October 20, 2011 - Thursday

Class Work


1. Your homework was to write the draft of the Cause and Effect essay. In-text citations were required. Take out your draft along with the Works Cited page.

This is a peer editing activity. You will, as usual, have three readers. (Handout: Peer editing sheet.)

2. Sharing Time: Select the best line from you draft. Share with the class. Explain why that is your best line.

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"The Things They Carried"

3. Take an inventory of the things you brought with you to class. Make a list. What do the things that you carry say about you?

4. Let's look at the story - group activity

5. Were there any heroes in this story? Explain.

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You asked about women as heroes . . . In the Time of the Butterflies

6. What do you know about the Dominican Republic, Trullijo, and the Mirabel Sisters?
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKtrujillo.htm
http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2000/sites/mirabal/English/index.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mirabal+Sisters&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&prmd=imvnsb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cm6gTuKaKcnjiAKh5vxM&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=861
http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/1206/mirabal_sisters.shtml

7. What do you know about Julia Alvarez?
http://www.juliaalvarez.com/
http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Alvarez-Julia.html

8. View the video - questions to consider (handout)










Homework
1. Watch a war movie - take notes on the heroes and the villains. These notes can be a bulleted list in two columns. Just fold a piece of paper in half. Label one column "hero." Label the other column "villain."

• What are their actions?
• What are their mannerisms?
• Does physical appearance make a difference? 
•  What moved the hero to action?
• What causes are worth the risk of life?
• With whom do they associate?
• To what extent does location play a part?

2. Write the final copy of your "wall" essay. Pay attention to MLA formatting.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/mla-style-papers/
http://www.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3mla.pdf

The paper is due on Tuesday.