All classes meet in room 210. Hand in your short essay and daybook if you have not done so already.
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.
What does England look like in the year 0? -ish? Well, this is already 2,000 years old.
Think Roman Empire.
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. Okay, times change.
Fold your handout and put it in your daybook.
Here are some related links of interest on this topic:
The History of English in 10 Minutes Video
An animation of one of Chaucer's Tales
National Geographic on the buried Vikings
Homework:
1. Friday the first draft of your observation paper is due. It can be either hand-written or typed and PRINTED OUT BEFORE CLASS. See the blue assignment sheet for length suggestions.
2. Tomorrow (Thursday) there will be SOME time to work on your draft, but there will be some other work as well.
3. TWFTD: punk. What can you find for the origin of the word?
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Audience Awareness Short Essay
Editing Practice:
The dog chewed 1. ____ tail. (it's or its)
I 2. ________ the car too quickly. (passed or past)
I wanted 3. _____ write but I forgot. (to or too)
Look at the back of the prompt handout. (Noon class write sentences.)
Using the prompt in yesterday's post, type up your essay today.
Type this essay using the MLA format (yellow handout), including double-spaced lines and correct font size and style. Remove extra space between paragraphs. If it is two pages long, that's fine. There is no length requirement other than 5 paragraphs. Examples are key!
Print and hand in by the beginning of class tomorrow.
Homework:
1. Be observing and taking notes for your observation paper.
2. TWFTD: disconcerting
The dog chewed 1. ____ tail. (it's or its)
I 2. ________ the car too quickly. (passed or past)
I wanted 3. _____ write but I forgot. (to or too)
Look at the back of the prompt handout. (Noon class write sentences.)
Using the prompt in yesterday's post, type up your essay today.
Type this essay using the MLA format (yellow handout), including double-spaced lines and correct font size and style. Remove extra space between paragraphs. If it is two pages long, that's fine. There is no length requirement other than 5 paragraphs. Examples are key!
Print and hand in by the beginning of class tomorrow.
Homework:
1. Be observing and taking notes for your observation paper.
2. TWFTD: disconcerting
Monday, July 23, 2012
Writing a Short Essay
What are you observing? Tell me in the daybook.
Editing practice: The kids were 1.________ to go. (already or all ready)
A large 2._________ of students ate a large 3._________ of food. (amount or number)
If you put your 4.___________ hat on 5. ___________, you are a boring dresser. (everyday or every day)
Look at Section 23 in the Everyday Writer. Look up every day and everyday and write a sentence using each of them . Do the same with amount and number and all ready and already.
We look at the short (five paragraph) essay as a way to analyze/synthesize/evaluate information. See yellow handout.
Now for a prompt (green handout):
You have just finished writing directions and analyzing them for their effectiveness. A key to good directions is writing with the audience’s skills and needs in mind.
Homework:
1. Fill at least one page in your daybook brainstorming about the prompt. You may write out an entire essay if you wish. In class tomorrow you will type and print your essay to hand in. If you need more time you may hand it in Wednesday.
2. Daybooks due tomorrow
3. TWFTD: fanatic
Editing practice: The kids were 1.________ to go. (already or all ready)
A large 2._________ of students ate a large 3._________ of food. (amount or number)
If you put your 4.___________ hat on 5. ___________, you are a boring dresser. (everyday or every day)
Look at Section 23 in the Everyday Writer. Look up every day and everyday and write a sentence using each of them . Do the same with amount and number and all ready and already.
We look at the short (five paragraph) essay as a way to analyze/synthesize/evaluate information. See yellow handout.
Now for a prompt (green handout):
You have just finished writing directions and analyzing them for their effectiveness. A key to good directions is writing with the audience’s skills and needs in mind.
“Audience Awareness” refers to a writer’s awareness
or understanding of the audience s/he is trying to reach in a piece of writing.
Think about the importance of audience awareness and
look over the quotes and writing you have put in your daybook since the first
day of class. Review your “thinkwrites”
as well as homework you did.
Prompt: Write
a short essay (5+ paragraphs) that explores
the importance of analyzing/considering the audience for any written
task. Use specific examples to support your points. Any kind (genre) of
writing can be used as an example to support your point: texting, email, job
tickets, forums, ads, books, etc.
You should state your point in a thesis; your 5
paragraphs should include an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a
conclusion.
Your
purpose in this essay is to present your view of the role of audience awareness
in effective writing, using interesting and relevant examples.
If you need help with a thesis statement, look at Everyday Writer pages 58-59.Homework:
1. Fill at least one page in your daybook brainstorming about the prompt. You may write out an entire essay if you wish. In class tomorrow you will type and print your essay to hand in. If you need more time you may hand it in Wednesday.
2. Daybooks due tomorrow
3. TWFTD: fanatic
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