work for the week of 9/7-9/10/10

RHETORICAL TERMS

This week you will need to push ahead and learn two more columns of words: C & D. You will be quizzed on Thursday.

GRAMMAR

We will continue with the Elements of Style, Part II, Elementary Principles of Composition. This will help you to build effective paragraphs through strong topic sentences, with a minimum of deadwood. We will also learn to keep to a positive form in the use of adverbs and verbs.

ESSAY & WRITING

You should have read the two essays, both entitled Death of a Moth, and answered a question from each, as taken from Bedford Reader. We will have a brief discussion on your answers, and then it will be your task to construct an essay along similar lines. Find some detail in life and write of it as precisely and as descriptively as you can. Then find a way to connect that small detail to a larger view of life generally. Let me know if you are having trouble coming up with an idea and I will help.


GREAT BOOKS

Our next reading is by Adam Smith: Concerning the Division of Labor. We will begin on Thursday with a Prereading question & discussion, and then a read aloud session for the first part of it. You will finish it on your own and choose two of the Interpretive Questions for a paragraph each.