Do You Work for the Department of Redundancy Department? January 29, 2019

Focus: How can we write with stylistic command?

1. Warming up by practicing your Academic Vocabulary, Set 3 (www.quizlet.com)

2. Eliminating redundancy and wordiness; click here for "Writing with Style"

*The rule: If you have two sentences, two adjectives, two phrases, etc. performing the same function, get rid of one of them. Keep the one that's doing it better.*

3. Enjoying a speed dating session to explore the passage itself:

• Warming up: Summarize the dramatic situation in this passage. 

• Your Spin: What's your take on what really happened here? This is your thesis.

• The "Facts": No fake news here--stick to the textual passages. Which ones are the most revealing? What literary language might you use to talk about them?

• The Wrap-Up: Lingering questions? Kudos to your fellow newscasters? Brilliant epiphanies?

4. Using the reflective rubric for peer feedback on your intro, structure, evidence, and style

HW:
1. For Wednesday: 

• Read Chapter 13 (no Socratic ticket needed).
• Prepare for a brief vocabulary quiz.

2. For Friday: Read Chapters 14 and 15 and prepare a Socratic ticket.

3. For February 7:  Decide what poem you'd like to take on for your poetry project/paper. It needs to be from a different time period than the poem you analyzed first semester. We will have our poem metacognitive on Feb 7.