Correct Ex. 22.9.

"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




Read the assignment handout. Correct them. Look at page 86 and 87.


We look at another picture. Make two columns in your daybook, and for 5 minutes write down EVERYTHING that you see. That gives you objective and subjective details. You may do this as a list or as sentences, your choice.

Here is an example of 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"?


I pick up daybooks!

Homework:

1.  Decide what you will  observe and take notes.  By the NEXT daybook check you must have at least two pages of observation notes. You may add pages in to your daybook  if you start this weekend, since I have your daybooks.

2. No TWFTD.

Observation/Description

Your turn in all related Lego papers, including the final version of your directions.

And how did the Lego build go for you?  Assumptions?

We discuss the nomenclature problem, and you write about it.


Here is an interesting place.  In your daybook, describe what you see.


You read "Communications" p. 82-84.  Discuss.

Homework:

1. Prepare your daybook to hand in tomorrow.



2. TWFTD:  subjective (Note:  only one definition needs to be recorded, but it should match the quote you use to illustrate the word.)

Legos Day Three

"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. Brainstorm ideas for changes to your directions. Come up with as many ideas for change -- even silly ones -- as possible. Pencil these ideas over your directions that were used today.

2.  Make typed changes to your directions and print the new version before class. You do NOT have to make all the changes that you brainstormed. The revision is worth 1/3 of  your grade on this project. Show that you are thinking.

3. TWFTD: superfluous

Legos Day Two

I give you a directions sheet about MLA style, and you type up your directions.

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Homework:


1.  Finish typing your directions and print so they are ready for a classmate to follow tomorrow. Have them printed BEFORE class starts.

2.  Read the handout about Lego nomenclature.  Write out the answers to the questions at the end of the handout IN YOUR DAYBOOK!

2. TWFTD: nomenclature

Legos Day One

"My play was a success.  The audience was a failure."  by Ashleigh Brilliant

In your daybook: If a set of directions fails, whose fault might it be?  Thinkwrite until I stop you.

You spend 10 minutes working on Ex. 22.9 in the Everyday Writer Exercise book. Look at Section 23 in The Everyday Writer.

I explain the Lego project, and you begin.

Homework:


1.  Finish writing out your directions and be ready to type them up in the lab tomorrow. (If you have not already logged in once on campus, do so before tomorrow.)


2. TWFTD: subsequent (Look in Sec. 23 for help.)