10/23/19

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Homework for Thursday, 10/24: Post your second draft of Essay 2 to your blog and D2L. We’ll be using google docs for peer review on Thursday, October 24.

10/22/19

“A detail is concrete if it appeals to one of the five senses; it is significant if it also conveys an idea or a judgment or both.” – Janet Burroway

  • Read the following article in your groups and discuss it and if and why narration may (or may not) be an important tool for you in your future career: “The world’s top economists just made the case for why we still need English majors” (a case for why narrative is important in fields like economics); article from The Washington Post Online.
  • When you finish, read about using significant detail in story writing.
  • In Class Writing: Create a sensory list for 5 abstract (existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence) concepts (consider exploring your topic(s) and/or values you are appealing to with your story). Post your list to your blog.
  • symbol: a thing that represents or stands for something else; for example, a material object representing something abstract (object as stand-in for an abstract idea)
  • metaphor: a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract (draws a comparison between two distinct objects)

Looking ahead—Homework for Thursday, 10/24: Post your second draft of Essay 2 to your blog and D2L. We’ll be using google docs for peer review on Thursday, October 24.

10/16/19

In Class:

  • Quiz 3
  • Once you’ve finished, read the following article and complete the exercise at the end of it for in class writing (post your response to your blog): “Characterization: Bringing Real People to Life on the Page.”
  • Imagery, scene, character, characterization, dialogue, and subtext.
    • imagery (story): vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste)
    • scene (story): a part in the story where a character or characters engage in actions or dialogue
    • character: (1) a person or personified animal in a story (2) the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual
    • characterization: a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something in a story; imagery and dialogue used to reveal a character’s nature, motives, and desires
    • dialogue: conversation between characters in a story
  • Go over the rules for writing dialogue.
  • Read and discuss Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927).

10/15/19

Homework for Wednesday, 10/16: Study for Terms Quiz 3.

10/10/19

“Those who tell the stories rule society.” – Plato

  • Read page 4 from the pdf from Stealing Fire from the Gods by James Bonnet (2006) and talk about the oral storytelling tradition.
  • Review Freytag’s pyramid.
  • Storytelling practice: Practice telling one-two classmates the story you have chosen for Essay 2. Discuss: What details caught their interest? What details are you missing? What would your “reader”/”audience” like to know more about or need to know in order to gain a better understanding of your story and argument?
  • Go over student publications and scholarships.
  • In Class Writing: Create a sentence outline (reference “Constructing Sentence Outlines”) for your story. Use bullet points to note important details to include for each part. Use the exposition, conflict/inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution from Freytag’s pyramid as a chronological guide. Include a sentence describing your argument and your main conflict in the story. Consider the 3-4 page requirement. Post your outline to your blog.

Things to consider for essay 2:

You have to decide what to tell and what to leave out. Try to remember to describe the important moments in your story in vivid detail. You have to decide a good “order of events” and which events build up well to the climactic moment. You have to decide which characters to focus on/include in your story. You should consider what the importance of the story is. Discuss it with your classmates. Does your conclusion/revelation/character’s internal growth and gained perspective about themselves and the world “speak for itself” or does it take more evidence than only what happened in the narrative to convince your reader to share the perspective? The conclusion should be reasonable and based on the “evidence,” which in this case is the story.

Homework for Tuesday, 10/15: Read and annotate (highlight important parts, look up words you don’t know, write notes about your reactions/questions/important parts of the narrative in the margins) this excerpt from Malcolm X’s “A Homemade Education.”

10/9/19

“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • *I have updated the schedule to give you all one more week for your drafts for Essay 2. Please check it for details.*
  • narrative: a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
  • argument: A written, spoken, or visual piece designed to persuade an audience to bring about a change in ideas/attitudes. In academic writing, the argument often refers to the main point, assertion, or conclusion advanced by an author, along with the evidence and reasoning by which this is established. Arguments are concerned with contested issues where some degree of uncertainty exists (we don’t argue about what is self-evidence or agreed upon).
  • Read from “Narration” (Writing for Success)
  • Watch: “The danger of a single story.”
  • Discuss: “Why do we tell stories?”
  • Internal and external conflicts in story/literature: http://www.wwph1079fm.com/download/laconfli.pdf
  • Storytelling Elements: Plot.
  • Share your story ideas (from homework) with a classmate to gauge which would be the most interesting for your readers.

Homework for Thursday, 10/10: Complete the Choosing the Best Topic/Story document for three story ideas to help you chose the story you want to focus on for essay 2.

Looking ahead–Homework for Tuesday, 10/15: Read and annotate this excerpt from Malcolm X’s “A Homemade Education.”

10/8/19

In Class:

  • In Class Writing Part 1 (post to your blog): Answer the following reflection questions about your experience with Essay 1:
    • Had you written a rhetorical analysis before? What aspects of a rhetorical analysis did you learn about that you hadn’t considered before?
    • What did you learn about your piece or your author’s perspective that you otherwise wouldn’t have discovered?
    • What are the ways you effectively prepared, revised, and bettered your writing for the Essay 1 final draft? What ways do you wish to continue to improve for Essay 2 and 3?
    • What questions do you still have about rhetorical analysis? What questions do you have about the writing process? About grammar?
  • If you finish early, read Audre Lorde’s biography.
  • Narrative Argument Example – Excelsior Online Writing Lab
  • Read Lorde’s essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (first delivered at the MLA’s “Lesbian and Literature Panel” in Chicago, Illinois, in 1977; first published in Sinister Wisdom, 1978). In Class Writing Part 2: Imitation.

Homework for Wednesday, 10/9: Come up with at least three story ideas for Essay 2 and post brief descriptions to your blog.

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