QUIZ

We have talked about the importance of metaphor ( like, as, comparisons) in a poem. We also have discussed the importance of sound in a poem. Take two poems that you have read and discuss the use of metaphor and sound that the poet used to enhance the poem and the theme he or she portrays. Make sure to use specific quotes from each poem to prove your point.

The Shirt Robert Pinsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs

Charles Bukowski on People

https://vimeo.com/4294278

Sig Klien

What   do you notice about it?  --details



Now take each detail and expand on them....



Take each element you expanded on and make a poem....
 

Dianne Arbus Election Day

Stopping by Woods

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

James Franco Reads Howl

https://vimeo.com/38653506

Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Joyce+Carol+Oates++Bob+Dylan&&view=detail&mid=1745A1A1EC041818CC701745A1A1EC041818CC70&FORM=VRDGAR

Bob Dylan Nobel Prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeP4FFr88SQ



 Mr. Tambourine Man"

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.
Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin' swingin' madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Donald Trump on Women

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-caught-on-video-making-lewd-crude-remarks-about-women/

MLA GUIDELINES

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

Bad Clowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIWSzf0xT8U

Nathan Carman

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/man-rescued-at-sea-has-had-violent-episodes-in-past/vp-BBwKCKw

Trump/Clinton Debate

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/26/presidential-debate-recap-origwx-jpm.cnn/video/playlists/the-great-debates/

Matt Damon on Diversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAoZggaWZE

O' Reilly vs Kaepernick

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5126824554001/oreilly-kaepernick-missing-the-big-picture-of-his-country/?#sp=show-clips

TIP Sheet WRITING A COMPARE/CONTRAST PAPER

TIP Sheet
WRITING A COMPARE/CONTRAST PAPER
A compare and contrast essay examines two or more topics (objects, people, or ideas, for example), comparing their similarities and contrasting their differences. You may choose to focus exclusively on comparing, exclusively on contrasting, or on both-or your instructor may direct you to do one or both.
First, pick useable subjects and list their characteristics. In fact, their individual characteristics determine whether the subjects are useable. After that, choose a parallel pattern of organization and effective transitions to set your paper above the merely average.
1. Picking a subjectFocus on things that can obviously be compared or contrasted. For instance, if you are examining an idea (political or philosophical) examine the opposite of that idea. Or, if you are examining a person, like a president, pick another president for comparison or contrast. Don't try to compare a president and a cab driver, or existentialism and a legislative bill on car tax refunds.
2. Listing characteristics
Divide a piece of paper into two sides. One side is for the first subject, the other for the second subject. Then, begin to list the similarities and differences that immediately come to mind. Concentrate on characteristics that either are shared or are opposing between the two subjects. Alternately, you may construct a Venn diagram of intersecting circles, listing the subjects' differences to either side and their similarities where the circles intersect. Keep in mind that for a balanced paper, you want to make point-by-point, parallel comparisons (or contrasts).

Similarities between my math and English instructors:
Both are welcoming and available to students.
Both are organized and keep a neat office.
Both are knowledgeable and professional.

Differences between my math and English instructors
Math teacher listens to classic rock.         English teacher listens to jazz.
Math teacher drinks Earl Grey tea.           English teacher drinks strong black coffee.
Math teacher likes to chat about movies.  English teacher sticks to business.

As you create your list, is it clear why you are comparing and contrasting these two subjects? Do you have a preference for one or the other? If so, make sure you are evaluating each side fairly. A point-by-point list helps you maintain balance.
Once you have a list, decide whether there are more similarities or differences between the topics. If there are more similarities, concentrate your paper on comparing. If there are more differences (or if, as in the example above, the differences are simply more interesting), concentrate on contrasting. If there is a balance of similarities and differences, you might concentrate on discussing this balance.
3. Organizing
There are at least two ways to organize a compare/contrast essay. Imagine you are examining Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, both Civil War generals. In your list you have uncovered important points of dissimilarity between them. Those points are their background, personalities, and underlying aspirations. (Call these three points A, B, and C.) You have decided to contrast the two subjects.
Here is one way to organize the body of this paper, addressing points A, B, and C for each subject. This paper will follow parallel order–A, B, and then C–for each subject:

A. Lee's background
B. Lee's personality
C. Lee's underlying aspirations

A. Grant's background
B. Grant's personality
C. Grant's underlying aspirations

However, here is another way to organize the same paper:

A. Lee's background
A. Grant's background

B. Lee's personality
B. Grant's personality

C. Lee's underlying aspiration
C. Grant's underlying aspiration

For a shorter paper, the above might represent three paragraphs; if you are writing a long paper and have a great deal of information, you may choose to write about each point, A, B, and C, in separate paragraphs for a total of six. However you decide to organize, make sure it is clear why you are examining this subject. You might be able to compare apples and oranges, for example, but why would you? Include any insights or opinions you have gathered. And yes, in general, three is the magic number. While there is no hard-and-fast rule that precludes creating a paper based on two points, or four, or five, a three-point discussion is manageable, especially for complex or abstract subjects. At the same time, a three-point structure helps you avoid oversimplifying, especially when addressing controversial topics in which discussions tend to become polarized–right or wrong, black or white, for or against. Three-point treatments encourage discussion of the middle ground.
4. Signaling transitions
Learn to use expressions that precisely convey contrast or comparison. These expressions, or transitions, signal contrast:

• on the contrary
• on the other hand
• however
• otherwise
• whereas
• still
• yet

These expressions signal comparison:

• as well as
• both
• like
• in common with
• likewise
• also

Signal words such as these help the reader understand the relationships between your sentences, paragraphs, and ideas. In particular, if you are both comparing and contrasting, signal words help sort out what's what. Second only to effective organization, effective use of these expressions will go a long way toward helping produce a good compare/contrast paper

Tips for Summarizing

Summarizing

A common writing assignment in a variety of college courses is the summary of a particular essay or journal article.  The purpose of a summary is to accurately describe the main point and the important details of the piece you are summarizing.  In short, you are describing what the essay (or other piece of literature) is about to someone who has not read it. 
While summary writing is generally fairly short, it is not easy.  A good summary incorporates all of the important aspects of a particular essay so that a reader who has not read the original work can understand what it is about.  Thus, the most important element of a good summary is the ability to accurately depict what is in the original article.  In order to do so, you must be familiar with the work you are summarizing.  A good summary begins by reading the piece many times in order to gain a full understanding of it.  Then, once the work is fully understood, it is important to relate the thesis and the important points that support it.
Summaries should be fairly short and should be significantly shorter than the work itself.  If your summary is close to the overall length of the work, then chances are you are simply paraphrasing the majority of the work rather than summarizing.  If the summary is too short, then some important points are probably being missed. Generally, the length of a summary should be about one quarter to one third of the total length of the article that is being summarized (for example, if the essay you are summarizing is 3 pages, the summary should be roughly 3/4 to one full page).

Tips for Summarizing

• Read the essay as many times as necessary to gain a full understanding of it.
• Do not interject your personal opinion into any summary.  No first person ("I" statements) are allowed (save these for the response portion, if there is one).
• Always name the author (full name) and the article or essay title in the introductory paragraph, usually in the first or second sentence.
• After introducing the author with his/her full name, refer to him/her by last name throughout rest of summary.
• Always use present tense to discuss the essay and facts from the essay.
• Use direct quotes from the text or paraphrase examples to support your claims.  Paraphrasing should be done more than quoting, which should be kept to a minimum.  Quoting should only be used with unique language that is hard to paraphrase.
• When talking about an essay or article, always capitalize the title and place it in quotation marks.  Do not use italics.  Italics should only be used when referring to longer works, such as books or movies.  Example:  "Just a Smile and a Handshake"    Not "Just a Smile and a Handshake."

Evaluating Evidence 2

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Evaluating Evidence: A Checklist

Before you write the supporting paragraphs in your paper, evaluate the worthiness of the evidence you have in mind to use. For each data set, example, or expert opinion, ask yourself the following questions:

• Is the evidence up-to-date?
• Is the evidence relevant? Evidence that doesn’t directly support your point may not belong in your essay.
• Is the evidence sufficient? The more complex your topic is, the more evidence you will need to support your claim. 
• Is your example similar to other examples you could have chosen, or does it present an extreme or atypical situation?  Examples that present typical situations are usually most effective.
• Does your example illustrate your point?
• Is the source of the data trustworthy?  If you cannot find full documentation of source material or if the material does not come from a familiar source, it may not serve as appropriate support.
• Are abstract or controversial terms (poverty, humane treatment, etc.) clearly defined? Statistics often have little meaning without an explanation of how key terms are defined by the source of the data.
  If you’re using statistics to compare, are you comparing equal units?  For example, if you’re comparing population statistics, be sure that both statistics refer to the same geographical unit—city, metropolitan area, county, etc.
• Is the source of an opinion qualified to give an opinion on the subject? Is he/she associated with a reputable institution? What is his/her profession? Are his/her credentials relevant? Be sure to include the source’s credentials in your essay in case your reader is not familiar with the source. 
• Is the opinion of an expert likely to be biased in any way? If any special interest is evident (economic, political, ideological, etc.), consider further research before you accept or reject the opinion.
• Does the source of the opinion provide the evidence upon which his/her claim is based? Just as you must support your argument, your sources should provide proof that their information is valid.

Assessing Evidence

https://app.shoreline.edu/doldham/SRR.html

!0 Foundational Reasoning questions

https://apps.carleton.edu/quirk/curricular/10questions/

Academic Writing Guide

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/for-students/academic-writing-guide/

Critical Thinking (Challenging Assumptions) -

Critical Thinking (Challenging Assumptions) - YouTube ( Click on)

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Terminal Lounge," " The Car," and " Requiem for a Dream

In the stories " Terminal Lounge," "The Car," and "Requiem for a Dream,"  a form of addiction plagues the characters. Describe the way addiction is a driving force in the characters' lives. Explain how it is a negative force and positive force. Use two examples from each story.  Make sure to quote from the text.

Quiz: an idea and a thing......

In the writing of a poem, the poet tries to pair an "idea" with a "thing."  Explain this concept. Use two poems that we have read so far, and show how the poet achieves this in his or her writing. Use at least one example from each poem.

Heroin on SNL

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/health/saturday-night-live-heroin-skit-outrage/index.html

Persona Poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmbs0GMpcKA

Daddy Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963

Daddy

Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-- 

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not 
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I’m finally through.
The black telephone’s off at the root,
The voices just can’t worm through.

If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two--
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.

12 October 1962

Common Grammar Mistakes Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNYXPuWf13Q

In the Belly of the Beast Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlv9QwSLC0A

Quiz Finley Fonte

If Karen Finley read " The Big Hunger," based on what she revealed about herself and her philosophy of life, how in your opinion would she react to the protagonist of "The Hunger" and his plight? Quote from both stories to prove your point.

More testing

DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH O'MALLEY'S THESIS THAT MORE FREQUENT TESTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE STUDENTS LEARNING AND LESSEN THEIR STRESS LEVEL? USE QUOTES FROM THE ESSAY TO BACK YOUR POSITION AND ALSO USE YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.

No One Dies At The Au Bon Pain

No One Dies At The Au Bon Pain

As far as I can see,
no one has crumpled
into the recesses
of their daily rag.
No one is supine
in wide-eyed wonderment
staring at the abyss.
The febrile cacophony
goes on.
And the old man struggles
to his table
gripping his cane
and routine.
Almost breathless...
the mist rises from his cup
and the headlines slap him to
full consciousness.
The chess players still
lust for their checkmates
and for this day
all is well
the next
one never
can tell

SHORT STORY PEER EDITING CHECKLIST

Short Story Peer Editing Checklist

Your Name: _____________________________________

Name of Person You’re Evaluating: __________________________________

Rate the following areas from 1-5, I being “Poor” or “Missing” and 5 being “Excellent.” If you give it a “3” or below, please offer your partner a suggestion for how to improve. You may write on this sheet and/or on your partner’s story.

REQUIREMENTS	RATING	SUGGESTIONS
Interesting but relevant title	1  2  3  4  5
Effective narrative hook as first paragraph	1  2  3  4  5
Original plot	1  2  3  4  5
Well-developed plot that includes Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution	1  2  3  4  5
Clearly and effectively structured (chronological, flashback, “in medias res”)	1  2  3  4  5
Concluding sentence(s) provide a sense of resolution	1  2  3  4  5
Character(s) are appropriately developed	1  2  3  4  5
Shows instead of tells	1  2  3  4  5
Strong verbs and adjectives	1  2  3  4  5
Clear setting that invokes a definite mood	1  2  3  4  5
Clear point of view	1  2  3  4  5
Effective dialogue with clear tags and description	1  2  3  4  5
Suspense keeps the reader interested	1  2  3  4  5
Story has purpose (theme) and does not drag on	1  2  3  4  5
All parts of the story are appropriately explained	1  2  3  4  5
Grammar & formatting errors are not a distraction from overall effectiveness	1  2  3  4  5

What are the strengths of this piece? Be clear and specific.

On what areas should the author focus his/her revision? Be clear and specific. 

Cathedral Raymond Carver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUiDyIM2-LU

Love right chemistry

Some people believe that love will always be more than the sum of it parts. Some believe love is purely biological. Referencing the essay "Love: The Right Chemistry," do you agree or disagree that love is simply the sum of biological processes? Please quote from the text to prove your point.

CRITICAL READING VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJPea7Ogy6w

How to write a topic sentence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEkVH9Z4dIU

Young Women Voters

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2016/feb/08/young-women-feminism-hillary-clinton-madeleine-albright-gloria-steinem


http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-02-11/clinton-struggles-to-win-over-younger-women

Dianne Arbus Exercises

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Iran--Art

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqIMumLZWvC4ADDcsnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjBzZmhtBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDNg--?p=French+Cover+Nude+Statues&vid=ff15408f53919dd93ac0ab1518e156d0&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DVS.420852609510%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D270%26w%3D480%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx3olulc&tit=Outrage!+Rome+censors+its+naked+past+for+Iran&c=5&h=270&w=480&l=75&sigr=118qhreno&sigt=11ducjp9f&sigi=12b3fd4vq&age=1453837693&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-003&hsimp=yhs-003&hspart=mozilla&tt=b

I 93 Protestors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGf2f0NR-0Q

Interview John Waters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HpjaQlGoDo

Memoir Patti Smith says...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHTWuLRLzY

Sentence Fragment Exercises

https://www.quia.com/pop/13222.html

Memoir Essay Michael Chabon "Libertine"

http://michaelchabon.com/uncollected/columnar/libertine/

Sample Focus Paper

Professor Holder

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Focus Paper

            The short fragment of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, by Ken Kesey describes a young man named Chief, living in a mental hospital, who most likely is suffering from hallucinations due to the fog he describes as surrounding him on numerous occasions. Chief describes the fog as if it is physically around him but one can assume that the fog is a metaphor for cloudy mental state or in some instances the cloudiness he feels, mentally, when he is medicated. The fog that he hallucinates could also be a defense mechanism as he imagines it surrounding him so that he cannot see anyone and no one can see him.

            In one instance where Chief describes the fog in the section, Chief says that the fog is “so thick that [he] might even be able to hide in it”, yet the nurse whom he is hiding from, finds him (Kesey 588). In the fog, Chief describes the nurse and those assisting her “[holding him] down…”while [the nurse jammed a] wicker basket and all into [Chief’s] mouth” (589). The fog that Chief describes is the fog that metaphorically filled his mind when he was given medication to calm himself. The wicker basket that Chief described as jammed into his mouth was also a hallucination as it was really a pill that was being shoved down his throat. Chief had been wailing up until the nurse found him and to calm him down she gave him a pill that caused him to seep into a cloudy state of mind. When Chief says,  

“when the fog cleared to where I can see, I’m sitting in the day room” this is when the pill has worn off am his mind no long feels foggy (589).

            When Chief was hiding from the nurse prior to being medicated, the fog that he imagined as “so thick that [he] might even be able to hide in it”, he is also using the fog as a defense mechanism to make him feel safer and more secure (588). When he is hiding, he feels extremely fearful that the nurse will find him. He hallucinates that the hospital had “[started] the fog machine again” to make himself fell more protected from the nurse (588). He envisions the fog because it makes him feel like he is better hidden from the nurse.

            Chief’s hallucination of fog that surrounds him is a hallucination geared towards describing his mental state and comforting himself. His hallucination of fog describes the lack of clarity he feels mentally when he is medicated by the nurse. His hallucination of fog also helped him to feel more comfortable and safe.