Tuesday, 1/3: Opening Salvo of Semester II (Week 21)

* Pray

* Tell us how your Christmas legend gift went (if you chose to do one).

* Overview of Semester II (Course plan label).

* Essays returned.

The ICE Grading Scale
6 = 100 (A, 100, fantastic writing!)
5 = 95 (A, excellent writing, 90-99 range)
4 = 85 (B, good writing, 80-89 range)
3 = 75 (C, satisfactory writing, 70-79 range)
2 = 65 (D, poor writing, 60-69 range)
1 = 55 (F, failed writing)

* A + or - means that your essay was near the top or bottom of your ICE number scale.

Underline titles of plays, books, and anything big, my friends.

What was a good choice for comparison? Thorin and Demetrius.

What could become a most painful misapplication? Puck and Bilbo.

What was a choice that often led astray? Oberon.

Oh, Oberon.

So, say you chose Oberon. Did you treat the chaos in nature and in the world at large (weather, crops, animals, mud...perhaps you applied this distemper to our lovers' quarrel). If not, how did you prove that Oberon's covetousness was destructive?

If you said that Oberon's covetousness made Puck put the juice on Lysander, you've made a cause and effect error.

What if you said that Bottom might have remained an ass forever if Oberon failed to take pity? Ok, that could work.

The lovers could have killed each other in the forest? That goes back more directly to Demetrius. It would work if you first established that the fairy world and the moral world were reflections.

If you didn't choose a single character from each, why?

You should be sure you can spell the title, author, and characters of the works you've read for class...certainly those we essay (that's a pun).

J20 (sorry, changed the number to make it even for a new semester)

Write down your best sentence from your essay. Find the ten most choice and nicely employed vocabulary words and copy them in. Count up your punctuators that aren't periods, commas, question marks, or exclamations. Now, how will you improve for the next ICE? Make a plan.

Get Great Expectations.
For a free, digital edition, go to iBooks, search for "Great Expectations," download the first, free, olive-green version.  If you are not using iBooks, you may read or download this free edition.


HW: Read ch. 1