Hi Everyone!
WEDNESDAY:
- Peer review the last two literary analyses with at least 6 comments each.
THURSDAY:
- Write your How-To essay rough draft!
- Pick a specific skill that interests you
- For example:
- Instead of "How to Draw," pick "How to draw faces"
- Instead of "How to Babysit," pick "How to make kids love your babysitting" or "How to make your babysitting into a major business!"
- Include:
- Introduction
- Attention-grabber
- Explanation of why this skill is important
- Several steps or categories of learning
- Write a short paragraph for each, full of personality and explanation!
- Conclusion
- Pictures! These can be general pictures from the internet—or pictures of your own knitting/drawings/etc
- Have fun writing this! Make sure you add your personality to your writing and choose a skill that you really like (even if you're not that good at it :D)
FRIDAY:
- Write a short story of 1-3 pages that ends with a bang, with a twist ending!
- Think "The Story of an Hour" — In just two pages, it's able to surprise us by:
- Starts off right in the middle of the action
- Not giving too much character background
- Keeping the writing "in the moment" with imagery and description of what's happening, moment by moment
- Ending with an unexpected twist!
- We will peer review the stories next week :D
- Email me if you have questions!
Hi Everyone!
WEDNESDAY:
Write your Literary Analysis!
- Pick one of the stories you read last week (or another if you prefer)
- Think about one of the following questions:
- What was the theme (moral/lesson) that the author was trying to teach the audience ? (doesn't have to be a lesson you agree with)
- Is the author using the story as a metaphor (comparison) for a historical/social/political/cultural aspect?
- Is the author using the story as a metaphor (comparison) for something in his/her own personal life?
- Answer the question and then support your opinion with:
- Quotes from the story
- (Maybe) research about the time period or author's life
- If you're not sure about a connection to the time period or author's life, do a little research on the time period or author's biography, and see if something stands out to you.
- For example: If your story is about greed, and it's written in the early 1900s by a Russian author, perhaps he was pushing for the communist revolution (that later happened in Russian in the 1910s).
- Your organization should look something like this:
- Introduction
- Attention grabber
- 1-3 sentence synopsis (summary) of the story—this one can spoil the ending!
- Opinion
- Body paragraph with support
- Body paragraph with support
- More body paragraphs with support?
- Conclusion
- This is probably our most difficult assignment yet—email me if you have questions!
THURSDAY:
- Peer review the personal essays of:
FRIDAY:
- Peer review the literary analyses of:
Hi Everyone!
WEDNESDAY:
- Find and read 5 different short stories that have some complexity to them (no Aesop's Fable's with super simple morals).
- A great resource is: https://americanliterature.com/100-great-short-stories
- You will be writing a literary analysis on one of these stories next week, so read 5 so you have a variety from which to choose. I will ask you about them!
THURSDAY:
- Peer review the personal essays of:
FRIDAY:
- Write your Literary Analysis!
- Pick one of the stories you read last week (or another if you prefer)
- Think about one of the following questions:
- What was the theme (moral/lesson) that the author was trying to teach the audience ? (doesn't have to be a lesson you agree with)
- Is the author using the story as a metaphor (comparison) for a historical/social/political/cultural aspect?
- Is the author using the story as a metaphor (comparison) for something in his/her own personal life?
- Answer the question and then support your opinion with:
- Quotes from the story
- (Maybe) research about the time period or author's life
- If you're not sure about a connection to the time period or author's life, do a little research on the time period or author's biography, and see if something stands out to you.
- For example: If your story is about greed, and it's written in the early 1900s by a Russian author, perhaps he was pushing for the communist revolution (that later happened in Russian in the 1910s).
- Your organization should look something like this:
- Introduction
- Attention grabber
- 1-3 sentence synopsis (summary) of the story—this one can spoil the ending!
- Opinion
- Body paragraph with support
- Body paragraph with support
- More body paragraphs with support?
- Conclusion
- This is probably our most difficult assignment yet—email me if you have questions!
