Get out the gray assignment sheet, your notes, and the reading.
Open a Word file, create the usual heading, and type up your Solo #2 Essay.
When you finish, open our class in Moodle and find the forum to turn in Solo #2. Post your essay there.
You may work on this essay over the weekend. The Final Version (one hard copy) is due Monday. Bring the gray assignment sheet to turn in with it.
Homework:
1. Revise and finish your Solo #2 Essay to hand in Monday.
2. TWFTD: stereotype in the OED.
Friday, August 14, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Subordination and Coordination Some More
Get out the handout from the Prezi on Monday.
Using the handout, add commas to the following. Each one DOES need a comma:
1. Since school started yesterday in Lincoln I've been thinking about my first day of school.
2. I had several first days at new schools but I always think of the one when my picture was taken as I left the house.
3. Even though I have no clear memories of that day I still automatically picture the little girl with short hair and a sailor shirt.
4. Does this mean that most of my memories now are based on old photos and I'd better take as many pictures as possible from here on out? Yes.
Now let's look at fixing a problem:
Education is an elusive word, it often means different things to different people.
Fix this comma splice FOUR different ways. Now look in Everyday Writer.
Now do Ex. 25.1 page 289 in your daybook. Make this paragraph flow smoothly, with logical connections between ideas. Use either subordination or coordination to accomplish this.
Homework:
1. Finish Exercise 25.1 from the Everyday Writer.
2. Complete your notes about Staples' "Black Men and Public Space," and be ready to write about it tomorrow during class.
3. TWFTD: your choice from Staples' article using the OED.
Using the handout, add commas to the following. Each one DOES need a comma:
1. Since school started yesterday in Lincoln I've been thinking about my first day of school.
2. I had several first days at new schools but I always think of the one when my picture was taken as I left the house.
3. Even though I have no clear memories of that day I still automatically picture the little girl with short hair and a sailor shirt.
4. Does this mean that most of my memories now are based on old photos and I'd better take as many pictures as possible from here on out? Yes.
Now let's look at fixing a problem:
Education is an elusive word, it often means different things to different people.
Fix this comma splice FOUR different ways. Now look in Everyday Writer.
Now do Ex. 25.1 page 289 in your daybook. Make this paragraph flow smoothly, with logical connections between ideas. Use either subordination or coordination to accomplish this.
Homework:
1. Finish Exercise 25.1 from the Everyday Writer.
2. Complete your notes about Staples' "Black Men and Public Space," and be ready to write about it tomorrow during class.
3. TWFTD: your choice from Staples' article using the OED.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Preparing for Solo #2
Source: blog.curriculet.com/38-question-starters-based-blooms-taxonomy/
Thinkwrite: Look at the chart above, which is another depiction of Bloom's Taxonomy. When you are writing a summary/ response essay about an article you have read, which of the ways of thinking above will you be practicing? Remember, you're doing several things as you write, and being both objective and subjective in the process.
Let's discuss the example essay from yesterday.
What is the shared assessment essay? Solo Essay #2 gives you practice for it.
I'm not going to warm you up for this reading. Part of a writer's challenge is to jump in and try to take off with you, using ONLY his writing.
This man has a POINT to make. His sword is drawn. He has WORKED at this. Please read and think.
Take at least a page of notes about "Black Men and Public Space." Fold the page so you have two columns, and devote one side to objective notes about WHAT it says.
Homework:
1. Continue to read and take notes about "Black Men and Public Space" on page 520 in Bedford.
2. Read the assignment sheet for Solo #2 carefully. You will be writing (typing) the essay during class on Friday.
3. 8 AM class -- finish all the sentences on the CS or RO handout from Monday.
4. TWFTD: your choice from Staple's article, using the OED.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Example Summary/Response
Hand in your Kickstarters on Paper.
You do some writing.
We discuss the Pat Bourne questions. Subjective vs. objective?
Now you read an example essay that is doing summary/ response (download from Moodle, do "Save As" and add YOUR LAST NAME to the file name).
Then colorize YOUR copy of the essay, using these directions:
1. Make the first and last sentences in the paper red. The first should be a hook. The last is a “clincher.”
2. Italicize the title and author of the article I'm writing about.
3. Make the thesis orange.
4. Make the summary yellow.
5. Make any response to the content of the article pale blue.
6. Underline any quotes. These are places that used the exact words of the article.
7. Make BOLD any time I used “the writer” or "the author" or "the article"– these are called author tags (and would have used a name if there was one on this article).
When you are done, go to Moodle to upload your colorized version in the forum there. Be sure to follow the instructions so that you answer the required questions as you post.
Homework:
1. Make sure all the above is complete.
2. TWFTD: tirade in OED
You do some writing.
We discuss the Pat Bourne questions. Subjective vs. objective?
Now you read an example essay that is doing summary/ response (download from Moodle, do "Save As" and add YOUR LAST NAME to the file name).
Then colorize YOUR copy of the essay, using these directions:
1. Make the first and last sentences in the paper red. The first should be a hook. The last is a “clincher.”
2. Italicize the title and author of the article I'm writing about.
3. Make the thesis orange.
4. Make the summary yellow.
5. Make any response to the content of the article pale blue.
6. Underline any quotes. These are places that used the exact words of the article.
7. Make BOLD any time I used “the writer” or "the author" or "the article"– these are called author tags (and would have used a name if there was one on this article).
When you are done, go to Moodle to upload your colorized version in the forum there. Be sure to follow the instructions so that you answer the required questions as you post.
Homework:
1. Make sure all the above is complete.
2. TWFTD: tirade in OED
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