Guilty as charged. “Add more detail.” How many times have I written this on a student’s paper and expected them to just add more details, elaborate and improve their writing? Details are also an essential component throughout the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The problem is that most teachers are not sure how to model and guide students. Rozlyn Linder solves this problem for teachers of writing with strategies, mentor texts and anchor charts in The Big Book of Detail.
At first glance, the book welcomes the reader with color coordinated chapters, emphasizing a different aspect of writing details. Chapters include:
The Power of Details
Details that Describe
Details that Dance
Details that Convince
Details that Inform
Details that
This entails working on the Seven Steps to Writing Success will be taught twice a week and writing tasks will also be included during literacy groups. Sizzling Starts and recounts will be the focus text in term one. Narrative and creative writing will be taught too and in both cases the emphasis will be on creating strong sentences with good structure. The lesson format for sizzling starts and narrative/creative writing will be explicit teaching to the whole class. My role as a teacher will be to identify the student’s level and provide appropriate feedback to support to move students toward the next level.
Katherine Bomer says, “words are the food and the water; the sun, soil, and rain; the fuel and the fortune; the only thing that makes writing, writing” (Bomer, 2010, p.67). By adding detailed voice, and descriptive words will strengthen Melody’s writing a lot. Melody is a strong writer and she could go very far within the writing I wish I could hear more to what she has to say. Integrating detail and the students voice within writing is to give more freedom to the structure and ask more open-ended question to help the student think deeply and connect it from the heart more. Another way to help the student more would to be to fill out the writing more and add layers and structure
Stephen King, in his chapter titled “Toolbox” in On Writing, aims to convince the struggling writer that taking simple steps to organize a metaphorical box of writing tools will improve their writing. He does so through the use of organization, substance, and style and by appealing to his audience with logical examples to support his claims. “Toolbox” is, in summary, a crash course given by King on writing improvement. He depicts the fundamentals of good writing as levels of a toolbox then demonstrates how and when each writing tool should be used (King 106-107). The chapter is a veritable response to the question, “How can I improve my writing?” which one can imagine King is routinely asked as a world-renowned author. He already enjoyed an immensely successful writing career when Hodder published On Writing in 2012, so King wrote the chapter “Toolbox” as literary advice to fellow writers by drawing from his own success (“Stephen King”).
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster is a book that explains there is more to literature than just a few words on a paper or a few pages in a book. Thomas Foster’s book portrays a relatable message to a wide based audience. This book is relatable for two reasons, the way it is written and the examples it uses. The book is written in a conversational manner, as if the reader was in a group discussion about books and writing. As for the examples, they are informative, descriptive, relative, and entertaining.
Guilt, according to the Oxford dictionary, can be described as a feeling of responsibility and remorse for a crime committed or failure in an obligation. In Markus Zusak's novel, The book thief, there is an overwhelming amount of guilt experienced by the characters. Guilt is a powerful emotion which can cause one to become unhappy and despondent. Guilt can also be channelled positively to help others, although not all characters are capable of doing so. Analyzing the different characters in the book, Michael Holtzapfel, Hans Hubermann and Liesel Meminger, we will be able to ascertain how they were able to deal with the various forms of guilt that they felt.
Jaylnn Helms Mrs.Eddins English 2 Honors March 12, 2024 GUILT AND PUNISHMENT IN BOOK THIEF Guilt is like a disease that plagues people's thoughts until it gets too much to handle. “Why did I do that?”, “Why him, not me?”. Guilt can directly affect characters, in this book, it leads to punishment and sorrow for Leisel, Max, Michael, and others. Events in the Holocaust and people's deaths cause certain characters to have survivor guilt and self-punishment.
Guilt is like a disease that plagues your thoughts, until it gets to much too handle. Why did I do that? Why had I not done something? Why him, not me? Guilt is a theme in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, from important characters, like Liesl's guilt for not telling her foster mother Ilsa Hubermann, that she loved her, to minor characters, like Michael Holtzapfel hanging himself over the fact that he survived Stalingrad, but his brother didn’t. Guilt directly affects the characters, changed how the story goes, and the tone of the story and the mood reader.
Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense; real or imagined, and affects normal people everyday at various stages of life. When loved ones and those that are close pass away, it is not uncommon for those left behind to experience feelings of accountability known as survivor’s guilt. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, survivor’s guilt can be identified in three main characters: Liesel, Max, and Hans, and creates profound emotional and behavioral effects on these characters throughout the novel. The debut of survivor’s guilt appears after the death of Liesel Meminger’s little brother, Werner.
Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague
The world is full of hypocrites and in the story “The Pardoner’s Tale”, Chaucer writes about a man who is living a life of sin. The Pardoner’s tale is an epologia of a pardoner who has the power from the church to forgive others for their sins but makes a living out of lying and tricking his audience. Throughout the Pardoner’s Tale he preaches about greed, drinking, blasphemy, and gambling but in the Pardoner’s Prologue he admits to committing these sins himself. The pardoner is really just a 14th century con artist who makes a living by his own hypocrisy.
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," a relatively straightforward satirical and anti-capitalist view of the church, contrasts motifs of sin with the salvational properties of religion to draw out the complex self-loathing of the emasculated Pardoner. In particular, Chaucer concentrates on the Pardoner's references to the evils of alcohol, gambling, blasphemy, and money, which aim not only to condemn his listeners and unbuckle their purses, but to elicit their wrath and expose his eunuchism.
After reading Spunk and Bite, my writing skill level has increased. I expected this book to showcase the basics of writing a contemporary style but instead it has highlighted some important details. Each chapter has influenced my skills into a positive direction. I’ve been persuaded to acquire a daily word of the day message via email to improve my vocabulary. What it found helpful in Spunk and Bite were the do’s and don’ts in each guide.
The nineteen-chapter, two part book starts off with a brief introduction. This introduction sets up the first part of the book, where the
The plot is about a man who wants to murder another man but doesn't want to be caught and punished. We have to assume that he intends to commit a perfect crime, even though the narrator does not say as much until after he commits it and hides the body under the floor boards. The narrator spends a great deal of time talking about how he looked in on the old man every night and focuses on details leading up to the actual murder, but the important feature is that he wants to get by with a murder. We will tend to suspect that he is a dependent on this older man and has something to gain from killing him. The victim is probably not his father, but he could be the narrator's uncle, and the narrator might stand to inherit the house and some money.
How much can one person’s life have on an individual? In “Crime and Punishment” there is a bond that is presented between the characters of Raskolnikov and Sonia which is not demonstrated to the same degree within others. Both of them share having to live up to the guilt of their actions and find comfort in accepting each other's flaws. With Raskolnikov it is this acceptance that leads him to confess his crime and with Sonia it is what drives her to move to Siberia to be with the person who appreciates her the most. The bond between the two characters reflects how forgiveness is expressed in deep relationships.