How does this quote help Barry make her argument I walked over to the monkey bars and hooked my arms around the cold metal I stood for a long time just looking across Rainer Valley The sky was beginning to whiten and I could hear a few birds Barry 167 ID: 776142
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2/5/20
Detail and Description
Slide2How does this quote help Barry make her argument?
“I walked over to the monkey bars and hooked my arms around the cold metal. I stood for a long time just looking across Rainer Valley. The sky was beginning to whiten and I could hear a few birds” (Barry 167).
Slide3Today’s Agenda
QOTD
Continue group work from last class
Attendance Question
Discuss “The Miss Dennis School for Writing”
The importance of detail
Exploding Sentences
Slide4Essay Prompt
In “The Sanctuary of School” Linda Barry argues that schools are not doing enough to support children. Most notably, she mentions how funding for before and after school programs is being cut. Barry wants more funding but says that many people feel that it is not the role of the school to babysit. What side of the issue do you come down on and why? Do schools owe more to children or are they doing enough? Use your own experience in school as support for your argument.
Slide5Today’s Attendance Question
How would you define the made up work
Florg
?
Slide6The Miss Dennis School of Writing
Alice Steinbach
Slide7Stephanie’s Discussion Questions
What did Miss Dennis mean when she told the class to pay attention?
Why does Steinbach consider herself "one of the lucky ones" for having miss Dennis as a teacher?
what does Steinbach mean when she calls miss Dennis "worldly" when she sees her smoking a cigarette with the silver cigarette holder
?
Slide8Malak’s Discussion Questions
“I think of her and see, with marked clarity, a small, compact woman
with apricot-colored
hair. She is with a young girl and she is saying something. She is saying
: ‘
Pay attention.’” Why would she choose to end her narrative like that? Please analyze
and explain
with details from the narrative to support your analysis?
2. Interpret this quote,
“
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul...”
3. How would you describe the words that Steinbach used in paragraph 31? Would you
say that
it was filled with more emotion or it was just a statement?
Slide9In your blue books
Copy down one descriptive sentence other than the two that the author uses for examples on page 100.
Underline the descriptive language
Explain what the description does for you
Slide10Exploding Sentences
Slide11Exploding Sentences
I woke up late this morning--as usual. I had no clean clothes and the fridge was next to bare. Traffic was heavy as I sped to work. Some jerk cut me off and I almost had a wreck. At work I went to my desk and there was a note to go and see the boss. I waited outside her office for a while before she called me in. I couldn’t figure out why she wanted to see me. I went inside and sat down. My boss handed me an envelope. She told me that my services were no longer needed and that I was free to go. I got my belongings from my desk and left. The drive home was quick. I am now unemployed.
Slide12Exploding Sentences
Select one sentence in the paragraph
Expand it to make it more interesting and detailed
Slide13Some jerk cut me off and I almost had a wreck.
Some jerk cut me off and I almost had a wreck. I hate people who can’t drive. I decided to teach him a little lesson by playing near bumper cars with his bright red 300 ZX. He kept hitting his brakes, and eventually even shook a fist of rage at me. I giggled gleefully--kind of like that lady in
Fried Green Tomatoes
who got immense pleasure from repeatedly rear-ending the car of the person who had stolen her parking space. Space is crucial, and that jerk will probably think twice before he cuts into mine again.