Tonight we read "Accident" and "Fallout", two short essays where authors reflect on their experiences. We used discussion of these reading to think about the kinds of background information authors need to provide so their readers can understand their writing. For example, in "Accident," until we talked about the politics of Northern Ireland - particularly the feelings between the English and the Irish, Catholics and Protestants, the "police" and the common people=> this essay was difficult to interpret. After discussing this essay you did some writing about what background you might need to provide to ensure that your readers can interpret your writing.
We also used discussion of these essays to identify vocabulary. There is a long list of the words we identified posted on my google.site. On your site, do some work with the words that are new for you. Add words from "Fallout" that are new for you and do some writing with them as well.
For next week
1. Keep working on your plan for your essay. Write an outline of the stories you will tell and put it at the top of your writing for this week.
For example, if you were the author of "Accident", your outline would look like this:
story about the accident with the lorry
reflection about feeling sorry for the policeman
story about cutting the tree and hearing the story differently
2. Write 2 more pages for your memoir. Attach this writing to your in-class writing page. I will then return it to you as an attachment to an email, with comments.
3. Identify some of the patterns you need to work on in your writing and post them on the sentence patterns page for your site.
Next week you will workshop your essay with a classmate, and we will read another sample memoir piece.
NO CLASS NEXT WEEK (Columbus day). See you October 21!
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