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Composition I Overview
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Assign Textbooks
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The Writing Process
Lesson 3
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Writers Prompt:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles theworld.
Albert Einstein
What is your reaction to this quote? Why do youagree or disagree? Journal your reaction and
response.
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Assignments for Next Class
Read Chapter 2 in the Little Brown Handbook
Do Handout 2.6 for next class
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Review of Last Class Assignment
Exercise 1.3, page 9 (Exercise 1.3, page 9 (NewNew Little Brown)Little Brown) oror
Exercise 3, page 8 (Exercise 3, page 8 (OldOld Little BrownLittle Brown))
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The Writing Process
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Lesson 5
Drafting and Revising
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Writers Prompt:
What would you do if you knew you would
never fail when doing it?
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Assignments
Read Chapter 28, The Comma in Little,
Brown Handbook
Do Handout 28.1 Punctuating linked mainclauses
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Assignment Review
Exercise 3.9 (NEW) or Exercise 9 (OLD) in The
Little, Brown Handbook
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Copyright Houghton MifflinCompany.All rights reserved.
The writing process - 14
Writing the First Draft
Remember: The first draft is not for keeps
Write freely
Be yourself
Let your inner writer take over
Ease into it
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Copyright Houghton MifflinCompany.All rights reserved.
The writing process - 15
Writing the First Draft
Make writing a habit
Respect your deep mind
Get physical
Use affirmations and visualizations
Hide it in your drawer for a while
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Lesson 7
Common Writing Mistakes
#2
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Writers Prompt:
The positive aspects of legalized gambling far outweigh
the harmful side effects that occur.
What do you think?
What evidence do you have to support your
position?
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Common Writing MistakesCommon Writing Mistakes
Lesson #2Lesson #2
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Examine the following:
Transmitting radio signals by satellite is a way of
overcoming the problem of scarce airways and
limiting how they are used. This task is one of the
promises of the Obama administration.
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Examine the following:
Before Mary Grace physically and verbally
assaulted Mrs. Turpin, she was a judgmental woman
who created her own ranking system of people and
used it to justify her self proclaimed superiority. Itwas common knowledge that she had no clue as to
the truth.
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The Thesis Statement
Lesson # 4 Thesis Development
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Writers Prompt:Writers Prompt:
Describe in one or two paragraphs, one or twoDescribe in one or two paragraphs, one or two
things you would like to see President Obamathings you would like to see President Obama
achieve during his first year in office.achieve during his first year in office.
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Assignment Review
Handout 2.6 Shaping the thesis
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The Thesis StatementThe Thesis Statement
A Road Map for Your EssayA Road Map for Your Essay
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Lesson 8
Descriptive Essay Introduction
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Writers Prompt:
Describe a room in your home in explicit detail
Bedroom
Bathroom
Living room
kitchen
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Assignment
Read in Great Writing Wuthering Heights on
page 31.
Answer questions:
Meaning and Idea
#3
Language, Form, Structure
#2
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Assignment Review
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
Virginia Woolf was an English writer, author and novelist anda pioneer of modernism in English literature.
Among her most famous work are novels To the Lighthouse,Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando and an essay A Room of One'sOwn.
She was an important figure in the Victorian literary societyand is regarded as one of the greatest modernist literary
personality of the twentieth century. She became the innovator of the English literature with her
experiment with the 'stream of consciousness' and broke themold with her highly experimental language denouncing thetraditional literary techniques.
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Question #2/Meaning and Idea
On what details about the moths struggle
with death does Woolf focus? What
characteristics do they come to represent for
her?
She focuses on the intensity of its struggles to cling
to life. She sees its last gasp in which the moth gets
back on its feet. Once dead, Woolf sees the mothsdignified acceptance of its fate, death. Simply put:
life and the struggle to escape death.
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The Descriptive Essay
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Lesson 14
Writing the Narrative Essay
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Writers Prompt:
Everyone Has Been Scared Sometime
Everyone has been scared at some time in one's life.Think of one of those times.
Where did the incident take place? Remember thereason that you were scared. What were theemotions that were involved?
What did you see and hear? What actions did youtake? What were the results of those actions? If
others were involved, what were their reactions?How was the situation resolved?
What did you do, and how did you feel after it was allover?
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Assignment
Read Graduation by Maya Angelou, page 23
in Great Writing
Answer Meaning and Idea questions #1 and #2 on
page 132
Narrative Essay
Rough Draft Due October 9/12
Final Paper Due October 15/16
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Assignment Review
Raymond Carver
(May 25, 1938 August 2,
1988) was an American short
story writer and poet. Carver is
considered a major American
writer of the late 20th century
and also a major force in therevitalization of the short story
in the 1980s.
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My Fathers Life
Raymond Carvers My Fathers Life, Page 81
in Great Writing
(Meaning) #3 Trace the geographic movement of Carvers father
(Language) #2
What is the use of dialogue in this essay? How
does it enhance the narration?
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Answers
(Meaning) #3
Trace the geographic movement of Carvers father
Carvers dad moved from Leola, AR to Omak, WA
to Clatskanie, OR to Yakima, WA to Chester, CA toKlamath, CA
(Language) #2
Caver demonstrates the various people feelings in
personal language through the use of dialogue. Itgives the reader a more vivid sense of reactions ofothers to Carvers father.
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Common Writing Mistakes
Lesson 22
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Writing Prompt:
Ive decided to take a trip across the
United States on a pogo stick. Write a
paragraph telling me why or why not I should
pursue this endeavor.
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Read:
1. The quarter horse skipped, pranced, andabsolutely sashayed onto the track.
2. Three subjects guaranteed to cause a fight
are politics, religion, and money.
3. The car rolled down the hill, over the lawn,and into the swimming pool.
What do they have in common?
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Answer: Parallel Structure
All items in a series should be in parallel form
It makes the series both graceful and easy to
follow.
Contrast:
The duties of the job included baby-sitting, house-
cleaning, and the preparation of meals.
The duties of the job included baby-sitting, house-
cleaning, andpreparing meals.
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Pairing Two Ideas - Powerful
The pairing of two ideas is an effective use of
parallelism:
History became popular, and historians became
alarmed. Will Durant
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we
do language. That may be the measure of our
lives. Toni Morrison Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put
an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
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Writers Prompt:
Write a paragraph persuading the Troy High
School administration to allow the use of cell
phones on campus.
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Step 3: Complete the graphic organizer.
Unfold the paper and draw a box in the
center. In the center box write a sentence
to convey your stand.
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The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable
Men and Women
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This I Believe
From 19511955, Edward R. Murrow hosted This I Believe,a daily radio program that reached 39 million listeners. Onthis broadcast, Americansboth well known andunknownread five-minute essays about their personal
philosophy of life.
They shared insights about individual values that shapedtheir daily actions. The first volume of This I Believeessays, published in 1952, sold 300,000 copiesmore
than any other book in the U. S. during that year exceptfor the Bible.
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Introduction - continued
In fact, these Murrow broadcasts were so popular that
curriculum was even developed to encourage American high
school students to compose essays about their mostsignificant personal beliefs.
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Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow (1908 1965) was anAmerican journalist He first came toprominence with a series of radio newsbroadcasts during World War II, which werefollowed by millions of listeners in the United
States and Canada. Historians consider him among journalism'sgreatest figures; Murrow hired a top-flightcadre of war correspondents and was notedfor honesty and integrity in delivering thenews.
A pioneer of television news broadcasting,
Murrow produced a series of TV news reportsthat helped lead to the censure of SenatorJoseph McCarthy.