Kickstarters on Paper Due

First of all, trade blue comment sheets with each other. You should end up with the four blue comment sheets that YOU filled out about other papers, to hand in with your own paper. Assemble your drafts and comment sheets as instructed.

Next, open Moodle to Comp I and click on the Forum to Turn in Your Kickstarter on Paper. Follow the directions there to create a post with a message and a copy of your paper.

Next, you will show your classmates your paper, using the projector. You have TWO minutes to tell them the basics and their pledge choices. Yes, you can pitch your idea.

After each presentation, the class will each reply to that paper's post with the amount of money you would pledge to the project, and explain why.

All of this will be worth daybook points.

Turn in your daybooks.

Homework:

1.  Look at two readings in The Bedford Guide and pick one to read. You will be writing the next solo assignment about the reading you choose.

A. "Getting It All Done" by Gareth Cook p. 605-606

B. "The Creation of Discontent" by Juliet Schor p. 611-613.

Read either A. or B. for class Monday.

Sentences Style

I return your Kickstarter reviews.

In your daybook:

1. Copy down my comment at the bottom of the rubric.

2. List any margin error labels you have and HOW many you have.

3. List one strength and one weakness of this paper, using your scores or my comments.


You read in Everyday Writer about putting ideas together using conjunctions. Let's review them.

Here are some short sentences:

My dog loves to chase cats.

Our barn is full of cats.

Most of the cats on my place ignore the dog.

No cat has ever been injured by my dog.

Please create two long sentences. In one of them, use coordination to combine two of these sentences. In the other, use subordination to combine two of these sentences.

Let's share.

Now do Ex. 25.1 (p. 289)--your choice whether you write or type it. Make sure it's in the daybook.Copy or type the whole paragraph, please.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow the Kickstarter on Paper is due. You need to have one copy printed of the final version, and bring ALL blue sheets and Drafts 1 and 2. Also, have access to the efile of your paper to turn in in Moodle.

2. TWFTD: subordination in OED.

The OED and EasyBib

Thinkwrite:   Now that you've spent a lot of time on Kickstarter, what do you think about crowdsourcing? It's not just crowdfunding; there are citizen science projects (my favorite) and Airbnb and the Mechanical Turk.

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 look over 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.

Now, how will you cite your pictures? We go to page 468 in The Everyday Writer.

Homework:

1. Read pages 287-292 in Everyday Writer.

2. Get your citations in shape for the Kickstarter on Paper, due Friday. If you have included pictures, you need a Works Cited page.

3. TWFTD: punk in the OED.

Draft #2 Due Kickstarter On Paper

Thinkwrite: Yesterday I kept bringing up the idea that English is a difficult language to learn to read. What do you remember of the process YOU went through to learn to read? Please describe it. Highs and lows?

Print ONE copy of your Draft #2. Get out the purple Writer's Page to pass around with your draft and the comment sheets. Everyone reads and comments on TWO.

Now you are reading closely for details that need work. You may help each other with spelling and punctuation details.

Homework:

1. Prepare you Final Version for Friday. You will hand in ONE hard copy (with all comment sheets and drafts), AND turn in an efile in a forum in Moodle, the same way we did the last paper.

2. ON FRIDAY, you will get up and present your Kickstarter to the class. We'll put the paper up with the projector, because how it LOOKS is part of your sales pitch,  and you can explain it to us. When everyone has done that, you will choose a pledge amount for each project using the "Reply" button in the forum in Moodle.

TWFTD: Your choice of a long word that does NOT begin with "s".

Why is English So Hard to Spell?

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.

Tuck the handout in your daybook for the next daybook check (this Friday).


Homework:

1. Draft #2 Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow, Tuesday.

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.