The following writing prompt is a useful rhetorical strategy in inventing material for a subject, and the questions can be revisited by those looking to find ways to develop their writing by asking of the main question, what other questions may I answer in answering the main question.
We will do this exercise in-class, but use this strategy as you revise your Essay 1 for workshop on Thursday.
Take this strategy, as well, to your Tutoring Session and go see what you can come up with by talking over the questions with your tutor!
Do you remember where you were when a historical event happened?*
o What was the event?
o What were you doing?
o Where were you?
o What was your initial reaction? Describe what you did, how you felt…
o What were you thinking?
o How did this even change your thinking?
o What were other people doing? How did they react?
Look at how the main question can be “fleshed out” into multiple questions. These smaller questions, then, are what you as a student can understand as “interpreting the question” so that you can have work on a developed response that goes beyond just answering the question quickly.
HOMEWORK for Thursday, 2/26 (Be on time for class):
2 copies of your Essay 1 draft (one for me, one for a peer from our class to take home and type a considerate response to).
o Complete draft, with a minimum of 2 complete pages of story…
o Typed and double-spaced, 12-point font
o Creative title that also informs us to the focus of narrative
o Drafts factor into the essay grade…
o Workshop will consist of writing a letter answering a couple of questions, nothing too daunting for your brilliant minds. Take this opportunity to get very valuable feedback.
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