Week 5

Great class today!  Congratulations to our winning "bard" Kate Meine, and to Luke Gray and Corbin Travis for bravely donning the toga and enchanting us with your storytelling!

Writing

This week we moved on to the elocution lesson for essay 1.  This essay is ALL ABOUT STRUCTURE!  Please suppress all urges to dress up this essay in order make it more interesting.  If its "interesting" you will have to rewrite it.  Stick to the form!

Your essay should contain no more than 6 sentences;  one to two sentences for your introduction (depending on whether you choose to use a colon to combine the thesis and enumeration with your exposition), one for each of the proofs in your proof section, and one for your conclusion.  Your thesis should be stated 5 times, once in your introduction, once in each proof, and once in your conclusion.  Include the numerical "scaffolding" in your proof section (the first reason..., the second reason..., the third reason....) followed each time by the thesis and the proof.

Refer to the samples on page 118 in your workbook.  Remember to double space.  Attend to your verb tense and sentence structure.  Do not use contractions.

IMPORTANT
I failed to mention in class that you need to use the self-edit checklist on page 108 of your student workbook.  Please attach this checklist to the front of your essay.

Reading assignment

The Odyssey

• Books 5-6 (narration sections TBA)

Metamorphoses

• Book 5
• Narrate "the rape (kidnapping) of Proserpina"

DeAulaires

• pages 56-62