This document contains class notes and materials from an English writing course. It includes announcements about submitting Essay #2, terms and definitions for an upcoming exam, and discussion questions about the book Stone Butch Blues. The class will have a terms exam on exposition, idiom, interior monologue and plagiarism. It also provides homework instructions to analyze a moment from the book where the main character either resists or conforms to social expectations, citing evidence from the text.

1. CLASS 12
PUNCTUATION
KILLS!
EWRT 1B

3. ESSAY #2: DID YOU TURN IT IN?
Essay #2: You should have submitted
your essay electronically before our
class by emailing a copy saved in MS
Word to palmorekim@fhda.edu
If you have questions about this, see
me at the end of class.

4. TERMS

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

9.  Each team will have 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.

10. QUESTION 1
Order of response: teams 1, 2, 3, 4

11. QUESTION 2
Order of response: teams 2, 3, 4,1

12. QUESTION 3
Order of response: teams 3, 4,1,2

13. QUESTION 4
Order of response: teams 4,1,2,3

14. HOMEWORK
Reading: The prompt for Essay #3 (find it on the
website under “Essays”)
Post #18: 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