Class 2

EWRT 2

What do you say when you are comforting a grammar Nazi?

What do you say when you are comforting a grammar Nazi?

There, their, they’re. It will all be ok….

Vocabulary Test #1A few haikuDiscussion: A Game of ThronesArguing with FREECASHIn-class writingContest: ContentHow to write a QHQ

AGENDA

25 points possible

VOCABULARY TEST 1YOU NEED A PIECE OF

PAPER AND A WRITING UTENSIL

A. amethyst

B. bailey

C. baluster

D. barbican

E. caparison

F. coffer

G. coif

H. crannog

I. crenel

R. gorget

S. hauberk

T. hummock

U. Insipid

V. islet

W. lithe

X. pommel

Y. puissant

Z. rondel

VOCABULARY TEST #1YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES TO COMPLETE THE

EXAM

J. crofterK. cursory L. damaskM. deft N. doublet O. doughty P. eyrie Q. gibbet

Using your sisterTo gain the power to rule;Evil within love

Fur as white as snowon an emblem of gray hide;The outcasted Ghost.

STUDENT HAIKU

The King’s Hand is DeadA Poisoned Drink Could it Be?Cersei’s Depraved Plot

For the family,I will marry creepy gold.Winter is coming.

Can you support your ideas and opinions?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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Clear, cold, summer ends.Father does his tyrant job.Bran learns his lesson.

The cold approaches.Dead bodies litter the ground.The Others are here.

EDDARD STARK

WHAT DO YOU SAY?

Is it right (honorable, moral, fair) that Eddard Stark cuts off Gared’s head?

His name is Jon SnowThe book uses the term bastardGhost is his dire wolf.

Roaring flames, young squiresDrunken summerwine chatter;O! The Bastard’s life!

JON SNOW

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.

Oh tomboy Arya,Back to your needle and thread!Swords are not for girls.

ARYA STARK

Arya loathes hersummer sewing circle -- yetcovets her needle.

Is it fair that Arya is forced to do needle point when she really wants to practice with the boys?

Bran knows a secretDoes not allow him to seeWanted dead or alive?.

Awake the dragonThe dragon’s sister calls himThe throne room calls him

The blood line is pure,but the heart is corrupted.It needs salvation.

SIBLINGS AND SEX

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Jaime and Cersei have a sexual relationship.Daenerys assumed she would marry her brother. Is incest wrong?

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

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

FREECASH

F= Freedom, Fairness, Legality, Human Rights, Social Justice

R = Religion, Morality, EthicsE = Economics, Monetary Issues, Finances,

ExpensesE = Environment (types of environments =

natural, rural, urban, workplace, home, school, etc.)

C = Convenience, Comfort A = Appearance, Aesthetics S = Safety, SecurityH = Health, Well Being (types of health =

individual, societal, mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual.)

IS IT RIGHT (HONORABLE, MORAL, FAIR) THAT EDDARD STARK CUTS OFF GARED’S HEAD?

Yes, Stark should have cut off his head!

F: It was fair: Gared knew the consequences of deserting his post

R: EECAS: Gared was responsible

for the safety and security of the people of the kingdom. He failed to do his duty.

H

No, Stark had no right to cut of his head.

F: Gared should have been free to choose to leave the night’s watch.

R: It is morally wrong to deprive a person of life

EECASH

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.

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?

FREECASH

FREECASH

F= Freedom, Fairness, Legality, Human Rights, Social Justice

R = Religion, Morality, EthicsE = Economics, Monetary Issues, Finances,

ExpensesE = Environment (types of environments =

natural, rural, urban, workplace, home, school, etc.)

C = Convenience, Comfort A = Appearance, Aesthetics S = Safety, SecurityH = Health, Well Being (types of health =

individual, societal, mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual.)

These points (?/15) will be added to your participation grade score. They will also be used to determine your position for choosing your GOT character.

CONTEST 2EACH OF THE FIVE

QUESTIONS IS WORTH THREE POINTS

Q 1. What happens to Will, the point of view character from the prologue? a. He eats a poisonous mushroom and

hallucinates the rest of the book b. He is kil led by snow zombies c. He becomes a high school Spanish

teacher and begins a glee club d. Trick question! His name isn’t Will

Q 2. What is the Stark family’s symbol? e. Direwolf f. A crest with a l ion, eagle, badger,

and snake intertwined around an H g. Sparrow h. Crow

Q 3. What is Needle? i. Brain surgery that they give Bran

while he’s in a coma j. The tower that Bran falls from k. Bran’s direwolf l. The sword that Jon gives Arya

Q 4. Who tel ls Bran that “winter is coming”? a.Jaime—right before he throws

Bran from the tower b.Aslan, in warning of the

coming of the White Witch c.A three-eyed crow while he’s in

a coma d.Eddard, in reference to Bran’s

maturing

Q 5. When do the dragon eggs hatch? e. When King Robert orders an

assassination on Daenerys f. When Daenerys burns Mirr i

al ive g. When Hagrid puts them in the

fi replace h. When Daenerys sits on them

to keep them warm

CONTEST #2

THE QHQThinking about writing

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?”

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.

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.

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)

HOMEWORK