Block Day, Week 24: Antigone Essay

* Open

"Mistakes were made." Sometimes passive voice just feels better.

* Quiz

* Lost Tools paper 37 (.pdf 48) and following

• Review Lost Tools Practice 5 (six sentences)

1. cliche
2. vague
3. cliche
4. vague
5. passive
6. passive

• Do "Regrettable Sentences" paper 38 ff
• This time, just write the error and fix the sentence (you do not write the incorrect sentence or the three ways you might fix it...just one)

* Peer Edit

• At least two peer edits.  Editors, please check for the following:
• Exordium (present?)
• Look for parallelism (see the thesis especially)
• Check the verbs (vague, passive, or cliche?)
• Does it generally focus on one character from Antigone?  It should.
• Does it take a side, stating and defending why that character should or should not have done something?
• Is there a modern application somewhere?
• Is there at least one quote in each body paragraph?  Does the quote follow the MLA format?

HW:

• (Schwager)
• Final Draft Due Tuesday
• (Reno)
• ANI Chart (15 items per column)
• Move as many of your Interesting items into the A and N columns
• Select either A (Affirmative) or N (Negative)
• Then sort those items according to kind (choose your three best groups)
• If it will help, fill out pages 30-31 (PDF 40-41) in LTOW or Write out a sentence summarizing what each group shares in common (Proof)
• Write an outline, perfectly following the one on page 32 (PDF 42) of LTOW.
• Finally, do 6. Regrettable Sentences, pages 38-39 (PDF 48-49) in LTOW.