This week I'd like you to be:
working on your memoir pieces
and
reading the memoirs you took out
Bring your memoir pieces to class Thursday for our Writers Workshop.
In addition by next Monday, you should have written three blogs regarding the memoir you're reading.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Get Memoirizing
Before our class next Tuesday I'd like you to begin reading the memoir you selected to read outside of class (45 minutes) and write a reading blog entry according to the instructions below this entry.
What is a reading blog?
What is a reading blog?
Reading to Blog
What's more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We'll be able to answer some of those questions after we've recorded the history of our relationships with our books.
In order to preserve paper, as well as to promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we'll be keeping blogs about the books we read.
You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I hope you focus on different topics and take different approaches in each entry.
Here are some possibilities:
-Respond to the text personally:
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!
-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf "huffed and puffed and blew his house down" he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve's character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.
-Ask questions to later answer:
What might the grandmother represent? Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses? How might I write a better ending? I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs.
-Visual Vocabulary
Select the words you think it was important to define in the text. Match a picture to it on your blog post.
-Hyperlink
You might want to use the 21st century's answer to footnotes when you're talking about something that is not common knowledge. We'll do a demo of how to insert a hyperlink in class.
You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries. We'll take a look at them next week in class and in conferences.
What's more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We'll be able to answer some of those questions after we've recorded the history of our relationships with our books.
In order to preserve paper, as well as to promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we'll be keeping blogs about the books we read.
You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I hope you focus on different topics and take different approaches in each entry.
Here are some possibilities:
-Respond to the text personally:
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!
-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf "huffed and puffed and blew his house down" he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve's character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.
-Ask questions to later answer:
What might the grandmother represent? Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses? How might I write a better ending? I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs.
-Visual Vocabulary
Select the words you think it was important to define in the text. Match a picture to it on your blog post.
-Hyperlink
You might want to use the 21st century's answer to footnotes when you're talking about something that is not common knowledge. We'll do a demo of how to insert a hyperlink in class.
You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries. We'll take a look at them next week in class and in conferences.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
But How to Begin
This week I'd like you to begin your memoir pieces (roughly 5,000-10,000 words). The first drafts will be due next Wednesday.
Friday, August 17, 2012
The Very First Memoir - Ever!
I thought we'd have a look at St.Augustine's Confessions. This weekend I'd like you to read Books Six and Seven of St.Augustine's Confessions, available for pdf download here. (You can then put these on your e-readers.)
First, I'd like you to make one visual vocabulary list (ten words with definition and picture).
Second, I'd like you to create a chart of St.Augustine's change.
Finally, draw a separate rhetorical triangle for Book Six and Book Seven.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Your First Homework Assignment - Oh the Fun!
Please go to blogger before our next class and create a blog. Be sure to create your title based on the guidelines established today.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Come On In, The Words Are Fine
Welcome to AP Language and Composition. And yes, it's true: it's all a lie! You'll see what we mean by that soon, and then, your world will be upside-down, and everything will fit neatly into this triangle:
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