Friday: Thinking about Observation

Class does not meet today, but instead of a substitute teacher, you have work to do in Moodle and your textbooks. You can easily get this done in a computer lab on campus during our normal class period.

1. Go to the class in Moodle and click on the link that says "A Lesson on Observation" (under the fish). Do what it tells you to do. When you are done, you will have done several writing tasks in your daybook.

2. First Everyday Writer assignment!! Read pages 419-420 about apostrophes. Then do Exercise 42.1 on pages 420-421. Write the answers in your daybook by numbering 1-10 and copying down ONLY the italicized words with the correct puctuation.

Homework:

1.  For another example of observation/description, read "The Surfing Savant" on pages 98-101 in Bedford. After you read the article, number in your daybook from 1 to 12. Notice that each paragraph has a number to the right of it in the textbook.

Next to each number on your list, I want you to write down what that paragraph is mostly doing. Choose from the following list:

quoting
physical description
introducing
background information
concluding

If you think one paragraph does more than one of the above, you can write both next to its number.

2. Decide what you will observe/describe for your long paper, and begin taking notes. Your notes should be as detailed as possible and include both subjective and objective details. (See page 87 in Bedford). You are collecting details. [Special note -- it's fine to take pictures AS you take notes.  That could help jog your memory later. The pictures cannot replace notes, since pictures are all objective detail.]

No words for these days.