Remembering

Helen Keller's writing: you mark it and we discuss it.

Look at this.

Homework:

1. Work on the first draft of your remembering essay.

Papers Due/ Remembering

You hand in your Observation/Description papers. But before you do, please reflect on the process of writing this paper. On the back of your writer's page, please list the stages of the writing process and comment on each: choosing, collecting, shaping/drafting, revising, editing, publishing. What was easy, what was difficult, what could you do differently?

We discuss the next assignment: Remembering.

Freewrite: spend some time brainstorming about possible topics that you could write this next paper about.

Here is an example of this kind of writing.

Homework:

1. Read Helen Keller's memory piece.

2. One vocabulary word.

Editing

First of all, Everyday Writer pages 275-278.

Then editing handout.

Review of format: page 155 in Everyday Writer.

Homework:

1. Final version of your Observation paper due tomorrow. Please remember all drafts and comment sheets to hand in with your final version.

2. One vocabulary word.

More on Description

First of all, describe this image for an audience to imagine.


Now, read Thomas McGuane's description.

Write the answers to the questions on the back of the sheet in your journal.

We discuss this paragraph.

Homework:

1. Be revising your second draft. Edit carefully. The final version is due Thursday.

2. One vocabulary word.

Draft #2

Before you look at each other's drafts, read in the Everyday Writer Section 24c, pages 260-261.

You will choose three of the five sentences in Ex. 24.3 to rewrite in order to change the emphasis. This can be completed after you've finished commenting on drafts.

You'll read and comment on second drafts. Now is the time to give each other input about using the different techniques for writing about observation and sentence-level issues of clarity and variety.

Homework:

1. Begin to polish your draft into the final version, due on Thursday this week.

2. Finish Ex. 24.3 in Everday Writer.