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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Week at a Glance and Cyber-Assignment

This week we will fine tune our summarizing and quoting skills using 50 Essays and The Happiness Project as a resource. We are in chapters 2-3 in They Say. In class today we reviewed the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing. We spoke about literal vs. free paraphrases and "shared language." Hacker was the resource for our query.

Post the group summaries here.

Homework is to do the exercise chapter 1:40, Peter Elbow's Believing Game. Bring into class to share. Post on the blog tomorrow. I will put a link for it today.

Read or skim chapter 3: "As He Himself Puts It" (42-51).  Read David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater" (41).

Read Staples's essay in 50 Essays (383-386). For those without the book here is a link: http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/rspriggs/files/staples%20just%20walk%20on%20by%20text.pd
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  1. Anonymous7:31 PM

    Corina Guerra
    Jasmine Senephansiri
    Princess Espinosa
    Leah Wilson
    Aaron Chung
    Cassandra Odom
    John Sengmany
    Professor Wanda Sabir
    English 1A 9-9:50 am
    19 February 2013
    Group Exercise 1

    In No Name Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston was told a forbidden story of her "nonexistent" aunt that committed adultery. The reason she was told this story was because she was becoming a woman and in their culture it's important to uphold the family name. After she was told the story she was left clueless and distraught that the ghost of her aunt haunts her.

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