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Current Reading:
Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers
"Chapter
Seven: Techniques for
Explaining"
The Perfect
Storm: "The Flemish Cap" |
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In Class Agenda:
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Group Peer Review: Remembering Essay first draft. Each student
should be prepared to tell the class about something interesting or well done in
one of the essays s/he read. Consider telling about one of the elements
highlighted in green below. Peer Review
Examples.
Details.
Your essay should be a minimum of four pages (1000
words). It may incorporate the memory write we started in class, or use another
memory. A polished final draft due on Wednesday the 18th. A successful
essay would include: sensory details, similes, metaphors, dialogue, some sort of learning experience, or resolution,
and transitional phrases from beginning to end that "lead"
your reader through events and to the resolution. |
| Classroom discussion of essays. |
| 10-minute break |
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7.1. Journal Exercise:
Look at this picture. Write a paragraph (at
least 100 words) describing in detail what you see in this painting. Do
you find activity? Motion? People? Stasis? If you begin
to describe this in detail (as I would like you to do), you will find the 100
words come easily. Let your imagination run with it, and nothing you might
see or describe will be silly or wrong. How creative can you be?
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When you have finished your paragraph and are satisfied with
your writing, let me know. I'll tell you what to do next.
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If we still have some people working on their Journal Exercise
after you are finished, begin the library assignment below, or continue your
WebCT quizzes.
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7.2, 7.3. Here is the
library assignment for Explanatory Essay we'll begin next week (at the
latest). Bibliography and Library report from this assignment due
Wednesday (day 8). |
Homework Due Wednesday:
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Make sure you're current with
the reading! (we're starting a new chapter!)
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7.2, 7.3 Bibliography and Library Report.
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Final Draft Remembering Essay!
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Homework Due one week from Wednesday:
7.3. An article which will be used in your Explanatory
Essay, summarized. Include the summary, a citation to the article, and the
article itself.
7.4. An outline for your Explanatory essay, and two
pages of written material.
PLEASE TURN OFF COMPUTERS
BEFORE YOU LEAVE
Be ready for a quiz over FRAGMENTS and
Mixed Constructions and Faulty Predication on Thursday.
Bring the small scantron for this quiz.
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