Alright so this week was packed full with writing for our group essay. We spent most of our class time working on them, Haley and I have made a lot of progress and finished up what I would call a pretty coherent rough draft. The two of us had a lot of meaningful discussion on what examples from the story best represented the literary elements that we have been looking for as suggested by our "How to Read Literature like a Professor" book.
After everyone finished up writing their group essays on Thursday, Mr. Schoenborn paired each essay group up with another group who read different books to help get another perspective on our writing. Haley and I are working with David Klack and Ryan Pashenee. Their summer reading books were "The Book Thief" and "Obasan" which both were written as a response to World War II and explains to it's reader how words can have such a large role on the world that we live in. I thought their rough draft was a great starting point. The two writers did a very good job at showing how the two books were similar in the first few lines. However towards the end of their second paragraph they used language that made it seem like they were offering an idea instead of supporting it. Another thing that I liked about their writing was the use of descriptive words near the end. Specifically "The house is aged and weak, there's a library of objects" (a reference to Obasan's home) which when I read it painted an image in my head of a decrepit home that is filled to the brim with objects. Each one possessing its own story that could be explained in a thousand words. Overall I think the week went by pretty quickly with everyone getting ready for homecoming. Nonetheless we still got a ton done in class and spent our nights working on our homecoming festivities! I can't really think of anything to add on as a link that relates too much to what we did in class, but the Morning Sun posted some pretty gnarly pictures from this years homecoming parade!
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