Purplue Prose

While I was prepping questions for the Scholar Quiz's team weekly trivia lunch (in the library conference room every C and D day), I found one regarding a phrase that I know from EMF's "Unbelievable" but had never actually truly studied: purple prose. According to Jeopardy, it is "writing full of exaggerated pathos" and other sources slam its existence for over-the-top, elaborate emotions that distract from an actual argument or topic. For some of you out there, purple prose is all too real, so here is an article regarding how to fix any attempts to go purple in your writing: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/purple-prose-how-to-recognize-it-and-tame-it/. Since we are starting argumentation this week and next, it would behoove one to recognize when pathos rears its head in writing. And since purple prose is all about emitting pathos to the audience, shouldn't we rename it purplue prose in honor of Keats? 

No matter where your class ended on the block day, we are taking a moratorium on MC/argument and having our Lucy discussion day on Friday. Be ready with your thoughts are Lucy, Ann, motifs, themes, observations on aesthetical concerns, and anything else pertaining to the books. 

1: We worked with 2 multiple choice passages today (#2 and #3) by close reading and categorizing questions, analyzing passages, and, hopefully, selecting the correct answers. 

3: We started with our third MC passage, which gave you an opportunity to complete the questions individually. Our highest score was a 9/10, and we had many score over the 50 percent goal intended for each MC passage. Following this passage, we reviewed claim, evidence, and warrant by creating these steps for topics relating to Honey Boo Boo. 

7: We finished MC passage 2 analysis and then worked on MC passage 3 via close reading and categorizing questions, close reading and discussing the passage, and working on accuracy on the questions. Afterwards, we jumped into argumentation and its claim, evidence, and warrant(s) that populate this mode of discourse. In order to practice these 3 steps, we used Honey Boo Boo as a starting point to construct a claim, evidence, and an overall warrant (yes, in an essay, you would have several warrants, but for this activity, one will do.) If absent, you will need to write a claim regarding topics that are apparent in this Honey Boo Boo clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InUDCsMhrY&t=21s. Then, you will need to bullet point a list of evidence that would support your claim, and finally you will need to write a warrant connecting and explaining the claim and evidence together.