Today you should be working with the McDougal-Littel text book. It's purple, and it's on the floor next to the east wall.
You should start with The Writing Connection on page 198. Choose a person or issue and write about something important, a person or issue that changed your life; something that you chose to do that you might otherwise never have done.
After you have done The Writing Connection, you'll look on page 209. You'll be creating an advertisement for something at THS. This is for anything that occurs here: sporting, dramatic, academic, extra-curricular, teacher, class, project. It could be a club, or a play, or an intramural event. Your job is to sell it to our class. Working with a group of 2 or 3 people, create an advertisement. Come up with a way to market, sell, and deliver the product (this event) to your audience (THS) at large. What would you do? There's 11x17 paper. You can create a billboard on that paper, or you can create a marketing scheme on that paper. You should have a creative jingle (or blurb) and it should be good enough that I will give you serious points for it.
If your group creates a good marketing plan and you're willing to move on, you may want to then start reading on page 221 (the story starts on 222 "Montgomery Boycott"). I won't be giving you any more time to do the advertisement. So, be happy with the time you had, and make sure you turn in for credit your personal writing and your group advertisement.
Your HOMEWORK is to get your book for your book report!! Don't forget!!
