Week 8 Blog Entries

For this week, you have an open topic for the blog, with the following restrictions: 1) you must use complete sentences (including subjects and verbs), and 2) you may not use any forms of the verb "to be" ("be," "am," "is," "are," "was," "were," "been," "being," or contraction forms such as "I'm" or "you're"). Let these restrictions guide how you choose to express yourselves this week, and see what emerges. By not relying on the copula (look it up) this week, you have an opportunity to practice strengthening your language use.

Note that except for the words within quotation marks serving to illustrate the list of proscribed words, this entry does not use the copula...