Pun Intended: Class Log & Discussions: December 2007

"It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.'

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut the scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declaritive sentence I had written."

- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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December 2007

December 17, 2007

Final Exam Review

This is the study guide for the final in my class.

It will cover short stories, poetry, persuasive writing, Bloom's Taxonomy, Johnny Tremain, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Antigone, some basic class procedures... and I think that's all we've done. All necessary information should be in your binder, and do the crossword puzzle I gave out in class to make sure you got it down. I am collecting the crossword puzzle for some nice padding points in case anyone needs it.

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