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.