Summative Assessments for Figurative Language Unit

The following assignments represent the summation of your learning this unit. You will show that you understand and can apply figurative language as well as examine and analyze the effect of purposeful diction in a piece of writing.

1. You should have turned in your vignette and all of its accompanying drafts (was due 9/23)
This assignment shows your ability to apply figurative language to your writing.

2. Two typed, revised poems from your composition notebook. Due Monday 9/30

• Choose from your Alliterative Poem "Happiness Happens" (or other), your Onomatopoeia Poem, your "Ego-Tripping" Poem, or your "Directions" Second-Person Poem. 
• Each poem needs to be on a separate sheet of paper in a font that is legible and suits your poem. On this paper, do not use MLA formatting for you name. 
• Type your name to be on the sheet beneath the poem (no need to place my name or the period on the sheet this time). 
• The poems will be displayed on "Back to School Night" next week!

3. A figurative language quiz 10/1-10/2

4. An in-class essay (beginning (10/1 and 10/2) 

• The essay will examine the use and effect of figurative language on a short story by Gary Soto. In order to show what you know you will make strong notes in the margin, using the CARPE system of note making, followed by the creation of your essay. This will be completed in class.

Next week we move onto a unit entitled, "The Role of the Writer"