English 9 Class Notes
Periods 2 and 6 freshmen, we did the same as your peers yesterday, but I offered you a clearer example of what your individual writing assignments can look like. I post it here as a model:
Subject: Character of Caroline Fisher
TS S1: Miss Caroline Fisher, Scout’s new elementary school teacher in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, is both cruel and naïve.
C1 S2 (EV): For example, Miss Fisher is critical of Atticus’s teaching Scout how to read and instructs her to tell her father that he’s no longer to read with her: “It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here [. . . .] Your father does not know how to teach” (22).
C1 S3 (EX): Miss Fisher doesn’t understand the relationship Scout has with Atticus and maybe is making assumptions about the level of education of the people of Maycomb.
C1 S4 (EX): She is a new teacher and is eager to show her skill as an educator and disciplinarian, but in doing so cruelly insults Scout and her father.
C2 S5 (EV): Then Miss Fisher becomes angry and impatient when Walter Cunningham proudly refuses her gift of lunch money so he can eat in town, and Scout comes to his defense against their teacher: “The Cunnighams never took anything they can’t pay back—no church baskets, no scrip stamps [. . . .] They don’t have much but they get along” (24).
C2 S6 (EX): Miss Fisher becomes defensive when Walter denies her gift because she doesn’t understand the Cunninghams’ situation.
C2 S7 (EX): She’s naïve to think she can help, but she’s new to Maycomb County and doesn’t realize the nature of the students and the families she’s come to serve.
CS S8: Miss Fisher’s presence is important in the novel because it’s her character about whom Scout makes the wrong assumptions and because of whom Scout begins to learn to understand others by judging them carefully.
And here’s how it would look rewritten:
“The Character of Caroline Fisher”
Miss Caroline Fisher, Scout’s new elementary school teacher in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, is both cruel and naïve. For example, Miss Fisher is critical of Atticus’s teaching Scout how to read and instructs her to tell her father that he’s no longer to read with her: “It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here [. . . .] Your father does not know how to teach” (22). Miss Fisher doesn’t understand the relationship Scout has with Atticus and maybe is making assumptions about the level of education of the people of Maycomb. She is a new teacher and is eager to show her skill as an educator and disciplinarian, but in doing so cruelly insults Scout and her father. Then Miss Fisher becomes angry and impatient when Walter Cunningham proudly refuses her gift of lunch money so he can eat in town, and Scout comes to his defense against their teacher: “The Cunnighams never took anything they can’t pay back—no church baskets, no scrip stamps [. . . .] They don’t have much but they get along” (24). Miss Fisher becomes defensive when Walter denies her gift because she doesn’t understand the Cunninghams’ situation. She’s naïve to think she can help, but she’s new to Maycomb County and doesn’t realize the nature of the students and the families she’s come to serve. Miss Fisher’s presence is important in the novel because it’s her character about whom Scout makes the wrong assumptions and because of whom Scout begins to learn to understand others by judging them carefully.
No need for you to rewrite it. I only put the finished product down so you might see how it would read off the template.
You have two official tutoring periods between the time I assigned the writing and the time it’s due. Please utilize me during that time to ensure your best work.