North Texas, 23 Mar. 2010. Web. 18 Aug. 2012. <http: //www. unt. edu/pais/howtochoose/why. htm>.

Rhetorical Grammar

Activity 1: Guided Composition & Noticing Language Which of these sentences is complete? How do you know? 1. I grew up in East LA and attended the famous Garfield High. 2. Because I grew up in the barrio, had no idea it would take me eight years to graduate from college. 3. Even if you live at home, work full-time and attend school part-time. 4. Hang out less or not at all with old friends. 5. Worrying too much about the high cost of college tuition.

Activity 1: Guided Composition & Noticing Language Which of these sentences is complete? How do you know? 1. I grew up in East LA and attended the famous Garfield High. – Complete; “I” is the subject and “grew up and attended” is the compound verb. 2. Because I grew up in the barrio, had no idea it would take me eight years to graduate from college. – Incomplete; the main clause has a verb, “had, ” but no subject. Correct by adding “I. ” 3. Even if you live at home, work full-time and attend school part-time. – Incomplete; has a subordinate “even if” clause, but no main clause. Correct by adding a main clause, for example, “…attending college can cost a lot. ”

Activity 1: Guided Composition & Noticing Language Which of these sentences is complete? How do you know? 4. Hang out less or not at all with old friends. – Complete; this is a command, so the subject is an understood “you. ” 5. Worrying too much about the high cost of college tuition. – Incomplete; lacks a main verb and a subject. Correct by adding both, for example, “They are…”