Two things we talked about today

1. For your heading, in the top right of your paper:

Name
Date
Ms. Aaland
Mods

Don't forget to title your essay! Also, please don't use a 3200g735billion-pt. font (12pt. is perfect), or I will be a sad sack of potatoes when I read your essay.

2. Quotation review: When quoting, put the page number in parentheses outside of the quotation marks. After that, put your period (or comma, if you are using one). Like:

Malcolm X is famous for saying "“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything" (34).

For more "fancy" punctuation, like a question mark, exclamation point, or an ellipse, you should put it inside the quote, but add a period after the parentheses:

Like bell hooks, I agree that "forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?" (132).

Look here for some brief extra info, or our good friend the OWL.

Links to help with writing

Here are a few from Purdue University's OWL (Online Writing Lab) website:
Getting Started
Dealing with Writer's Block
Writing About Literature (from class on Monday)
Creating a Thesis Statement
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Brief Overview of Punctuation
Quotation Marks
Run-on Sentences

Essay Topics

Bone Essay

Choose one of the following topics to write about in an essay of 3-4 pages. Develop a thesis for your argument, and be sure to support it with evidence from the book.


1.Which character in Bone do you identify with most? Why?

2.What do you think “bone” means as a symbol in the novel?

3.How do the characters in Bone balance their individual vs. cultural identities?

4.How do perspectives on identity and nationality differ between generations of family members, particularly between those who are immigrants and those who are American-born (ABC-FOB)?


Essays should be 10-12 point font, double-spaced, and have margins no larger than 1”. You will also need to submit your essay to Turnitin.com.​

Due Friday, February 27th

Vocab + HW for this week

Here are your due dates for the rest of this week:
By Thursday 2/19 - Read Chapters 11 and 12, do your reading logs, and be prepared to discuss today.
By Friday 2/20 - Read and do reading logs for Chapter 13 (this is subject to change, but for now, have this ready for Friday). I will collect your vocab journals (including sentences) right before we take the quiz today. Be prepared for Question Time after the quiz. We will also choose new vocabulary words today like we did last week so come with the new words you'd like to work with!

Here are your vocab words for these week, just in case you need them again:

benevolent
elegiac
bouffant
"Q's"/quaaludes
ditties/ditty
gossipmonger
maritime
acute
shoal
dialect
8 Holy Immortals

Welcome to our class blog!

Hello 10th graders and welcome to our internet zone. In case you want to check out some of those images of Joseph Cornell's work again, here are a few (some of these images are too large for blogger so right click and select "View Image" to see the whole thing):










Here are a few websites with information about him as well:
SFMOMA page on Cornell
The Joseph Cornell Box
Cornell at Wikipedia
NPR story you can listen to