Summary/Response

First of all, we work out which article you will be reading.  At the end of class there will be time for you to go print a copy of that article.

Then you read "Bourne Overcomes Tragedy ..."


You try writing two paragraphs of summary and response.  Then we look at an example of this kind of writing.

Homework:

1.  Read your article through several times.  Try to figure out its structure.  Come up with questions about parts as you read them. Try to figure out decisions the author made in presenting the information the way s/he did. See Everyday Writer pages 116-117.

2.  You should have about 14 vocabulary words as of today.  Your article should provide you with more.

Memory Papers Due

You turn in the final version of your Memory essay.

Then we discuss the next assignment -- Summary/Response.

Articles to choose from:Link to "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How can underdogs win?)

Link to "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande. (Is solitary confinement torture?)
Link to "Troublemakers" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Pit bulls and profiling.)
Link to "Most Likely to Succeed" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How do you hire a 'winner'?)
Link to "What Helen Keller Saw" by Cynthia Ozick. ( Controversy in Helen Keller's lifetime.)
Link to "The Itch" by Atul Gawande. ( The neuroscience of itching. Haunting hook.)
Link to "Offensive Play" by Malcom Gladwell. (How similar are football and dogfighting?)
Link to "Personality Plus" by Malcom Gladwell. (How useful are employers' personality tests?)

For tomorrow, you must look at these articles and make a first choice and second choice. Tomorrow we'll find out which are the most popular and choose accordingly, so that each article has at least two people writing about it.

More About Fragments

Put up a vocabulary word.

We review coordination and subordination.  You find an example of each in your paper and copy it into your daybook.

Then we look at page 364 in Everyday Writer and you do Ex. 37.2  #1-5.

Homework:

1.  Prepare the final version of your Remembering paper, due tomorrow.

2. One vocabulary word.

Draft #2 due -- Remembering

First of all, you read each other's drafts.

When you are done, you may pick up your graded Observation paper.

In your daybook under 'Observation Paper':

1.  Copy down what I wrote for strengths and weaknesses.

2.  Create an error list.  Using the Everyday Writer's "Top Twenty,"  make a list of the numbered errors on your paper.  Write out the name of each error and tally up how many of them are in your paper.  If you are not sure what is wrong, consult the pages in the Everyday Writer that explain that issue (and ask me, too!).  It's your job to prevent these errors in your next paper.

Homework:

1.  Finish the above.

2.  The final version of the Remembering paper is due Thursday of this week.  Begin editing!

3.  One vocabulary word.

Readings and Grammar

Free write:  which did you like better, "Arm Wrestling" or "Beauty" ?  Why?

In your daybook, write out answers to Q.1 in Meaning and Q.1 in Strategy at the end of "Arm Wrestling."

Then go to groups to look at "Beauty."

Go over Ex. 30.7.

Fragments pages 361-364. Do Ex. 37.1   #1-5.

Homework:


1.  Draft #2 is due.


2.  One vocabulary word.