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Note from Principal: "Recently I have noticed a few students in violation of the dress code. Please be aware of this and send any students who cannot follow the guidelines to the office. They may not attend class or student activities during the day if they are not properly attired. They will be sent home. You are the first line of defense. Thank you." This is not a role I wish to take on, but it looks like I have to. I'm not sure what she noticed, but ladies -- watch out for skimpy tops and short shorts (would be my guess) Please follow the link. Read the explanation of parenthetical expressions (another of those comma usage rules), Complete the exercises. Honor system. This is a review for you -- nothing turned in. Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons… provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. It’s their revenge against facts that won’t go away. Writing alters, reshuffles, intrudes on everything. As small a thing as a shifty adverb, or an adjective with attitude, or just a trivial little comma is enough to reconfigure the past. And maybe this is why we write. We want a second chance, we want the other version of our life, the one that thrills us, the one that happened to the people we really are, not to those we just happened to be once. --Andre Aciman, "How Memoirists Mold the Truth" Please read the excerpt above -- really, please. He says it better than I can. Go to the Poets & Writers Website, scroll down to Creative non-Fiction prompts and find one prompt to write about. Write a blog post based on one prompt. This time your post should be 400 words plus. By next Friday, respond to two of your classmates. (Don't do the entry titled "Photographs" -- we're doing something similar in class.) Homework: Remember to bring a personal photograph to class (if Mom won't let the photo out of the house, you can take a picture of it). Description and NarrationComma, comma, comma, chameleon
Joyce Carol Oates' "Nighthawks, 1942": Use of description and narration HW for Honors: Choose one of the 4 paintings (see powerpoint) and create a narrative from the painting. Use concrete details from the painting and blend it with your own narration. You may do this as a poem or a paragraph -- whichever you prefer. Please type the final draft. Read pp 93-100 in Bedford Martin. Workshop narrations "Story Time" with Frank McCourt Teacher Man In class write about a first day at school Honors (Periods 1 & 4)
You must first log in and create an account on the Bedford St. Martin's website. I have included the urls here for Periods 1 & 4. Period 1: BedfordSt.Martin's Period 4: BedfordSt.Martin's In order to create your account, you are going to have to put in the long code at the front of your textbook. It's on the cardstock page. Do NOT tear this page out! Once you create your account, it will take you to a class website with your first assignment. Click on assignment, then the blue box with an arrow to get the complete assignment (I have repeated it below in case there are any problems. In case of a total web site melt down, To hear and read the essay and access the questions, click on the side bar where you see the dot and date next to "Joan Didion Santa Ana Wind" I've also linked to Joan Didion's essay so that you can read it and linked to a word document where you can answer the 4 questions. (So, there's no reason not to do the work) After you have answered the first 4 questions, go to the class blog and answer the question posted there. See below for directions and homework. Directions: I recommend that you listen to Diane Keaton read Joan Didion's descriptive essay. You can download a transcript to follow along. There are headphones on the back table or use your own. Answer the first 4 questions in complete, thoughtful sentences. When you have finished answering the questions and you have submitted them, go to the class blog and respond to the post. By next class, please respond to two of your classmates. Homework: Look at the painting on page 187 and read Joyce Carol Oates's poem "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942." You don't have to answer them, but be prepared to discuss the questions on pp18 & 190 on writing strategy and language. Then read Joyce Carol Oates on Writing pp 191-192. Have a great weekend and I'll see you in class Tuesday. Please bring books. Regular (Periods 2 & 5) 1. Begin with the attached handout on creating similes and metaphors. You can type them up or print and hand write. You will need to turn them in to Mr. Berger, whichever way you go. (Remember that to print, you must release your print job from the Desk Top). (No more than 20 minutes on this, preferably 15) 2. After this and sharing your similes and metaphors, please read the short essay by Zora Neale Hurston: "How it Feels to be Colored Me" -- As you're reading, also pay attention to her use of language and be thinking about her main ideas. Are they different from what you expected when you read the title. Look carefully at the final metaphor in the last paragraph. 3. Your last assignment is to go to you class blog and respond to the prompt, which is basically to create a similar metaphor for yourself: what is your container and what is it filled with? I've posted a personal example to help you get started. Please create a post and then by the next class, respond to two class mates. Apostrophe review Part 1 and Part 2
In class reading quiz on "The Ladder" Descriptive writing in class assignment Descriptive writing homework due next class Close Reading (in class) of "The Ladder" -- theme, symbols, diction, syntax Descriptive Samples Internet Trolls and Grammar at the Emmys Honors: Go to the Class Blog for your period (1 or 4) and answer the question posted there. Your answer should be approximately 100 - 200 words long and formed with grammatically correct complete sentences. (Sometimes it helps to type in Word first, use spell and grammar check, and then copy and paste). Before the next class, be sure to respond to two people's posts. Your responses should be between 25 - 50 words long.
Complete your rhetorical precis. (We'll work on this together.) Type your rhetorical precis using Microsoft Word. Format your paper correctly and add a internal header (last name and page number in the upper right hand corner), just as an exercise in learning how to do this. If you don't know how to format, see screen shot PP attached. Upload your rhetorical precis to the turnitin.com account that you are now going to create. www.turnitin.com Turn in your annotations and your rhetorical precis worksheet. HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks! Regular: Go to the Class Blog for your period (2 or 5) and answer the question posted there. Your answer should be approximately 100 - 200 words long and formed with grammatically correct complete sentences. (Sometimes it helps to type in Word first, use spell and grammar check, and then copy and paste). Before the next class, be sure to respond to two people's posts. Your responses should be between 25 - 50 words long. We will write a rhetorical precis for Sherman Alexie's "Superman and Me" and post it on turnitin.com. See above for Word instructions. Turn in your annotations and rhetorical precis worksheet. HW: In the Bedford Reader, read pp 148-the top of 153 on Descriptive Writing. Then read the essay"Ladder" by Sven Birkerts. Be prepared to discuss the essay in class on Monday, Tuesday. Thanks! PP on Chapter 1 - Analyzing Text Discuss Reading Begin writing a rhetorical precis Distribute Journal assignments (due 9/29 & 9/30) |
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