Wednesday's Class--10/24/07

I am sorry that I was not able to meet with you today. Here is what we would have completed in class had I been there. Please complete both assignments and submit them via email by midnight October, 24, 2007.

Your comparison/contrast essays are still due. Turn them into Mrs. Bigelow in building 4200. She will put them in my mail box.

Assignment #1
Types of Love


An almost infinite variety of types of love exists. The love of parents for their children is different from the love of brothers for their sisters, of wives for their husbands, of kids for their pets, and on and on. Choose two people in your life whom you love and write a 2 page essay explaining how your love for each of them is different. Be sure to complete a comparison table and an outline. Submit your planning and essay via email as an attachment.

Assignment #2
Grammar Editing

Directions: All of the following sentences have one or more errors. Find and correct the errors in each sentence.

When dad took Carlos and I to the Trevor museum last week we saw a painting titled The roaring Twenties.

Although I dont know weather it was painted in the 20s or not, it sure looked like it could have been.

In the 1920s—when life for some was lighthearted, outrajous, and indulgent—came to be know as the jazz age.

The novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald—This Side of paradise, Tender is the night, and The Great Gatsby—describes that era.

Anyone interested in the Jazz Age should read Tales of the Jazz Age, they will find the madgority of the stories most illuminating.

The stories acknowledge that victorian principals, which dominated the country until then were dying quick.

Each of the stories, in my judgement, explore familiar Fitzgerald themes such as the search for romance the lure of money and that doom is near.

The protagonists of The Diamond as big as the Ritz, a fantasy are students at a prestijious school.

Have your read “Woman with a Past,” asked ms. Harris, “that story really impressed my friends and I when we were your age.”

“I wish I read more stories before I read the novels,” answered Tawanna, “I would of gotten more out of the novels.”

Dont some writers try to expose evil, is’nt reform their primmary goal.

Upton Sinclair for example was a writer whom fought tennaciously for ordinary peoples’ rights.

Written in 1906 Sinclair’s novel The Jungle for instance, is the grim story of Jurgis Rudkus a Slavic immigrant who poverty corrupts.

He works in the stockyards of chicago where they use primmative methods of food preparation and subjects workers to terrible labor conditions.

The worker’s houses, which they love at first were constructed too quick and cheal, however the buyers are trapped.

Wore down by the brutal conditions Ona, Jurgis’s wife loses her ambition her hope and finally her life.

Those sort of book sometimes have a powerful affect on contemporary readers, The Jungle for one. Caused a sensation.

To show his concern president Theodore Roosevelt invited Sinclair to the white house for discussion, analysis, and to plan.

Which of the abuses shocked readers most, the revolting conditions in the meatroom or treating workers so shabbily.

Well one of the results were the passage of the pure food and drug act of 1906.

Extra Credit Opportunity

Want Extra Credit points? Have I got a deal for you!!

Attend the presentation by Dr. Delaino (PJC President) on Wednesday at 10:30. Not only do you get a chance to see, hear, and ask any burning questions you have of the president, but you also get free lunch. The festivities take place in the commons (email me if you don't know where that is). Find me so that you will get your 10 extra credit points.You'll have a new blog to reply to tomorrow.

Readiong Log #10

I've been reading through your papers that we have completed in class. I'm proud of the effort that many of you have put into writing, and as I looked around the class, it seemed that the majority of you enjoyed the two activities. While I know we have not yet completed the "Snack Foods" activity, I think that you can effectively answer the reading log entry for this week.

Of the two essays that we have written in class, “Me Vs, You” or “Snack Foods,” which one did you find easier to write? Why? What does that tell you about the importance of topic selection and selecting the organizational pattern for an essay?

Happy writing--

Mrs. M