What is the key purpose of your essay? What is the over-arching theme or specific intention behind sharing your narrative?
Reply below with your response.

Read “My Lost Mother’s Last Receipt” by Mara Wilson in Models for Writers, (pg.376) respond on class blog, and respond to one classmate’s post. Add no more than one response on each student’s post as your initial response, but you may add comments to reply to additional comments.

Use the following strategies to help as you respond to classmates.
-Add on with differences or similarities
-Analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical questions, figurative language, etc.,)
-Ask questions
-Make a connection (text to self, text to text, text to world)

Choose one or two of the following questions to respond to in approximately 200-250 words.


-Did Mara Wilson effectively utilize strategies to "show not tell"? Is her description effective?


-Do you think Wilson's strategy to end her essay is effective? Could she have accomplished the same effect through a different strategy?


-What is the purpose of sharing some of the 'small things' that Mara Wilson's sister asked about?

Read “The Corner Store” by Eudora Welty (pg. 364) respond on class blog, and respond to one classmate’s post. Add no more than one response on each student’s post as your initial response, but you may add comments to reply to additional comments.

Use the following strategies to help as you respond to classmates.
-Add on with differences or similarities
-Analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical questions, figurative language, etc.,)
-Ask questions
-Make a connection (text to self, text to text, text to world)

Choose one or two of the following questions to respond to in approximately 200-250 words.  

-How does Eudora Welty organize her writing? Does her method of organization fit with the story she is telling in her narrative?

-Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience? 

Read “The Most Important Day” by Helen Keller, pg 101 respond on class blog, and respond to one classmate’s post. Add no more than one response on each student’s post as your initial response, but you may add comments to reply to additional comments.

Use the following strategies to help as you respond to classmates.
-Add on with differences or similarities
-Analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical questions, figurative language, etc.,)
-Ask questions
-Make a connection (text to self, text to text, text to world)

Choose one or two of the following questions to respond to in approximately 200-250 words.  

-Keller's writing is more of a narrative style, but is it still important for her to establish a clearly defined thesis in the beginning? Do her ideas throughout the essay support the thesis she established, or are there any breaks in her position/the unity of the piece?

-Do you think Keller's strategy of narrating events on multiple occasions (the day Annie Sullivan arrived, the morning after, the and several weeks later) is effective? How do the separate instances help convey Keller's position/feelings?

Read “Cheating is Good for You” by Mia Consalvo pg. 430

Choose one or two of the following questions to respond to in approximately 200-250 words.  

Consalvo focuses primarily on cheating in video games, but she also believes that cheating in everyday life is not a good thing? Why do you think she believes it is okay in the gaming setting but not in other social situations?

Can you think of other situations or scenarios where cheating is beneficial or useful in society? Do any of Cosalvo's points help support this argument?

Read “The Case for Short Words” by Richard Lederer pg. 526.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words. Review the guidelines for your daily responses linked at the top of the 'Homebase' doc.

Read “The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language with a Clear Conscience?” (pg.249) in Models for Writers and respond on the class blog.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words. Review the guidelines for your daily responses linked at the top of the 'Homebase' doc.

Read “How to Teach Children That Failure is the Secret to Success” (pg. 243) from Models for Writers and respond.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words. Review the guidelines for your daily responses linked at the top of the 'Homebase' doc.

Read “Against Meat” by Jonathan Safran Foer (pg. 106) from Models for Writers and respond.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words. Review the guidelines for your daily responses linked at the top of the 'Homebase' doc.

Read “Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name” by James Lincoln Collier (pg. 85) from Models for Writers and respond below.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words. Review the guidelines for your daily responses linked at the top of the 'Homebase' doc. 

Describe the best meal you ever ate (comfort food, junk food, holiday meal, etc,.).

What was it? Why was it so great?!

Read “Lucy and Her Friends” by Laura Lee (pg. 75) from Models for Writers and respond below.

Write a summary/reflection that is 200-250 words.