Mentor+Texts

|| || =Assonance:= =Cadence:= =Onomatopoeia:= =Rhythm:=
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 * =Alliteration:=
 * Charles Kuralt and Carl Sagan
 * In Fiction
 * Norman Mailer
 * Rhythm of Sentence Length
 * With Phrases and Clauses
 * President Speeches
 * Student Sentences
 * Rhythm in an Introduction
 * Choppy Vs. Rhythmic

=Sounds (hard/soft):= **Figurative Language:**
 * from Kate Morton
 * || **Examples of Passages**
 * Example of Diction Passages
 * Beyond the Edge (personification) PDF version
 * Image Grammar Similes
 * Images using Analogies
 * Similes & Metaphors (Kate Morton)

=Imagery:=
 * See "Concrete, Specific Details" below
 * from Kate Morton

=Tone:= =Vivid Verbs:= || =Compare/Contrast:= =Cause/Effect:= =Description:= =Define:= =Classify:= =Dialogue:= =Parallelism:= =Quotations:= =Repetition:=
 * Finding the RIGHT word
 * Culture of an Amateur
 * How I Met Your Mother (nuanced comparisons)
 * Influential Persons
 * Kill 'Em! Crush Em! Eat 'Em Raw!
 * Between the Sexes a Great Divide
 * The Battle of the Ants
 * Conversational Style
 * Blame the Other Woman Tweet
 * Columbus letter to Ferdinand
 * Being a Man
 * On Dumpster Diving
 * The Reach of Imagination
 * College Pressures
 * How To Tame a Wild Tongue
 * Going to the Movies
 * Use of quotations and dialogue
 * Examples from// Artful Sentences//
 * Student examples
 * Leo Buscaglia
 * Abe Lincoln
 * Literal Repetition

=Transitions:=

= = || =Absolutes:= =Appositives:= =Cohesion:= =Parallelism:= =Participles= =Punctuation:= =Sentences:= =Varying Sentences:= =Verbals:= =Voice:=
 * Brushstrokes for Absolutes
 * Combination Brushstrokes
 * Brushstroke Series
 * Brushstrokes for Appositives
 * from Image Grammar
 * Combination Brushstrokes
 * Brushstroke Series
 * With a Relative Clause
 * Using conjunctions
 * Examples from// Artful Sentences//
 * Brushstrokes for Participles
 * Combination Brushstrokes
 * Brushstroke Series
 * Dash
 * Syntax
 * Cool Sentences
 * Sentence Length Image Grammar
 * Copy Changes 1
 * Copy Changes 2
 * Jeff Anderson
 * Syntax from Authors
 * from Kate Morton's Lake House
 * Syntax to capture Voice
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 * =Raw Data and Infographics:=
 * Harper's Index 2015 Harper's Index website
 * How Much Does It Cost to Be Batman
 * How Much Snow It Typically Takes...
 * How Teens Read
 * Infographics for teens
 * Teen Social Media
 * Teen Social Media

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=Comics and Cartoons:= =Images= =Placement:= =Print Features:= =Graphics:= =White Space:= || =Genre Lists of Elements= =Humor= =Supporting Details:= = = =Using Evidence:= = = =Introductions:= =Mood= =Slowing Time=
 * Isolation
 * National Geographic Photography
 * The New Yorker
 * What Kids Eat for Breakfast
 * Where Children Sleep
 * from Scholastic
 * Genre Elements
 * Dave Barry
 * Sentences with Humor
 * Pharrell Review
 * Better with Age
 * Facebook Fandom Map 2014
 * Pharrell Review annotations
 * The New Stephen Curry (a look at supplying evidence)
 * Argument Essays || =Character:=
 * Image Grammar
 * Show not Tell on
 * Kate Morton's The Lake House
 * Freeze Frame

=Suspense:=
 * Peter Benchley
 * Kate Morton's Lake House

=Setting:= =Concrete, Specific Details:= =Articles= > Pitts Healthcare and Jail
 * John Updike Example
 * Janet Evanovich Example
 * from //Charlotte's Web//
 * Kate Morton
 * Brushstrokes by Lindsay
 * Adam's Brushstrokes
 * Comparison of two images
 * Stephen King and Mark Halperin
 * Show and Tell
 * Using Dialogue
 * Twain's Details
 * Noun and Specific Modifier
 * From Abstract to Concrete
 * || * How Much Snow to Cancel School
 * Life in the 30's by Anna Quindlen
 * Solitudes by Margaret Gibson
 * The Culture of an Amateur
 * What Kids Eat for Breakfast (Images)
 * Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (excerpts)
 * New York City in 17 Syllables
 * What we learn by what one surrounds himself with
 * Post Secrets ||
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 * * A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
 * Harry Potter excerpt Excerpt 2
 * Hunger Games Chapter 1
 * Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
 * Revision example
 * When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant || =Argumentation=
 * America Skips School
 * College is a Waste
 * In Defense of Prejudice
 * The Declaration of Sentiments
 * Why We Blame the Other Woman Tweet
 * Why I Won't Buy an iPad
 * Why Privacy Matters
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Am I Demoralizing My Staff.pdf|A Leader and a Boss]]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Adolescent Popularity.pdf|Adolescents and Popularity]]
 * Bullying: Why Zero-Tolerance Polices Don't Work
 * [|Cell Phone Etiquette]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Huey and Charisma.pdf|Charisma and Huey Long]]
 * Cruel As It Is
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Effective Leadership.pdf|Effective Leadership]]
 * ESPN Life of Reilly
 * Flags of Our Sons
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Football Leaders.pdf|Football Leaders]]
 * Gamers to the End
 * It's Not Just the Guns (Mitch Albom)
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Joel Stein and Shakespeare_1.pdf|Joel Stein and Shakespeare]]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Leadership and Coaching.pdf|Leadership and Coaching]]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Leadership Role Models Earn Profits.pdf|Leadership Role Models]]
 * Men and Women Leadership Styles
 * [|New Technology]
 * Pitts Violence, Video, and Police
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/The Rheotical Presidency today.pdf|Rhetorical Presidency]]
 * Save Us from the SAT (persuade)
 * Social Media Can Be Deadly (Pitts)
 * [|Social Websites and the Brain]
 * [|Some Harsh Sentences Prove]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Qualities of student leaders.pdf|Student Leaders]]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/Creating the Leaders of Tomorrow.pdf|Students and Leaders of Tomorrow]]
 * [[file:nelsonsclass/The Great Trade Debate.pdf|The Great Trade Debate]]
 * They, Too, Sing America
 * [|Unjust.pdf]
 * [|What makes a person influential]

=Children's Story:= =Digital Essay:=
 * Teenage Dating Confirms
 * Feature Comparisons
 * Student Writing Samples and Features
 * Trump Article (video and graph)
 * Writing Style for Print Vs. Web

=Interviews:= =Memoirs:= =Rhetorical Analysis:= **Poetry:**
 * How I Write-Interviews Sam Tanenhaus
 * I Am Four
 * Shonda Rimes
 * 6 Word Memoirs 6 Word Memoirs again
 * It's Complicated by Robin Bowman
 * Read as Reader, Read as Writer
 * My Mother's Death Cured My Anxiety || =Research:=
 * Persuading the Medical Community
 * Sample essay with annotation
 * Student Analysis of Arguments
 * Between the Sexes and Analysis
 * On Dumpster Diving
 * Today's Exhausted Superkids
 * Why We Blame the Other Tweet
 * After Our Wedding
 * Back Road
 * [|Beethoven]
 * Bus Boy
 * Color Poem
 * Haddock of Mass Destruction
 * Hands
 * The Husband
 * How to Live
 * How to Live imitation by me
 * Knock Knock & Point B
 * One Last Wish (Specific Details)
 * Repetition (making peace with the past)
 * Ross: Children of the Ghetto
 * The Snake (Imagery)
 * Solitudes
 * Stay
 * The Snow's Feet Slip
 * Vernal Sentiment
 * What She Craved

=PSA's=
 * A Single Deed
 * AdCouncil PSA Central
 * Budweiser 2016
 * Dating Violence
 * Good and Ugly PSA's
 * It Can Wait
 * Keep America Beautiful
 * Love and Medicine
 * My Shoes
 * PRINT PSA's
 * PRINT PSA's2
 * PRINT PSA's3
 * PRINT PSA's4
 * Quit Smoking
 * RADIO: Cyberbullying
 * RADIO: Don't Text and Drive
 * RADIO: Red Cross
 * RADIO: Respect for All Radio
 * RADIO: Sample Scripts
 * RADIO: Sample Script2
 * RADIO: Strides for Change
 * Red Cross Babysitting
 * Salo Production Examples
 * Secondhand Smoke
 * Seconds
 * Superbowl 2015
 * Think Before You Post
 * This Is Your Brain
 * Water2

=Satire:= =Reviews:=
 * "I Am Fun" Hillary Clinton
 * "Area Man Confounded by Buffet Procedure"
 * Writing Professor
 * How Meat Gets to Our Table
 * Jim Harbaugh
 * Kids and Screen Time
 * Creepy Crawlspace
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * NFL This Week
 * Five Steps to Writing an Onion Article || =Narrative=
 * Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
 * Mark Twain--how to write like him
 * Gabriel Garcia Marquez--How to write like him
 * Harrison Bergeron
 * "Carrie" film review"
 * Farewell to Twang"
 * "Fred and Barney
 * "Modern Family: '
 * "Pharrell William:r
 * "Scary New World"
 * "Titanfall Supplants
 * "Two Against the World"
 * "Young Love Complicated

=Speeches=


 * [|I Have a Dream]
 * [|Inaugural Address 2013]

=This I Believe Essays:=


 * Find a Good Frog
 * The Triumph of Kindness
 * Accomplishing Big Things...
 * The Beatles Live On
 * Finding the Flexibility
 * Inner Strength from...

=Video=
 * Boatlift:9/11 Resistance ||

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