Marisa: my guess is "close reading" means you read something REALLY CLOSELY. Like, you give a lot of thought to it.

 

Although that's sort of a dumbassed thing to do, asking you to do a CLOSE READING and then not EXPLAIN what it was. :P

 

good luck on the homework. if you need any help you can always ask me and my amazing smarticle powers. :smart:

thanks sara :hug:

 

alex, i'm still here. i'm trying to figure out what the hell i'm supposed to do :bomb:

i called my friend and asked her and we ended up talking for an hour :\

oh hey mars! :D sorry about the homework.. :( that sucks.. if i can help let me know.

ZOE!!!! you love 1984 right?!

 

ZOMG NOT THAT YOU WERE TALKING TO ME BUT I TOTALLY KNOW IT INSIDE AND OUT! XD

do you know what a close reading is and what to do? have you ever read 1984? and do you wanna take 4 tests for me tomorrow?

Marisa! Yes, I do :nice:

 

And Slumdog Millionaire just came in the mail! So I'm watching that now, so I won't be posting too frequently...

 

edit: by yes I do, I meant I love 1984...

*small voice* i have read 1984....

ZOMG NOT THAT YOU WERE TALKING TO ME BUT I TOTALLY KNOW IT INSIDE AND OUT! XD

omg!! ok.......um. do you by any chance have a copy with you? if so, i think i'm gonna use page 115. its in part 2. if not, its after julia and winston meet in the canteen, they're outside in the square. and prisoners come by and everyone is loud and watching. and she's giving him directions to the place in the trees where they meet on sunday.

i'm supposed to like "observe it" and "break it down" or whatever. i think. and i have to have a fucking thesis about i don't even know what

:bomb::bomb::bomb:

*googles "close reading" for Marisa*... http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/CloseReading.html

 

Don't know if that'll help, but there you go :)

thanks! i'll look at it when i get back.

i have to eat dinner. this has been a productive afternoon:rolleyes:....

be back in like 15 guys :)

thanks zoe!! that helped :)

damn, I just spent like twenty minutes looking for my old copy when you had a link to an electronic helpy thing right there XD

thanks sara!:hug:

but that was just to tell me tips on doing a close reading, nothing actually about the book.

 

so.....i have a crappy introduction paragraph completed. woo

yaaay!

:thumbsup:

 

edit: do you have your copy with you?

yes, otherwise i'd be totally screwed...well more so than i am now :P

i'm somehow already on line 18 and it only has to be a page.

i think i'm gonna be ok!:D phew!! *wipes imaginary sweat off forehead*

aww, that's good. :nice:

 

*feels helpful even though she didn't do shit*

hah hah.

i still feel like you helped! :)

and thanks for spending 20 minutes looking for your book :hug:

 

 

 

sooooooooo, who wants to take 4 tests for me tomorrow?! :D

I would, but unfortunately you live near Philidelphia. And I sort of... don't. :P

damn!!

hah hah.

ugh......so much studying after i finish this.

i hate school. so much.

I would say I feel your pain, but considering I'm on spring break it would probably only spark untold amounts of jelousy. :P

 

although you might want to keep in mind that the best way to get work done quickly is to not spend all your time on Coldplaying XD

damn!!

hah hah.

ugh......so much studying after i finish this.

i hate school. so much.

 

lets strike.

@sara: i am doing work, after i finish something, i check her cause i'm talking to you guys :)

no worries

MY SPRING BREAK STARTS NEXT FRIDAY!! CAN'T FUCKING WAIT!!:D

 

@alex: LET'S DO IT!!!!!! please.

 

 

omg.......my birthday is in 17 days!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:dance::dance::dance::D

@sara: i am doing work, after i finish something, i check her cause i'm talking to you guys :)

no worries

MY SPRING BREAK STARTS NEXT FRIDAY!! CAN'T FUCKING WAIT!!:D

 

@alex: LET'S DO IT!!!!!! please.

 

 

omg.......my birthday is in 17 days!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:dance::dance::dance::D

 

MY SPRING BREAK STARTS THIS FRIDAY! :dance: (2 days :D:D:D )

 

and we totally should :P

we should have shorter days and shorter weeks and longer summers and we shouldn't have to do any kind of science or math :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: and we actually shouldn't have to do anything. :smug: good plan?

 

 

OH AND OMGGG YOUR BIRTHDAY I KNOW!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D!!

your plan is perfect!!!!!:D:D:D:D

and honestly, we really shouldn't have any homework!! I mean, like 7 hours in school, 5 days a week isn't enough?!?! seriously?!?!

and then all my teachers pound me with shit at the same time

wait til next week when i'm complaining about a spanish project where i have to create my own city from the future

or this weekend when i have to make a timeline :P

*wanders over to complaining thread* :P

hey! happy almost birthday, Marisa! :D

hah hah. thanks Sara! :D:hug: