This Unit's Writing Assignment:
One blog post...with these five headings and analysis.
Day 1: Detail
- Check your Google Docs for the file I shared with you. As I shared with "view" rights only, you will need to "make a copy of" and then proceed to work.
- First, let's discuss an analysis of paragraph one together.
- Then, you choose a passage. Here are a few to consider...
- Page 17: the bunkhouse
- Candy's dog
- Slim
- Curley's wife
- one detail to note is that Steinbeck chose NOT to give her a name. Why?
Day 2: Point of View
- the perspective from which an author chooses to present an essay, story, or other piece of writing.
- Check your Google Docs for the shared form on which to draft your notes.
- May work on this assignment within your group.
Day 3: Syntax
- Add heading and draft your thoughts there.
- Choose a passage in which to analzye Steinbeck's sentence patterns.
- Check your Google Docs for the shared form on which to draft your notes.
- Why does Steinbeck use this particular syntactic patterns in this passage?
Day 4: Tone
- the author's attitude
- Writers have to rely on the printed word to convey tone (not volume, gestures, or inflection).
- Check your Google Docs for teh shared form on which to draft your notes.
Day 5: Theme
- For the novel, develop a theme, using one of the previous posts topics (detail, point of view, syntax, or tone) as further evidence to prove your theme.
Detail |
Syntax |
Point of View |
Tone |
Theme |
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