For THURS., Feb. 6:
We'll work on Prose Style issues, so please bring your white LOC books to class. Strategy for the Argument Essay (next I-CE on Monday, Feb. 8). (5th Period: we'll score the de Botton essay in humorists.) In class: pp. 698-700, writing out Exercise 1 on pp. 703-704.
HOMEWORK: Read pp. 700-704 in LOC, and do Exercises 2 and 4 (704-705). In order to succeed at Exercise 4, you'll need to copy each paragraph in full -- by hand, or by typing it as a Word document, or by scanning and printing out the .PDF -- and then annotating at least three (3) examples of coordination in each paragraph: three for Eiseley and three for Birkerts. As the instructions say at the bottom of p. 704, "(i)dentify the examples of coordination... and explain their rhetorical effects." Write your explanations in the margins or at the bottom of the page. Bring your results to class on Friday.
For FRIDAY, Feb. 7
Continue working on Prose Style challenges (LOC). More strategy for the next Argument Essay. Weekend homework TBA. Grammar Challenges.
For MONDAY, Feb. 10
Read exemplary argument essays:
"Is It Immoral to Watch the Superbowl?" (NY Times, Jan. 24, 2014)
and others, TBA.
Vonnegut's Eight Tips for Writers and the AP Argumentative essay.
Perhaps for Monday's I-CE and definitely for Wednesday's test on The Things They Carried, hear author Tim O'Brien "go public" with talks on his methodology for writing war stories. He explains The Blur he tried to achieve -- the cross-over between reality and fiction -- in The Things They Carried.
Lecture at a Library Conference (Arlington, MA). (2011)
Lecture at Brown University. "Writing Vietnam" (2010).
On MONDAY, Feb. 10
I-CE #3.
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