Typing up the Transcript

Note:  Check yesterday's daybook to make sure that you have an outline of yesterday's 5 Paragraph Essay on Observation.

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

The sentence above is a run-on. Fix it three different ways, using coordination and/or subordination. Copy it out completely for each fix.

When you type up your transcript, at the top of the page have

Person Interviewed:
Date and Time of Interview:
Location of Interview:

Then begin.  Include any additional notes about how things looked or thoughts you had while you were with this person.

Homework:

1. Finish typing the transcript and have it ready to be checked tomorrow in class.

Short Essay Time

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

- George Orwell

 

 "All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking; not many are seeing."

- Peter Leschak 

 

In your daybook, write down a quick outline of today's essay.  List your thesis with the points under it.  Find in your stuff the gray paper about introductions, but remember, write you introduction last!
We go to the lab where you type up your short essay about close observation.  Here, again, is the prompt:

 In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness.  Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.

Homework:

1. Bring the notes or recording of your interview to class.  You will have lab time to transcribe (type up) your notes or the recording. If it is a recording, bring earbuds.

Interviewing

First of all, we look at Clay Marzo.

Read the interview.  We discuss it.

Notice the kind of observation/description going on in this interview.

I return your short essays on audience awareness. In your daybook, list two strengths and two weaknesses of this essay.

Freewrite:  Consider the usefulness (utility) of close observation, in your life, job, and/or the lives or jobs of others. Do you know someone who always sees so much more than you do in a certain situation? Describe the person and why that is. What do YOU mean by "close observation"?  Think about that, and explain.

This is the prompt you will write to tomorrow:  In a short essay of five or so paragraphs, discuss what close observation involves, and explain its usefulness.  Be sure to include detailed examples, an introduction and conclusion.

Homework:

1.  If you have not done your interview, you need to get it done before Wednesday.