Freewrite: Thinking about memories, is there someone whose memoirs you would really like to read? Discuss.
Alexander Sohzhenitsyn. The Uses of Writing.
Groups discuss "The Red Chevy" Q. 2, 3 and 4 page 124.
As there is time we look at Everyday Writer Ex. 24.2.
You read each other's drafts.
If you finish early read the handout (goat beginnings) and then start on the homework, reading Alice Walker's "Beauty."
HAND IN YOUR DAYBOOKS.
Homework:
1. Read Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other..." page 94 to 100. Be ready for a quiz over it.
2. Create Draft #2 of your Remembering paper.
3. Write out at least one alternative beginning for your draft. Try to start it in a completely different way. Write a full paragraph. This will be handed in on a separate sheet of paper with all your drafts of this paper.
4. Two vocabulary words.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Final Version Due Observation/Description
You organize and turn in the Observation/Description papers.
The next paper: Remembering.
We look at "The Day Language..."
Groups annotate "The Boy's Desire."
We look at the journal prompts on page 94. Think about these.
We review subordination and coordination. You do Ex. 24.2 starting on page 259.
Homework:
1. Read "The Red Chevy" on pages 121-124.
2. Fill at least one daybook page brainstorming about possible topics for this paper. You may use an idea from page 94 or not. See also page 107 for ideas.
3. Create the first draft of your Remembering essay. This may be simply an extended free write -- it can be very rough.
4. Two vocabulary words.
5. I will collect daybooks for the first check Wednesday.
The next paper: Remembering.
We look at "The Day Language..."
Groups annotate "The Boy's Desire."
We look at the journal prompts on page 94. Think about these.
We review subordination and coordination. You do Ex. 24.2 starting on page 259.
Homework:
1. Read "The Red Chevy" on pages 121-124.
2. Fill at least one daybook page brainstorming about possible topics for this paper. You may use an idea from page 94 or not. See also page 107 for ideas.
3. Create the first draft of your Remembering essay. This may be simply an extended free write -- it can be very rough.
4. Two vocabulary words.
5. I will collect daybooks for the first check Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Draft #2 Observation/Description
Vocabulary words.
Mowat quiz. Groups discuss Mowat.
Go over Everyday Writer worksheet.
Coordination and Subordination: sentence level editing. You do Ex. 24.1 from page 257 in the Everyday Writer in your daybook. You may use a combination of coordination AND subordination to make the paragraph more interesting.
Read each other's drafts.
Homework:
1. Prepare the final version of your Observation/Description paper. Use the MLA style heading and layout on page 466 in the Everyday Writer.
2. Go to the blue box on page 75 of Reid called "Postscript on the Writing Process." In your daybook, answer #1 and #5. In #5 don't answer the last question (you could not choose audience or genre).
3. Read pages 88-93 in Reid.
4. Two vocabulary words.
Mowat quiz. Groups discuss Mowat.
Go over Everyday Writer worksheet.
Coordination and Subordination: sentence level editing. You do Ex. 24.1 from page 257 in the Everyday Writer in your daybook. You may use a combination of coordination AND subordination to make the paragraph more interesting.
Read each other's drafts.
Homework:
1. Prepare the final version of your Observation/Description paper. Use the MLA style heading and layout on page 466 in the Everyday Writer.
2. Go to the blue box on page 75 of Reid called "Postscript on the Writing Process." In your daybook, answer #1 and #5. In #5 don't answer the last question (you could not choose audience or genre).
3. Read pages 88-93 in Reid.
4. Two vocabulary words.
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