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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.

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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.

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