Ask questions about the readings.
1. A question to the author
2. A question to your classmates
3. A question that pertains to your writing style/abilities
...be sure to read your the questions your classmates post and respond to them.
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Did this evoke memories in any of the younger classmates or is canning and preserving a thing of the past now? Did anyone enjoy this as much as I did?
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Some questions for “The Measure of My Powers”
1. Did the author decide to use large run-ons in her work?
2. I have a grandmother who is exactly like the one described in this essay, how about anyone else?
3. How does she set the tone of the essay so well?
Questions for “Buckeye”
1. Did your father really hammer his knee back into place with a mallet?
2. Did anyone NOT like this essay?
3. Did the author really remember all these things that vividly, or was he being creative?
It did evoke memories for me about my grandmother, and I did enjoy it very much.
What is the theme of Fisher’s story? Does anyone else have a descriptive childhood story like Fisher or Sanders? Similarities aside, I know which story I would choose, but which of the two did you prefer?
-Patricia
Fisher- Why do you enjoy writing about food and different memories of eating with family? Is that what brings your family together?
Class- Did you find Sanders essay to have a gloomy demeanor to it, even though the young boy showed pride for his father?
My writing- How can I write like I am younger than I actually am, without my essay sounding silly and uneducated?
Tcayer, I have memories about canning and preserving of things.
Fishers: Chris S. I have a grandmother like that. You have the same question(1) I do.
Sanders: What is the importance of this essay? Whats important about trees?
Measure of my Powers:
1.) Was it too short for anybody else?
2.) Aren't pecans nuts? It seems weird to can nuts. Weird question I know.
3.) What kind of role do you think the Cook played in this piece? Does the time-period play any part in it?
4.) What type of social status do you think this family had? If they had a cook that makes me think that they're upper-class, but canning their own fruits seems to strike me differently.
Buckeye:
1.) Did anybody get thrown off by the flow of this story?
2.) How did the diction support the tone for everybody else?
Questions for "Measure of My Powers"
1. Was this a bigger story, or did this one "moment" stand out in her head? Does it signify something bigger?
2. Has anyone ever had a family tradition like canning? My mother, Grandmother, and I used to can strawberries in the summer.. But it was a bit cheerier.
3. I wonder if I would be able to provide as much information, with so little writing?
"Buckeye"
1. Was it all truthful, or was a lot of it embellished? I.e. Chris's question with the mallet, or the 311 deer.
2. Was it really that confusing? I personally didn't find it confusing, but how about everyone else?
3. I hope that someday I can create a piece so vivid with memory.
Eric-- where was the pecans? I totally missed that part... haha
And Chris-- I have a lot of family who is really similar to the Grandmother in the story, too.
I once made cucumbers into pickles...it wreaked! It was summer too.
As for the picture thing, there's specific HTML that you need to use. Google HTML image inserts or something.
1. Why did you choose to write about these particular family moments?
2. Pick a memory. Would you be able to write as well as Fisher and Sanders did about your memory?
3. Imagine a religious fanatic mother living with a science heavy daughter...where to start?
1: Fisher: Did they ever let you truly help or was it always just stirring a little bit, or plucking off the cherry tops?
Sanders: Did you see your father as much once you got older?
2: Did anyone else get sad undertones from both stories?
3: What was left out was a longer description of taste. I always like to read what things taste like, because I am a picky eater and I want to know what other people like in foods I do not like.
1) I wondered how the title related to the essay. I also wondered why the author loved jam making then but did not in her older life.
2)One question I had for the author was what the herd of deer meant to him. Another question I might ask my classmates was what they thought of the father’s character and how he was portrayed. I might ask myself how I could use lists effectively to be descriptive without being bland.
Did anyone else like when Sanders shows you what his dad called the trees, and then finding out what they were really called?
Did Fisher use long sentences on purpose?
How can we be this descriptive in such a short essay?
Questions for "Measure of my Powers"
1. Was the settings in your own kitchen when you were older the same as your mothers and grandmothers?
2. Did you like the story with so many long sentences, did it lose you at all?
3. How can i make long sentences like hers work?
"Buckeye" Questions
1. Do you have any distinctive trademark like your father did?
2. Does this story remind you of anything of what your parents or grandparents do?
3. I want to make my writing more descriptive like this piece!
1. Why did Fisher like making jam when she was younger and now in her later year she doesn't. Possibly a bad experience we didn't know about?
2.In Fisher's essay where does the title come from?
3.In "Buckeye" why is it that out of all the trees the buckeye is the one that stuck out the most?
"Measure of My Powers"
Did everyone like the essay? Did anybody get lost? Were there any memories that you remembered while reading this essay?
"Buckeye"
Did anyone get lost in this essay? What details did you like about the essay? What did you like about how the essay was writen?
Reading these essays did remind me of some memories of my childhood.
1. Did anybody know what a buckeye was?
2. Did anybody have a relative or close friend that always carried a certain item or luck charm like the buckeye.
3.Did everybody enjoy the readings?
4.Does your family have any special traditions or family events?
I also think that the buckeye was over exaggerated a little bit on some parts such as the counting of 311 deer.
1.does anyone have a family tradition similar to this one?
2.did the author carry on this tradition?
3.did the use of run on sentences effect the flow of this essay?
1.has anyone actually held buckeyes?
2. do you beleive buckeyes actually keep off arthritis?
3.did anyone get somewhat lost at any point in the essay?
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