"A Week Unwired" Re-written

Please post your re-written version of the essay.  Add rich imagery, figurative language, interesting word choices, and vary your sentences.

    ORIGINAL:My mom threw down the challenge. She said she was tired of never seeing me without some electronic device permanently attached to my head or hand. 
      “I believe you could not go for an entire week without using electronic devices,” she said.
      “I think it would be very easy. OK, I will show you that I can do it,” I answer, not thinking about what that would mean. 

     Unfortunately, my Mom made a detailed list of what it would mean. No phones, no music players of any kind, no games, no TV, and no laptop. I could use the desktop for homework, but no Internet. That was a lot to commit to, but I had already stuck my neck out. Anyway, my reputation depends on it.

Monday, March 16, 2009

We are reading The Glass Menagerie this week. Remember you will not need to turn in notes, but you are expected to turn in a reader response journal for this play. Thursday, March 19th is you outside novel test day. Please make sure you are prepared. We are going to continue to work on understanding poetry this week. We are going to discuss theme in detail and also discuss closed form some more.

Chicago by Carl Sandburg Word Cloud

Tuesday, February 23, 2009

We are going to review how to write effective essays about prose.

We will read and review Amsco’s Literature and Composition pgs. 178 – 186. We will be writing in response to the prompt (pg. 186, step 4).

Friday/Monday

You answered some multiple choice questions and we will continue this process. We will also discuss some of the literature assignments from previous weeks.

ó Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
ó William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
ó Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”, “Ligeia”
ó Ralph Waldo Emerson ,“Self Reliance”
ó Nathaniel Hawthorne preface to The Scarlet Letter
ó Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
o Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
ó Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “My Lost Youth”
ó Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain,” “Spontaneous Me,” and “A Voice from Death”
ó Emily Dickinson, Selected poems # 441 #449 #510 #657 #1545