Problem/ Solution Draft 1 Due

Please develop these sentences, using modifiers from your imagination:

1. The room had comfortable seating.

2. Several citizens talked about the disturbance.

3. The laborer helped the victim.



You exchange drafts and help each other improve these papers.  You may change your topic, if you find it is NOT working out.

Homework:

1.  Keep working on this draft.  Draft 2 is due Tuesday.

2. TWFTD:   no word.

Working on Your Problem/ Solution Paper

First of all, what do you think of THIS site? Read the yellow sentences.

We do another practice about modifier placement.

Now you have time to work on the draft due tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Complete Draft 1 of Problem/ Solution due tomorrow.

2.  TWFTD:  develop in OED      What's the opposite of develop?

Short Essay #3 Due-- Mike Rowe

In your daybook, answer these questions:

1. State the problem you think you want to write about.

2. What is your personal experience with it?

3. What are some causes of this problem?

4. What solution or solutions do you have in mind?

Grammar:

We look at dangling and misplaced modifiers.


Open up Moodle and work on Exercise Central 4 exercises  over Section 36 in The Everyday Writer.  Finish all 4 exercises for the next daybook check.


Homework:

1. Write Draft 1 of the Problem/Solution paper, due Friday.

2. Tomorrow is a work day. There is time during class to write Draft 1.

3. TWFTD: genre   in OED

Problem/ Solution Day 2

Thinkwrite: Look at the pictures on pages 134-135 in Bedford.  Describe what you see and write about possible problems these pictures illustrate.

I hand out the assignment sheet.

We look at a student's paper, "It's Not Just a Bike" pages 188-189 Bedford. You have the following questions to answer in your daybook:

• 1. What problem does Lacey Taylor want solved in her essay “It’s Not Just a Bike”?
• 2.  This is her hook: “Imagine one day waking up to find that your car had been stolen. To many students, a bicycle is just like a car.”    I think it would be more effective to do the imagining FOR the reader, and tell a little story. Using YOUR imagination, write a better hook that tells a story to help us imagine this situation. {This should be several sentences.}
• 3.     List Taylor’s five proposed solutions.
• 4.     Which two solutions do you think would be MOST effective? Explain.
• 5.     Which two solutions do you think would be LEAST effective? Explain.
• 6.     When Taylor proposed the solutions you identified in question 5 above, did she acknowledge in any way that there might be difficulties? Quote her statements that point out potential difficulties with either of those solutions.

Homework:

1. Decide what your LONG problem/solution paper will be about. Fill one page in your daybook brainstorming about this problem (or problems, to help you decide on one). Causes? Solutions? Experience? You will reveal your topic tomorrow.

2. Your Short Project #3 on Mike Rowe is due tomorrow. Hard copy, print before class, turn in with the yellow prompt.

2. TWFTD:  rehabilitation

Problem/ Solution Day 1

Thinkwrite:  Come up with three labels that apply to you.  (For me, my labels  include teacher, mother, driver, gardener, daughter, reader.)

Now think of the worst thing (morally or emotionally) you have ever done.  What labels might someone on the outside attach to you based on those actions?  Don't tell what you did, but list some labels.  (Mine would include liar, killer, bully, thief, fool.)

Are any of the terms on your second list also on the first?  Why not?

Remember I said that TED talks were Creative Commons works?We watch this. Is any of this your problem?

Now we read an example of the next paper you will write. Bedford pages 185-187, "Why Prisons Don't Work."

In your daybooks, answer questions 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 from Bedford page 187.

Homework:

1. Begin thinking about a problem you can write about, with actual solutions you can propose and explain. The problem should be something you have personal experience with.

2. Remember the short essay due Wednesday.

3.  TWFTD:  identity in OED NOT the first definition!