Friday, June 17, 2011

essay


Intro:

  • Idea 
  • Grab Attention - Rhetorical Question, Real Life, WIFM (What in it for me), 
  • General - Enders Game: Topic - Examples

  1. Airplane, Subway
  2. Ender revealing true character in times of isolation
  3. Examples
    • When Specifically looking at Stilson, Bonzo, N.C and compassion that Ender is starting to express
     4. In these moments O.S.Card reveals the 
important
xenophobia is the fear of the unknown


Paragraphs 5-8 sentences

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dissecting the Criteria

Skillful interpretation of the question and use of language features, form and structure to craft an explanatory essay:
Explanatory:
  • Take a side/ position/ opinion
  • Argument - Thesis
  • Use expressive/ persuasive - High Modality
  • Logical (logo)
  • Repetition
  • Use examples    

Evaluates how the text sustains or challenges established cultural assumptions
  • Judgement 
  • Controlling info/ fear
    • Dramatic irony
  • Unknown - Xenophobia (e.g White Australian Policy)
  • Fear of death/ Apocalypse 

Analyses the composers choice of language modes, forms and features and structures to shape meaning
  • Xenophobia - Colonization
  • Diplomacy 

This essay is like a speech - - - talk about xenophobia in the history
how progress come from xenophobia then we wouldn't have a military and the develops 

Cav's Guide to Writing and Essay

Cav's Guide to writing and essay :)

1. Read - Active reading

  • Reacting
  • How you feel to the writing
  • Allow yourself to react and think abut the writing
2. Hypothesis - Question + idea's
  • Unpack the question
  • Reaction to the question and book
3. Research
  • Find examples
4. Stream of consciousness
  • Just write and write and write and write
  • See what ideas come to you
  • Come to conclusion of strong views/opinion
5. Now a thesis

6. Organize - structure

7. Draft - Edit

8. A++ is written

STRUCTURE

INTRO
  1. Grab attention - Why do we need to listen to your essay. 1-3 sentences
  2. Intro topic - specific to text   1-sentences
  3. Finish with thesis
^^ road map, help the reader out, give them a nice idea of where the essay is going, let them know whats up

BODY
  1. Info
  2. Examples
  3. Paragraph - i) Topic Sentence. - links to thesis ii) Examples - Quotes (summaries the quote, whats happening. Explain relevant of the quote) iii) Transition to next paragraph

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Thesis's for Essay


  1. In the science fiction world of Enders Game the fear of technology propels the progress of the story
  2. In the science fiction world of Enders Game the fear of not being advanced enough is progressed by knowledge  
  3. In the science fiction world of Enders Game the fear of Acceptance 

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Enders Major Events

Battle School

  • Fear Of Peter
  • Fear Of Buggers (they built battle school because of the fear of the buggers)/ failure/ death
Isolated 
  • Start of battle school
  • Room leader
  • Lunch
  • Launch
  • Command School
Fighting - stop negative outcomes
  • Snilson
  • Bonzo
  • Bernard (Cyber)
  • fear of loss of self respect/ failure (negative outcomes)
It is progressed by fear of the buggers and death
he gets a stronger characters

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Assignment

Science Fiction (fear propels progress)
do one fear and one progress in thesis
  • Specific genre
  • Conventions - characteristics 
Progress
  • Technological (internet)
  • Species
  • Human capabilities
  • Societal (internet) - social skills
  • Knowledge 
  • Human Capabilities 
Propelled
  • Pushing forward 
Fear
  • Fear of Failure - Like his brother(who he is becoming)
  • Not Being Advanced Enough
  • Acceptance
  • Loss of Control
Its highlighting a specific genre
There are specific things that make it science fiction

sci fi    -  fear - propelled - progress                                            
(conventions)
  • Aliens                  
  • Unknown - peter= mean, aggressive, psychopath - mentally unstable
  • Space-battle school (not being good enough) Ender concerns - mental development 
  • Space travel
  • Technology (not being sophisticated enough) - buggers being better than humans-= weapons 
  • Future 
  • Apocalypse ( end of the world)
  • Fear of personal failure
  Fear 
Themes)    -     propelled     -     progress

thesis

In enders game the fear of death has advanced 
Fear of not being excepted is progressed by social