The OED and EasyBib

I return your Solo paper #1. In your daybook:

1. Copy down the strength and weakness I wrote at the bottom of the rubric.
2. Where did you lose the most points?
3. Look at the grammar errors. How many C.S. or R.O. or Frag. did you have? Record the numbers.
Tomorrow we will begin to cover what C.S. and R. O. and Frag. mean.

Thinkwrite:   Now that you've spent a lot of time on Kickstarter, what do you think about crowdsourcing?

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

2. TWFTD: punk in the OED.

Draft #2 Of Kickstarter on Paper

Thinkwrite:

If an American (World?) dictator wanted to change English spelling to make it logical, would you support him/her? Explain.

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 on the board, and you can simply show us what it says. When everyone has done that, you will pledge amounts of money to 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? We move up to room 210 for this lecture.

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.