Olivia has prepared two written assignments analyzing "Their Eyes Were Watching God" which we reviewed today. With respect to the interpretation of quotes from the novel, we addressed eliminating duplicative ideas and combining sentences. We further discussed techniques to convert the prompt into a topic sentence and the need to keep the focus of the essay on the prompt's inquiry. We next reviewed the meaning of the metaphors contained in the quotes. Olivia 's most recent essay was excellent. I did ,nevertheless , provide some instruction on creating a transition sentence to segue into her discussion of the poetry and addressed some grammatical concerns with respect to run-ons. As such, during the last part of the class, Olivia completed some grammar exercises on run-ons and fragments which we will continue tomorrow. She did very well with the exercises. For homework, I assigned reading ch 10 of
Farewell to Arms".