Writing Handouts
Persuasive Writing Effective Topic Sentences Adding Naysayers to Your Text
This is my eighteenth year at Helena High School, where I teach English III AP Language, AP Seminar, Honors English 2, Debate, and Speech. In my spare time, I enjoy grading essays, watching the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers, and buying more books than I could ever hope to read.
Persuasive Writing Effective Topic Sentences Adding Naysayers to Your Text
For AP Language, the notes on naysayers and effective topic sentences are located here. Your revisions of the Compulsory Voting paper are due in class on Wednesday. For AP Literature, the notes on sentence combining strategies are located here.
These questions could possibly appear on the Classical Foundations exam. If necessary, there will be a one-hour review session Sunday night at 7 p.m. in Room 14. On the actual exam, there will be six questions, from which you will choose six to answer in well-developed paragraphs of 7-9 sentences.
The notes and materials for the second AP Language quest are located here. If you would like to practice Toulmin paragraphs, you can use these two links: Practice paragraphs to review The same paragraphs with answers
This photo collection is a pretty astonishing look at the implications of poverty and environmental degradation all over the world. It’s certainly not cheerful weekend viewing, but something worth taking a look at.