Post date: Sep 21, 2011 3:22:14 PM
1A: Work on Academy of Reading
2: Add 500 words to your essay. The title for this new essay is Tragic Hero 2, long version
This is a three-step process. Yesterday we did step 1: Get something written. Today we are doing step 2: Add stuff to the something you wrote. Tomorrow we will do step 3: Get rid of the wordy or awkward or unnecessary parts of the essay.
Today's goal in adding 500 words is to restate ideas. Try writing different versions of the sentences you have already written. Try adding details that are currently not present. This new essay is NOT likely to be a better essay. This new essay is likely to be a worse essay--wordy, disconnected, distracted--but some of what you write WILL be better, will be more organized, will be more focused. You will have a more efficient, more eloquent way of saying what you want to say.
Try writing new versions of your sentences.
Try choosing words that are more precise.
Try doing this: No two sentences can start with the same word.