Mrs. Smith-Short Pre AP-pd 1 Assignments

Read the instructions
choose a subject topic or create a your non- fiction personal statement
create a doc to type on and hand in your work
read sentence structure rubric
use the graphic organizers to help with your process and show your work thats EXTRA CREDIT
I am asking for 3 paragraphs an introduction, body and conclusion to your personal narrative

Both Morrison’s essay and Adkison’s essay are communicating different messages about
their work experiences as teenagers, and they also deliver those messages in slightly
different ways. This lesson’s writing task leads students to express an appreciation
for how both writers develop their points. The previous lesson’s point-of-view writing
exercise allowed students to more informally compare and contrast Adkison’s and
Morrison’s perspectives, whereas this lesson will require students to organize their
thoughts in a more traditional and academic written response.

Compare and Contrast

Identify the qualities that two things share and the qualities that are unique to each of those two things

PLEASE REFER TO VIDEO FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTION!

Based on your reading of Adkison’s essay, what do you think he would have to say
in response to Morrison about how she interpreted and internalized her father’s
advice? Write a paragraph or two from Adkison’s point of view. With which of
the four points listed at the end of Morrison’s essay would Adkison most likely
agree? Why? With which of the four points would Adkison most likely disagree?
Why? Make sure to use supporting evidence from Adkison’s essay to support your
stance. For example, if you are arguing that, as Adkison, you disagree with #3
(“Your real life is with us, your family.”), you could cite supporting details such as
Adkison considering the Pizza Hut staff his “second family.”



Reread the ending of Morrison’s essay:

Perhaps he [Morrison’s father] understood that what I wanted was a solution to
the job, not an escape from it. In any case, he put down his cup of coffee and
said, “Listen. You don’t live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work.
Get your money. And come on home.”
That was what he said. This was what I heard:
1. Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself.
2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you.
3. Your real life is with us, your family.
4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.

I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-
witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since

that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to
be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above
the value of home.


Focus on rule #3 Morrison father gave. How does this work for Adkison who is working to get away from his family , not like Morrison who is working to help out her family. How will this rule apply to him and would he agree or disagree? (refer back to "The work you do, the person you are" page#5 )

Directions: Read the first three paragraphs of “Drowning in Dishes, but Finding a
Home.”

Answer the following questions :

How did parents in Adkison’s hometown view the issue of teenagers working
part-time jobs? How did Adkison’s personal reason for wanting to work differ from the
community’s point of view?

Read just the first paragraph of “The Work You Do, the Person You Are” and list
all the things that “She” had that the narrator did not. What do you think these
physical objects might say about the setting the narrator is describing?

Use the graphic organizer to name all the thing (items) list them.