Henry David Thoreau quote - Library Way - NY City

The end point for our study of Dear America is that you are going to end up writing an essay for this text. Your text response essay will need to discuss:

- how the text constructs meaning
- how a text conveys ideas and values
- how a text is open to a range of interpretations

(Beardwood, 09, p.67).

Our learning/study of the text is about preparing for this. It is about getting to know the text well so that you will develop ideas and points of view about it that can be discussed in an essay.

Of course, to be able to discuss one's ideas and points of view in an essay one needs to have strategies and skills for approaching essay writing. This blogspace will discuss what an essay is, ways one can approach writing an essay and the little tips and tricks that one can use to help prepare for writing essays under SAC and exam conditions.



Tuesday, February 22, 2011

'Sandy' Kempner

'We are here because we think this is where we must fight to stop communist threat. But not having gained momentum in conquering this country could bowl us out of Asia altogether and perhaps out of existence.' (Page 207)

'But we were given no choice and we must fight where the confrontation is, despite its cost, infeasibility, and possibility illegality, and physical and mental toll upon the participants’. (Page 207)

'By day we treat their ills and fix up their children and deliver their babies; by night, if we receive fire from the general direction of their hamlet, fire generally will reach them, albeit not intentionally.' (Page 114)

'We have two hands, both of which know what the other is doing but does the opposite anyway.' (Page 114)

'They finally left me sicker than before and with a medal I never wanted anyway.' (Page 183)

By Zoe and Kim

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