Ewrt 1 b class 13

CLASS 13EWRT 1B

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ESSAY #2: DID YOU TURN IT IN?

Essay #2: You should have submitted

your essay through Kaizena before

class began.

If you have questions about this, see

me at the end of class.

TERMS

TERMS FOR EXAM 2

Exposition: a form of discourse that explains, defines, and interprets.

The word is also applied to the beginning portion of a plot in which background information about the characters and situation is set forth.

Idiom: the language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people or the constructions or expressions of one language whose structure is not matched in another language.

Idioms often possess a meaning other than their grammatical or logical ones and cannot be directly translated into another language. For example, if you“rub someone the wrong way,” it means you annoy or bother a person.

TERMS REVIEW

Interior monologue: represents the inner thoughts of a character, recording the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings of an individual.

Plagiarism: literary theft, which is the taking or closely imitating of the language and thoughts of another author and representing them as one’s own—even if this is done without conscious thought. This includes self-plagiarism, which is unwittingly borrowing from your own work.

STONE BUTCH BLUES

At our last meeting, we discussed how specific quotations from the text gave us insight into Jess’s world, her perspective, and her development.

Today, we are going to find and analyze quotations that will support a larger argument that you might make in your next essay.

Each question we investigate today correlates to a possible essay topic for essay #3. It will be to your advantage to keep track of the evidence you compile in your groups today.

Each team will have about two minutes to present an answer to

a question about Stone Butch Blues.

Teams must offer specific textual evidence. In other words, there

must be a quotation to which the team refers.

The team must be able to offer a brief explanation or analysis of

how the quotation supports or offers the answer to the question.

If any team begins an answer but cannot finish or finishes

unsatisfactorily, the next team can steal the quotation and

provide analysis.

Quotations can only be used once in a round. It will behoove

you to have multiple options, particularly if your group will

present last.

I will be the final judge in all cases.

QUESTION 1

Order of response: teams 1, 2, 3, 4

QUESTION 2

Order of response: teams 2, 3, 4,1

QUESTION 3

Order of response: teams 3, 4,1,2

QUESTION 4

Order of response: teams 4,1,2,3

HOMEWORK

Reading: The prompt for Essay #3 (find it on the

website under “Essays”)

Post #16: Choose ONE:

Find and discuss a moment Jess resists the larger

social construct. How and why does ze do it? How

does it contribute to the person Jess ultimately

becomes? Do you have evidence?

OR

Find and write about an instance when Jess is

forced to conform to the dominant social paradigm.

How does conforming (or trying to conform) change

hir? What is your evidence?

Terms Exam #2 at our next meeting