Monday, February 24th

Pharrell Williams feels us....

Objectives:

• Understand when to quote vs. italicize a title
• Write a solid draft or your lit analysis essay that addresses the essay prompt

Starter:  Read this handout on when to quote vs. italicize titles.  Then, in your google doc of starters, answer these questions:

• Did this handout help cement this grammar rule for you?
• Would you quote or italicize The Durango Herald?
• Would you quote or italicize The Catastrophe of Success?
• Would you quote or italicize The Stranger?
• When do you underline titles?

Agenda
1. Announcements

• Honors Gatsby seminar this Friday during third period
• Honors independent study meeting on Wednesday in Jessica's room
• Assignments for the week
• Double space your essay
• Print your final draft and attach the TWO completed peer critique forms to it on Wednesday (-5 points on your essay grade if these)
• check out the list of helpful resources at the bottom of this blog entry

2. Review the Essay Question:
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Does happiness really just mean living a pleasant life where your primary goal is to enjoy yourself? Is the pleasant life really the ultimate goal and the true sign of a purposeful, well-lived life? What about good health, wisdom, meaning in life, spirituality, creativity, authenticity, individuality, giving back to community, ambition, success, leaving a legacy beyond your time in a place or in a lifetime, etc.?

Select one factor (not necessarily from the list above) that you see as a marker of a well-lived life. Use evidence from at least one piece of fiction that we’ve read and one piece of nonfiction to back up your claims.  See the list of fiction and nonfiction sources we’ve covered in this project.  If you would like to also pull from a resource beyond the sources we’ve studied as a class, please ask Ashley for approval.

3. Work time: Write your essay draft. Must be ready for critique tomorrow!

 Resource for the lit analysis

• Examples of Introducing Quotes and Block Indentation with prose and poems
• Literary Analysis Essay prompt/student example/tips/rubric
• Parenthetical Documentation and Works Cited Page
  
• Setting up quotes (refresher!)
  
• Owl at Purdue's Writing Lab on Block Quotes (for quotes that are 4 lines or longer)
• Titles: Quotes or Italics?
• Passive Voice 
• How to write concisely (AKA: Streamlining)