I.I. It is time to speak the truth about Valentines’ Day, and the truth is this. Valentines’ Day is an unrealistic holiday for fools who believe everlasting love, souls mates, and paper hearts that say, “email me.” Consider the yuppie couple at Andiamos celebrating their second year together, sipping wine, and gazing into each others’ eyes. They’ll look at their watches next week after the chocolate haze is over and think, “I’m wasting time here.” Consider the stale candy hearts that are so hard they could break your teeth. Consider the chocolates that taste like wax and the roses that wilt within the week. Valentines’ Day is Hallmark holiday for those who need to get a grip on reality.
Discussion of Description
1. Use sensory words to get across emotion. Argue by creating emotions in the readers mind.
2. Organize description using space. Top to bottom, or bottom to top
3.Try using some ing words
III. Behold the Valentines’ enthusiast, a pretty little debutant, spending three hundred dollars on cards with Gadiva chocolates in them. Some of the cards sing silly tunes like “I got you babe.” She addresses each one with a strawberry scented pen and puts a heart sticker on the back. She sends roses to her friends during class and is planning on hanging paper hearts for the gym ceiling at school in anticipation of the dance. She’ll be expecting a single rose from her boyfriend, the quarterback, who cares nothing about Valentines’ Day but fears the tantrum that will erupt if he doesn’t oblige. She’ll be elected the Valentines’ Dance queen with her court, the giggling girls who aren’t as pretty, but gain something in the way of looks by standing next to her. Despite her flailing relationship with the quarterback, who is eyeing one the other girls on her court, she press on with the first dance.
IV Classification and Division
1. Divide a whole into its parts or identify types into which you can categorize your subject
2. Organize them in a pattern that makes sense—most important to least important
3. Be consistent with this pattern of organization.
4. Use signal devices to make connections between the different types. Use words like also, further contributing to this list, another type of Valentines’ aficionado, Last is…..
5. Your topic sentence should guide the reader into this division of type or subject. For example: There are others who worship this day of idealistic love. Or could any one love this day of love more? Some do.
6. Use a concluding sentence that summarizes all the types. As you can see dear reader, this is a day for the hopelessly delusional.
Start by making a list:
Now consider an organization that makes sense to the reader.
Finish for Homework:
Read Chapter 12. pp. 204 to 209.
In the beginning of the next class, I will ask you to identify different parts of a short short story for group quiz points.
Final paper due the 22nd of FEB.