Freshmen: Today we continued our focus on division and classification essay, reading two from Models for Writers - "Ways of Meeting Oppression" and "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends." We discussed many aspects of the essays and the writers' use of the techniques. Read for 20 minutes tonight and tomorrow.
Sophomores: Today we concluded our reading of The Kite Runner with a seminar. We also began an essay. The prompt is: Write an I Remember My Father essay about your own father, using the memories you compiled over the weekend and modeled after Jeff House's essay. At least three times in the essay, integrate a citation from The Kite Runner to either compare or contrast or to summarize or explain what it is you feel, think, or observe. As we saw before, you should focus on showing rather than telling, what your father and your relationship with him is like. Focus on interpreting your observations. You need to turn both a paper copy in to me as well as an on-line submission to turnitin.com by Monday. 8 AM is the due time for turnitin.com. Be sure to indicate what type of lead and conclusion technique you use in your header.
Also, for Thursday, have a copy of Watership Down by Richard Adams.
CNF: We watched the documentary Rivers and Tides in class today. The next book you need is Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx.
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