OUR FIRST WORKSHOP IS FINISHED. begins this week. A reminder o You'll want to make certain you've a) provided written feedback to each writer in class, and b) you have feedback from everyone. I want to collect that feedback attached to your revised paper.

Monday

Continuing our workshop on the place essays. In class journal: describe a favorite food.
HW: Revising. Please print out and check to ensure that you have received feedback from every person in the workshop.

Tuesday

Finishing the last three essays. Now that we are done, we will begin working on the next essay, this one on "your favorite food.'
HW: Read the first essay in chapter four, "Chocolate Equals Love" by Diane Ackerman.

Wednesday

Discussing the selection from Housekeeping. Selecting favorite sentences, and discussing Robinson's particular use of word choice, image. We will spend some time, in particular, on her first paragraph, wherein she describes the snow-woman the girls create to supplant their mother-in-absentia.
HW: Adding to your journal, the description of food.

Thursday

Small group discussion of 'Chocolate Equals Love," answering the OTIS question in the margins of your text.
HW: Developing more material for your food essay.

Friday

Sentence diagramming lesson #5. We will also read chapter four of Building Great Sentences, wherein we will look at tough-guy style, and explore the assertion that "more is more" when it comes to sentence length.
HW: No class on Monday due to late start. Remember that your work-shopped revision of the place essay is due (if you haven't turned it in already)!