Double-sided Amy

Let's call this an INTERACTIVE approach to writing.

Our goal is to avoid making our paper an "information dump."

This means you want to go beyond the act of simply recording and collecting information.

You want to do something with it. Put yourself into your work.

Here is what you do:

a. create a table for a two-sided notebook

b. click on the icon above - the one that looks like the side of a rubrics cube (all white squares)

c. create a table of two columns and one row - click on insert

d. on the left side of the table - copy and paste material from your research

e. on the right side of the table - type in your own reaction, reflection, thoughts.

Here is the cool part. These two sides will look great in your essay.

Here is an example below:

“We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black... "

Part of Amy's genius comes from her ability to transfer her life to her music. At the time amy was writing songs for "Back to Black"she was suffering through a high-strung with the love of her life, her boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil. Her lyrics are full of of grief and heartbreak. There was a lot of cheating and drug abuse going on. At one point, when Blake went back to his old girlfriend, Amy thought her life was over She wanted to die.

From the story the songs tell, her relationship with Blake burned too hot, too quickly. There was cheating and heartbreak: He went back to his old girlfriend, and she worried she'd lost the love of her life. "The songs literally did write themselves." (Rolling Stone)

According to Amy, what saved her was her songwriting. She said putting her feelings down on paper was cathartic. Singing the songs helped her understand how much she loved him.

Amy may have been self-destructive, but she was a trend setter in the fashion industry. She established her signature look — mussy beehive hair, black cat-eye makeup, and short, tight, cleavage-flaunting dresses — by late 2006, and it was soon echoed on the Dior Links to an external site. andChanel Links to an external site. runways of 2007 and 2008 ( Cowles).

Amy lived for her music. She was born into a musical family. She grew up going to theatre shows, concerts and other musical events with her parents and siblings. At age 9 she entered Theatre school. She lived it she studied it. She wrote her songs in tribute to sixties girl groups she idolized. She loved jazz. On stage, she became famous for wearing headscarves, oversized hooped earrings and bright red lips.

This is going to be so cool. When you begin developing your essay, you will intersperse your summaries and paraphrases with your own reflections. You just go back and forth, back and forth.

Jay's Example:

“We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black... " Part of Amy's genius comes from her ability to transfer her life to her music. At the time amy was writing songs for "Back to Black"she was suffering through a high-strung with the love of her life, her boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil. Her lyrics are full of of grief and heartbreak. There was a lot of cheating and drug abuse going on. At one point, when Blake went back to his old girlfriend, Amy thought her life was over She wanted to die. From the story the songs tell, her relationship with Blake burned too hot, too quickly. There was cheating and heartbreak: He went back to his old girlfriend, and she worried she'd lost the love of her life. "The songs literally did write themselves," (Rolling Stone). According to Amy, what saved her was her songwriting. She said putting her feelings down on paper was cathartic. Singing the songs helped her understand how much she loved him.

I think this would make a great support paragraph. It seems balanced. I think I provide a logical order. I think my responses contribute to the discussion