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This Week´s Assignments

Monday

Read Candide Chapters 2 and 3. Write one blog response.

Tuesday

Read Candide Chapters 4 and 5. Write one blog response.

Wednesday

Revise your essay based on your peer feedback.

Thursday

Read Candide Chapters 6 and 7. Write one blog response.

Friday

Read Candide Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11. Write one blog response.

Links for Endings Plus Hook Information

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html

Three Strategies to Hook the Reader:

rhetorical question: the writer poses a question the he/she intends to answer in the particular piece of writing as to bring the reader to ask his/herself the same question

anecdote: the writer utilizes the narrative mode in order to drag the reader into his/her piece

humorous opening: the writer employs humor (irony, hyperbole, absurdity, etc.) in order to gain the reader's attention

This Week's Assignments

Monday
Read five sections of Epictetus and write one blog.

Tuesday
Post your completed open letter to Robert Frost from Epictetus.

Wednesday
Revise your essay based on today's workshop.

Thursday
Read five sections of Epictetus and write one blog.

Friday
Read Chapter One of Voltaire's Candide.

Citation

http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/Keables/KeablesGuide/PartFive/QuotingLiterature.htm

The Greatest Thing Since Tube Socks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Anthem For Doomed Youth

Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.[4]

This Week’s Assignments

Monday

Complete Chapter 9 of Slaughterhouse five. Write one blog entry.

Tuesday

Based on your analytic council meeting, write a thesis statement and three points for close reading.

Wednesday

Complete Slaughterhouse five and write one blog entry.

Complete your first draft of the analytic essay.

Thursday

Read ten sections of Epictetus' The Handbook and write one blog entry.

Friday

Read ten section of Epictetus' The Handbook and write one blog entry.

Google Bootlegging?

I thought you might find this as interesting as I did:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/07/google-library-digitisation-new-zealand

This Week’s Assignments

Monday

Write a blog entry for Chapter 5 of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Tuesday

Write a blog entry for Chapter 6 of Slaughterhouse-Five.

In addition, read an entry from this David Crystal's blog and write a short response in your blog.

http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/

Wednesday

Revise your op-ed articles based on the criticism you received. They will be collected this Friday.

Thursday

Write a blog entry for Chapter 7 of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Friday

Write a blog entry for Chapters 8 of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Neologisms

As they came up in class, I thought you might like to see this blog that posts interesting neologisms. Don't use a T.E.T offense to get out of this one (see blog to get joke).

http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/

Anagnorisis!

I made a mistake (unbelievable). It's not agnorisis, it's anagnorisis. That's much harder to say! I'm now experiencing anagnorisis:
Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis
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Anagnorisis

Daniel Toro Says Post

So, I'm in class, right? And Daniel Toro Pardo says, "Post." I am posting.