Week 12 Checkpoint
Every so often a museum guard would tell us we were too close to the canvas. "Hey, cut us some slack, will you?" I'd think. "The girl can barely see!" Audra would back off and look at the painting through a little black telescope she'd brought, which helped her see the picture in its entirety. Which detail from the text best supports the author's perspective that the museum guard is too strict?
"Hey, cut us some slack, will you?" I'd think.
When I think of how I see myself it would have to be at age eleven. I know I'm thirty-two on the outside, but inside I'm eleven. I'm the girl in the picture with skinny arms and a crumpled skirt and crooked hair. I didn't like school because all they saw was the outside me. School was lots of rules and sitting with your hands folded and being very afraid all the time. I liked looking out the window and thinking. I liked staring at the girl across the way writing her name over and over again in red ink. I wondered why the boy with the dirty collar in front of me didn't have a mama who took better care of him. Which detail from the text best supports the author's perspective that she was a misfit as a child?
I'm the girl in the picture with the skinny arms and a crumpled skirt and crooked hair.
Why did I feel like the woman in the fairy tale who was locked in a room and ordered to spin straw into gold? I had the same sick feeling when I was required to write my critical essay for the MFA exam—the only piece of noncreative writing necessary in order to get my graduate degree. How was I to start? There were rules involved here, unlike writing a poem or story, which I did intuitively. There was a step-by-step process needed, and I had better know it. I felt as if making a tortilla—or writing a critical paper, for that matter—was a task so impossible I wanted to break down into tears. Which details from the text best support the author's perspective that she was not up to the task of writing a critical essay?
TEXT ME ABT THIS ONE I HAVE TWO THAT I GOT WRONG BUT ITS HARD TO EXPLAIN :/ THIS IS WHAT I THINK IT IS BUT I CANT DO IT AGAIN BC THERE IS ONLY ONE RETAKE. :') the only piece of noncreative writing necessary in order to get my graduate degree. There were rules involved here, unlike writing a poem or story, which I did intuitively.
Read the passage from "About a Girl." A new exhibit had just opened, a retrospective of the work of Philip Guston, and we proceeded through it as follows: Audra would walk right up to a canvas and eyeball it, sometimes tracing a contour in the air with her finger, because tracing helps her to see things better. "Oh, hello," she'd say when she came across a new figure or a change of color. She asked questions: "Okay, there's a big splotch here where it's lighter?" What is the author's perspective on Audra's behavior at the art museum?
The author admires Audra's determination to study and enjoy the paintings.
Which is an example of residue?
brown stains at the bottom of a coffee cup
What is a synonym of intuitively?
instinctively
Which transition would be best to use to propose a solution to a problem?
one answer is
What would my teachers say if they knew I was a writer now? Who would've guessed it? I wasn't a very bright student. I didn't much like school because we moved so much and I was always new and funny looking. In my fifth-grade report card I have nothing but an avalanche of C's and D's, but I don't remember being that stupid. I was good at art and I read plenty of library books and Kiki laughed at all my jokes. At home I was fine, but at school I never opened my mouth except when the teacher called on me. What is the author's purpose for including this paragraph?
to inform readers of how much the author has changed
The second time I was at her house, I inquired about a photograph taped to the wall. "What's it of?" she asked, and I told her it looked like a family: a man and a woman and two teenage girls. "Oh. That man's our dentist," Audra said, "and the girl on the left was my best friend from kindergarten to fifth grade." "Do you remember her at all?" I asked. "No." What is the author's purpose for including this event?
to inform readers of the seriousness and last effects of Audra's memory loss
