Review of Essays and materials within Chapters 1-4 of Composition of Everyday Life

1. Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4: Review
Discussion Board
Class Exercise
Assignment: MAJOR Paper ONE

2. Chapter 1
 Turn to page 16-17
 Use the questions presented on your chosen essay
 “Clustering” technique
Sports
Big
Parents
Game Rules game
Friends
Examples Organization Essay

3. Chapter 2-- Review
 Page 35-- “Thrill of Victory… Agony of Parents”
 NEXT: Page 38 –Writing Strategies—Exploring Ideas
-- Analysis, p. 42
Questions: How did I change? Why did the event
occur? Did I realize the significance of the event at the
time? Why or why not? What do I see now that I didn’t
see then?
(Answers from “Thrill… Agony”)

4. Chapter 2 -- Review
 Public Resonance – Page 45
 What public issue is related to my memory and how?
 What does my memory revewal or show about the
nature of ________? (Childhood? Teenagers?
Towns? Families? Schools? Teachers? Religious
institutions? Education? Parenthood? Growing up?
Failing? Succeeding? Suffering? Dying? Healing?)
 Begin to work towards a thesis –Page 46
 Page 48 – Rhetorical Tools – 50 – Organizational
Strategies -- 52– Writer’s Voice –54—Vitality

5. Chapter 3 Review
 Page 70-- “Delicate Friend”--- NEXT: Page 72
Writing Strategies– Exploring Ideas
 Page 76 – Analysis – What relationships exist within
the broader relationship?
Social
Bad Public
Mom
Status
Girl
Secretive
Identity Smoking Affirmation

6. Chapter 3 Review
 Page 76– Analysis --What relationships exist within
the broader relationship? How do the smaller
relationships drive the broader relationship?
 Is the broader relationship difficult? What keeps it
going? How does the presence of one entity (person
or thing) influence the other? In what hidden or
indirect ways do they influence one another?
 What would occur to one if the other were gone?
 PEOPLE– In What ways do I communicate with this
person? To what degree do I share their crises?

7. Chapter 3-- Review
 Do I feel obligated to do, think, or say something for
this person? Why am I in this relationship? What
disagreements arise in the relationship? Are they
sources of debate and tension, or do they fade away?
 Page 79 –Public Resonance– Does the relationship
reveal a person’s strengths, weaknesses, needs?
 Why is it important to see the meaning of the
relationship? Is it unusual? Does it show the
difficulty, ease, or value of human relationships?
 Does it show a rewarding/ valuable kind ?

8. Chapter 3-- Review
 Thesis—page 80, Rhetorical Tools – page 82
 Organizational Strategies– page 84, Writer’s Voice—
page 86
 Vitality—page 88

9. Chapter 4--Review
 Page 103 “Corpse Colloquy” -- Writing Strategies
 Exploring Ideas / Ideas for Writing

Dead
images
Mirror Life is
Markers
of Ironic for
society living
Wealth
Cemetary Analysis Insight

10. Chapter 4--Review
 Page 108—Analysis– What is unique about the
subject? What is ordinary? What does that quality
show?
 Is the subject symbolic of something?
 Does the subject seem different after observation?
 What does the subject “say” about life in this place
and time?
 Page 110 –Public Resonance– Why is this subject
important to people? What should peers know?
 What are assumptions about this topic?

11. Chapter 4--Review
 Does the presence or action of this subject teach
people something– about themselves, about life, about
work, about happiness, about materialism, about
sincerity, identity, relationships, past, future, about
death?
 Thesis– page 111-- Rhetorical Tools– Page 112
 Organizational Strategies– Page 114
 Writer’s Voice-- 116 -- Vitality 117

12. MAJOR– Assignment ONE
 Personal Reflection/ Relationship/ Observation Essay
 Person (People)/ Place/ Thing
 Using Microsoft Word and saving as a .doc, .rtf, or other
compatible file
 You will be responsible for: 1,250 word total. This consists of:
 One 500 word rough draft (turned in to me), one 750 formal essay. Developed
during our exercises in class, and
 Revision through peer review; using the essays found in Composition of
Everyday Life as a spring board,
 And the “Analysis” , “Public Resonance”, “ Thesis”, “Organizational Strategies”,
etc. to develop an essay based on a
 Person, place, or thing.
 Following the model essays found in our book, and the sample essay I
have prepared, begin a rough draft
 By using the “clustering” technique, begin to draw some connections
about the topic you will write for the final
 Draft of MAJOR One.

13. Discussion Board
 Post 3 out of 7 days. 15 points per week.
 Check Syllabus (Course Information) for details
 Also: Introductory Blog (let us get to know you, in
your own words!)
 New questions/ topics weekly.
 Check out Journal Two, due next week, on the Class
site: any questions, please ask ASAP. From this point
we will be moving briskly!!!

14. I’d say we have a full plate…

15. Continuing on the Shepard Fairey theme…

16. And of course, the Star Wars link….