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Thanks for your comments.  I was worried about one person who circled "I have to drag myself to class."  Turns out that person likes to sleep in, so LOL.  Two people "sort of" resent that they have to take the class; the rest are 'OK' with it.  And the biggest LOL:  one person said that he (or she) might try to fail the class so she (or he) can take it again.  How sweet is that?  Thanks for a great discussion today - lots of great energy.
Premise:  communication energizes.

And if telekinesis was real ?

Agenda: The very big and the very little

1. Cartoon and re-dos hand in
2. 20 questions
3. Rule 1 - format
4. Rules 2-3
5. Assign Rules 4-5
6. B R E A K 3:40 or so 3:45
7. Love (in class for now) - but save this and all in class writings for this week's essay
8. 2 poems:   Sound - Gesture - lexicon
9. Dillard and Orwell - see the link on the right side of the blog.  READ ORWELL - at least in part - for next week.  Do this.  1984 Orwell.
10. Writing about writing - assign essay due next week:  Dillard/Orwell
11. coming up:  structure, NEXT WEEK
12. Aspect of film/tv/media that U love

due for next week

A.  Rules 4-5

B.  Skim Orwell and read 3 paragraphs of Dillard "The Writing Life"

C.  Writing about Writing

D.  Extra credit:  errors you find in MY writing or in main stream media (e.g., ... travel with Penny and I)

My favorite movie director.

For Week 3

1. re-do paper if you want a better grade
2. AP  --  two-way
3. MP -- keep it consistent.  don't think.
4. buss letter
5. cartoon

               name
               a great title
               the sequence
               at least 5 sentences:   one paragraph of 5 sentences  or 3 paragraphs:
                   a 1 sentence paragraph
                   then 3 sentence paragraph
                   then a 1 sentence paragraph

here is a wise young man

Welcome Writers Autumn 2013

WHAT, HOW, WHY, FROM WHERE     

Partners Movies: Types

Shawshank Redemption
Jules and Jim
Lone Ranger and  Tonto
Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory
Batman and Robin
Ragin Bull
Sherlock and Watson
Thelma and Louise
Bonnie and Clyde
Fight Club
The Kids are Alright
Brokeback Mountain
V for Vendetta
Pulp Fiction

Set up
Development - denoument
detail detail detail 

Watch this

Pope Francis: "Who am I to judge" gay clergy?

Due for July 30

1.  re-do Poetics paper
2.  list 3 favorite "buddies" or "couples" movies
3.  Set up "Act I" of American Beauty
4.  continue (start) Morning Pages
5.  continue Accountability Partners

300 WORDS - on a critical reading of .

Aristotle Poetics  (2ndary source)...  Capture what Aristotle says about these components of drama:

• action
• structure:  beginning middle end - later, the 5 parts
• episodic moments
• revolution
• discovery
• conditions turning into their opposite
• the hierarchy of development of tragic plot:  what's best, second  best, and worst 

What do YOU "get" from reading this piece?

1. What is the outstanding bit that inspires or frightens YOU?
2. Does he have "sources"?  What?  From where does he "get" this?
3. What seems to be his purpose or motive in this instruction on writing?

350 400 words  (1.5 - 2 pages)  300 WORDS - Due July 17
This is to be a minimum of three paragraphs.  Why?
This is to have a compelling title, i.e., not "Aristotle Poetics"

Becket: bare bones

The story:
A man who believes in nothing, a man who has "a void" inside, a man who has been given all kinds of unexpected rewards finds something to believe in. Another man who has everything has nothing.  Their fates knit together - can you describe "the sweater" their yarns create?
This is a story of politics and the soul.  Can you imagine a story so profound be told of those who rule our world today?