[s]Goal: 100,000 New Goal: 200,000[/s] New Goal: 250.000

[Crimson_Ayla]

I assume so. But that doesn't mean much. They see anywhere as an acceptable place to do their business.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i don;t know that they have the ability to control it. hard to say. mice don't. rats do. where would you say your guy stands in altricial vs precocial learning?

[Crimson_Ayla]

Hmm. They're pretty helpless when they're born. We got them about 10 weeks old (??) though, so now they're able to look after their ickle selves

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you don't raise them for food or anything?

[Locke]

Or drink.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

pressed guinae pig would provide both.

[Crimson_Ayla]

Maybe if I was South American :)

 

Anyway. Night night. Sleepy...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

g'night. and remember... tastes like chicken.

[Locke]

As does coconut.

 

[Locke]

Don't eat poisoned rats Cindy.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i'll try to keep that in mind.

[Locke]

Always willing to help. :)

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

danke. if you could stop poisoning the rats it would help even more.

[mmeeshal]

I am so stumped on an essay I have to write. I didn't even get a choice of topics this time, one was randomly chosen for me. I'm sitting here absolutely unable to think of any way to approach this stupid thing.... Maybe I should do a 10-minute free write and see if I can knock anything loose in my brain. So mad at the whole thing. Why can't I pick my own topic, for goodness' sake?

[Leelou]

What is the topic?

[mmeeshal]

"Coming of Age."

 

Extended Definition Essay

1) Topics will be selected by lottery. I will email you the topic which was selected for

you by lottery.

2) Write a 750-1000 word essay defining the term assigned.

3) The essay must include a formal definition.

4) The writer should use five or more synonyms (or alternate noun phrases) for the

assigned term throughout the essay.

5) The writer should use negation as one developmental strategy.

6) The essay must additionally include any two (or more) of the following

developmental strategies: exemplification, comparison/contrast, process,

classification/division, enumeration, analogy, etymology.

8) Illustrate the essay incorporating graphics.

9) Post your essay on the student web page.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

for the formal definition i'd go dictionary, and maybe meade.

 

synonyms also dictionary, online.

 

define negation? not sure what you mean?

 

exemplification - any coming of age rite, story, personal experience - first time youw ere left alone with the kids? allowed to go out on your own? this kind of thing?

 

 

comparison - coming of age today in modern western culture with no real ceremonial rites, and no real passage into adulthood vs coming of age in traditional societies with clear cut transitions from youth to adulthood.

 

graphics google search images coming of age

 

? done?

[mmeeshal]

for the formal definition i'd go dictionary, and maybe meade.

 

synonyms also dictionary, online.

 

define negation? not sure what you mean?

 

exemplification - any coming of age rite, story, personal experience - first time youw ere left alone with the kids? allowed to go out on your own? this kind of thing?

 

 

comparison - coming of age today in modern western culture with no real ceremonial rites, and no real passage into adulthood vs coming of age in traditional societies with clear cut transitions from youth to adulthood.

 

graphics google search images coming of age

 

? done?

To the bolded parts...not sure what you mean by the first. XD

Negation, I believe, is defining a term by telling what it is NOT. So, "coming of age is NOT...whatever it isn't." XD

 

I guess I could use a picture of a car or something...we're not really intended to do research for this paper, but we're able to, anyway, which is good. XD But yeah, I was thinking like a graph or something, but I guess just pictures works. XD Derp...

 

Hmm...If I can think of how to approach the essay, then... Like, a thesis...she doesn't say we can't just say "I'm going to define this concept" but I'm not sure how well that would go over.... Hmm..... Maybe state that coming of age is an important part of every person's life? >.<

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

margaret mead, spelled it wrong, coming of age in samoa, online i think all of it. try bartleby if not.

 

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54102419

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

negation - again i'd go with modern western society with perpetually extended youth and adolescence, no real rites of adulthood, no real coming of age at all for many.

[Tiinker]

So the topic is "When do we come of age?"

[mmeeshal]

Just "coming of age." I'm writing an extended definition essay, and I have to use negation, graphics, and at least two other techniques of essay development like exemplification, compare/contrast, stuff like that. XD

 

So, I guess, at base, I'm trying to define "coming of age" as a concept...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

all kinds of trad societies have coming of age rituals, ceremonies, or at least ages where you're expected to behave like an adult, take on adult burdens, have adult proviledges, be held accountable for actions, etc.

 

google it. read a sampling. you'll get the idea.

[mmeeshal]

*nodnod*

 

I know what coming of age is...it's just...writing about it.... Like...if someone says "Do you know what the word 'facetious' means?" I'd say "Yup." But when they say "Okay, so what is it?" I'd be like....."Um...well, it's like...well...let me just look it up because I can't think how to explain it."

 

XD

 

I mean, doing tons of research might give me the terminology for the essay...and maybe a direction to take it in.... That's always my issue: angle. XD Once I know what exactly I want to say, it's no big deal. XD

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

good luck with it. it should flow once you start.