Tag Archives: quotes

1/23/24

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We are continuing our table work to prepare for the essay. Remember last week when we played Jenga with quotes and made flashcards with quotes? We’re working with them today! Each table has a “deck” of cards and three intrepretations of the essay prompt: What is Greg’s transformation a metaphor for?


Decide as a group if the quote works best for the capitalism prompt, the mental illness prompt, or the trauma response.

 

When you are done with this, work on the Classical invention: Transformation brainstorming sheet. The essay is about TRANSFORMATION, so it might be useful to know more about that word.

1/19/23

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Happy Friday! I know that it was a struggle to read the article about Rebellion and Punishment yesterday, so I wanted to make Friday be a little more active.

In your table groups, create five flashcards explaining quotations from The Metamorphosis. We chose our quotes from playing Jenga, but if you are working on your own, use this wheel to find your five quotes. For each quote, you will make a flash card on the index cards. On the front of the index card, write the quotation down. If it is a super long passage, just quote the most important part. There is a reason that I want you to write the quote down and it’s NOT just to waste your time. I promise.

Then, on the back, create a bubble map discussing the quote. You do not need to include ALL of the bubbles – aim for about 3 bubbles per quote. When you are done, make sure you turn them in to me for credit!

 

 

2/18/2014

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We started out today by looking over thematic quotes (you can find these in BB in Beowulf>Persuasive Essay).

vfcsndfFrom there, we looked at the persuasive essay topics. YOU ONLY NEED TO CHOOSE ONE.

pessayFrom there, we wrote our thesis using a thesis generator: http://www.mpcfaculty.net/molly_may/thesis_generator.html

Don’t use complete sentences. Here is an example of an essay over twins:

thesisAnd then from there, it will generate three sample thesis sentences. You may need to “chop and screw” the sentence so that it makes sense.

thesis2From there, we copied and pasted the chosen thesis in the pre-writing (Good Rhetorical Devices worksheet). These establishes good ethos, pathos, and logos, which is how your essay will be graded.

We will be writing these essays tomorrow and they will be due on Friday!

3/29/2012

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We read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time today and took notes. Get the notes from someone!

Riley talked about how it’s an insult if someone “peaked” in high school and then said that this poem made her mad because it reminded her when her parents were getting a divorce, her father told her mother that he was divorcing her now that she could find a second husband “before [she] got fat and ugly.” Harsh.

We then listened to the Kenny Chesney song, “Don’t Blink” and then did a Venn diagram of the two. The foldable template is in LMS – make sure you change the margins of the frame – otherwise your words will get cut off when you print. Four similarities and four differences are needed!

 

We then finished the day working on the Carpe Diem Analysis. Choose four poems/songs to read and write about. Instructions, rubric, and an example are all in LMS.