1. EWRT 2
Class 2
What do you say when you are
comforting a grammar Nazi?
2. There, their,
they’re. It will all be
ok….
What do you say
when you are
comforting a
grammar Nazi?
3. AGENDA
Vocabulary Test #1
A few haiku
Discussion: A Game of Thrones
Arguing with FREECASH
In-class writing
Contest: Content
How to write a QHQ
4. 25 points
possible
VOCABULARY TEST 1
YOU NEED A PIECE OF PAPER
AND A WRITING UTENSIL
5. YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES TO COMPLETE THE EXAM
A. amethyst
B. bailey
C. baluster
D. barbican
E. caparison
F. cof fer
G. coif
H. crannog
I. crenel
VOCABULARY TEST #1
R. gorget
S. hauberk
T. hummock
U. Insipid
V. islet
W. lithe
X. pommel
Y. puissant
Z. rondel
J. crofter
K. cursory
L. damask
M. deft
N. doublet
O. doughty
P. eyrie
Q. gibbet
6. STUDENT HAIKU
Winter approaches,
A Song of Ice and Fire
Whistles through the air.
Fal l ing from above,
a place he should not have
been,
A knight? No longer.
Valyrian steel
Awaits when you fail to fly…
The shadows have ears
Winter solitude-becomes
the state for the lost
trying to find home
7. WHAT DO
YOU
THINK?
Can you
support
your
ideas and
opinions?
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8. EDDARD STARK
Clear, cold,
summer ends.
Father does his
tyrant job.
Bran learns his
lesson.
Winterfell is home
life isn’t fair
King’s Landing is
the destination
9. WHAT DO YOU SAY?
Is it right (honorable, moral, fair) that Eddard Stark
cuts off Gared’s head?
10. JON SNOW
Jon found five
direwolf
just like him white
as snow.
He happily keeps
a freak
With five babes her
own,
they were the lady’s
Summer;
Jon was the Winter.
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Is it fair that Eddard Stark brings Jon home to be raised by his
wife, Catelyn?
Some would argue taking responsibility for Jon is honorable.
Some might say he dishonors his wife.
12. ARYA STARK
As swif t as a cat
Moving past the leaves
falling
Arya is free
Arya and her stitch
Is shamed for her dif ference
Of f to shoe a horse
With the gift of steel
She gathers strength and
courage
Winter is coming
As sharp as needle
was the sword Jon gifted her
to protect herself
13. Is it fair that Arya is forced to do needle
point when she really wants to practice
with the boys?
14. SIBLINGS AND SEX
Summer of children
from a golden-haired lion
Arryn knew the truth
Bran climbs the castle
walls
but his last climb is too
far.
Secrets push him of f.
Dany has small breasts,
listens to her brother, she
cannot cry.
She will marry Khal Drogo
The blood line is pure,
but the hear t is corrupted.
It needs salvation.
15. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Jaime and Cersei have a sexual relationship.
Daenerys assumed she would marry her brother.
Is incest wrong?
16. ARGUING: IT IS MORE THAN AN OPINION
When you argue a position, you need to give reasons and
support for your opinion.
Think of reasons as the main points supporting your opinion. Often they
answer the question “Why do you think so?” For example, if you assert among
friends that you value a certain movie highly, one of your friends might ask,
“Why do you like it so much?” And you might answer, “Because it has
challenging ideas, unusual camera work, and memorable acting.”
Similarly, you might oppose restrictions on students’ use of offensive language
at your college because such restrictions would make students reluctant to
enter into frank debates, because offensive speech is hard to define, and
because restrictions violate the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.
These “because phrases” are your reasons.
Adapted from The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing
17. GENERATING “REASONS” WITH
FREECASH
Often, we know how we feel, but sometimes we don’t know exactly why we feel
the way we do. This makes it hard to come up with reasons to support our
opinions. Sometimes, when we think about an issue, we realize that we have
an opinion that someone else gave us, or an opinion that is popular because it
is traditional.
Generating reasons by investigating an issue helps us understand how or why
we support an opinion. It helps to keep an open mind while doing this exercise.
If nothing else, arguing both sides helps us understand other opinions so we
can argue against them.
FREECASH is a tool that can sometimes help us think through an issue
18. FREECASH
F= Freedom, Fairness, Legal ity, Human Rights,
Social Justice
R = Rel igion, Moral ity, Ethics
E = Economics, Monetary Issues, Finances,
Expenses
E = Environment (types of environments = natural,
rural , urban, workplace, home, school , etc. )
C = Convenience, Comfor t
A = Appearance, Aesthetics
S = Safety, Security
H = Health, Well Being (types of health =
individual, societal, mental , physical, emotional ,
or spiritual. )
19. IS IT RIGHT (HONORABLE, MORAL, FAIR) THAT
EDDARD STARK CUT S OFF GARED’S HEAD?
Yes, Stark should have
cut of f his head!
F: I t was fai r : Gared knew the
consequences of deser t ing
his post
R:
E
E
C
A
S: Gared was responsible for
the safety and securi ty of
the people of the kingdom.
He fai led to do his duty.
H
No, Stark had no right
to cut of f his head.
F: Gared should have been
free to choose to leave the
n i g h t ’s wat c h .
R: It is moral ly wrong to
deprive a person of l i fe
E
E
C
A
S
H
20. IN-CLASS WRITING:
Pick an issue to brainstorm with
FREECASH
You may use one of those we discussed
in class, or you may pick another topic
that suits the writing exercise.
21. FREECASH
1. Is it right (honorable, moral, fair) that
Eddard Stark cuts off Gared’s head?
2. Is it fair that Eddard Stark brings Jon
home to be raised by his wife,
Catelyn?
3. Is it fair that Arya is forced to do
needle point when she really wants to
practice with the boys?
4. Is incest wrong?
22. FREECASH
F= Freedom, Fairness, Legal ity, Human Rights,
Social Justice
R = Rel igion, Moral ity, Ethics
E = Economics, Monetary Issues, Finances,
Expenses
E = Environment (types of environments = natural,
rural , urban, workplace, home, school , etc. )
C = Convenience, Comfor t
A = Appearance, Aesthetics
S = Safety, Security
H = Health, Well Being (types of health =
individual, societal, mental , physical, emotional ,
or spiritual. )
23. These points
(?/15) wi l l be
added to your
par ticipation
grade score.
They wi l l also
be used to
determine
your posi tion
for choosing
your GOT
character.
CONTEST 2
EACH OF THE FIVE QUESTIONS
IS WORTH THREE POINTS
24. CONTEST #2
Q 1. What happens to Wi l l , the point of view
character f rom the prologue?
a. He eats a poisonous mushroom and
hal lucinates the rest of the book
b. He is ki l led by snow zombies
c. He becomes a high school Spanish
teacher and begins a glee club
d. Tr i c k q u e s t i o n ! H i s n ame i s n ’ t Wi l l
Q 2. Wh a t i s t h e S t a r k f ami l y ’ s s ymb o l ?
a. Di rewol f
b. A crest wi th a l ion, eagle, badger, and
snake inter twined around an H
c. Spar row
d. Crow
Q 3. What is Needle?
a. Brain surger y that they give Bran whi le
h e ’ s i n a c oma
b. The tower that Bran fal ls f rom
c. B r a n ’ s d i r ewo l f
d. The sword that Jon gives Ar ya
Q 4. Wh o t e l l s B r a n t h a t “ w i n t e r i s
c omi n g ” ?
a.Jaime— r ight before he throws
Bran f rom the tower
b.Aslan, in warning of the coming
of the Whi te Wi tch
c.A three- e y e d c r ow w h i l e h e ’ s i n a
coma
d.Tyr ion, i n r e f e r e n c e t o B r a n ’ s
matur ing
Q 5. When do the dragon eggs
hatch?
a. When King Rober t orders an
assassinat ion on Daener ys
b. When Daener ys burns Mi r r i al ive
c. When Hagr id puts them in the
f i replace
d. When Daener ys si ts on them to
keep them warm
26. HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I THINK UNTIL I SEE WHAT
I SAY?
- -E.M. FORSTER
Each text we study will provide material for response writing called a
QHQ (Question-Hypothesis-Question). The QHQ requires students to have
second thoughts, that is, to think again about questions that arise
during their reading and to write about questions that are meaningful to
them.
Begin your QHQ by formulating some question you have about some
aspect of the reading. The first question in the QHQ may be one
sentence or longer, but its function is to frame your QHQ writing. A
student might start with a question like, “Why does Gared run away
instead of returning to the wall? Or, “Why is Catelyn so mean to Jon?” A
student might even write, “Why am I having so much trouble
understanding this story?”
27. After you pose your initial question, focus on a close reading of the text
in search of a hypothesis. This hypothesis section comprises the body of
your text. The student who asked about Gared might refer to passages
about the wall in the text, comparing and contrasting them to other
instances of fear or desertion with which he or she is familiar. The
student who asked about Catelyn might connect passages associated
with her relationship to Eddard. The student who struggled to understand
the text might explore those passages whose meanings were obscure or
difficult to understand, connecting them to other novels and/or cultural
texts. Use textual evidence to demonstrate why you believe you have
found an answer.
After carefully exploring your initial question (250-
400 words), put forward another question, one that
has sprung from your hypothesis. This will be the
final sentence of your QHQ and will provide a base
for further reflection into the text.
28. The QHQ is designed to help you formulate your response to the texts we study
into clearly defined questions and hypotheses that can be used as a basis for
both class discussion and longer papers. The QHQ can be relatively informal
but should demonstrate a thoughtful approach to the material. While your
responses need to be organized and coherent, because you will sharing them
in class, the ideas they present may be preliminary and exploratory.
Remember, a QHQ is not a summary or a report—it is an original, thoughtful
response to what you have read. All QHQs should be posted on the website the
by 5 pm the evening before the class for which they are due. This will give both
me and other students time to ponder your ideas and think about appropriate
responses. Moreover, this sharing of material should provide plenty of fodder
for essays. Even though you have posted your QHQ, you should bring a copy of
it to class in order to share your thoughts and insights and to stimulate class
discussion.
29. HOMEWORK
Read: A Game of Thrones
through page 200.
Post #2: Use the ideas you
generated with the FREECASH
method to write paragraphs
about two (or more) sides of one
issue.
Post #3: QHQ: A Game of
Thrones: from pages 0-200
Study vocabulary list #2 (Test
next class)
