Day 4

Tues. Jan. 19

• English lesson: Expanding our active vocabulary

• Make observations on beginnings of place essays

• Share examples of abstract and concrete

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Homework

➤ Write down some new words and phrases in your notebook

Between now and next class, write down in your notebook a few words or phrases you notice around you (in class discussions, lectures, readings, etc.) that you think you might want to use in the future — words or phrase you’d like to incorporate into your active vocabulary.

Write down no more than 10. Bring your notebook and be ready to share next class.

➤ Read your classmate’s Place essay, write observations

Read your classmate’s Place essay and write ten observations — 10 sentences beginning with the phrase “I notice…” Upload your observations as a .doc or .docx file to the folder “Observations on Place Essay” on Box. Please also print three copies of your observations and bring them to next class.

➤ Play the card game

Do the following five times:

1. Draw five cards

2. Choose three of the five cards you think “go together” for some reason

3. Arrange those three cards in an order: decide which one goes first, second, and third

4. Type the three-item list you’ve created in a Word document

After you’ve done this five times you should have five lists of three items each. Upload your observations as a .doc or .docx file to the folder “Card Game” on Box. (I’ve already done this — check the box folder to see what mine looks like.)

Please print three copies of your document and bring them to next class.

➤ Reading

Read Yiyun Li’s “Orange Crush.”

As you read, notice contrasts. Be ready to share some examples of contrasts you noticed next class.

Also, notice: How Yiyun Li use concrete and abstract language to complement each other?