Review Due

Hand in your Review with the blue assignment/grading rubric sheet. Do NOT staple. You may use paper clips. Put your name at the top left corner of the grading rubric.

Do the open-daybook vocabulary quiz. Hand it in.

Do Everyday Writer Ex. 23.9 on page 272. Number from 1 to 13 in your daybook, and number the blanks in the paragraph. Then write down your choice for each in the daybook. Use Sec. 24 for help on any you're not sure about.

Then spend some time filling a page in your daybook with brainstorming about a possible Kickstarter on Paper. If you prefer, you can create a brainstorming Text2MindMap, print, and include that in your daybook. You now know what the Key Elements are, so these could form the basis of your mindmap.

Homework:

1. Begin working on Draft 1 of a Kickstarter on Paper, due Tuesday April 22.

2. TWFTD: etymology

The OED, Key Elements, and EasyBib

First of all, now that you've spent a lot of time on Kickstarter, what do you think about crowdsourcing? Thinkwrite....

Examples? We watch this video....then look at the OED. Punk, anyone? From now on, I may tell you that your TWFTD info must come from the OED. When I do that, you first choose ONE of the quotes, copy it down, give its year, and then the definition that matches that quote. Please do scan down ALL the definitions when I send you to the OED. See the link on the left side of this post for the OED. If you are at home, the password info is there as well.

Next we discuss a list of the KEY ELEMENTS that every Kickstarter paper will need to have and I hand out the assignment sheet for your Kickstarter on Paper.

Last of all, we look at EasyBib, so you can make a Works Cited page for the Review due tomorrow. It counts as a full page, if the format is correct.



Homework:

1. Finish your Kickstarter Review, and print the final version to hand in tomorrow. Have the blue grading rubric to turn in with it. Remember, a Works Cited page counts as a whole page on Count Day.

2. TWFTD: punk from the OED.

English Spelling? Why?

I assume you are working on your Kickstarter Review. Questions?

Why is English so hard to spell?

I hand out a sheet. Read it over and complete anything on it you can.

Here is the link to today's lecture on "Why Is English So Hard to Spell?
 This is called a Prezi, an alternative to powerpoints. Fill your handout in as we go. After class I'm hoping you'll open this up and look at the stuff I skipped over.

Keep the handout in your daybook for the next check.

Homework:

1. Continue working on the review due Friday.

2. TWFTD: punk

3. If the history of English interests you, watch this video, a "lighthearted" (not safe for school) history of English in 10 minutes. For extra credit, give two facts you learned from this video.

4. No typo.

Comparing

You hand in your "Language Use in Kickstarter" document in the Moodle forum.

Then we read an example of comparing/constrasting in Bedford, pages 121-123.

Create a Mind Map of this reading. Click on this link: https://www.text2mindmap.com/KmyYuY?controller=frontpage&method=index&map=KmyYuY

I'll show you how to type into the link. Type in a short phrase that describes what happens in each paragraph. When you are done, click "Draw Mind Map" and make sure it's what you want. Then click "Download" and "Download PDF" and print that. Save it in your daybook.

Then we discuss criteria.

If there's time, you have time to work on your Kickstarter Review.

Homework:

1. Be working on your Kickstarter Review. After you have taken a page of notes in your daybook, you should decide on your criteria and start drafting.

2. TWFTD: centrifugal

Evaluating Kickstarters

I return the daybooks.

To start us thinking, here's an article I happened upon over the weekend:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/05/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-the-illusion-of-products-can-mislead-customers-about-the-realities-of-business/

This caused me to follow the link about the T-shirt. Which brought me back to Kickstarter.

Thinkwrite: Is there a product that you are very familiar with the hidden work that goes into producing it? Please explain, giving details.

Some Kickstarters involve complicated production requirements that may not be explained or understood.

I hand out the assignment sheet for the Solo paper due Friday. We need to discuss criteria...


Homework:

1. Finish the "Language Use in Kickstarter" assignment from Friday.

2. Finalize your choice of two Kickstarters to write about, and begin the steps of creating Solo Assignment #1. Start with taking a page of notes in your daybook. This leads to choosing criteria and identifying Key Elements.

3. TWFTD: criteria