Type a Short Essay

Observation?  Close enough?

Look back at 10/25 in your daybook.  How can you prevent that weakness in THIS short essay?

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

- 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 from your own experience, an introduction and conclusion.

I pick up daybooks.  Be sure to include the grey History of English handout and the handout from yesterday, the marked-up purple example of summary/response about P. Bourne.

Homework:

1.  You must continue to read and annotate the article you will write about.  Be sure to underline vocabulary you are not sure of. On Tuesday you must have a rough draft that includes both some summary and some response about the article.  People will read your draft.

2.  no WFTD.

Summary/Response

I. Do Ex. 24.1 on page 27 of the Ev Wr. Exercise book.  Rewrite the whole paragraph, but feel free to use either coordination or subordination to link ideas.

II. Read pages 20-22 in Bedford under "Responding to Reading."

III. Look at the assignment sheet. 

IV. We look at the Pat Bourne handout.  Read, write on the article, and answer the questions in your daybook.

Homework:


1.  Finish the Pat Bourne handout in your daybook.


2.  Look at the articles for the next paper.  You must choose and read one article tonight.  You will have to tell me about it tomorrow.


3.  TWFTD: annotate

Observation Due/ Reading

Turn in your Observation paper with all drafts and blue comment sheets.

In your daybook answer these questions:

1.  What was the easiest part of the process for writing this paper?

2.  What step was the most difficult and why?

3.  Is there anything you would do differently, as you look back?

A book can change a life.


We meet William Kamkwamba.


Now, William later.



 His website.



Daybook work:  We go to the library, where you look at the books on the shelves upstairs.  You must find at least three titles that interest  you.  In your daybook, list the title, author, and what you would expect to find out if you were to read the book. If you have time, begin to read.

Homework:


1.  Read something.  Anything.  For a while.


2. TWFTD:  decimate

Revise, Edit and Proofread

I. First of all,  put these two clauses together FOUR different ways:

I spent two hours last night working on my paper.  This morning I could find no changes in the file.

II. Now, put your paper on the screen, side-by-side with this list.

1. Highlight all There/Here/It  and see if you can rewrite.

2. Highlight the words you easily confuse:  there/their, its/it's, etc.  Fix.

3. Highlight all commas.  Read the whole sentence. Is it correct and clear?

4. Look for coordination that is missing the comma (,and/ ,for/ ,but)

5. Highlight any  ;  (semicolons). Could a period take its place?  Then it is correct.

6. Underline the first sentence of a paragraph.  Is everything in that paragraph somehow related to that sentence?  Check some more.

7. Are any of your paragraphs longer than half a page?  See whether you can separate some ideas.

8. Is there variety in how you begin your sentences?

9. What errors were marked on your Audience Awareness essay?  How can you prevent those here?

10. Double check the format!!!  Font 12, no extra space betweeen paragraphs, last name and page # at top in a header.

ASK ME.  When it all looks perfect, pair up and start reading it out loud to your partner, starting with the last paragraph.  Take turns, paragraph by paragraph.

Homework:

1.  Final Version Observation due tomorrow.  Typed, MLA style. Put your word count next to my name in the heading.

2. Bring the blue comment sheets and writer's page to turn in also.

3.  TWFTD:  euphemism