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)
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).
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).