September 14

Glass Castle
Imitate Jeannette Walls' writing on p.129, paragraph 2.
Parallel structure--rewrite "Dad stuck his head..." incorrectly.



College Application Essays
Reflection--Good writers write for a purpose to an audience within a genre.
About their purpose: What am I trying to accomplish in this paper? What do I want my readers to know, believe, see, or do?
About their audience: What are my readers' values and assumptions? What do they already know or believe about my subject? How much do they care about it?
About their genre: What kind of document am I writing? What are its requirements for structure, style, and document design?


Homework
1. Glass Castle reading to p. 170.
2. Writer's Notebook entry. Make sure that you do each kind of entry (minus one since we skipped last time) at least once. Please refer to your A&B textbook to understand what you're supposed to write and how to write it.
3. Frost's "Road Not Taken" questions.
4. You should have your A&B text by now. We are into Week 4, so you will may lose participation points for not having your book with you. Thanks for making this a priority.

Secret Word: castle