Getting Ready for Solo #2

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.

What's a thesis statement? What was yours for Solo #1? Copy into your daybook.

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Does my thesis statement have context/subject/claim?  Does yours?

Now, read and take notes (objective/subjective)  over the reading you have chosen. During class on Monday you will type or handwrite Solo #2, a summary/response essay about the reading of your choice. (Bring earbuds, if you wish.)

Homework:

1. Read your chosen reading through several times and be ready to write about it during class. Look at the assignment sheet to help you know how to write this essay.

2. TWFTD: your choice from the article you're reading, using the OED. Find the definition that matches how the word is used in your article.

Kickstarter On Paper Due/ Next Genre

Hand in your Kickstarters on Paper.

New Genre: Reading.

Answer the Pat Bourne questions.

We discuss. 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

Snow Day AGAIN

Do please study the yellow assignment sheet, choose a reading, and read it a couple times so that you will be able to write about it. We'll do the in-class writing on Monday.

Snow Day

Please read the handouts from Monday:

1. The yellow assignment sheet for Solo #2. Be choosing a reading to write about.

2. The tan reading -- an article about Pat Bourne from the Beatrice Daily Sun.

The OED and Citing

I return Solo #1.

In your daybook please do the following:

1. Copy down the strength and weakness I wrote on your grading sheet.

2. Write down your title:

3. Copy out your hook:

4:  Tally the errors I labelled in the margins:

Crowd sourcing examples? mPING, from Scientific American.  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.

TWFTD: punk from the OED.

Now, how will you cite your pictures? We go to page 468 in The Everyday Writer and Easy Bib.

I hand out the assignment sheet for the next paper, Solo #2, in case school is cancelled.

I hand out a reading about Pat Bourne, and you start reading it.

I collect daybooks.

Homework:

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

2.  Pay attention to the ending of your Kickstarter on Paper. It's worth points -- do you have a final pitch of some kind?

3. Bring ALL DRAFTS AND COMMENT SHEETS with you tomorrow to turn in with your final version.

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