EN 102-1136 / Week Two

Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4: Review Discussion Board

Class Exercise

Assignment: MAJOR Paper ONE

Chapter 1 Turn to page 16-17

Use the questions presented on your chosen essay

“Clustering” technique

Organization Essay

Game

Rules

Sports

Parents

Friends

Big game

Examples

Chapter 2-- Review Page 35-- “Thrill of Victory… Agony of Parents” NEXT: Page 38 –Writing Strategies—Exploring

Ideas -- Analysis, p. 42

Questions: How did I change? Why did the event occur? Did I realize the significance of the event at the time? Why or why not? What do I see now that I didn’t see then? (Answers from “Thrill… Agony”)

Chapter 2 -- ReviewPublic Resonance – Page 45 What public issue is related to my memory

and how? What does my memory revewal or show

about the nature of ________? (Childhood? Teenagers? Towns? Families? Schools? Teachers? Religious institutions? Education? Parenthood? Growing up? Failing? Succeeding? Suffering? Dying? Healing?)

Begin to work towards a thesis –Page 46 Page 48 – Rhetorical Tools – 50 –

Organizational Strategies -- 52– Writer’s Voice –54—Vitality

Chapter 3 ReviewPage 70-- “Delicate Friend”--- NEXT: Page

72 Writing Strategies– Exploring Ideas Page 76 – Analysis – What relationships

exist within the broader relationship?

Smoking Affirmation

Bad Girl

Status

Social

Mom

Secretive

Public

Identity

Chapter 3 Review Page 76– Analysis --What relationships

exist within the broader relationship? How do the smaller relationships drive the broader relationship?

Is the broader relationship difficult? What keeps it going? How does the presence of one entity (person or thing) influence the other? In what hidden or indirect ways do they influence one another?

What would occur to one if the other were gone?

PEOPLE– In What ways do I communicate with this person? To what degree do I share their crises?

Chapter 3-- Review Do I feel obligated to do, think, or say

something for this person? Why am I in this relationship? What disagreements arise in the relationship? Are they sources of debate and tension, or do they fade away?

Page 79 –Public Resonance– Does the relationship reveal a person’s strengths, weaknesses, needs?

Why is it important to see the meaning of the relationship? Is it unusual? Does it show the difficulty, ease, or value of human relationships?

Does it show a rewarding/ valuable kind ?

Chapter 3-- Review Thesis—page 80, Rhetorical Tools – page 82 Organizational Strategies– page 84,

Writer’s Voice—page 86 Vitality—page 88

Chapter 4--Review Page 103 “Corpse Colloquy” -- Writing

Strategies Exploring Ideas / Ideas for Writing

Analysis Insight

Mirror of

society

Ironic

Dead images

Markers

Wealth

Life is for

living

Cemetary

Chapter 4--Review Page 108—Analysis– What is unique about the

subject? What is ordinary? What does that quality show?

Is the subject symbolic of something? Does the subject seem different after

observation? What does the subject “say” about life in this

place and time? Page 110 –Public Resonance– Why is this subject

important to people? What should peers know? What are assumptions about this topic?

Chapter 4--Review Does the presence or action of this subject

teach people something– about themselves, about life, about work, about happiness, about materialism, about sincerity, identity, relationships, past, future, about death?

Thesis– page 111-- Rhetorical Tools– Page 112

Organizational Strategies– Page 114 Writer’s Voice-- 116 -- Vitality 117

MAJOR– Assignment ONE Personal Reflection/ Relationship/ Observation Essay Person (People)/ Place/ Thing Using Microsoft Word and saving as a .doc, .rtf, or other

compatible file You will be responsible for: 1,250 word total. This consists of: One 500 word rough draft (turned in to me), one 750 formal essay.

Developed during our exercises in class, and Revision through peer review; using the essays found in Composition of

Everyday Life as a spring board, And the “Analysis” , “Public Resonance”, “ Thesis”, “Organizational

Strategies”, etc. to develop an essay based on a Person, place, or thing. Following the model essays found in our book, and the sample essay

I have prepared, begin a rough draft By using the “clustering” technique, begin to draw some connections

about the topic you will write for the final Draft of MAJOR One.

Discussion Board Post 3 out of 7 days. 15 points per week. Check Syllabus (Course Information) for

details Also: Introductory Blog (let us get to know

you, in your own words!) New questions/ topics weekly. Check out Journal Two, due next week, on

the Class site: any questions, please ask ASAP. From this point we will be moving briskly!!!

I’d say we have a full plate…

Continuing on the Shepard Fairey theme…

And of course, the Star Wars link….