Prefix: Macro Meaning: Large Example: Macroscopic-large view

Read this interview and explain the importance of Hemingway’s last phrase? Why is it important to get the words right? Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do? Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied. Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you? Hemingway: Getting the words right. — Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Review Interview, 1956

After you get your laptop: 1. Sign into GoogleDocs 2 After you get your laptop: 1. Sign into GoogleDocs 2. Choose which mini-essay you are going to submit to me as your final grade 3. Open it because we are going to revise today

Technical Revision Notes 1. Is the short story capitalized and does it have quotes around it every time it is mentioned? “The Landlady” “The Tell-Tale Heart” 2. Are there periods at the ends of sentences? Is the first letter after the period capitalized? 3. Is every sentence with a period a complete sentence? (meaning it has both a noun and a verb) Example: The unknown narrator kills the old man. Bad Example: The unknown narrator and the old man.

Technical Revision Notes: Does the grammar and syntax make sense? The short story called “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about the (a) “narrator” wanting to scare (an) old man. The narrator keeps repeating (to himself) himself that he is not mad. H e believes that the old man’s eye is a “demon”. Edgar Allan Poe uses setting to create suspense for the reader by adding little details into the story that makes (make it) it creepy. -Read your essay out loud to yourself -Have your partner read it

Content Do you have TOPIC SENTENCES? -remember they should not open with your quote/concrete detail. Good: Throughout the whole story, Poe uses the sounds going on in the story to further intensify the suspense created in the setting. Bad: A clever way of using the story's setting to create suspense can be seen though this passage, “His room was a black as pitch with the thick darkness(for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers)”

Concrete Details Is the quote you choose place in quotation marks? ( “ ”) Does the quote have the page number and is it formatted like this: “I made up my mind to kill the old man” (page 324). Is the quote short and simple and not the entire passage? Meaning, is it the section you talk about in your commentary?

Commentary Does your commentary adequately explain the following: 1. what this quote means? (cm #1) 2. How this quote gets it’s meaning across? (cm#2) 3. Why this quote relates to suspense? (cm#3) Example: Also, the narrator said, “ I[ the narrator] loved the old man...I think it was his[the old man’s] eye...I made up my mind to take the life of the old man”. This shows that the narrator does like the old man, but his conflict rests within the eye of the old man. By saying he decided to take the life of the old man because of just his eye shows the narrator is insane. This conflict creates suspense because readers now know he will kill the old man in the subsequent pages, and also because he (the narrator) is overcome by merely an object.

Instead use the following: LAST BUT NOT LEAST!!! Is it free from the following: I I think I believe You/us Me My Instead use the following: Readers