Greetings.
A few things:
1. Sign ups for oral presentations was Monday during class. If you did not attend class, it is your responsibility to ask me for the sign up sheet.
2. I have looked over a few students' rough drafts for Essay 3.
I feel inclined to remind you about what this essay is asking you to do. If you re-visit the blog entry for Friday, January 28th, you will find copies of two handouts I distributed and discussed in class. One is the actual Character Journal assignment and the other is the brief list of some character vocabulary/adjectives.
We have also discussed quite a bit in class about analysis, and specifically, character analysis.
The purpose of the essay, again, is for you to demonstrate your ability to make independent, careful, in-depth observations of one character from the Breaking Bad series. From these observations, you are to make an assertion about that person, based on how they act, what they say, etc.
What I am seeing in some of the rough drafts are descriptions of scenes and behavior of a character, but not really any explanation or analysis about how and why this demonstrates a particular character quality.
You have been building up to this essay all semester, practicing analysis. As I have mentioned before, it SHOULD be the most challenging of the three out of class essays. This essay requires, more than even the other two, a lot of THINKING and time commitment.
Friday January 28th
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