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 * Hello, Joshua

1. Practice clicking **Home: Composition 1010 J01** and your name to make sure the links work. 2. Click **"edit"** to type in this white space. 3. Notice each journal prompt numbered from 1 to 10. Type your response below each prompt. Be sure to leave two spaces between your answer and the prompt. 4. When you have finished typing your answer, **SAVE** **YOUR WORK** by clicking the **"save"** button at the top of the page. 5. You should also keep a backup of your work by highlighting each entry (click and drag over the sentences). Then copy (hold down the **ctrl button on your keyboard and then "C"** ). Open up a **Word** document. The paste onto that document (hold down the **ctrl button on your keyboard and then "V"**).


 * Journal Prompt 1.** Cofer's "My Father in the Navy" and Joyce's short story "Araby" are autobiographical or narrative in nature. Review the chapter in the Longman concerning the rhetorical mode Narration (pgs. 109-116). Discuss two narration qualities you see in the poem and the short story collectively. 1 para.


 * Journal Prompt 2.** Conflict and conflict resolution are narration qualities. Conflicts can be man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self. Describe one example from Mayblum's "The Price We Pay" that exemplifies one of the aforementioned areas of conflict. 1 para.


 * Journal Prompt 3.** Use this journal to build your introductory paragraph for Narrative Paper Assignment 1. Remember your introductory paragraph must consist of a clear thesis statement and clear supporting advanced organizers. 1 para.


 * Journal Prompt 4.** Find an [|advertising slogan] and write a descriptive paragraph about what an ad for that slogan should contain: discuss target audience, sensory details, and purpose. 1 para


 * Journal Prompt 5.** Read this [|article] about bad advertisement. Discuss one advertisement you've seen or heard that you believe is poor advertisement--describe the ad so that a person reading your discription could visualize the ad without seeing it. Then discuss why you believe the ad is bad. 2 para


 * Journal Prompt 6.** Search the internet or a magazing to find a "good" advertisement. Describe the ad so that a reader may visualize it without seeing the ad. Discuss why you believe the advertisement is good. 2 para


 * Journal Prompt 7.** What social behaviors are teens demonstrating as tweens? What examples does the writer give? 1 para


 * Journal Prompt 8.** In Jackson's "The Lottery," one social behavior that the town engages in is group think, which can be loosely defined as individuals in a group refusing to go against the group. What other examples (at least 2) can you think of where individuals engage in group think in a dangerous manner? 1 para


 * Journal Prompt 9.** Discuss one poem and one short story similarity concerning characters, plots, settings, conflicts, or themes. 2 paragraphs


 * Journal Prompt 10.** In Walker's //Beauty//, discuss the issues that caused Walker to lose her self-esteem. 2 paragraphs


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