Thursday, May 14, 2015

Week 6

                      Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait in Oil

    Good afternoon, Thursday class, and morning, Friday class. Over the last several weeks we've focused on using description and direct quotation to present the contents of a book chapter.  You were to join in, so to speak, conversation on the topic and ideas addressed, in this case, in P.M. Forni's book chapter "Think the Best," in which he discusses the goodness to come of thinking well of others (essay 4).

        The midterm topics  (essay 5) will be returned today.

         Essay 6 continues with our focus on verb forms and use.  As described in last week's post, you are to describe in hypothetical terms a wish or desire or conditional situation that allows you to show use of the subjunctive verb mood and conditional verb tenses, those employing would, could, might, ought, and so on (see last week's post for the full discussion of the assignment).  We shall look at those today.

Last quarter the class took a field trip to the Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art trip week eight.  We will talk more of that this week, if you wish or have ideas for a trip, and the kind of essay to come of it.    We can decide as we review the course objectives and the time remaining to meet them.

                                                                          a Picasso  


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