More Remembering

Freewrite: Think about your childhood and presents.

Was there once ONE thing you just had to have?

Was there something that others might not approve of (for gender or other reasons)?

Was there one thing you never got, or one item you received but always wondered why ?

Or why you ever wanted it in the first place?



Then read the Rodriguez piece.

Annotate your copy of his essay for his use of sensory detail/specific scenes/contrasts/conflicts/point of view. At the bottom explain what the point of this piece is.

Do Ex. 26.2 (page 269) in your journal.


Homework:

1. Prepare your second draft for class tomorrow. Make sure that your scenes are building your main idea, not distracting from it.

2. One vocabulary word.

Draft #1 Remembering

Consider with me again these words:

"Even to see it drifting out of orbit in boredom, or rolling up out of fatigue, not to mention floating back at attention in excitement (bearing witness, a friend has called it), deeply suitable to my personlaity, and even characteristic of me."

You read each other's drafts.

Homework:

1. Take your draft home and improve it. Draft #2 is due Thursday.

2. One vocabulary word.

Remembering

Freewrite: Please write awhile on Alice Walker's "Beauty." Discuss her use of scenes and detail, and then spend some time on what her point is. How many different ways does she try to get across her point?

Then as groups answer the questions on the handout.

In the Everyday Writer we look at parallelism, pages 266-269, Section 26. Please write out Ex. 26.1 in your journal.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 due tomorrow.

2. One vocabulary word.