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Tuesday
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Work on portfolio entry (due Friday)
Revise essay--due tomorrow
Wednesday
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Lit Circle Assignment
Thursday
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Read excerpt from The Iroquois Constitution p. 47-52
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Hi, I need some help.
May you please clarify the Unit portfolios?
Thanks.
I am not sure exactly what you need help with, so I will try! You are to create some type of project that illustrates a persons first impression of a place. The person can be you, one of your relatives, or it can be completely fictional. The medium for the project can be anything you want, and can be as concrete or as abstract as you want. The explanation, which is just important, comes in the form of the reflection page I discussed. In that explanation, you explain how your project ties in to this concept of first impression and what you learned.
Hope this helped. If you need more from me on this, just ask!
Adam,
Since you subscribe to this, and if you have a way of getting in touch with her, could you tell YinFu to look here for the response to her email? I keep trying to send it and it keeps getting bounced back.
Thanks!
YinFu,
No problem--I said you guys could email me this weekend!
As for the essay, I would look beyond just style for this particular piece. I think you'll find it easier to deal with if you look at the content of the pieces and draw your factors from there (i. e. the beauty of the river). Does that make sense?
The examples/subpoints simply break that down. For this paper, for =3D
example, if you were to use the beauty of the river as one of your points, you can talk about first impressions versus closer analysis. As for the explanations, since you have to have a minimum of two per paragraph, I would like to see at least one from each piece in the paragraph to show the comparison. Remember, though, we're only dealing with a five-paragraph essay, so you still want to keep the paragraph length manageable.
Hope that helps. If you have any more questions, feel free send another email!
Yinfu,
Those sound like they would work fine. You can absolutely use style as one of your points, and I think if you are clear enough in your explanations that your other ones won't be too similar.
If you need anything else, just let me know!
Am I allowed to use "you" if I use it in a question for my attition getter? Also when I use a title do I italisize or underline it?
I forgot what makes up a thesis statement!!! I could really use some help...
I have a few more questions...
1.Is Gibbs's piece more factual or an opinion?
2.Is a factor like how they (the authors) talk about the river/towns(riverbanks) too vauge or not really good?
I'm doing a contrast
3.Style of writing like how Twain is very artistic with the way he uses language, is that ok?
4.Points of view about the river. Twain vs. Gibbs. Is that ok?
thanks for the help mrs. svoboda! i really appreciate it! :0)
umm mrs svoboda, i just found out i forgot to put a description of the main points in my introduction of the works and authors..i had it at first, but it made my first para. really long and it kinda revealed one of my points so when i wrote the point it felt like repetition. so would it be okay if i don't give the main points in the intro? like can it just be the three points count as that?
and i like how its only the asians and eric who posted here.lol
...been working on this essay for 3 hours now... I read it over... ........there was no sense at all...
Rewriting body..... ...
*attempting to insert sense*
My paper currently sounds like: river.. view.. town shore blah pie....cataclysmic propaganda contrastment question 3.14..
fail
I'm Stuck...again......
I am finished....finished.. rewriting....so it makes sense.... I think... I won't read it this time... so I don't delete anything...
now to sleep in all day tomoro...
Eric,
I'd try to avoid using "you" altogether if at all possible--just get in that habit. And the Twain piece would be underlined because it's actually an excerpt from a larger piece, while the article would be in quotation marks--or you can italicize both and not worry about it!
Snoozer,
The thesis statement is simply your position on the subject--what are you proving with your three factors?
While Gibbs' piece is very factual, there is a definite slant to it. I'd say it's subjective at the very least.
All of your factors look ok. . . if you have anymore questions, let me know!
Yinfu,
You really do need your factors in the intro para. If your first paragraph is getting too long, you probably have too much background information on the two pieces. I would look at that and shorten that up--you really should only have two-three sentences for that. Don't go to in-depth describing your main points in the intro either. It should just be a one sentence preview so the reader knows what to look for in the paper, and knows what you're going to use to support your thesis.
Hope that helps!
Alright so for projects you said illustrates a persons first impressions of a place. Could it be impressions on multiple places or do you just want it focused on strictly one place.
umm...it's Dan again... I have two more questions.
1. Does the topic sentence just reiterate the factor of the para., or something else?
2. In the examples, do I put two examples from each story for each example? Or just one for each of the two examples?
There's the BIGGER EXAMPLE and the thing underneath the EXAMPLE. The discription... I hope that makes sence...So I guess do I need two discriptions for each EXAMPLE? Like one of my EXAMPLES is the use of words from each piece, so do I need an example from both works for just this example to show the contrast, or can I just write one from one of the pieces and move on?
Thanks
So, I'm having trouble staying in the same tense. I have a point about the difference in the areas that they wrote about (river and towns by the river), and then another point about when they were written. If that makes sense. I'm in present tense in the first point, and past tense in the second point, and am having trouble using only one tense. Ideas? Thanks.
Adam,
It will probably be much easier (and less stressful!) if you limit yourself to one place. It will also allow you to expand your details of that place, giving a more thorough analysis through the person/character's viewpoint.
Does that make sense?
Snoozer,
Topic sentence is the factor--reworded of course.
Think in terms of example and explanations--your example might be the beauty of the river, as I mentioned to YinFu in an earlier comment, and then your explanations would be a demonstrating that. You don't necessarily have to have two quotes for each example--you can have one and then summarize the other.
I would mention both pieces in each paragraph though.
Does that help?
Katelyn,
Think of both pieces as current, living things--for example, in Twain's piece, he talks about life on the Mississippi in the 1840s. He describes the way the river changes as he gets to know it better.
Same thing for Gibbs' piece. It really doesn't matter when the piece was written--what is contained in it is always present because the reader is always present.
Does that make sense?
I'm sorry, but I really don't like this assignment. I can't even distinguish between two of my points but by now I don't have time to change them. Ugh...
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Jake, I agree.
thank you, kaitlyn. ha.
Everybody needs to take a deep breath and RELAX!!!!!!!! Remember, this is your first expository paper; it's going to take some time to get back in to the groove!
eh i know but i still have a crapton to do. yes, crapton is now a word.
-jake
i'm getting closer...
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Mrs. S. idk how i'm gonna do my SAB posters. I'll be lucky if I even finish my essay...
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In this sentence would you use "due to" or "do to?"
the works are completely different ______ __ their time periods?
Maroro,
"due to"
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