Day 44

Lesson Plan Day 44 English 101 Fall 08

1. H/I Final Draft of ICB essay.
   
2. O/R-- Plate of Peas. Y/N?
   
3. Bonus Points: Prism submissions for Narratives—pick either adult or child's version.
   
4. Revision tips.
   
   
   1. Link to Dartmouth here.
      

The Final Week—Specials Guest Leon Lett, Lindsey Jacobellis, and the Tour De Dumb.

1. Monday: MLA DeathMatch 2008, Round One.
   
2. Tuesday: Work in lab on either revision, cover letter or portfolio worksheet. Revision tips.
   
3. Wednesday: Peer Editing, Bring two copies of Final, Final. Portfolio Revision Worksheet Due
   
4. Thursday: MLA DeathMatch 2008, Round Two.
5. Friday: Final, Final Essays Due; A cover letter about your writing due; Evaluation of my teaching in class.

Using Kim in the Essay

Works Cited for Lydia Kim's Essay

 

Lydia Kim, Critical Essay on In Cold Blood, in Nonfiction Classics for Students, The Gale Group, 2001.

 

In text, just use Kim in signal phrase, or in parenthesis (skip the page numbers for now):

According to Kim, "Capote's sympathies for Smith are obvious."

 

Or

 

We can clearly see, "Capote's sympathies for Smith are obvious" (Kim).

In text citation Film

http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/nontrad.shtml#SoundRecording

No Country for Old Men Study Guide

http://www.lee.edu/~jhamby/pdf/huma/NoCountry.pdf

pdf, so it opens slowly, but it's helpful for #5's.

Day 43

Lesson Plan Day 43 English 101 Fall 08

1. Rubric for Essay 4.

2. Scratch outline.

3. MLA works cited and in text for ICB and Capote and web sources.

4. No Country: Coin Flip, Ed Tom and Roscoe, Ending.

5. Volunteers?

6. Bonus Points: Prism submissions for Narratives—pick either adult or child's version.

The Final Week—Specials Guest Leon Lett, Lindsey Jacobellis, and the Tour De Dumb.

1. Monday: MLA DeathMatch 2007, Round One.
   
2. Tuesday: Work in lab on either revision, cover letter or portfolio worksheet. Revision tips.
   
3. Wednesday: Peer Editing, Bring two copies of Final, Final. Portfolio Revision Worksheet Due
   
4. Thursday: MLA DeathMatch 2007, Round Two.
   
5. Friday: Final, Final Essays Due; A Cover Letter About Your Writing Due; Evaluation of my teaching in class.
   

No Country Ending

No Country Coin Flip

FYI

Washington State, the economy
and you.

Links approved for use

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote
Obit from NYTimes

Capote (film)
Here's reviews

No Country (book)
Film
Here's reviews, very helpful

New Journalism: Fact and Fiction from Yale
Capote's effect on journalism

Loads from local Kansas paper

Interesting, but not helpful for the essay, pictures of the house etc

Capote Screenplay

Here it is.

NCfOM Screenplay

Here's the screenplay.

NCfOM

The voice over up to about 3 minutes in, "Ok. I'll be part of this world."

Day 40

Fall 08 English 101 Day 40

 

1. Essay 4 outlines
   
2. Essay 4 in groups
   
   1. Collect and share evidence to support your points
      
3. No Country first 10 minutes
   

Rough Drafts Due Thursday, bring 4 copies

Essay 4

Essay 4: In Cold Blood

3-5 pages

100 pts

Rough 11/ 20     

Final 11/25

 

1. How does Capote change the story? How does the story change Capote? Use ICB and Capote to make your points.
   

• In investigating it?
  
• In writing it:
  
  • Shaped it? What did he choose to focus on? How did his biases influence his telling of the story?
    
  • Changed facts? http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0101b&L=aejmc&T=0&P=7693
    
• What happened to Capote?
  
  • Why did this case affected him in such a deep psychological way?
    

 

1. Which of the following reasons (from Kim's essay) best explains why the Clutters were murdered? Using examples from ICB, explore all four (3?) reasons in the process of explaining why one is best explains the crime.
   

   
    

   1. an ill-fated crossing of paths,
      
   2. a psychological accident, (what does this one mean?)
      
   3. mental illness, or
      
   4. displaced revenge?
      

   
    

2. How and why would you vote on the jury? Guilty/Innocent? Sane/Insane? Death/Life? Use examples from ICB to support your point. Also, I've got a packet on the Death penalty pro/con.
   
   1. Should there be a death penalty in America?
      
   2. If so, does this case fit the criteria for a death sentence?
      
   3. Should both men be put to death?
      

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. According to Kim:
   

   The book is ultimately a condemnation of society's treatment of its children and its unwillingness to forgive those outside the boundaries of acceptable definition. Capote's portrayal of Smith as the victim of a self-righteous society reveals his own rejection of conformity and his identification with the antagonist anti-hero. Smith's primary fault, Capote believes, is not being a criminal, but attempting to change the path set by childhood trauma and familial abuse and defy the characterization of himself by others. If Smith is not mentally ill, Capote believes that he has dormant violent tendencies, like everyone, which were fed a steady diet by a history of humiliating experiences—until he explodes in a misdirected, fatal fury.
   

   1. Summarize this statement point by point in your own words. These could be body paragraphs. (There's four sentences in Kim's statement).
      
   2. Respond to each point with your own opinion (agree/disagree, agree and disagree? agree with changes, disagree with most but not all etc.)
      
   3. Use examples from ICB and Capote to support your agreement or disagreement.
      
2. PLEASE, PLEASE only write about this if you are up to a big challenge.
   

The idea behind the texts I chose for this class was to move from Maycomb to Holcomb to No Country. And from small town 30's, 50's, 80's. And to see the country change, maybe to see it's values decline. To go from Atticus to Anarchy. Compare/contrast these three pictures of the shifting values in America. What has changed? What is the same?

1. Have we become No Country for Atticus/Dewey/Ed Tom?
   
2. In so doing have we become a country for the Ewells? Perry Smith? Anton Chigurh?
   
3. or a country for Tom Robinson, Calpurnia, Capote and Scout?
   

Use Lydia Kim. Use NCFoM articles. Use ideas of "postmodernism". Crime? Racism? Gender equality? Violence (including pop culture, war, children, etc)?

Day 36

Fall 08 English 101 Day 36

 

1. How to Score these essays?
   
2. O/R Y/N?
   
   1. Y=+5; N=+/- 0
      
   2. Y= adult or child
      

Read Essay 4 options if time

Day 35

Fall 08 English 101 Day 35

Don't forget: Kevin Miller 6pm Writing Center Wednesday (10 bp or +2abs) and Mark Fuzie 7pm Allied Arts Wednesday (5bp or +1abs). Do both and get fat on points BEFORE Thanksgiving.

1. Setting (time and place)
   
2. Characterization (the sort of person who…)
   
3. Grading
   
   
   1. Practice essays
      
4. Essays Options: Expand one of your in class essays on ICB (Such as pro/con death penalty, New Journalism, something from Kim's essay, looking closely at the four "causes" of the murder)
   
   
   1. Rough Draft Due November 20^th.
      
   2. Final Draft Due November 24^th.
      
      

   Dialogue:
   

1. Listen to how people talk to each other
   
   
   1. Most of it is the weather.
      
   2. He's like a bull in a china shop…
      
   3. Eating out.
      
   4. Waiting in line.
      
   5. At the checkout.
      
2. Dialogue is not real speech, but it should sound like it.
   
   
1. Cut words and phrases that don't move things along
   
3. Don't use dialogue provide exposition—keep it to three sentences or less
   
5. Break it up with action—remind us they are physical
   
   
6. Vary signal phrases, but keep it simple. Don't use elaborate signal phrases (she expostulated, he interjected)
   
   

1. Avoid stereotypes in dialect, but…
   
   
1. Huck Finn
   
2. Carver's What We Talk About
   
2. Don't over use slang/profanity. "Slang goes sour in a short time." --EH
   
3. Read a lot. Note good/bad
   
4. Punctuate correctly
   
   
   1. Use quotation marks?
      
   2. Start a new paragraph when changing speakers.
      

In Cold Blood Trailer

Infamous Trailer

Day 34

Fall 08 English 101 Day 34

 

1. Bonus Points Next Week: Kevin Miller 6pm Glenn Anthon Writing Center (10 BP or +2 abs), and Mark Fuzie 7pm Allied Arts (+5BP or +1 Abs)
   
2. Complete Peer Review
   
3. Peer Review Review
   
4. Intro and Conclusions and outline
   
5. Grading
   
6. ICB
   
   1. Hickock
      
      1. Guilty?
         
      2. Sane?
         
      3. Death?
         
   2. Smith
      
      1. Guilty?
         
      2. Sane?
         
      3. Death?
         
   3. The murders were
      
      1. an ill-fated crossing of paths,
         
      2. a psychological accident,
         
      3. mental illness, or
         
      4. displaced revenge?
         
   4. Maycomb v Holcomb as "Small Town Values"
      
      1. What's the same?
         
      2. What's changed?
         
      3. What caused the crimes? What was the injustice?
         
   5. How does the story change him?
      
   6. How does he change the story?
      
   7. Movie v Book
      
   8. TKAM v ICB
      
7. Option 1: Expand one of your in class essays on ICB (Such as pro/con death penalty, New Journalism, something from Kim's essay, looking closely at the four "causes" of the murder)
   
8. Option 2: Wait for next week to look at "Small Town Values" and NCFOM?
   
   1. Rough Draft Due November 20^th.
      

Final Draft Due November 24^th.

Dialogue

Punctuating it.
Writing it.

Peer Review Questions

Essay 2 Peer Review Worksheet

Please complete this worksheet, then discuss with the writer

 

1. What do you like best about this paper? What words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs really stand out for you?
   

 

1. Is the sequence or chronology of events clear? Are there places where you get confused? Did they skip anything?
   

 

1. Are the descriptions of the people and the places clear and concrete?
   
   1. Where can the writer offer more or less description of the people and the places?
      
   2. What person is most clearly described?
      
   3. What place is most clearly described?
      

 

1. Is there any dialogue? Too little? Too much? Where might the writer add dialogue?
   

 

1. Do the descriptions provide an image (a picture, a sound, a smell, a taste, an atmosphere, an action)? Write down one or two examples of vivid imagery in the essay:
   

 

1. What is the theme? What lesson do you take away?
   

 

1. What evidence/details do they provide to support this theme?
   

 

Suggest a different title

Day 30

Fall 08 English 101 Day 30

 

1. Vote
   
2. Finish Capote.
   
3. Essays back.
   
4. Essay 3 Child/Adult rough draft due Wednesday. Bring 4 copies.
   

In class essay preview

In Class Essay Preview

ICB/Capote In Class Essay Preview

1. How does Capote change the story? How does the story change Capote? (film, mainly)
   
2. Using Lydia Kim's essay as a guide, compare/contrast the world of Maycomb 1930 to the world of Holcomb 1959.
   
   1. values?
      
   2. heroes?
      
   3. victims?
      
   4. Picture of America?
      
   5. Progress?
      
3. Nature v. Nuture for Hickock and Smith.
   

How would you vote on the jury?