Due January 16 (FIX-ITs 15, 16, 17)

FIX-ITs 15, 16, 17

Week 15 

She scrunched back into her chair as far as she could since he had never lost his taste for princely, but appetizing fare Arthur politely declined the main course, sturgeon roe fricassee.  

I’ll go for just deserts he requested, eying with glee the side cart piled high with delectable tarts scones pies cobblers and cheesecakes. 

After supper, King Morton peremptorily ordered Dorinda too set up Arthur in the Golden Guestroom. Velvet carpeted the floor silk blanketed the bed. He could tell he was going too relish his palace stay. 

The next a.m., during a substantial breakfast of sturgeon roe omelet King Morton graciously insists Arthur stay at least a week. 

Week 16 

Dorinda groaned and glancing down she noticed Arthurs hind leg inadvertently touching her omelet. “Eww”, she cried, sweeping him from her plate, and accidentally hurling him against the wall. 

Oww grunted Arthur. Oops I do believe I’ve broken your leg, I’m so sorry!, Dorinda fibbed, “wish I had broken more than just your leg, she muttered inaudibly. 

Fortunately for Arthur, the palace vet knew how to set broken frog legs. It looks like it’ll be a lengthy convalescence however he informed King Morton and his daughter. Because frog’s are slow healers he’ll have to stay in the infirmary for at least a month 

What rotten luck, Dorinda thought to herself. Not only was he going to stick around but her father insisted she bring too him all his meals. Do whatever you can to make him comfortable while hes recumbent King Morton ordered. 

Week 17 

 “Cool” she cooed while wondering how to escape infirmary duty she may have to treat this slime-ball royally but she knew how to make herself a royal pain. 

Offer to read to him—stories of his choice from the palace library, the King added. Not wanting to miss a propitious opportunity Arthur first selected the story of Jephthahs daughter. 

Now you may already know this story from the 11^th chapter of the book of Judges. Although the Princess did not it seemed to Arthur apropos. 

Jephthah had made an impetuous promise to God, that if he would give him victory in battle he would sacrifice the first thing to come out of the door’s of his house when he returned. 

Due December 20 (FIX-IT 13 & 14)

FIX-ITs 13&14

Week 13 

When he was a teenager sad to say Arthur was a bit swollen-headed and pretentious. One humid afternoon in July young Arthur was riding through a forest in his fathers kingdom, seeking some shady relief from the sweltering sun. 

About halfway through the forest his horse reared up, startled, a young boy stood in the path.  “Please sir I’ve lost my way”, the boy pleaded would you kindly give me a ride out of this desolate forest 

Out of my way peasant the prince retorted, oblivious that the boy was a magician in disguise, instantly the boys voice thundered For you’re lack of compassion and courtesy, you must spend your days as a frog. 

He zapped the air and the prince found himself hoping off the saddle, and plummeting onto the ground. The magician continued “perhaps as a frog you will learn humility and gratitude for simple kindness’s people might offer you [quotation continues] 

Week 14 

You will remain in this form, until a princess bestows on you a kiss, in true kindheartedness. However if you should ever tell anyone which you really are you will be fated to frog-hood the remainder of your days”. 

The frog had born his secret for 6 long years. Having come to reside in King Mortons sequestered garden he hoped he might make friends one day with one of the princess’s who frequently wandered into the garden. 

Just his luck the one he met 1^st was Dorinda instead of Maribella. And now at the table he conjectured how he might charm the Princess. 

Unwilling to touch the frog with her own precious fingers Dorinda held her napkin between her thumb and first finger, then unceremoniously grabbed 1 of Arthurs hind legs. Depositing him on the table beside her plate. 

Due December 13 (Letter & FIX-IT 12)

LETTER
FIX-IT 12

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Assignment: Letter

Write a letter to someone you love.
Your letter must be to a real person.

Your letter must be @ least 3 paragraphs.

The required Dress-ups, Openers, and Decorations should each be indicated once in your letter. Choose the best examples. 

I am suspending the "all required IEW tools per paragraph" rule just for this assignment.

KWO, Rough Draft, and Checklist are required as always.

Be sure to use a proper letter writing format. Please check this link for help with proper friendly or personal letter formatting. 

No Banned Words (see side bar for the list)
No Contractions

Submit your indicated IEW copy to me and mail your "real" copy. Please send me a picture of you mailing the letter in its addressed, stamped envelope.  :-)

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REQUIRED DRESS-UPs, OPENERs, & DECs

ww,  bc,  ly,  QA,  SV,  asia,  #3,  #5,  #6,  ALLIT,  SIM or MET,  Q?,  Q

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Examples of KWO content to help you with YOUR brainstorming:

Weather
    Sweaters here Sunday
    Rain on Mon
    Roses happy 7Bloomed!      

    Dogs loving it
    Fido outside lots
TY 4 sweater (still use!)
       liked zigzag embroidery
       People compliment
       Never want 2 outgrow
I like class
      Kisses 4 Kate bk.
      Writing getting better
       A's on paper

      Share w/ U soon

Sister's school picture
       Silly smile
       Blinked eyes
       Teacher laughed
       Re-taking next week
Football game w/ neighbors
       Parents against kids
       P' better than expected!
       I caught pass
       Sister made touchdown
       kids won
Thanksgiving plans
         Can U come?
          Miss you
          @ least Skype
Homily @ Mass good 1!
         Priest told joke
         Gospel from Matthew
         I liked bc understood
         Had 2 explain 2 brother
         Included fav Bible verse
         Reading next Sun.'s B4 Mass
         Easier to follow
Learning to kayak
         Fell in 2X
         Water not deep
         Dad took picture
         Will post on FB
         Practiced again yesterday
         River pretty & clam
         Heron, Fish, Dragonflies

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Week 12 

Princess Dorinda reluctantly slank to the door and opened it a crack just wide enough for the frog to squeeze through. I guess you can come in she sighed audibly. 

Hopping, she let him traipse behind her to the resplendent dinning hall. “Thank you for you’re hospitality sire I’m Arthur,” the frog introduced himself. 

Dorinda, her father commanded Pick Arthur up and let him feast unstintingly from you’re golden plate. Yuck I won’t touch another bite she moaned again. “Be that as it may—a promise is a promise,” King Morton reminded him. 

Now, what Dorinda Maribella and King Morton did not divine was that Arthur was not truely a frog, but a prince! You may have surmised this all ready but they hadnt read any fairy tales lately. 

Due December 6 (Chiasmus & FIX-IT 11)

CHIASMUS
FIX-IT 11

Our 3 paragraph essay assignment is a really awesome one! 
Using the prompt chosen in class, create a story and be sure to include a chiasmus.  You may use the chiasmus as an essay prompt or not -- your choice! 

One chiasmus per essay - not per paragraph. 

Please check the notes below to help you remember what a chiasmus is. Once you have mastered this literary device, you will find yourself thinking of them all the time. They are are the ultimate word play! 

Along with the required 1 chiasmus per essay, here are the other requirements for each paragraph:

A chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which a sentence or phrase is followed by a sentence or phrase that reverses the structure and order of the first one in order to produce an artistic effect.

Required:

1 Chiasmus in your essay

w/w                                 
bc                                         
ly                            
asia
SV
QA

2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7

1 different DEC per paragraph

Topic/Clincher  

Examples:

Let us preach what we practice and     

let us practice what we preach.

If you fail to plan,
then you plan to fail.

People don't care what you know
Until they know that you care.

God doesn't call the able;
He enables the called.

The person who is too big for a small job
is too small for a big job.

You can give without loving
but you can't love without giving.

But many that are first shall be last,
And many that are last shall be first.  (Matthew 19:30)

Live simply so that others may simply live.  (often attributed to Gandhi)

Here are some more examples with more detailed bolding with colors to further clarify the chiasmus pattern.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink,
whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.  Socrates (5th Century BC)

Do I love you because you're beautiful? 
Or are you beautiful because I love you?  (Oscar Hammerstein)

When the going gets tough, 
the tough get going!

Ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country. (JFK)

Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.  (JFK)

Mankind must put an end to war
or war will put an end to mankind.  (JFK)

Note: Some rhetorical glossaries distinguish between chiasmus (diagonal arrangement of ideas and grammar) and antimetabole (diagonal arrangement of exact words). We are not going to make the distinction. We will use the term "chiasmus" for both.

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Week 11 

Dorinda may have had her deficiencies but she did tell the truth when asked directly “A frog”. “What did he want”?  

(Now you and me might have trouble with King Mortons rejoinder—why didn’t he think it unusual that a frog would knock at the castle door? but remember, this is a fairy tale which is allowed to be bizarre. 

Gushing tears yet again which Dorinda could expediently turn on and off like a faucet she sobbed the story of the frogs rescue of her ball, and the promises she had foolishly made. 

Surely you wouldn’t make me like touch that slimy, old thing? she groaned piteously. 

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Due November 29 (Analogy & FIX-IT #9 & #10)

ANALOGY
FIX-IT 9 and 10

REQUIRED DRESS-UPs:
w/w
bc
asia
ly
QA
SV

OPENERs:
2
3
4 (extra credit)
5
6
7 (extra credit)

1 different DEC per paragraph

Pick one of the following similes (that contain analogies) and then write a 3-paragraph  essay about it.

• Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race and the one who stops moving forward loses.

• Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

• The way a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes.

• Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our comfort zone.

• Rude people are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard.

OR

Use one of these as inspiration for your 3-paragraph essay. You may use the exact wording of the sentence in your essay.

1.  She tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.

2.  The snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.

3.  In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun.

4.  He was utterly absorbed by the curious experience that still clung to him like a garment.

5.  She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop. 

6. The water made a sound like kittens lapping.

7. She inched over her own thoughts like a measuring worm.

Week 9 

“Oh yes benevolent frog!” (Notice that in fairy tales, character’s don’t have great curiosity about such oddities as talking frogs—or, maybe Dorinda was to self-centered to think about any one other than her. 

“I’ll gladly do so, with one stipulation the frog responded. “Anything! My dad’ll kill me if I loose that ball, which cost him a Royal Fortune. Its gold you know. 

“Well I didn’t know anything of the sort but I do think I could dexterously retrieve it. Here are my terms I’ll bring you the ball if you’ll treat me at your table in the castle let me dine from your very own plate and allow me to dwell one night in the palace”. 

Sure thing Dorinda responds hastily perhaps a little to curtly. With that, the frog hops back into the water disappears four a few moments then returns, panting as only frogs can pant with the ball. 

Week 10 

You didnt tell me it was solid gold he wheezed. Princess Dorinda didnt hear him, she had all ready skipped back to the palace, tickled with the return of her treasure. 

That evening while the royal family dined sumptuously they heard a faint tapping at the castle door, moments later, the footman appeared, with a message for Princess 

Dorinda. 

“Princess” he began. You have a visitor at the door excusing herself from the table Dorinda hastened away. When she opened the door however blood drained from her 

face, their squatted the forbearing frog. 

“You forgot you’re pledge to treat me hospitably at the palace” he croaked she slammed the door in his face. Dorinda who was at the door, King Morton inquired when she returned to the table. 


source: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/20-great-similes-from-literature-to-inspire-you/

Due November 15 (T-day & FIX-IT 8)

T-DAY
FIX-IT 8

Your assignment is to write an essay about Thanksgiving. 
You have a lot of leeway on this essay. 

• You might want to write about the first Thanksgivings in America (hint: they were NOT in 1621).

•  You might want to write about a deeper meaning of Thanksgiving (i.e. the Greek for Thanksgiving is Eucharista). Taylor Marshal writes about this in easy to read, clear ways. here (<--- St. Paul references) and here (<--- Biblical references linking back to the Old Testament).

•  If you want to dive into the Eucharist as your topic, here is a series of three YouTube recordings that might be helpful.  

Scott Hahn's Understanding the Eucharist part 1.  
 Scott Hahn's Understanding the Eucharist part 2.
 Scott Hahn's Understanding the Eucharist part 3.

•  You might want to write about a much loved familyThanksgiving  tradition. If you choose to do this, your essay should be filled with descriptions and answer the who, where, why, and how questions. Dive deeper than a simple description of a tradition. Give us depth.

•  You might want to learn about the Canadian Thanksgiving and write about that.

•  You might want to write a creative essay that uses "Thanksgiving" as your writing prompt.

3 Paragraphs

ALL Dress ups

Openers: 2, 3, 4(extra credit), 5, 6, 7(extra credit)

Required DECs 
(ONE of each w/i the whole essay -- not per paragraph)
MET
SIM
ALLIT
QUOTE


Topic/Clinchers
The last sentence of paragraphs 1 and 2 should reflect, repeat, reiterate the first.

The last sentence of your essay should reflect, repeat, reiterate the TITLE.

Vocabulary - extra credit

Missing KWO, rough draft, or checklist  =  -5pts each
Improper heading or title block =  -5pts each

Week 8 

If you would permit me madam I should be honored to rescue your plaything”, a throaty voice offered. And Dorindas tears dried instantly as she looked around for the person belonging to the voice. 

A little flustered when sighting no one, she inquired “pray tell, who has tendered such a thoughtful offer Groomed in courtly speech Dorinda could talk as a princess when convenient. 

When a slimy putrid green amphibian hopped toward her on the rim of the well, croaking, “It was me Dorinda let lose a spine tingling shriek and nearly ran away, her inquisitiveness got the better of her however. 

“How is it you can talk Mr Frog” “Its a dull story but maybe I’ll tell it to you one day, for the present, would you like me to salvage your ball?”