First of all, we figure out which article you are going to be reading.
We look at pages 115-117 in Everyday Writer. When you read your article, think about its structure, and ask as many questions as you can. Don't be passive!
Then you read a handout and do some work with it.
Homework:
1. Print off your article in the lab and read it several times. Begin marking your copy with questions, labels, and structural cues. The first draft of your Sum/Resp to this article is due this Friday.
2. One vocabulary word.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Turn in Memory--Begin Summary/Response
You turn in the final version of your Memory essay.
Then we discuss the next assignment -- Summary/Response.
Articles to choose from:
Link to "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How can underdogs win?)
Link to "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande. (Is solitary confinement torture?)
Link to "Troublemakers" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Pit bulls and profiling.)
Link to "Most Likely to Succeed" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How do you hire a 'winner'?)
Link to "What Helen Keller Saw" by Cynthia Ozick. ( Controversy in Helen Keller's lifetime.)
Link to "The Itch" by Atul Gawande. ( The neuroscience of itching. Haunting hook.)
Link to "Offensive Play" by Malcom Gladwell. (How similar are football and dogfighting?)
Link to "Personality Plus" by Malcom Gladwell. (How useful are employers' personality tests?)
For tomorrow, you must look at these articles and make a first choice and second choice. Tomorrow we'll find out which are the most popular and choose accordingly, so that each article has at least two people writing about it.
Then we discuss the next assignment -- Summary/Response.
Articles to choose from:
Link to "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How can underdogs win?)
Link to "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande. (Is solitary confinement torture?)
Link to "Troublemakers" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Pit bulls and profiling.)
Link to "Most Likely to Succeed" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How do you hire a 'winner'?)
Link to "What Helen Keller Saw" by Cynthia Ozick. ( Controversy in Helen Keller's lifetime.)
Link to "The Itch" by Atul Gawande. ( The neuroscience of itching. Haunting hook.)
Link to "Offensive Play" by Malcom Gladwell. (How similar are football and dogfighting?)
Link to "Personality Plus" by Malcom Gladwell. (How useful are employers' personality tests?)
For tomorrow, you must look at these articles and make a first choice and second choice. Tomorrow we'll find out which are the most popular and choose accordingly, so that each article has at least two people writing about it.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Return of the Papers
Commas -- style or rules?
I hand you your papers.
In your journal, list one comment on your paper that surprised you and one thing (or more) that you already knew.
Also make an error list. List the number of the error and then use the Everyday Writer ( Top Twenty) and write an explanation of what you did.
I hand out another example of writing about memories; read that one, and, if you wish, look at this example of a writer near the end of his career. That's E.B.White's "Death of a Pig."
Homework:
1. Prepare the final version of your memory essay. Bring all drafts and comment sheets to class Monday.
I hand you your papers.
In your journal, list one comment on your paper that surprised you and one thing (or more) that you already knew.
Also make an error list. List the number of the error and then use the Everyday Writer ( Top Twenty) and write an explanation of what you did.
I hand out another example of writing about memories; read that one, and, if you wish, look at this example of a writer near the end of his career. That's E.B.White's "Death of a Pig."
Homework:
1. Prepare the final version of your memory essay. Bring all drafts and comment sheets to class Monday.
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