Monday, October 3, 2011

Welcome

You look at the course syllabus. Answer questions.

What is revision?

Page 6 from The Bedford Guide.

Now you please take some time to fill a page (as much as you can) on this prompt: 

Describe your worst writing experience and your greatest writing success. 

Homework:

1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook.

2.  On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "My Recipe for Writing a Paper."  Underneath that title, please use your past experience to put together a list of steps for writing an essay or long paper.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Why Is English So Hard To Spell?

Consider the words knight, night, through, though, bough, cough, rough, come, give, gone.

Take a short pretest about the history of English.  Look at this chart.


Old English spoken for us.


Anglo-Saxon art

Anglo-Saxons vs. Vikings  which leads us to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.


After Norman castles we come to Middle English.

Fold your handout and put it in your daybook as you hand it in.

For the final tomorrow:  Read pages 539-541 in the Bedford Guide. Be ready to write about it.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Books

We meet William Kamkwamba.
Now, William later.

From his book. His website.

Daybook work:  We go to the library, where you look at the books on the shelves upstairs.  You must find at least three titles that interest  you.  In your daybook, list the title, author, and what you would expect to find out if you were to read the book. If you have time, begin to read.