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The Lost Tools of Writing – Homework due Week 6 - September 20, 2013Tutor: Mrs. Jeffries (941-355-3101 home) (941-351-5858 work) (941-360-8298 cell)Homework Assignment due September 20, 2013Homework - Part 1 – The Lost Tools of Writing: Lesson Two – Invention – This week’s Lost Tools of Writing assignment is threefold: 1) Create an issue for your next essay based on Crispin: the Cross of Lead. 2) Complete Introduction to the Five Common Topics, Student Workbook pages 11 and 12. 3) Create a new ANI chart that has a minimum of 15 items on each column of your ANI chart. Bring you new issue and ANI chart to class next week.Note to the busy mom: The following instructions were explained during class. They are offered here for those moms whose time is limited… it will take less than 10 minutes to read this synopsis, thereby relieving yourself of studying the actual lesson. It is also offered as a review for any student that might benefit as he prepares his new issue and ANI chart based on the book, Crispin: the Cross of LeadWe can discover additional information for our essays by asking questions and recording our discoveries on our ANI chart. These new discoveries will help you come up with more ideas than you came up with when you listed ten affirmative, ten negative, and ten interesting things on your first ANI chart. Questions are our friends when it comes to overcoming the first challenge to writing: coming up with something to say. In fact, the beginning of every paper is the question you ask! Here is how to get more ideas.There are five very powerful questions you can ask to gather ideas, information, and insights for your essays. These five questions are called “topics” because they are five “places” you can go to discover more information:Topic of Invention # 1 – DefinitionDefine your chosen character. Ask yourself something like, “Who is Bear?” (or whoever you have named in your issue (Whether question). Determine who your person really is, or what kind of a person he is … his mind… his physical stature… his will… his personality… his character… his station in life (nobility/peasant)… his background… education… or lack thereof… whatever helps you define him. For example: Bear seems to have two natures: gentle/sweet and vicious brute… he was a former monk… a jester… a slave owner… a trickster… a freedom fighter. List some of your discoveries to your ANI chart in the appropriate ic of Invention # 2 – ComparisonAsk a question that compares your character to another. Some examples: How is Bear like Crispin? … How is Crispin like Lord Furnival? … How was Bear like the priest? … How are Bear and Crispin NOT alike? You can compare your character to anyone, whether it is a character in the book or someone in history. You can compare anything with anything, or anyone with anyone. Write some of your discoveries on your ANI chart in the appropriate ic of Invention # 3 – CircumstanceAsk yourself what is happening in the place that pertains to your issue (whether question).Example: Black plague (Great Morality)… Feudalism… death of Asta… Peasant’s Revolt…The role of religion in the life of the people of the Middle Ages. Add some of your discoveries to your ANI chart in the appropriate ic of Invention # 4 – RelationAsk how your character is related to other characters. Remember it doesn’t have to be a blood relative like, “How is Crispin related to Lord Furnival?” There are also human relationships: Example: How is Crispin related to the steward of the manor… How is Bear related to Crispin… . Examine the causes of their relationships. Not just relationships between people, but relationship between events. What was the relationship between Asta’s death and Crispin meeting Bear? Ask cause and effects question related to YOUR issue. Cause and effect questions are very powerful. Why? Every story ever written is based on cause and effect relationships. If you start to examine the causes, you are entering into the very nature of the story itself. Add some of your discoveries to your ANI chart in the appropriate ic of Invention # 5 – AuthorityAsk who says what about your character or your issue. Example: Who says what about Crispin. The Steward says something entirely different than the priest or the locals. If there are witnesses or judges (or people acting like witnesses or judges), what do they say. Figure out what is legitimate. Ask if your character did the honorable thing, or not.Also ask how You do not have to be an expert with these Five Common Topics. This is just our first attempt to use them… By using them even at a basic level, your ANI chart – your coming up with something to say – just got stronger!Please bring your issue and your ANI chart to class with you next week.Please see “Terms… in your Own Words” on the next pagePart 2 – List of TermsNote: This is a revised list of terms the student should be familiar with and be able to explain in his own words. This week’s words are in bold. Please use the Term Sheet that is forwarded with the homework each week, ignoring the prior master list. There will be an informal quiz/game on these terms next week. We were unable to have the quiz/game last week due to a very wonderful presentation by personal historian, writer and storyteller Eddie Adelman, who spoke on the subject of story writing. A big “Thank You” to Mrs. Gillett for arranging his visit.TERMS… in your own words(In the order you will learn them)(For more formal definition of these terms, see LTW Glossary in back of both the Teacher’s Guide and the Student Workbook)Wordsnoun - Words are the method we use to share our thoughts with othersCanonnoun - An established rule or principle – or – a standard or model to judge by (Canon of Scripture)Compositionnoun – the manner in which parts (words) of a thing (essay) are put together Inventionnoun - How to come up with something to sayArrangementnoun - How to select, sort and organize your ideasElocutionnoun - How we express our thoughts in the best possible wayExpositionnoun- Statement of the main points in an essay or speechEnumerationnoun- Statement of the number of reasons you use to support your thesisIssuenoun - A point of debate or a point of controversy (This is your “whether” question)Thesisnoun - A statement put forth for discussion (We change “whether” question to a statement)Sortverb – to separate and arrange by kindRudimentaryadjective - very imperfectly developed; fundamental The following terms are new for this week:Definitionnoun – stating unique qualities of your characterComparisonnoun – how characters are similar and how are they differentCircumstancenoun – what is happening at the time/place of your issueRelationnoun – questions about cause and effectAuthoritynoun – Who says what about your subject? Please see Spelling Words on the next pageList 3 – Spelling Words Words in bold are new this week.Note: there will be an informal quiz/game on these spelling words next weekOur spelling list is taken from an eighth grade examination for Bullitt County Schools one-room school house, November 1912exaggerateverbto enlarge beyond the bounds of truth; to overstateincentivenounsomething that encourages someone to work harderconscious adjknowing or being aware of somethingchandeliernouna branched lighting fixture, usually suspended from a ceilingacronymnouna word formed from the beginning letter(s) of most of the words ofa phrase or compound term. Example: ANI chart or I.M.A.G.E.patientnounan individual under medical treatmentadj trials without complaintpotentialnounsomething that can develop or become actual (He has potential.)adjcapable of becoming real (He is a potential Presidential candidate)creaturenouna created beingparticipateverbto take part in something in common with othersauthenticadjbeing really what it seems to bebequeathverbto say in a will that your property will be given to a person or organizationverbto give knowledge to younger people as part of their historydiminishverbto lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; to make lessgenuineadjactual, real, or true; not false or fakevinegarnouna sour liquid used to flavor or preserve foods or to clean thingsincidentnoun1. an unexpected, usually unpleasant thing that happens2. an event that is likely to cause serious problems in relationsbetween countries ................
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