DR. C's Academic Online Cruise Ship—Week Eleven: A Topic with a Twist

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DR C—CAPTAIN'S LOG
ADVANCED ENGLISH COMPOSITION 102
ONBOARD AND ONLINE—WEEK ELEVEN: MARCH 24-30

ONBOARD—WEEK ELEVEN

Day One

My trainees submitted their extra credit figures of speech assignment. I discussed what these major figures of speech were. Also, I discussed some of their identifications. Oh, the figures of speech assignment included were: simile, metaphor, personification, analogy, and allusion. Yes, I am aware of others, but I chose to focus on these main ones.

Next, I reviewed key verb errors and pronoun errors.

Finally, I let them know that there would be a substitute for Day Two of Week Eleven and Day One of Week Twelve. Why? I would be attending and presenting at the College English Association Conference in New Orleans. I shared that while gone, there would be in-class assignments.

Day Two

I chose a topic that I have seen used by others. I put my own twist to this one:

Topic for Writing Topic:

There has been a catastrophic loss of life from several atomic blasts throughout the world. By whatever reason, only seven (7) people have survived who are in a boat. They will be responsible for starting a new world on an island, which is the only land that is not affected by the massive atomic destruction. However, the boat is beginning to sink. Thus, it becomes quite evident that only three (3) of them can safely make it to the island. Now, an extra boat is attached that contains some food and survival supplies. So, those who are designated to be the survivors will transfer onto that boat and go to the island. So, there will have to be a decision regarding who will be allowed to stay in the boat. And it will be you who will make the choice of the three who will survive, meaning the remaining four will have to accept the fate of death. Below are the choices:

A 40-year-old male blind bodybuilder who is a mechanic;

A 19-year-old female opioid-addicted individual who is a waitress;

A 30-year-old male convicted child molester who is a doctor;

A 50-year-old female Deaf English college professor; 

A 25-year-old male little person who is a genius;

A 5-month-old female; and 

A student of Mott Community College, you 

I asked the substitute to give these papers to the secretary. The secretary (bless her heart) mailed them to my home address on land. I requested that she do this so that when I returned I could check the papers. Thus, I would be able to present them graded when I returned.

ONLINE

I did let them know that I would be out of town at a conference and would not be in contact. Their assignment was to send me the figures of speech assignment. It was an extra credit assignment for them as well.

Later, I shall say more about the work that was done while I was out of town.

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