Use Everyday Writer to write the following in your daybook:
List 6 coordinating conjunctions:
List 3 pairs of correlative conjunctions:
List 5 subordinating conjunctions:
Today you read drafts. Hey!! Anybody interviewing an elderly farmer? Be sure to ask about THIS !!!!
Homework:
1. Continue working on this essay. Especially take care of any follow-up questions you have. Draft #2 is due Tuesday.
2. Read pages 513-517 in Bedford, "The Color of Love." In your daybook answer Question #1 Considering Meaning on page 517. Do a good job showing that you read the essay by listing specific information in your answer.
3. I will collect daybooks on Monday for the second check (for the midterm grade).
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Begin Working on Your Interview Essay
Remember, think about a main point or focus that you are going to build this essay around.
The purpose of this paper is to create a portrait of this person using your words.
1. What one characterisitic or experience of this person interests you the most?
2. Did you run into any surprises?
3. What do you think will interest us the most as we read your paper?
You must have a focus before you start writing about the interview, because you CANNOT include everything that was said. You MUST pick and choose. If you don't leave any parts of the interview out in a 1500 word paper, your interview was too superficial. You may ask follow-up questions before the final version is due.
Homework:
1. Have the first draft ready for people to read tomorrow. You must be here tomorrow to earn points reading two drafts. Remember, the comment process is practice for reading your own draft and improving it.
The purpose of this paper is to create a portrait of this person using your words.
1. What one characterisitic or experience of this person interests you the most?
2. Did you run into any surprises?
3. What do you think will interest us the most as we read your paper?
You must have a focus before you start writing about the interview, because you CANNOT include everything that was said. You MUST pick and choose. If you don't leave any parts of the interview out in a 1500 word paper, your interview was too superficial. You may ask follow-up questions before the final version is due.
Homework:
1. Have the first draft ready for people to read tomorrow. You must be here tomorrow to earn points reading two drafts. Remember, the comment process is practice for reading your own draft and improving it.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Typing up the Transcript
Note: Check yesterday's daybook to make sure that you have an outline of yesterday's 5 Paragraph Essay on Observation.
Education is an elusive word it means different things to different people.
The sentence above is a run-on. Fix it three different ways, using coordination and/or subordination. Copy it out completely for each fix.
When you type up your transcript, at the top of the page have
Person Interviewed:
Date and Time of Interview:
Location of Interview:
Then begin. Include any additional notes about how things looked or thoughts you had while you were with this person.
Homework:
1. Finish typing the transcript and have it ready to be checked tomorrow in class.
Education is an elusive word it means different things to different people.
The sentence above is a run-on. Fix it three different ways, using coordination and/or subordination. Copy it out completely for each fix.
When you type up your transcript, at the top of the page have
Person Interviewed:
Date and Time of Interview:
Location of Interview:
Then begin. Include any additional notes about how things looked or thoughts you had while you were with this person.
Homework:
1. Finish typing the transcript and have it ready to be checked tomorrow in class.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Short Essay Time
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
In your daybook, write down a quick outline of today's essay. List your thesis with the points under it. Find in your stuff the gray paper about introductions, but remember, write you introduction last!
We go to the lab where you type up your short essay about close observation. Here, again, is the prompt:
In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness. Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.
Homework:
1. Bring the notes or recording of your interview to class. You will have lab time to transcribe (type up) your notes or the recording. If it is a recording, bring earbuds.
- George Orwell
"All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking; not many are seeing."
- Peter Leschak
We go to the lab where you type up your short essay about close observation. Here, again, is the prompt:
In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness. Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.
Homework:
1. Bring the notes or recording of your interview to class. You will have lab time to transcribe (type up) your notes or the recording. If it is a recording, bring earbuds.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Interviewing
First of all, we look at Clay Marzo.
Read the interview. We discuss it.
Notice the kind of observation/description going on in this interview.
I return your short essays on audience awareness. In your daybook, list two strengths and two weaknesses of this essay.
Freewrite: Consider the usefulness (utility) of close observation, in your life, job, and/or the lives or jobs of others. Do you know someone who always sees so much more than you do in a certain situation? Describe the person and why that is. What do YOU mean by "close observation"? Think about that, and explain.
This is the prompt you will write to tomorrow: In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness. Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.
Homework:
1. If you have not done your interview, you need to get it done before Wednesday.
Read the interview. We discuss it.
Notice the kind of observation/description going on in this interview.
I return your short essays on audience awareness. In your daybook, list two strengths and two weaknesses of this essay.
Freewrite: Consider the usefulness (utility) of close observation, in your life, job, and/or the lives or jobs of others. Do you know someone who always sees so much more than you do in a certain situation? Describe the person and why that is. What do YOU mean by "close observation"? Think about that, and explain.
This is the prompt you will write to tomorrow: In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness. Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.
Homework:
1. If you have not done your interview, you need to get it done before Wednesday.
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