Week 4 Syllabus: July 1 and 2
WE CLOSE THIS WEEK WITH SOME sentence combining practice, based upon the comma review in the Standard Deviants punctuation/parts of sentences video. We will finish reading our novel, prepare you to read the summer reading assignment, and close with a quick review of Joseph Campbell’s hero journey, aka the “monomyth.”
MONDAY, JULY 1
rReading about the recent cicada swarms and what you have seen, heard, felt, smelled and (perhaps even ) tasted during the last few weeks.
Thinking about different types of essays (descriptive, persuasive, narrative) and reading “Shooting Dad” from Sarah Vowell’s excellent collection Take the Cannoli. Reviewing annotation as a dialogue between text and reader (thinking about what the book says, AND how your experience(s) relate to the reading).
Watching a selection on commas and restrictive/non-restrictive phrases and clauses.
Closing with I am the Cheese.
TOMORROW: We will first finish the novel. Then, we will review Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and how it applies to IATC and our final reading, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.)
TUESDAY, JULY 2
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