EWRT1B-16: reading response 1 prompt

Here's the handout about the group presentation assignment, if you lost yours.

And here's the handout for essay 1.

Lastly, here are the prompts for reading response 1. Choose one. Remember that the details about reading responses are in the syllabus.

• What is the function of music in "Sonny's Blues"? What does it provide for the characters?
• In "Sonny's Blues," what separated the brothers? What brings them together?
• Come up with your own focus of analysis.

they'll blog about anything…

There are blogs out there devoted solely to public misuses of punctuation. Here's one about apostrophes and here's one about quotation marks. If you don't know why all of these are mistakes, you might want to check out a writer's handbook.

EWRT1B-16: final time

I just got confirmation on our final. It will not be on Wednesday, but Thursday, June 24 from 4-6. I guess for 3pm classes we follow the 3:30 class schedule (I still think it's weird that "afternoon" classes on the schedule include classes that are before noon).

EWRT1B-16: Sherman Alexie

Here's a clip from a panel Sherman Alexie was on for Young Adult (YA) novels. His book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. I like this clip, because it shows his sense of humor and it's about reading.



Here's a long (about 26 minutes) interview with Sherman Alexie that covers his past, his writing, and his alcoholism.

EWRT1B-16: syllabus

Here is a pdf of the syllabus for EWRT1B section 16.

Thanks and good luck!

Thank you all for the class. Good luck to you.

Here's one last link, for those of you who have trouble with writer's block or procrastination: a program that deletes what you write if you stop writing– Write or Die!

EWRT1A-62: final

150 points total - 3 sections

1. Grammar - 10 points - 5 sentences - 2 points each
mixed constructions
active verbs (clear sentences)
modifiers- misplaced and dangling
conciseness (wordiness)
parallelism

2. Short answer - 40 points - 4 questions - 10 points each
"No Name Woman"
"A Rose For Emily"
Frankenstein

3. Essay - 100 points
Connect Frankenstein with one of the short stories.
Think about connections of theme and style. Find commonalities between the short stories and the novel. Then think of specific scenes that demonstrate these connections. For instance, all of the stories manipulate point of view. Does the manipulation of point of view have a similar effect in the stories? All the stories also deal with social outsiders. Are the causes for why the characters are social outcasts similar? Or are the effects of being social outcasts comparable for the characters? Other connections the class came up with were the obsession with death, the inability to accept change, the avoidance of responsibility, the drive for revenge, the evil of society, the need for attention, the desire for companionship, and the effects of isolation (notice the parallel structure there?).