Today we followed up on the Joan Didion questions, and I have asked you to read the article, The Stealing Never Stops for homework. Once you read it, please write a paragraph explaining how Joan Didion has influenced younger writers, as discussed in the article. In contrast to the title of this post, the intent here is not to encourage you to plagiarize, but rather to promote the idea that you can model your own writing after that of great writers. If you are interested in the book I was telling you about in class, you can find out more here.
We also reviewed the grammatical errors worksheets, and spoke about sentence fragments and the Oxford comma - people everywhere must be so sad to miss out on our class!
Next day, we will have our 50 minute in-class rhetorical analysis, and then move on to the beginning of our education unit.
Don't forget your $17 to bring to Lia or Stephanie this week or next.
The Mentalist is on ... must run.
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