Expository English

Welcome to Expository English 15 & 25. Below you will find projects and resources to help you complete those project and what we are learning in class. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Novels

 

Expository English 15: 

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
 
 
 
Student-made Trailers:
 
 

Expository English 25:

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
 
 
 
Student-made Trailers: 
 
Interview with the Author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLckscEPdE

Film Studies

 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas:
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Truman Show
 
 
 
 

Poetry

 
 
Poems to Read and Discuss: 
 
Youtube video of You Want a Social Life with Friends - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXHRUlKe_M
 
Youtube video of Eight Balloons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBhmkTZ9i8
 
Youtube video of the Giving Tree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlE
 
Youtube video fot he Road Less Taken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUaQgRiJukA
 
For the The Cremation of Sam McGee Graphic Poetry in PDF please go to https://myecsd.net virtual classroom as it was too large to upload here
 
Spoken Word Poetry: 
 
Jesse Parent - To the Boy Who May One Day Date My Daughter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcIwZ1Dth0c
 
Sarah Kay - If I Should Have a Daughter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQgz2AhHaQg
 
Poetry Assignments:
 
 

Reading Comprehension Tools and Strategies

Reading Comprehension Steps: 
 
1. Make Predictions - What is the media/text going to be about? - use the probable passage handout if you'd like
 
2. Ask Questions (while reading/viewing) - What is happening? - use the stem starters for questioning text if you'd like
 
3. Make Inferences - What is happening that the author is not specifically saying, but you can make an inference about?
 
4. Summarize - Make short summaries while you are reading/viewing and/or make one longer one at the end. You can use the Somebody wanted but so hand out
 
5. Connect - What does the text/media make you think about in your own life? What does the text/media remind you of in another text/media? What does the text/media make you think about the world?
 

Non-Fiction

On https://myecsd.net virtual classroom, find PDF copies of Very Easy True Stories with reading comprehension practice at the end of each story.

Literary Devices, Figures of Speech, and Elements of a Story

 
 
 
 

Writing

We will go over each piece of writing in class, but these documents can act as notes for you or you can use them if you need extra help. Please ask questions if you don't understand or need help.