* Discuss J2: Plot and Story
* The Lost Tools of Writing Program
- This is a writing program that we will do alongside our essays. The exercises will help us in every aspect of writing (from first thoughts to final flourish).
- See the online course for the .pdf to load into a reader (like iBooks or Notability)
- Lesson 1 is for today. This lesson is overly basic, but each lesson gets harder, and we want to be sure we've started the bus at a stop everyone can reach.
- You will look at the .pdf on your iPad, but you will copy and do the work by hand on paper in your binder (Essay section).
- Traditionally, there are five canons of rhetoric (five parts to an artful presentation). We focus on those that apply to writing (in bold).
- Invention (introduced today)
- Arrangement (introduced today)
- Elocution (next week)
- Memory
- Delivery
- Invention
- This is the stage where you imagine, explore, question, consider your topic...come up with ideas. These are soccer try-outs.
- Writing prompts are often questions: "Should the anonymous author of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' have given such prominent place to Morgiana?"
- The issue, then, is whether or not the author should have given such a prominent place to Morgiana. We have turned the question into a statement we can consider and take a side on.
- To gather our thoughts, we could make a three-column drawing, as in our text, and place our thoughts in columns for Affirmative, Negative, or Interesting.
- Fill it in.
- You look over your columns to help you decide which side you'll fall on.
- Now you can write a thesis statement.
- Arrangement
- This is the stage where you drop things that won't help and shape up the rest. You are making cuts, assigning positions, and developing your game plan.
- You start with a thesis statement.
- Given your thesis, consider which of your thoughts in the A and N sections of your columns are strongest.
- Choose three. These become your topic sentences.
- Now you can create a basic outline, as in your .pdf.
- Do so now.
* Schwager's classes continue on to Character
- Read and take notes from Lewis Turco's (see pdf. online)
- Cool trivia: Agatha Christie's detective fiction is used as the character example by Turco. Did you know that a new book release of her autobiography and a biography have just been released (published by William Morrow books)?
- Did you know that a popular the TV series Murder, She Wrote was based on Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple? What's more, Peter S. Fischer (co-creator and executive producer of Murder, She Wrote) will be at Crossroads Books this Saturday in Watsonville from 1-3 pm? He has a new series of books. Go Watsonville literary scene!
HW: Finish reading your story, linked above.
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