Greetings class! Today we watched the beginning of the Color Purple film. We'll continue tomorrow and the next day. We'll start at the top of the hour. I assigned reading: Elements of Style read the Forward, Introduction and Elementary Rules of Usage. For Wednesday, May 7, read up to Section V: Elementary Principles of Composition, A Few Matters of Form and Words and Expressions Commonly Misused. Any edition is fine. Mine is the 4th edition.

Thursday, as previously noted, students will write an essay in class comparing the film to the novel. We will practice the 3-step thesis for this essay. The essay will be 4-paragraphs long, 500 words minimally, and employ the thesis, antithesis and synthesis strategy we've written collaboratively this semester. The 3-step thesis is a handout I gave you early this semester. I will explain it tomorrow. We'll practice it Wednesday and you will use it Thursday. I hope we get through the film, as I hope each of you gets through the book :-) It's a quick read.

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