1. Make up last week's quiz before or after class.
2. Journal writing. Prompt: Write a descriptive paragraph about a 9/11 event or commemoration without employing any first-person pronouns. The tragedy was not about me, me, me or my, my, my feelings; it was about the murdered.
3. Muster and administrivia. A reminder always to keep paper copies of all college administrivia in a folder.
5. Sample essay: Ray Bradbury's "Summer Rituals," an excerpt from Dandelion Wine. Consider the introduction, esp. the matter of Baptists. Does the intro. tell you anything about Ray Bradbury? Does if reflect a bias in the unknown scrivener who wrote the introduction?
Consider the first paragraph, which consists of only two sentences. "Ritual" is employed four times; "rituals" once. What does this emphasis on the word suggest to you?
Read "Summer Rituals" before the next class meeting.
6. A door prize!
7. Return last week's quiz. The rules:
A. No discussion until next class period
B. No comparisons with someone else's paper -- the old instructor will be please to talk with you about your paper, not someone else's.
C. Argue you case from proof, not from emotion.
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