The document provides instructions and examples for various writing assignments: - The header for journal posts should include the date, day of week, time, location, and subject. - A writing diagnostic asks students to answer questions about experiences that taught them something, including what happened, what led up to it, how it was resolved, and its significance. - A quiz defines an anecdote as a brief story that enlivens writing, identifies narration as a personal essay strategy, says entomology is the study of bugs, and defines a cliché as an overused phrase or situation.

2. What you need in the header for your
journal posts
• Today’s date
• The day of the week
• The time of the entry
• Where you are writing the post
• Subject of your post

3. In-class Journal 10/26/12
Tell me in at least 100 words about an experience
that caused you to learn something about yourself.
Answer the following questions about this
experience:
• Why did the experience or incident occur?
• What events led up to it?
• How was it resolved?
• What were its short- and long-term outcomes?
• What is its significance now?

5. Quiz

6. 1. What is an anecdote?

7. 2. For personal
essays, writers
primarily use three
strategies. Name one
of them.

8. 3. What does
“entomology” mean?

9. 4. What is a “cliché”?
Give me an example of
one.

10. E.C. Why did the
narrator consider
himself and his dog
clichés?

12. 1. What is an anecdote?

13. 1. What is an anecdote?
A brief story that enlivens* your
writing while introducing a
topic or illustrating an idea.
*to make something come “alive”

14. 2. For personal essays,
writers primarily use
three strategies. Name
one of them.

15. 2. For personal
essays, writers
primarily use three
strategies. Name one
of them.
• Narration
• Description
• Reflection

16. 3. What does
“entomology” mean?

17. 3. What does
“entomology” mean?
The study of bugs

18. 4. What is a “cliché”?
Give me an example of
one.

19. 4. What is a “cliché”?
Give me an example of
one.
A phrase, expression, or
situation that has become
overly familiar or
commonplace. See page 103

21. E.C. Why did the
narrator consider
himself and his dog
clichés?

23. In the Computer Lab today,
10/26/12
Your Writing Diagnostic. Be sure to
save it on your flash drive and post it
in “Writing Diagnostic” discussion
area. Be sure to double-space and give
it a title.

24. Homework for Monday, 10/29/12
Read pages 155-157. In your
journal answers the
questions on page 157.
(Do not do #8)