Class #13

You turn in your final version of the Summary/Response #1.

How DO you write a good ending/conclusion?

Grammar editing practice.

We discuss writing techniques for the Summary/Response #2 of an image.

You write a practice Five Paragraph Essay using an old prompt (in your journal).

I will collect and check journals on Tuesday next week.

Homework:

1. Read in Reid pages 280-281 and 338-340. We are going on to the NEXT paper in these readings.

2. In your journal take one full page of notes describing the image you have chosen for your paper.

3. Create Draft #1 of your Summary/Response to an Image and bring it to class.

4. In your journal make a note of either a song or story or poem or whatever that you like that has an effective ending. Feel free to post them in the comments section of this blog (use Anonymous but include your name in the post).

4. Two vocabulary words.

Class #12

We finally look at the Five Paragraph essay. See links in Class #10.

Then we discuss Summary/Response #2 on an Image. See these examples of possible topics:

The Fall of Icarus

"Amerika"

a beer ad

and the Haka from Class #11.

Peer Review of Draft #2 of Summary/Response #1

Homework:

1. Create the final version of your Summary/Response paper. Be sure to edit carefully and have a clear introduction and conclusion. Make sure that you have an appropriate title that is NOT the same as the article you are writing about.

2. Collect some possible images to write about for the next paper. Bring them to class for input.

3. In your journal, answer #1, #2 and #5 from "Postscript on the Writing Process" on page 204 in Reid.

4. Two vocabulary words.

Class #11

We do some grammar.

We read a handout about Pat Bourne, and groups do some work on it. This is to illustrate the two kinds of summary that one may be expected to perform.

The Five Paragraph Essay. See the end of Tuesday's post for links.

Peer Review on Draft #1 of your Summary/Response essay.

Once again, if there is time, we'll do a rhetorical analysis of this.

Homework:

1. Create Draft #2 of your Summary/Response essay. For this draft you should have a clear introduction and a satisfying conclusion.

2. Read in Reid pages 216-222. This is to prepare for the NEXT paper.

3. In your journal be sure that your error lists are complete for both the Remembering and the Observation papers. On your list you should have labeled what errors the numbers from the "Top Twenty" list refer to. Did you have fewer errors in the second paper? Remember, for this next paper comma splices, run-ons and fragments will cost you two points each.

4. Two vocabulary words.