10/13 Lauren Mitchell

Today, October 13, the focus of our class was on finishing up and interrogating our intertextuality essays, as they are due tonight.  Mr. Rivers stressed how important it is to ask questions about our essays in order to make them the best they can be.  In the time we had to work on these essays in class, many of us used this idea of interrogation to ask ourselves, "How well does my essay use specific evidence... stay on topic... draw clear connections..." These questions were asked for the content, organization, voice and style, presentation, and research and citation aspects of the paper.  Once going through this process, many of us starting to think about titles for our papers.  Interesting titles, not just "My Intertextuality Essay".  The examples shown to us gave us ideas to stir from in order to create an original, creative title that would start off the paper on a good note and capture the reader's attention.  Mr. Rivers also include some sample senior papers for us to use as resources.  In these essays written by previous students, there are components of their papers that make them well written.  These helped us shape our essays in a similar well written fashion.  My film and novel I wrote about is Room written by Emma Donaghue.  I used today to proofread and interrogate my essay in order to get the grade I am looking for.  I was able to completely finish my essay today and ask questions that helped me improve my paper.  I can now say that I am feeling good about my essay and have included everything Mr. Rivers is looking for. Therefore, class was very productive and helped my classmates and me finish our first film as literature essay.