Block Day: Writing

* Open

• Schwager is starting two monthly evening studies.  
• Chesterton (for all)
• Romans (for the gents)

* Lost Tools of Writing (Lessons 1 and 2 are reviewed; lesson 3 is considered)

• Review Lesson 1
• Invention: ANI Chart
• Arrangement: Outlines
• Elocution: Basic essay format

The process in review:

1. A question is made into a statment (if necessary).
2. The statement is considered in terms of an ANI chart (affirmative, negative, interesting).
3. Consider your chart (pairing, grouping, etc.) to help you decide the side you take.
4. Choose your side to form your thesis.
5. Take your three strongest, distinct arguments as your topics that will support your thesis.
6. Roll it into a burrito (thesis with topics included). 
7. Form your outline.
8. Write your RD.
9. Edit, edit, edit.
10. Write your FD. 

• Lesson 2, beginning on pg. 20
• Invention: Five common topics: definition, comparison, circumstance, relationship, authority
• Arrangement: Sorting
• Elocution: Parallelism
• Review Parallelism from pg. 20 and following

• Lesson 3
• Invention: definition
• Arrangement: exordium
• The hook
• Consider some possibilities: question, statistic, anecdote, joke, quote
• Elocution: verbs (let's keep this for Tuesday; you don't have to do this yet)
• Focus on parallelism for the RD of Antigone.  Focus on improving verb choice as you move from the RD to the FD. 

* Antigone Essay

* Outside Reading

HW: None