The first chapter looks at narration as a rhetorical strategy. Post your answers to two essays here, and your own narrative essay. Post your essay separately from the exercises. For your essay include an initial planning sheet and an outline. Each student respond to another student essay.
The essays can be 250-500 words. Please include three citations: paraphrases and direct quotes. Also include a works cited page. Use at least one outside source per essay.
Each of you has to respond to the other student essays. When you post your draft, include questions you'd like peers to comment on, such as:
"Is my thesis clearly stated?"
"Is my evidence sufficient?"
"Does my introduction grab your attention?"
"Do I conclude the essay well, or do I leave the reader hanging?"
"Do my transitions between ideas more the reader smoothly through the essay, or do you get lost?"
"Do you have any questions or is there anything you'd like to know more about?"
Monday, February 8, 2010
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Lauyrn Helling
January 30, 2010
English 1A
Professor Sabir
“Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it”. Written by George Santayana, these few short words can say so much to a person. It reminds me of the phrase, “You can’t know where you are going unless you know where you came from.” I like to think that those two phrases are synonymous. Everyone has a past, whether it’s a positive one or not, people have made mistakes and people have made success out of those mistake. If you are one to not care where you came from or what your family members have endured in the past, I don’t think you can really grow into your own.
I remember growing up and listening to my extended family talk to my mother about the past. Every sentence started with “do you remember . . . “ and it always ended in a laugh or a cry. I can’t image myself as an adult, talking to my kids or grandkids and not having any detail to share about my life growing up or my parents life growing up. There are those bits and pieces of information that you can’t learn from a teacher lecturing you out of a textbook. A lot of information we possess is gathered from life experiences. Academically you can advance to better and greater things and to become something you have always dreamed about, but once you have that job it’s the outside experience that makes you widen your eyes and more aware of the surroundings.
This quote also sticks out to me because I like to take pride in where my ancestors came from and what they had to do to make a living. Now I don’t know all about the trial and tribulations and every little detail, but from what I do know, nothing was ever handed over to them on a silver platter. That makes me work for what I want and to never give up. You can never hold reward in your hand without having to break a sweat. If I didn’t know where my grandparents once lived, or what my parents once did to make a living, I could only imagine what my past would be like. Who knows how that could’ve changed the way I think and operate today.
I like to think that the way you interpret your past either sets you up for failure or gives you that extra boost to go one step further. Some people who have ancestors that were in the wars can either take that as being a strong, independent individual fighting for what they believe in while others can take can take that as being a prisoner to another persons’ demands. Although, joining the armed forces is one hundred percent up to you, people can be ashamed of their family’s past.
To say that this quote has had a deep and life changing impact on my life would be a lie, but I do completely understand the message it is trying to convey. Your past is very much apart of your present and to a certain degree it can help control the decisions you make. Everyone’s past is different and people deal with it in different ways. Never forget the stories you were growing up and never forget your present day life. Someday soon the life you are living will be a history lesson told to the younger generations
Sabah Said
English 1a
Feb.15.10
Mon- thurs
Narration Chapter 2 Essay
Pick one topic and write a narrative about it
The phrase” its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, is a meaningful phrase. Its basically saying to be loved by people is the most important thing because that’s having a strong feeling and the bond with your loved ones. You would want to be care about, it’s a nice feeling to be loved, so it shows that you are an important person in their life. It makes you feel wanted in the world about people who care about you.
I would say that you would want to be experienced in the love feeling, but as of some people they never had the chance to feel that. Yes it would be sad when their loved one is gone but still having that feeling for one another was something special having for one another, at least you could think about how you had been loved.
People that didn’t even experience love is sad. I think a person would feel lonely with no one that cares about them. Its like you don’t have the opportunity to love and be loved. that’s the best thing in someone’s life to experience. But knowing you don’t feel loved and you die not being loved is sad because you have no one to make you feel like you need to live for,
Love is a special thing I think everyone should experience. The phrase “its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, tells you something special you would go through, to be loved and even to cry for when loosing your loved one, instead of not being loved when living or when being dead. Not sharing that special feeling. Missing out in something special in people lives. Everyone should have loved and be loved.
Sabah Said
English 1a
Feb.15.10
Mon- thurs
Extra Free Write:
The Bridge between laughing and crying is not long. Means that life is short. Love your life from ups and down don’t regret it later on. You don’t have much to do from laughing to crying enjoys the good laughs and left it out when crying. You don’t want to waste time from simple little things you worrying about.
Sabah Said
mon- thurs
feb 20.10
english 1A
Lauyrn’s essay
I agree with what you said about we have to know our history, its an important part of our lives. It represents where we come from and who we come from. I also cant imagine passing down or history to our kids or grandkids. You make a really good point. Our past, present, or future have links with one another.
Sabah Said
Feb 28.2010
English 1A
Mon- thurs
Response to two stories on the narration chapter 2
The Perfect Picture
What did the water say and what did you think?
1. In paragraph 8, it tells specific of the whole scene of the grand daughter who got run over , the young policemen had evidence , he has the perfect picture of it.
2. The elements make “the Perfect Picture” is baking a good picture of the scene
3. I’m not sure if the topic still relevant.
How did the write say it?
1. The police later investigates and try’s to get a good picture of the whole scene.
2. Details are important, because it tells us what happens, reactions and what specifically happen to even have the readers even imagine it as if their at the scene
3. Yes it does violate because it tells a situation that happen a scene that has to be investigated, so its not a story.
The Cultural Divorce
What did the writer say and what did you think?
1. Wong’s thesis is wanting to be like everyone else and not about Chinese culture she let the readers know directly about it.
2. She feels bad of how she thinks of not being all about her Chinese culture but instead wanting to do fun things.
3. Because she didn’t want to be known as so in the Chinese culture, that’s why she hated speaking Chinese.
4. About being forced to attend Chinese school she didn’t like, wanted to do better things like multiplication tables, or “naming the satellites of mars”, etc. she want to have fun with other kids that played and not having Chinese lessons everyday.
5. “Cruel Joke”, she means not liking how her mom is mean and not reasonable about forcing them to go to Chinese school.
How did the writer say it?
1. She talks about how around 5 p.m. her and her brotherhood see kids play with one another but they had to go Chinese school at the time. Walking everyday with their mom no saying one word about how they felt, or what they wanted to do. She has only memories of how she didn’t like her childhood.
2. Cultural divorce meaning she learned what was offered at Chinese school, so then they no longer had to attend.
3. When she said she’s multicultural, she enjoyed other holidays and not her own holiday as much.
Sabah Said
Feb 28.2010
English 1A
Mon- thurs
Response to two stories on the narration chapter 2
The Perfect Picture
What did the water say and what did you think?
1. In paragraph 8, it tells specific of the whole scene of the grand daughter who got run over , the young policemen had evidence , he has the perfect picture of it.
2. The elements make “the Perfect Picture” is baking a good picture of the scene
3. I’m not sure if the topic still relevant.
How did the write say it?
1. The police later investigates and try’s to get a good picture of the whole scene.
2. Details are important, because it tells us what happens, reactions and what specifically happen to even have the readers even imagine it as if their at the scene
3. Yes it does violate because it tells a situation that happen a scene that has to be investigated, so its not a story.
The Cultural Divorce
What did the writer say and what did you think?
1. Wong’s thesis is wanting to be like everyone else and not about Chinese culture she let the readers know directly about it.
2. She feels bad of how she thinks of not being all about her Chinese culture but instead wanting to do fun things.
3. Because she didn’t want to be known as so in the Chinese culture, that’s why she hated speaking Chinese.
4. About being forced to attend Chinese school she didn’t like, wanted to do better things like multiplication tables, or “naming the satellites of mars”, etc. she want to have fun with other kids that played and not having Chinese lessons everyday.
5. “Cruel Joke”, she means not liking how her mom is mean and not reasonable about forcing them to go to Chinese school.
How did the writer say it?
1. She talks about how around 5 p.m. her and her brotherhood see kids play with one another but they had to go Chinese school at the time. Walking everyday with their mom no saying one word about how they felt, or what they wanted to do. She has only memories of how she didn’t like her childhood.
2. Cultural divorce meaning she learned what was offered at Chinese school, so then they no longer had to attend.
3. When she said she’s multicultural, she enjoyed other holidays and not her own holiday as much.
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