Freshmen: Today we continued to articulate what makes an essay effective. Read for 20 minutes Tuesday and Wednesday night; part of this time should be spent reading the Introduction from They Say I Say. Honors students: Your first Letter to the Editor is due on Thursday, September 12.
Sophomores: Today we focused on some stylistic devices Martel employs in Life of Pi, namely his uses of lists, various sentence structures, and his inversion of ideas and language. We also focused bildungsromans, which are novels about the moral and psychological growth of the character during his or her formative years - what we often call a coming-of-age stories. These almost always involve a journey of some sort, be it inward, outward, or both.
Your task is this: Write a personal narrative essay that describes a journey you have undertaken. This narrative should explore both the inner and the outer journey. At least three places in your essay you should cite from Life of Pi. By cite, I mean, choose passages where Martel’s writing perfectly expresses what you want to say, and therefore quote from the text. Feel free to reference Pi’s story as you tell your own if you wish, but it's not necessary - this isn't a compare and contrast essay. Your essay should be in-depth, have a great title, be free of most conventions errors, be double spaced with indented paragraphs, and you should also mimic Martel’s style in multiple places via the use of lists (micro and macro), inversion (of ideas and words), and sentence structure (a variety of long, complex sentences and several short sentences in succession).
The essay is due to turnitin.com by 8 AM on Wednesday, September 18 (login information about turnitin can be found in a post from August at http://bairdenglish.blogspot.com/2013/08/turnitincom-log-in-information-2013-2014.html). Also, finish Part II of Life of Pi for Monday.
Honors students: Your first essay and first batch of readings are due when we meet at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, September 11.
CNF: Today we took an Implicit Association Test via Harvard.
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