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.

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.