"Tuesday" Writing: January 24, 2019

Focus: How can we better understand prose through high-velocity writing?

1. Warming up with a 5-minute Quizlet introduction to Academic Vocabulary, Set 3

2. Offering a few reminders from our last Q2 workshop:

• Mark up the heart of the prompt.

• Read the first inch and last inch carefully for tone (and possibly shifts).

• Let your complex argument drive the structure of your essay.

• Write an introduction. Use it to work through the passage and prompt.

• Weave multiple quotations into your body paragraphs; use them to perform close readings.

3. Composing a timed writing on a prose passage
(Hand out the prompts at 1:40 so that you may begin no later than 1:45.)

HW:

1. For Friday: Read Chapter 10 in Invisible Man; prepare a Socratic ticket.

2. For Thursday, February 7: Metacognitive on your paper/project poem.