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Monday, June 16, 2025
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“Mother, should I build a wall?”
-Pink, from The Wall Current Work: Novel Study For information on University-grade essay formatting, including citation, check out Purdue University's web content. Extensions: Extensions for 24, 48 or 72 hours may be granted if an email is sent prior to deadline, outlining reasons the extension is needed, and providing evidence the assignment has been started. Extended assignments will need to be emailed directly as the window for submission to D2L will have passed. Before submitting any written work to me through D2L, ensure you've formatted it according to one of my required formats, and you have used Spell Check. PowerPoint of Thinkers studied on Philosophy Phridays. Are you a good or bad person?
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Feb 21st |
Descriptive Writing #1 |
-Submit your first original, informal descriptive writing piece on paper to me in class on Feb 14th. Once I've checked it, you can type it up and upload it to D2L, using the Microsoft Word template for format #1 linked at the top of this page if you'd like me to accept it. -1st paragraph tells what the setting looks like. 2nd paragraph tells what the main character looks like. The action starts in the the 3rd paragraph. For this first story, use past tense and third person. I will indicate incorrect verb tenses with yellow highlighting and problems with where sentences start and stop using blue highlighting. -The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. -Try for no more than 1.5 to 2 pages in length. -Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. -Expressive and personal writing only. Be descriptive (that means describe all new settings and characters when they show up first). -Make your story as colourful and interesting as you can. -(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write) Your filename should start with "DW1" |
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Feb 28 |
Descriptive Writing #2 |
A second story of the same sort at you did for Descriptive Writing #1, with the same rules as above, only using prescribed format #2. This format will make your story look just like an essay, but do not actually write an essay or quote or cite sources. Write a story. (You're just practising format for when we write the actual essays.) -1st paragraph tells what the main character looks like. 2nd paragraph tells what the setting looks and feels like. The action starts in the the 3rd paragraph. For this second story, use past tense and either third or first person. I will indicate incorrect verb tenses with yellow highlighting and problems with where sentences start and stop using blue highlighting. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Double the 1.5 to 2 pages length for the double-spaced format #2 (2x1.5=3, 2x2=4). Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting.(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write) Your filename should start with "DW2." |
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Mar 7 |
Descriptive Writing #3 |
Submit your third original, informal descriptive writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #3. Don't forget a paragraph to describe the setting, and one for the main character. The subheadings will be like "chapters" in your story.
The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1.5 to 2 pages in length. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting.(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write) Your filename should start with "DW3." |
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Mar 28 |
Write a pair of essays, each strongly arguing only one side of a very two-sided issue. Show me you can write in a formal tone intended for submission for marks in an academic setting. Have a peer vet your essays to see how closely they follow all the Essay Bootcamp instructions and The Stop Sheet. If your essays do not seem to follow my expectations, I will be asking who vetted them for you. Submit the finished, vetted, essay pair to D2L with your peer's name on the cover sheet under your own. | ||
May 14 |
Write an essay showing how three science fiction pieces and a TV show or movie explore similar ideas or present similar concerns about the future. Choose three different authors from this assortment or clear others with me. | ||
June 10 |
Show you can follow these instructions, and talk intelligently about how lyrics, art, music, movie and tour elements are used to express ideas and thoughts. Submit through D2L by Dec 12 , using format #3, only with two columns. | ||
June 19 |
As you read through, chapter by chapter, do an exercise in catching Orwell using a few writerly tricks/exploring several ideas. Cite quotations and explanations to show you have caught him doing that. Complete by TBA. Then, build the quotations you found, on one of the topics you were finding quotations for, into a "recycled essay." Submit that one through D2L by TBA, sending me your handwritten chapter work to cross-reference with your Recycled Essay. |
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Cancelled |
The "payoff" to all the poetry work you've done. Instructions. Submit this to D2L by TBA. (The Stop! Sheet should help with the formal tone of this piece) | ||
June 20 |
Two Fates |
Here is an assignment which gives you a chance to show that your informal writing in June is better than it was in February, without needing me to work on it with you. Format #1. Description, colours, dialogue paragraphs. start by establishing your main character (you) and the future setting, with lots of visual information. Imagine a scene from your life 10 years in the future. Do one version in which things have worked out well, given your choices. Do one version in which things have not worked out as well. Write likely outcomes, not fanciful stuff. You can download a single file with both versions in it, or two separate files, to D2L. |
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