http://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/SupermanandMebyAl…
https://studydaddy.com/attachment/200894/Reading+t…
Read both pieces linked above-both personal essays about reading and writing, one by Sherman Alexie, and one by Stephen King.
Do the following two assignments.
1. As you read, engage in the active reading we discussed, writing down questions, automatic thoughts, perceptions, things to which you relate, predictions, guesses for vocabulary words as well as keywords/key ideas, main points, main ideas. Submit those notes here. Please don’t write more than two pages total.
2. Answer the following: we discussed paragraph unity in class. An essay should also be unified. In other words, all the ideas should tie together. This is also true of short stories, movies, personal essays, television shows and poetry. So, answer this in four to five sentences for each piece: what are the unifying ideas, themes, images, meanings in each piece?
3. What do you think the thesis is for each piece? Only need to write a one sentence answer for each piece. The thesis could either be quoted from the piece itself, or in your own words.
4. How does the writer use specificity? Find two examples for each piece, write the quote and then a couple of sentences of your own explanation for each piece.
5. How does the writer use showing, not telling, and/or illustration? Find two examples for each piece, write the quote and then a couple of sentences of your own explanation for each piece.
6. Find one paragraph for each piece, and write down what the topic sentence is, and then in four to five sentences how the writer supports that topic sentence?
7. What can we use from any of this in our own writing? Answer in four sentences for each piece?
8. What is the tone, and who is the audience for each piece? Give one example for tone, one for audience, for each piece, in no more than four sentences for each piece.
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