december 3

For your MOM: Think of something. Then think of nothing. Keep doing that second thing for sixty seconds. If a thought comes up - they can be pesky - swipe it off the screen of your mind, or watch it blow away in the breeze, or float downstream...

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tune: "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder]
We describe characters all the time.  Whenever we relate a story about something that happened with other people to a person who wasn't there, we portray the other people as characters in that story.  Sometimes we describe them directly ("he's six feet tall" or "she was really angry"), and sometimes we describe them indirectly, in terms of what they said, or did, or how others reply to them.  It's one thing to write, "Robert had an insatiable appetite" and it's another to write, "Sally watched Robert eat-- and eat, and eat, and eat, until she thought she herself might actually throw up."  Think of something that happened to you over the weekend in the presence of other people.  Write a paragraph about it.  Then, choose one character and analyze your own work: did you describe this person directly or indirectly?

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Choose your own topic.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Checking in and catching up: F451, literature analysis, and your questions
3. My show and tell
4. Preview: what you'll need for your final reflection essay