10-6-13 It Happened this Week

Don't forget to write your full name and class period on the first line of your entry.

Your response should be at least 15 complete sentences on one of the following topics:

• Based on our reading of the Spotlight Guide to The Daughter of the Regiment and/or based on what we learned about the opera from Rob on Friday, discuss what you have learned so far about opera or Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment in particular.
• Choose a quotation from Much Ado About Nothing or a scene, write it out or describe the scene and then tell how this quotation or scene is important to the development of the play.
• Write about the performance we went to of A Servant of Two Masters.  Discuss various decisions the director or actors made for this performance and explain why the choice worked or why it didn't.

For each response, write a complete paragraph with specific supporting details from the text, performance, or discussion.  Be brilliant, smart, and entertaining.  Make us all want to read what you write.

Free Association Pre-writing 9-29-13

Remember to write your full name and class period on the  first line of your comment.

Another way to discover topics that might grow into an essay is to write a free association piece.  Pick a topic or a common object and write that topic in your first line.  Then write the first thing that comes into your mind.  And then write the next thing to come into your mind until you have written at least fifteen sentences.  Do not think too much about this.  Just write quickly, freely associating one idea with the next.  Aim to be entertaining.

Warm up for personal essay 9-22-13

Remember to write your full name and class period on the first line of your entry.
Choose from one of the warm up exercises below and write at least a fifteen sentence response:

• Stranger than Fiction--Once in a while something happens that's stranger than fiction, something that you couldn't even make up.  Write about something you saw or experienced that's stranger than fiction.
• Rant--Pick a topic, a pet peeve, and rant about it for at least fifteen sentences.
• Boring for Fun--Pick a topic that's really boring and write about it for at least fifteen sentences.

Have fun, be creative, and be entertaining.
Speak for the silent. Stand up for the broken.