C/C and Descriptive Essays Submitted.

1.  Attendance.

2.  Papers in and out.

3.  Journal:  What might be a topic for your compare and contrast essay?  Why that?

4.  C/C Homework Review... Outlines...

5.  C/C notes... further outline...

6.  Quick Typo Read-  Pairs.

6.  HW-  When you return to class, please be sure to have completed your Descriptive essay for submission, if you haven't already, and return with an outline of the C/C essay you'll write.  Your outline should be like mine.

C/C essays....

1.  Work in and out.

2.  Attendance.  You're here, right?

3.  C/C essay notes.

Thesis:  whereas...

Organizational Plans...

4.  C/C essay model?

5.  Groups and reading... Descriptive Essays...

6.  Please read and outline this C/C essay and bring your outline of THIS ESSAY to class and finish your descriptive to turn in on Wednesday.

Groups and editing...

1.  Attendance.

2.  Homework check.

3.  Journal:

Are you using simile, metaphor, imagery, or other figurative language in your essay?  I hope so.  If you're not, please explain why.  If you are, please write down two examples here and explain how they help the reader understand.

4.  Groups and Editing.

Questions:

Is there a beginning, middle and end?
Does the opening paragraph make you want to read more?
Are they telling a story about a short, short period of time?
Are there so many mistakes that it is distracting?
Write a short plot summary of the author's story.
Does it seem like the author is thinking about words?
Is there a good mix of sentences?  Both short and long?
Is this story interesting to others?

5.  Homework-  Please take the advice of your classmates, and return to class with the second draft of your essay.

Welcome to class!

1.  Journal:  What is your descriptive essay about?  Summarize your story.

2.  Tell your story to another...

3.  Reading and question review....  In class discussion.

4.  Model for Descriptive essay....

5.  HOMEWORK!  Descriptive Draft due in class on Wednesday-

Descriptive Writing...

O.  Attendance

1.  Journal:  

The poem below has a secret.  It's really about writing.  What can you learn about descriptive writing from this poem?  Why?  It's called "The Red Wheelbarrow" and is by Williams.

so much depends
upon a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.

2.  Hanging, discussion and reviewing answers to questions....

3.  Poem, for description purposes... thinking skill questions

Funeral Blues

TS questions:

1.  Explain which image is most powerful to you.  Why is it?
2.  Some infer that the speakers love is timeless.  Why?
3.  Identify how the speaker is feeling.
4. Connect this poem to your own life.
5.  Analyze what the images do for the poem.  How do they work?
6.  Synthesize this poem into your own consciousness by taking away an image from the poem and replacing it with one of your own.



4.  Some notes about descriptive writing...

Concrete v. Abstract.
Show don't tell.
It's a narrative, so the premise is the same.


Homework:

Read "Storm Country" and ask and answer 5 thinking skill questions about the reading plus my questions below.  Please bring those to class along with your ideas for your descriptive story.  Be ready to tell your story to another.

1. Which tornado story is better?  "Storm Country" or "Mother Nature?"   Why?
Link to "Mother Nature" is in a previous post.

2.  What details will you remember from "Storm Country?"   At least three.

3.  Why is this considered a good example of descriptive writing?

Editing, Continued.

1.  Attendance....

1.5 Journal.....  Why do you have a responsibility to be a fair and thorough editor for another?
 
2.  Class Narrative....

3.  Groups and Essays (see notes below)

4.  HW-  Final Draft of Essay due in MLA format.

5.  HW-  Read the following descriptive essay and answer the questions below.

Questions:

1.  Famous writing advice includes the maxim:  "Show, Don't tell."  Provide an example of where Mr. Orwell follows this advice and explain why you believe he follows this advice.

2.  Descriptive essays employ figurative language like similes and metaphors.  Find a simile and a metaphor in "A Hanging" and explain how they each help readers better understand the situation or the image that Orwell is attempting to describe.

3.  Most good essays have a message.  What is Orwell's message, and why do you think it is the message?


Editing Groups:

Please have a sheet of paper where you answer the following questions about your classmates' essays.  After you've read the essays, answer the questions on the sheet you've created and return the sheet with the essay to your group member.

While you are reading the essay, please circle any areas where you think there are mistakes.  Don't explain how to fix them (unless they ask), just notice the mistakes that you see.

Questions:

1.  What is the topic of this essay?
2.  What is the purpose of this essay?
3.  Did the essay have a beginning, middle and an end?
4.  Was the topic interesting?
5.  Did it "start in the middle of the action?"
6.  Were there so many mistakes that you couldn't focus on the essay?
7.  Would you tell another about this essay?
8.  Offer one suggestion for change to the essay.
9.  Provide 2 compliments about the essay.
10.  Do you think this is an A essay?

Grading and Editing...

1.  Welcome-  Cranes to sign?  Blogs to Visit?

2.  Attendance:  next to your name, please write your blog address neatly.

3.  Grading Sheets:  Link here

4.  Essay to grade in groups...#4, by Wesley Dukes... Scroll down after  Read, Here.

4.5.  I'll grade it for you too, experiment... write down your scores on the board.

5.  Groups and essays.  Read and notice mistakes and ask questions.  T-Chart Style...

6.  HW.  Typed FINAL DRAFT of essay due.