10/12/17 - Chris Vachris (Late)

Today in class was really a review day for what was taught during the class periods in the previous days. The class first reviewed what synthesis meant to us in a literary sense. We came up with examples of how to synthesize the coin flip scene from No Country with Threat Level Midnight's coin flip scene. This lead into an activity focused on the coin flip scene from No Country for Old Men. Here we went over how a topic and tone can be used to develop a theme within a text. The table groups came up with individual examples and these can be viewed on the latest classroom post. It's important to remember that tone is an important aspect in developing the themes of a text or film. The tone of any specific scene could be a positive or negative one and that can have an adverse effect on the theme. An example of this came from Kayla, where she wrote that, "The foreboding nature of Chigurh’s attitude and the coin-flip in No Country for Old Men suggests that the killing of innocent people can be uncalled for and unpredictable.".  On a separate note, the class also spent time today reviewing some guidelines and requirements for their intertexuality essays which are due on the 26th of October.  The class went over the standard formatting for the titles of literature, that they should be in italics, as well as how we should go about the body paragraphs off the essay. For the best possible essay it's important to remember that your body paragraphs should include both texts in a synthetic manner. Failure to do so might not result in the best possible grade for your essay and is not a recipe for success. Finally to close out the day we got into the first seven minutes or so of WALL-E. We will be identifying major and minor topics throughout the movie as well as a tone and a thematic assertion.

Scholarly tone:

http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/scholarlyvoice/tone