English+12R

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 * || **Portfolio Work** || **Portfolio Work** || **Portfolio Work** || **Portfolio Work** ||
 * **Portfolio Work/**
 * Assembly** || **Portfolio Work/**
 * Assembly** || **Portfolio Work/**
 * Assembly** || **Share our class portfolios** || **Senior Class** **Portfolio Day** ||

[|English 12R] Streetcar Named Desire- "Hey, Stella!"
 * 2010-2011 Shool Year**











Analyzing the Personal Essay- Short Personal Essays from //The New Yorker// magazine As you read each essay, consider the following (in your notebook):

**The Essence** – What’s the main story? If you had to boil it down to a few sentences, what would they be? What aspects of life is the writer capturing?


 * Key Details** – How does the writer show as much as tell? Which details and images stand out and make the story vivid in your mind? What helps make the piece “true” (in other words, authentic and specific) to the writer and his/her experiences?


 * Context** – What helps “place” the essential story in a bigger picture? What connections does the writer make between related ideas and experiences?


 * Perspective** – What’s the value of “distance” for the piece? Is there an acknowledgement of time having passed? What is the value of the writer being able to “look back”?


 * Organization** – How does the writer develop his/her ideas? What is the opening of the piece like? Is there a central “story”? How does the writer incorporate background information? Are there places where the writer diverges from the central story? How are shifts in place or time handled? How does the writer conclude the piece?


 * Language** – When is it used well to “showcase” ideas? To establish the writer’s “voice”? When is the writing powerful in its simplicity, its complexity, or its unexpectedness?


 * FAMILY HISTORY**

[|English 12R] "A Father and a Bicycle"

[|English 12R] "Alone at the Movies"

[|English 12R] "Mother from Heaven"


 * FAMILY DINNER**

[|English 12R] "A Man in the Kitchen"

[|English 12R] "Grandmother's House"

[|English 12R] "Rationed"

[|English 12R] "Sixty-Nine Cents"


 * SUMMER MOVIES**

[|English 12R] "Commando"

[|English 12R] "Walkabout"


 * FAITH AND DOUBT**

[|English 12R] "Counting Pages"

[|English 12R] "WInter Light"