Thursday, August 29, 2019

Answering the Call of the Prompt: August 29, 2019

Focus: How do we start drafting an authentic, compelling college essay?

1. Warming up with a mindful minute

2. Offering you a few gentle suggestions, then bringing up your prompts

3. Looking at last week's topic generators and mining your brainstorming for gems

4. Drafting and conferencing

HW:
For Friday:
  • Reread Books 10, 11 and 12 in The Odyssey and prepare a Socratic ticket.
    • For this week's ticket, please focus on one scene from Books 10, 11, or 12 (in other words, about 3-5 pages). You must use the Wilson translation.
  • Fill a page with questions about this scene (diction, allegory, characterization, Foster stuff, etc). You can also ask fewer questions and brainstorm your responses underneath. Handwriting or typing is fine.
  • Complete your next poetry response. If you type it, print it before class.
  • BRING YOUR COPY OF THE ODYSSEY TO CLASS on Mondays and Fridays. You need to be reading the Emily Wilson version; let me know if you need to check out a school copy.

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