Draft 1 Problem/ Solution Due

Print 1 copy of your Problem/ Solution Draft 1.

Fill out the Writer's Page and attach two comment sheets. We exchange.

Any time you have left after reading two drafts, use to watch this Prezi:

http://prezi.com/mqpmuyi2feab/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share


Homework:
 
1. Watch the Prezi linked above.
 
2. TWFTD: algorithm in OED, NOT def. #1.

Working on the Problem/Solution Draft

Fix this comma splice FOUR different ways:

I braked when the car in the fast lane braked, I never even saw the deer.

 

 

Now you have time to work on your draft, due tomorrow.

 

 

Homework:

1. Draft 1 Problem/ Solution due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: serendipity in Wikipedia.

What's Your Problem?

In your daybook, answer these questions:

1. State the problem you think you want to write about.

2. What is your personal experience with it?

3. What are some causes of this problem?

4. What solution or solutions do you have in mind?

When you finish the above, fix the following run-on (comma splice) sentence FOUR different ways. Copy it out four times. You may refer to pages 288-291 in Everyday Writer for help.

Education is an elusive word, it often means different things to different people.

 

 

We discuss your results. Then you do Ex. 37.1 page 390. Type these up and put them in your daybook. Do what the directions say.

 

 

Homework:

 

1. Begin working on your Problem/Solution Draft #1. There will be time tomorrow for working on your paper.

 

2. TWFTD: to elude in the OED.



Problem/Solution Day 2

Thinkwrite: Look at the pictures on pages 134-135 in Bedford. Describe what you see and write about possible problems these pictures illustrate.

I hand out the assignment sheet.

We look at a student's paper, "It's Not Just a Bike" pages 188-189 Bedford. You have the following questions to answer in your daybook:

• 1. What problem does Lacey Taylor want solved in her essay “It’s Not Just a Bike”?
• 2. This is her hook: “Imagine one day waking up to find that your car had been stolen. To many students, a bicycle is just like a car.” I think it would be more effective to do the imagining FOR the reader, and tell a little story. Using YOUR imagination, write a better hook that tells a story to help us imagine this situation. {This should be several sentences.}
• 3. ListTaylor’s five proposed solutions.
• 4. Which two solutions do you think would be MOST effective? Explain.
• 5. Which two solutions do you think would be LEAST effective? Explain.
• 6. When Taylor proposed the solutions you identified in question 5 above, did she acknowledge in any way that there might be difficulties? Quote her statements that point out potential difficulties with either of those solutions.

Homework:

1. Decide what your LONG problem/solution paper will be about. Fill one page in your daybook brainstorming about this problem (or problems, to help you decide on one). Causes? Solutions? Experience? You will reveal your topic tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: rehabilitation

Problem/Solution Day 1

Turn in your Summary/ Evaluation/ Response papers.

Thinkwrite: Come up with three labels that apply to you. (For me, my labels include teacher, mother, driver, gardener, daughter, reader.)

Now think of the worst thing (morally or emotionally) you have ever done. What labels might someone on the outside attach to you based on those actions? Don't tell what you did, but list some labels. 

Thinkwrite: Are any of the terms on your second list also on the first? Why not?

Remember I said that TED talks were Creative Commons works?We watch this.

Thinkwrite: Why do you think America, the home of the free, have the biggest prison population in the world? Do you know anyone who has spent time in jail?

Now we read an example of the next paper you will write. Bedford pages 185-187, "Why Prisons Don't Work."

In your daybooks, answer questions 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 from Bedford page 187.

Homework:

1. Begin thinking about a problem you can write about, with actual solutions you can propose and explain. The problem must be something you have personal experience with. This rules out big political debates; you must have personal experience with the problem.

2. TWFTD: identity in OED NOT the mathematical!