Today in class
Yesterday, in both classes we broke into groups according to where people were in the text. In the second class we had 4-5 groups: up to chapter 10, chapter 12, chapter 20, and chapter 34-40. The homework was to read at least 5 more chapters and to bring in a photo of something you think is beautiful. We shared our ads selling beauty yesterday in the 9-10 a.m. class.
Today in the first class we shared our ads and/or pictures of what we thought was beautiful. Deon shared from a magazine called DQ and Dominique shared from a Spanish language magazine, Angel shared an ad by Dove which looked at alternatives to the popularized notions of beauty. Melissa shared the same ad campaign with us yesterday. Marty added an observation about mannequins that were too large to fit model's clothing at a fashion event she attended. If the mannequins were about size 4; what size were the models? It was great the way students in the first class admitted to being seduced by the ad. The idea that one could buy Russell Simmon's ex-wife by purchasing the jewelry she was wearing (and nothing else), was certainly a consideration. Deon's premise was the use of beauty to sell products.
Some people call this exploitation of women and girls, and it's not beauty, it's sex. I'll show you a video on this.
I gave the second class an initial planning sheet handout. For others I have put them in a folder outside my office. You have seen the questions before. I forgot to mention in the second class the section in Hacker which looks at "invention strategies." Check out The Writing Process page 10: 1b Experiment with ways to explore your subject. Questioning is one of the strategies listed. Also included in this section of the book is a planning guide, how to develop an outline and when it is useful. Section 2 (19) looks at writer's block, pages 20-38 look at developing effective thesis sentences. Do the exercises on page 23 for practice and online (24). There are sample essays which have been revised you can look at, along with (if you continue reading) a section on developing effective paragraphs. It's a great section.
Freewrite and Cyber Assignment
The second class arrived at different times. Many students had forgotten that we meet in the Writing Center on Thursdays. Today in both classes we developed an essay outline from the introduction posted on the blog on the topic beauty. Some students didn't have copies of what they posted, so I printed copies. The freewrite was to develop an outline for the body of the essay and then let a classmate write the conclusion and then each student re post everything: Introduction, two paragraph outline with evidence and the conclusion. Students were instructed to put the author's name in parentheses. In the second class Melissa and Marty planned to email each other their essay outlines and develop conclusions and then email this back to each other for posting.
I reiterated to students that they were not starting from scratch, that they had other sentences to use developed earlier this week during the topical invention exercises we did in class and shared. If you are confused read the other posts first. Please post at the 2/25 link.
If you haven't looked at Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers, now is the time. Read The Writing Process, Document Design, The Basics, Grammar, Clarity, Punctuation, Research, etc. We will look at argument next week (344).
Monday, March 3. I will show you a video on argumentation. There will be a handout from Hacker on Argument for you to read, along with an assignment you will complete in groups on Tuesday, March 4, (367-8) and then we'll talk about it. There will be another handout, Propaganda Techniques with a Cyber-essay response. The questions are at the end of the essay. This essay is due Thursday, March 6 on the blog. I will give you a separate place to post for this by Wednesday afternoon sometime.
Your essay plan for the Alice Walker: A Life essay, along with the outline is due Wednesday for peer review. The first draft of the essay is due: Tuesday, March 11. The final draft plus a peer review, reading logs and other writing is due, Thursday, March 13.
The final draft is due, I repeat—with all your notes, Thursday, March 13, on a disk or jump drive. You can give me any notes as paper copies. Do not give me original work. We will have our conferences next week also to discuss your body of work so far. We are officially finished with the book, Alice Walker: A Life, Monday, March 3. Our prewriting exercises will be exploring the theme students would like to address in their own essays, not mine practice one: “beauty.” Use the thesis sentences we developed in class to complete the assignment and post the introduction to an essay on beauty, two topics sentences and their evidence, and a conclusion at the post for Monday, February 25.
Some students have indicated that the language used in Alice Walker: A Life, is hard to grasp or comprehend. If you have been having trouble come see me in my office hours. Also, a tutor would help. Utilize the Tutoring Center and the Writing Center. It's too bad students have waited until we completed the book to say something. It might be too late to catch up.
Extra Credit
I told students who attend the event today in the Student Lounge from 12-2: Books not Bars not Death they can have extra credit. Please post comments on the event here.
Theatre events
We are going to see Sonny's Blues at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 620 Sutter Street in San Francisco, tonight. (Powell Street exit, walk up, Sutter crosses Powell, turn left at Sutter and the theatre is inside Art Academy University on your right). We will meet at the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland at 6 p.m. inside at the attendant's booth by the ticket machines. Call me on my cell phone if you are running late or can't find us.
Thursday, March 6, we will attend Come Home at The Marsh, in San Francisco. The play begins at 8 p.m. and is 70 minutes long. I'm going to see W. Kamau Bell Curve on Sunday, March 2 at the Berkeley Jewish Community Center of the East Bay. The event begins at 7 p.m. It is $20. If you bring someone of a different race, he or she gets in free. See www.wandaspicks.com to read about these plays. The review of Sonny's Blues is in the archives. There is an interview with the director, Margo Hall in web exclusives.
Yesterday, in both classes we broke into groups according to where people were in the text. In the second class we had 4-5 groups: up to chapter 10, chapter 12, chapter 20, and chapter 34-40. The homework was to read at least 5 more chapters and to bring in a photo of something you think is beautiful. We shared our ads selling beauty yesterday in the 9-10 a.m. class.
Today in the first class we shared our ads and/or pictures of what we thought was beautiful. Deon shared from a magazine called DQ and Dominique shared from a Spanish language magazine, Angel shared an ad by Dove which looked at alternatives to the popularized notions of beauty. Melissa shared the same ad campaign with us yesterday. Marty added an observation about mannequins that were too large to fit model's clothing at a fashion event she attended. If the mannequins were about size 4; what size were the models? It was great the way students in the first class admitted to being seduced by the ad. The idea that one could buy Russell Simmon's ex-wife by purchasing the jewelry she was wearing (and nothing else), was certainly a consideration. Deon's premise was the use of beauty to sell products.
Some people call this exploitation of women and girls, and it's not beauty, it's sex. I'll show you a video on this.
I gave the second class an initial planning sheet handout. For others I have put them in a folder outside my office. You have seen the questions before. I forgot to mention in the second class the section in Hacker which looks at "invention strategies." Check out The Writing Process page 10: 1b Experiment with ways to explore your subject. Questioning is one of the strategies listed. Also included in this section of the book is a planning guide, how to develop an outline and when it is useful. Section 2 (19) looks at writer's block, pages 20-38 look at developing effective thesis sentences. Do the exercises on page 23 for practice and online (24). There are sample essays which have been revised you can look at, along with (if you continue reading) a section on developing effective paragraphs. It's a great section.
Freewrite and Cyber Assignment
The second class arrived at different times. Many students had forgotten that we meet in the Writing Center on Thursdays. Today in both classes we developed an essay outline from the introduction posted on the blog on the topic beauty. Some students didn't have copies of what they posted, so I printed copies. The freewrite was to develop an outline for the body of the essay and then let a classmate write the conclusion and then each student re post everything: Introduction, two paragraph outline with evidence and the conclusion. Students were instructed to put the author's name in parentheses. In the second class Melissa and Marty planned to email each other their essay outlines and develop conclusions and then email this back to each other for posting.
I reiterated to students that they were not starting from scratch, that they had other sentences to use developed earlier this week during the topical invention exercises we did in class and shared. If you are confused read the other posts first. Please post at the 2/25 link.
If you haven't looked at Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers, now is the time. Read The Writing Process, Document Design, The Basics, Grammar, Clarity, Punctuation, Research, etc. We will look at argument next week (344).
Monday, March 3. I will show you a video on argumentation. There will be a handout from Hacker on Argument for you to read, along with an assignment you will complete in groups on Tuesday, March 4, (367-8) and then we'll talk about it. There will be another handout, Propaganda Techniques with a Cyber-essay response. The questions are at the end of the essay. This essay is due Thursday, March 6 on the blog. I will give you a separate place to post for this by Wednesday afternoon sometime.
Your essay plan for the Alice Walker: A Life essay, along with the outline is due Wednesday for peer review. The first draft of the essay is due: Tuesday, March 11. The final draft plus a peer review, reading logs and other writing is due, Thursday, March 13.
The final draft is due, I repeat—with all your notes, Thursday, March 13, on a disk or jump drive. You can give me any notes as paper copies. Do not give me original work. We will have our conferences next week also to discuss your body of work so far. We are officially finished with the book, Alice Walker: A Life, Monday, March 3. Our prewriting exercises will be exploring the theme students would like to address in their own essays, not mine practice one: “beauty.” Use the thesis sentences we developed in class to complete the assignment and post the introduction to an essay on beauty, two topics sentences and their evidence, and a conclusion at the post for Monday, February 25.
Some students have indicated that the language used in Alice Walker: A Life, is hard to grasp or comprehend. If you have been having trouble come see me in my office hours. Also, a tutor would help. Utilize the Tutoring Center and the Writing Center. It's too bad students have waited until we completed the book to say something. It might be too late to catch up.
Extra Credit
I told students who attend the event today in the Student Lounge from 12-2: Books not Bars not Death they can have extra credit. Please post comments on the event here.
Theatre events
We are going to see Sonny's Blues at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 620 Sutter Street in San Francisco, tonight. (Powell Street exit, walk up, Sutter crosses Powell, turn left at Sutter and the theatre is inside Art Academy University on your right). We will meet at the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland at 6 p.m. inside at the attendant's booth by the ticket machines. Call me on my cell phone if you are running late or can't find us.
Thursday, March 6, we will attend Come Home at The Marsh, in San Francisco. The play begins at 8 p.m. and is 70 minutes long. I'm going to see W. Kamau Bell Curve on Sunday, March 2 at the Berkeley Jewish Community Center of the East Bay. The event begins at 7 p.m. It is $20. If you bring someone of a different race, he or she gets in free. See www.wandaspicks.com to read about these plays. The review of Sonny's Blues is in the archives. There is an interview with the director, Margo Hall in web exclusives.
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Daniel Palmer
February 29, 2008
Eng 1A
9-10
Homework from February 28, 2008
Outline for an essay about Alice Walker’s option of Beauty
Introduction: Have you read Alice Walker A Life as written by Evelyn White? It’s themes are many. Many events play an important roles in Alice Walker’s life to build her character. The most life changing events dealed with Alice Walker’s damaged eye had her questioning her beauty . Alice Walker ’s daughter told her “Mommy, there’s a world I your eye… Where did you get that world in your eye?,” page 344
First supporting paragraph topic sentence:
For Alice Walker was what was on the inside.
Evidence: Alice Walker walked around with her head to the ground.
Second supporting paragraph topic sentence: Alice Walker's daughter taught her to love her eye.
Evidence: The absence of her beauty made her realize she is not perfect and this provided more compation towards others.
Conclusion: Alice Walker saw her self as beautiful when she was young. Her beauty was then damaged. Alice Walker ‘s daughter helps her discover that was in fact beautiful and used it to change the world. Alice Walker is still changing the world today.
Melissa Tinkelenberg
English 1A
“Beauty”
While reading the book “Alice Walker: A Life” by Evelyn C. White, I’ve come to realize that Alice Walker equated her physical beauty, or in her eyes her lack of, with her self worth. From the time of the BB gun accident that deformed her eye she felt she was ugly. Doris Reid, a long time friend of Alice’s one time said to Alice, “Oh Alice, you look so pretty. You’re just glowing,” and Alice’s response was, “Oh stop. I’m ugly. Everyone knows I’m not pretty anymore.” For a child, feeling disfigured like she did can be extremely traumatic. Alice Walker didn’t feel that losing her sight was nearly as much of an obstacle as what the injury made her look like.
1) The “ugliness” caused by her eye being deformed was something that Alice struggled with all the way through adulthood.
A) When Alice was going to pose for a cover of a magazine she wrote, “At night in bed with my lover I think up reasons why I should not appear on the cover of the magazine…” Her husband asked, “But what is the real reason you don’t want to do this?” Her answer was, “Because in all probability, my eye won’t be straight.” (343) This was as an adult, long after the scar tissue was removed. At this point, her eye looked mostly normal, it just wandered a bit.
2) It took the logic of an innocent child, her daughter, to help her see the beauty in her eye.
B) Her daughter Rebecca said to her one night, “Mommy there’s a world in your eye……where did you get that world in your eye?” At that point Alice ran laughing and crying at the same time to the mirror. She wrote, “There was a world in my eye. And I saw that it was possible to love it….”
Alice Walker’s eye accident caused her so much pain through out life, and I don’t mean physical pain. For her feeling “ugly” was something that she just had to deal with. She was finally able to learn from it, and move forward as an adult, "Alice would come to honor her eye injury as an 'initiation' that helped her to mature and prepare for challenges ahead." (51) She finally overcame that obstacle.
Melissa Tinkelenberg
English 1A
“Beauty”
While reading the book “Alice Walker: A Life” by Evelyn C. White, I’ve come to realize that Alice Walker equated her physical beauty, or in her eyes her lack of, with her self worth. From the time of the BB gun accident that deformed her eye she felt she was ugly. Doris Reid, a long time friend of Alice’s one time said to Alice, “Oh Alice, you look so pretty. You’re just glowing,” and Alice’s response was, “Oh stop. I’m ugly. Everyone knows I’m not pretty anymore.” For a child, feeling disfigured like she did can be extremely traumatic. Alice Walker didn’t feel that losing her sight was nearly as much of an obstacle as what the injury made her look like.
1) The “ugliness” caused by her eye being deformed was something that Alice struggled with all the way through adulthood.
A) When Alice was going to pose for a cover of a magazine she wrote, “At night in bed with my lover I think up reasons why I should not appear on the cover of the magazine…” Her husband asked, “But what is the real reason you don’t want to do this?” Her answer was, “Because in all probability, my eye won’t be straight.” (343) This was as an adult, long after the scar tissue was removed. At this point, her eye looked mostly normal, it just wandered a bit.
2) It took the logic of an innocent child, her daughter, to help her see the beauty in her eye.
B) Her daughter Rebecca said to her one night, “Mommy there’s a world in your eye……where did you get that world in your eye?” At that point Alice ran laughing and crying at the same time to the mirror. She wrote, “There was a world in my eye. And I saw that it was possible to love it….”
Alice Walker’s eye accident caused her so much pain through out life, and I don’t mean physical pain. For her feeling “ugly” was something that she just had to deal with. She was finally able to learn from it, and move forward as an adult, "Alice would come to honor her eye injury as an 'initiation' that helped her to mature and prepare for challenges ahead." (51) She finally overcame that obstacle.
Introduction
After reading Alice Walker A Life by Evelyn C. White the thing I notice most was how she cared so much about her beauty. When the BB gin incidents happen she didn’t even care about the sight she just focused on how the outside looked. I think she cared for beauty so much because she got a lot of attention when she was a child. As she got older her spirit was lifted by her 7th grade teacher who as a child was also blinded in her right eye. Beauty is like food it will feel u up.
Example: Alice Walker’s beauty is like money you must maintain it to keep it. Her beauty played an important role in her life because after the surgery her self-esteem went up. She felt like her beauty was everything and for six years she was so ashamed that she walked with her head down.
Example: Alice Walker’s beauty is like a puzzle you have to put all the pieces together. One piece was when her brother wasted $250 on her eye and didn’t get it fixed. Another was when Dr. Morris M. Henry fixed her eye on August 6th 1958.
To sum it up, her beauty played an important role in her life. Without her beauty I don’t think she would have had so much confidence or been so successful.
Marcus Lee 03/04/08 9-10AM
Professor Wanda Saber
Kenton Low, 1A
The Beauty of Alice Walker: Introduction Essay
04 March 2008
The beauty of Alice walker lies in her ability to rise above the difficulties that she faced in life while growing up in the south. When Alice was four years, she started to the school and advanced quickly to the first grade. Alice was also out going and had a lot of self-confidence. Alice was injured by a BB pellet that was accidently shot by one of her brothers. This accident is the reason why Alice Walker is blind in her right eye. “ After her accident, Alice's grades plummeted. Because of the noticeable scar in her right eye, she became an easy target for the other children in her school who teased her mercilessly. Alice's personality changed significantly. The once out-going girl, who loved to speak in front of crowds, became withdrawn and introverted.” This was a part of her childhood that was very difficult; she needed to rebuild her self – confidence. She began to read books and write poetry. Alice saw beauty in another form, in a spiritual form that included imperfection.
In live difficulties Alice Walker Found a way to grow, learn, and achieve her goals in life. Her challenges made her stronger in her and allowed her see things in a different way. “The tragedy of losing her eye also enabled Alice to see that her body was merely a covering, hiding the person she truly was inside.” She changed from not able to hold her head up and look some on in the eye to a woman of great pride. Alice furthers her education by attending Spellman College in Atlanta GA.
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