Free Response Land

As noted in our previous classes, free response is a whole new world of literary analysis and prompt writing: there are no given passages to close read, there are no quotes to be incorporated into your writing, there are no citations! As a result, we are looking at the remembrance of plot, milieu, characterization, specific details, and literary elements that pervade a text and can be utilized for this prompt.

2: We commenced vocab experts for unit 3, finished our Chopin presentations, shared our book cards in a show & tell style, and turned in The Awakening. Tomorrow will be the analysis of the free response rangefinders.

4: We continued with vocab, rhapsodized over a 9 essay, & discussed and created a list of Anglo-Saxon cultural beliefs, which we will be returning to as we read our upcoming texts. For Monday's class, you are to answer the free response prompt (Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character) in a handwritten essay. You are not allowed to use any of the texts in the rangefinders packet, and you should limit yourself to approximately one hour for the writing. We will peer review/evaluate during Monday's class.

7: I just found out that our class will be a tad shorter today, so that may curtail the following plot. After vocab experts, we looked at the 1-9 (which are accurately marked for once) of the free response essays.  For Monday's class, you are to answer the free response prompt (Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character) in a handwritten essay. You are not allowed to use any of the texts in the rangefinders packet, and you should limit yourself to approximately one hour for the writing. We will peer review/evaluate during Monday's class. In you have a textbook at the end of the hour, you are to read pages 4-17 and take notes regarding all the cultural beliefs of those frisky Anglo-Saxons. If we don't make it to assigning books, then guess what we will be reading about tomorrow!