Week 10

We have just two more weeks of class (hard to believe!)  Be sure to get all your assignments that still need to be corrected in as soon as possible.  Assignments for next Thursday are as follows:

Reading

• Aristotle chapter 22
• Huck Finn ch 28-36

Writing

• comparison essay -use check list handed out in class.  Choose 2 or 3 schemes and 2 or 3 tropes that suit your essay and mark them.  

Week 9

We are now in the process of writing our first comparison essay.  You can relax, because you have already learned almost everything you need to know in the process of writing persuasive essays.  All you need now is to learn the the new arrangement patterns.

If you missed today's class, you'll want to watch the DVDs for lessons 9 and 10 arrangement.

I've posted two sample comparison essays.  Click on the picture of the mad puffy cheeto (he is obviously angry about this writer's thesis) to see the Snack Food essay.  Click on the picture of Brutus and Cassius to see the Roman Traitors essay.  You also have the dogs and horses sample essay in the book to refer to.  Each of these three essays uses a slightly different outline.  You have a choice of which outline to use for your essay.  You can use the outline template in the book (alternating terms as you discuss each theme), the  outline on  your handout (discussing all 3 themes for each term in its turn), or you can do a little detective work to extract the outline from the Snack Foods essay.  This is the first time you've had freedom to choose your arrangement.  Enjoy it ;)

Writing

• Complete the arrangement worksheet on pages 195-198
• Create an outline from the template on pages 199-200.  Alternately, you can use the outline I printed for you in class or create a new outline based on the Snack Foods essay.

Reading

• Aristotle 20 - 21
• Huck Finn 19-27 

Week 8

A quote to contemplate in light of our discussion of Jekylll, Hyde, and Romans 7.

"The Christian religion, then, teaches men these two truths: that there is a God whom men can know, and that there is a corruption in their nature which renders them unworthy of Him. It is equally important to men to know both these points; and it is equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without knowing the Redeemer who can free him from it. The knowledge of only one of these points gives rise either to the pride of philosophers, who have known God, and not their own wretchedness, or to the despair of atheists, who know their own wretchedness, but not the Redeemer."  - Blaise Pascal, Penseees, Section VIII)

Writing

• Complete the extended comparison worksheet that I will email to you.  Use these terms.
• Term A = Frankenstein's monster (Frankie) 
• Term B = Hyde

Reading

• Huck Finn chapters 10 - 18
• Aristotle chapter 19