Mike Rowe

You hand in your Problem/  Solution papers.

Here's a cliché: Is a picture worth a thousand words? You tell me. Thinkwrite.

How about "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"?


What do YOU think the point of this painting is?

Now we watch Mike Rowe. Note that there is a transcript feature on this video, so you can read along or check back.

I hand out the prompt.

Homework:

1. Monday your daybook is due for the last check.

2. TWFTD: anagnorisis and peripeteia in OED.

Editing for Citing Sources

Wkipedia on "reading"

 

 

 

Wikipedian Protester

 

to this:

Thinkwrite:  Can  you think of some examples of situations where you could use a "citation needed" sign? These could include useful but inappropriate situations, past, present and future.

Or how about "Show us the evidence?" Or "How do you KNOW this?"


Now you have time to open your paper in TurnItIn and ask questions, getting it ready to hand in tomorrow. Do you need help with EasyBib?

Homework:

1. Finish work on your Problem/Solution with Sources MLA style. Have one copy printed, with the Works Cited page, and goldenrod sheets to hand in. ALSO have your FIRST Problem/Solution paper (the graded one) to hand in as well.

2. TWFTD: husbandry in the OED  (as in "animal husbandry")

YOUR PORTFOLIO:

Legos ---  green
Intellectual Property  ---- gray
Clichés ---- yellow
Mike Rowe --- cream 

Observation ----  blue
Summary/ Response ---  tan
Problem/ Solution --- purple
Problem/ Solution with Sources --- goldenrod

In-Class Essay --- salmon

Only Draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources

Good job with yesterday's essays -- I saw many good ones.

Thinkwrite:  How is writing under a time limit different from the other work you have done for this class? How did it work for you? Should you always set a timer?

Today you will exchange drafts. Read and comment ON the draft, and fill out the comment sheet as well. Give each other useful feedback. Especially consider whether the writing is persuasive (if the topic lends itself to persuasion); is this paper making you WANT to be part of the solution?

Homework:

1. Upload this draft in TurnItIn in Moodle for tomorrow. You should be paraphrasing information in a way that keeps your matching percentage below 10%.

2. TWFTD: compare "convince" to "persuade" in OED.

Assessment Essay (Common Final)

Today you spend the class period typing (or writing) a summary/response essay to the reading "Leave Your Name at the Border" by Manuel Munoz.

Print and hand it in; format as you would any paper.

Homework:

1. Draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources due tomorrow. Have a Works Cited page and in-text citations to get credit for the draft being on time.

2. TWFTD: find something strange in the OED. Your choice.

EasyBib and Writing About a Reading

I return your cliché papers, and we look at an example. This is writing about a reading and a prompt at the same time, just like what you'll do tomorrow.

How to pass? Read the essay. Figure out Munoz's point. Respond according to one of the prompts. Make sure that everything you write demonstrates that you read and understood the essay (give the author's name and title of editorial, use evidence FROM WHAT HE WROTE as you discuss it).


Now, go to EasyBib and create a "project" for your Problem/ Solution paper.

If you wish, you may discuss the reading with each other -- what's his point?

Homework:

1. Tomorrow is the Assessment Essay. Bring your annotated copy of the editorial and your daybook and any other books you wish. You have the class period to write a summary/response based on the prompt I hand out tomorrow.

Remember that the annotated article will be worth daybook points.

2. TWFTD: a word chosen from "Leave Your Name at the Border."