Editing:
1. Your teachers rubric will determine your reports grade.
2. Your teachers rubrics will determine your reports grades.
In Everyday Writer?
An apostrophe blog.
Listen to an essay that features observation: "In the Laboratory with Agassiz" . What college students were wearing then. The fish. Scudder later in life.
Answer in your daybook as I read:
ichthyology-
entomology-
interdicted-
How long did he have to look at the fish?
What was "the best entomological lesson [he] ever had"?
If there is time, Ex. 41.2 in Ev.Wr. Ex. book.
I pick up daybooks!
Homework:
1. Observe and take notes. You may add pages in to your daybook later since I have them over the weekend.
2. No TWFTD.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Audience Awareness Essay
Once again, here is the prompt:
Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores the importance of analyzing or considering the audience for any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of writing can be used as an example. But your first step is to come up with a thesis statement which makes clear your viewpoint on this topic.
Type this up using the MLA format, including double-spaced lines. If it is two pages long, that's fine. There is no length requirement other than 5 paragraphs. Examples are key!
Print and hand in by tomorrow, Friday.
Homework:
1. Be observing and taking notes for your observation paper.
2. TWFTD: disconcerting
Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores the importance of analyzing or considering the audience for any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of writing can be used as an example. But your first step is to come up with a thesis statement which makes clear your viewpoint on this topic.
Type this up using the MLA format, including double-spaced lines. If it is two pages long, that's fine. There is no length requirement other than 5 paragraphs. Examples are key!
Print and hand in by tomorrow, Friday.
Homework:
1. Be observing and taking notes for your observation paper.
2. TWFTD: disconcerting
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The 5 Paragraph Essay
Editing practice: The kids were already to go.
We look at Section 22 (is 22.9 checked?) and Section 23 in the Everyday Writer. Look up every day and everyday and write a sentence using each of them . Do the same with amount and number.
We look at the short (five paragraph) essay as a way to analyze/synthesize/evaluate information. See handout.
Then we look at Everyday Writer pages 58-59.
Now for a prompt:
Look over the quotes and writing you have put in your daybook since the first day of class. Think about the examples of directions you looked at, and the directions you wrote.
Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores/explains/describes the importance of considering/analyzing the audience for any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of writing can be used as an example to support your point.
Homework:
1. Fill at least one page in your daybook brainstorming about the prompt. You may write out an entire essay if you wish. In class tomorrow you will type and print your essay to hand in.
2. TWFTD: fanatic
We look at Section 22 (is 22.9 checked?) and Section 23 in the Everyday Writer. Look up every day and everyday and write a sentence using each of them . Do the same with amount and number.
We look at the short (five paragraph) essay as a way to analyze/synthesize/evaluate information. See handout.
Then we look at Everyday Writer pages 58-59.
Now for a prompt:
Look over the quotes and writing you have put in your daybook since the first day of class. Think about the examples of directions you looked at, and the directions you wrote.
Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores/explains/describes the importance of considering/analyzing the audience for any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of writing can be used as an example to support your point.
Homework:
1. Fill at least one page in your daybook brainstorming about the prompt. You may write out an entire essay if you wish. In class tomorrow you will type and print your essay to hand in.
2. TWFTD: fanatic
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Lego Directions Due/ Observation
Your turn in all related Lego papers, including the final version of your directions.
"For godsake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." William Burroughs
Here is an interesting place. In your daybook, describe what you see.
We look at page 78 in Bedford.
Then you read "Communications" p. 82-84. Discuss.
Read page 85 and assignment handout. List in your daybook 5 places you could observe for this assignment.
Homework:
1. Pick a spot in your room, around the house, or outside. For 5 minutes (time it) write down EVERYTHING that you see, using the two column method on page 87. That gives you objective and subjective details. You may do this as a list or as sentences, your choice.
2. Now, try to come up with a place where you would like to do this several different times, for a paper. Be ready to tell me tomorrow.
3. TWFTD: subjective (Note: only one definition needs to be recorded, but it should match the quote you use to illustrate the word.)
"For godsake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." William Burroughs
Here is an interesting place. In your daybook, describe what you see.
We look at page 78 in Bedford.
Then you read "Communications" p. 82-84. Discuss.
Read page 85 and assignment handout. List in your daybook 5 places you could observe for this assignment.
Homework:
1. Pick a spot in your room, around the house, or outside. For 5 minutes (time it) write down EVERYTHING that you see, using the two column method on page 87. That gives you objective and subjective details. You may do this as a list or as sentences, your choice.
2. Now, try to come up with a place where you would like to do this several different times, for a paper. Be ready to tell me tomorrow.
3. TWFTD: subjective (Note: only one definition needs to be recorded, but it should match the quote you use to illustrate the word.)
Monday, October 10, 2011
Legos Day 3
"Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all." - Norman Cousins
As you build projects today, you have to be aware of several things at once. You must follow the directions, but you must also analyze the directions as you use them.
We read pages 25-27 in Bedford. Copy into your daybook the "skills" chart. You will do the "literal" skills as you build. You will analyze and evaluate as you comment on a set of instructions.
How is the layout on the page working?
What is clear and what is confusing in the writing?
Are there problems with the directions or is it the audience (you)?
When all are done, you can see how others did with your directions. Hopefully you have some ideas for ways to improve your own. Remember, even if people easily built your directions, I want you to look for ways to improve what you have.
Homework:
1. Use the green revision sheet to brainstorm ideas for changes to your directions. Come up with as many ideas for change -- even silly ones -- as possible.
2. Make typed changes to your directions and print before class. You do NOT have to make all the changes that you list on the green sheet. The revision is worth 1/3 of your grade on this project. Show that you are thinking.
3. TWFTD: superfluous
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