Week #6
Week #6 - Assignment #1 (70 points)
During Week #5, you wrote your technology draft.
I will be reviewing the documents this week and giving you comments to consider
for revision. You will be doing the revision during Week #7.
You will need to understand how to document your
revision using MLA style. Complete this assignment to learn the rules for formation
and for giving credit to your sources.
Sample essay: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/
General formatting guidelines: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/24/
A. Read through the sample MLA 8 paper and read the general
guidelines. Be sure to carefully study the information in the
bubble-boxes.
Now, list 10 things you learned about MLA formatting. (20 points)
B. Review the guidelines for MLA Works Cited pages: Works Cited guidelines: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
What are the top five tips? List them. (10 points)
Now, list 10 things you learned about MLA formatting. (20 points)
B. Review the guidelines for MLA Works Cited pages: Works Cited guidelines: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
What are the top five tips? List them. (10 points)
Take a look at EasyBib or another citation machine. EasyBib is free. You do need to create a sign-in name and password. You do not have to use your real name, but you do have to provide a real e-mail address. The EMCC e-mail works just fine. You will not be getting spam or any contact from the company. I have had my account for over five years. Not once have they sent anything to me.
The site simply formats the citations for you and creates a
perfect Works Cited page in WORD for you IF you click all the buttons to get to
the Word Document page. Don’t’ quit too
early. You will know you have successfully clicked all of the correct buttons
when you see an actual WORD document.
If you have signed
in and if you have created a project and named it, the site will save your
work. You can add as many sources as you cited in your essay.
Try the site or some other citation machine. Write a paragraph explain your success. Be
sure to include questions if you run into problems. (20 points)
You may use whatever method you wish for the Works Cited
page. If you select something other than EasyBib, just explain what you used.
Now, create a Works Cited page for your technology essay.
You may change it next week if you need to. For now, include three to five sources.
Format the Works Cited page correctly. (20
points)
Week #6 - Assignment #=2 What is a memoir? (50 points)
Your first task is to find out how professionals write memoirs. Read "How to Write a Memoir."
https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-write-a-memoir/#.WAhZ-48rKUk
Make a "Top 10" list of the best tips offered by William Zinssar. These tips should guide your own memoir writing. Explain how you will apply each tip to your own writing or share why it will improve your writing.
Sample: Zinssar wrote about the history of his own father's writing. "He just wrote the way he talked, and now, when I read his sentences, I hear his personality and his humor, his idioms and his usages, many of them an echo of his college years in the early 1900s."
Personal Application:
That line would make my Top 10 ." When writing a memoir, I try to remember that I am telling a story about me. I mentally pretend to tell the story to one of my own children or grandchildren, or someone far off in the future! I try to talk on paper the same way I speak.
Week #6 - Assignment #3 - Sample Memoirs (65 points)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, some sample essays are prieless!
·
Read
and analyze two samples:
·
"Working Cattle -
We'd Hate to Love It" by Kevin Hoogendoorn
After reading,
summarize the author’s message. What was the lesson learned? What is the moral
of the story? Do you agree or disagree? (25 points)
·
"Fish
Cheeks" by Amy Tan
(40 points)
Answer the questions
that follow:
Questions on Meaning –
Numbers 2, 3, and 4
Questions on Writing
Strategy - Numbers 1, 3, and 4
Questions on Language – Numbers 2 and 3
Week
#6 - Assignment #4 - Memoir Writing (50 points)
Review:
1. A memoir is a true story.
2. You are the star of the story!
3. Conversation is more informal than formal. In other words, people sound the same way they talk. However, please used correct punctuation.
4. A memoir is brief - 2 or 3 pages.
5. Use past tense - this is a story from the past.
5. The memoir teaches a lesson of some sort. It makes a point.
Review:
1. A memoir is a true story.
2. You are the star of the story!
3. Conversation is more informal than formal. In other words, people sound the same way they talk. However, please used correct punctuation.
4. A memoir is brief - 2 or 3 pages.
5. Use past tense - this is a story from the past.
5. The memoir teaches a lesson of some sort. It makes a point.
Some additional information and one more
sample: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/personal.htm
Now, it is your
turn. Think of an event from your past that you would like to pass on to
friends or family. I once wrote the story of the first fish I ever caught while
fishing in Yellowstone with my dad. I was about five at the time. I gave that
story to my dad as a Father's Day gift years ago. He still talks about
it.
Here is a brief
checklist to use after you have written your memoir.
A. What is your point?
What lesson did you try to teach?
B. What was the
conflict> (You need one!)
C. Did you tell the
story from your point of view? (1st person)
D. Did you tell where
and when the story took place?
E. Did you tell the
story in chronological order?
F. What did you do to
capture the attention of the reader in your opening paragraph? Look back at the
sample essays for ideas.
If you can check off A
through F, then you are ready to post the draft!
Week #6 - Assignment
#5 - Discussion Board (50 points)
This week the United States celebrates the Fourth of July,
Independence Day. For the discussion board this week, talk about freedom, life
in the United States, patriotic events, or patriotic places you have lived near
or visited in this country or in another.
For example, I used to live in Hampton, VA. It is known for
being the longest English speaking city in America. Fort Monroe, a Civil War
fort, is there. When the fort was active, the US Army used to host a 4th
of July fireworks display. The fort is situated at the mouth of the Chesapeake
Bay where the James River enters. It is the site of the famous Monitor-Merrimac
battle, the first sea battle between two iron-clad ships. On the 4th
of July, just about everybody in the city poured onto the fort to listen to the
Continental Army Band play patriotic tunes as the fireworks exploded in bright
reds, whites, blues, greens, and golds over the water. Of course, with that many people on a small
island, it took until 2:00 am for all to drive home on the only road into and
out of the fort.
Surrender Field in Yorktown, VA, as just about 30 minutes up
the road. Some years my family went there instead to view the fireworks where
Cornwallis’s army surrendered at the end of the Revolutionary War. (General Cornwallis
did not attend the surrender and claimed to be too ill to go.) It was humbling to know that my children and
I were celebrating the 4th on the spot where so many famous
historical men and women like George Washington and Patrick Henry had fought
for and won freedom.
I guess that living in the area where this country began was
a blessing we didn’t always recognize. Both the fort and the field were common play
places for my children. We often went to the fort to walk along the water or to
attend other festive events. My eldest went to the Senior Prom on Fort Monroe
at an old hotel that overlooked the site of the Monitor-Merrimac battle. My children were able to fly kites on the
battlefields of Yorktown, one of the few places without trees in the area. There
was a favorite beach that they loved in Yorktown as well right below the cave
where Cornwallis planned battle strategies while overlooking the York River. Hiking
in the woods of the Yorktown was also a favorite pastime. To my children, these were simply home. But,
without the sacrifices of so many in the Revolutionary and Civil wars, the
festive pastimes of childhood would not have happened. My family and I were
fortunate to have the opportunity to live where American freedom began.
Share your first post
by midnight on Thursday. Respond to three others by 6:00 am next Monday.
Happy Writing!
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