For your new blog post, pick an essay from your new reading passages in TIB. Explain what your personal response is to the essay and explain what makes the essay effective.
Reminders:
--> Don't forget that there will not be English class on Tuesday because I will be at a conference. Sarah will be holding walk-in hours at the Tutoring Center 10:30-12:30 that morning in case you want to run your paper revision by her.
--> Remember to have your final drafts of Paper #2--with your original graded essay attached--ready to turn in on Thursday. Before you come to class, make sure everything you changed has been highlighted on your final draft.
--> Also, don't forget that your ESP Check-in #3 is due in English class on Thursday, 3/25. Here are the guidelines:
ESP Check-in #3
1. How will math affect you later in life? In your household? Interacting with others? At work?
2. Same question about English.
3. You have about 7 weeks left to get the most out of these two classes. What changes can you make to do so? Be as specific as possible. Keep in mind that even if you have been keeping up with all the work, there is always more that you can do to maximize what you get out of the next several weeks. For example, if you haven't been using the Writing Center, you can make an appointment and see them with your Paper #2 revision assignment. Also, only mention changes that you are willing to make.
Due: At our next class meeting
Length: AT LEAST 1 full page, typed, double-spaced
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"We all need mending", written by Susan Kittredge, explains to the readers that even the smallest things could use a bit of repairs and mending. She makes the thought seem so small, but in the end, she makes it seem like such a small improvement to whatever shes mending,can, in the end, come back to her in a positive way. Which in terms, can happen to all of us.
ReplyDeleteThe essay "All beings are interconnected," by James Lonely is the best essay so far. Through his imprisonment he learned that we are all prisoners when we try and overpower people. He figures this out when he asks a guard when they will be let free. He simply points at his own wrists and says,"when you are free, then I will be free,". This meant that even though he was keeping Loney and his friends captive, he himself was a prisoner to those in power above him.
ReplyDeleteThe most affective part of the essay is when their guard, who they call uncle, goes to wipe his hands with the rag that the prisoners used to clean up their urine. By putting them in a position where they had to go in a bottle lead to the rag getting soaked, and him using the rag was a huge interconnection
In the essay " Telling Kids the Whole Truth," by Martha Leathe is about being honest with children. She believes that it is important to be honest with your children when they ask you any question. It is better to have them know when they ask. Children are not stupid they know when there is something wrong. She then goes on about an experience of her daughters asking if she has ever smoked "pot" and she tells the truth.
ReplyDeleteI think that this was a good essay. I think honesty is important at any age with anyone. I do not have children, but when my nephews and neices always ask me questions I tell them the truth about life rather than making a little white lie.
In "Being Content with Myself", by Kamaal Majeed, Majeed talks about how he has grown up dealing with stereotypical people. He talks about how society has put a label on black people that since they are black they have to wear baggy clothes and listen to rap music. Since he wears fitted clothes, is in honors classes, and listens to rock people tease him and look at him funny because they feel that black people shouldn't dress or act like him. I think what makes his essay effective is the specific examples he uses and how descriptive he is
ReplyDeleteThe essay that stood out to me the most is "Telling Kids the Whole Truth" by Martha Leathe. In this essay Martha talks about how you should tell your children the truth but not frighten them or tell them more then they can handle. I believe that this is a great philosophy. When I was ten and my dad was dying of cancer, no one told me or my sisters that it was terminal. In the end when he did pass it was even more shocking to us because everyone kept telling us that he was going to be fine, instead of telling us the truth. Martha is effective in this essay by using examples of how she was truthful with her children even when the topic was difficult for her.
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