Typing Your Directions

We look at the answers to Ex. 23.9 page 272 in The Everyday Writer. Affect or effect?

I give you a directions sheet about MLA style, and you type up your directions. THE LAYOUT BELOW YOUR TITLE IS UP TO YOU.

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Homework:

1.  Finish typing your directions and print TWO COPIES so they are ready for a classmate to follow Monday. Have them printed BEFORE class starts. Have your answer picture ready as well. And don't leave the Legos at home!

2.  Read the handout about Lego nomenclature.  Write out the answers to the questions at the end of the handout IN YOUR DAYBOOK! The first daybook check is April 12.

3. TWFTD: nomenclature

4. On Monday and Tuesday I will be travelling to a conference.  You need to be alert and helpful so all of you do the Lego activity correctly (it IS complicated).

Legos Day One

"My play was a success.  The audience was a failure." 

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Thinkwrite in your daybook: If a set of directions fails, whose fault might it be?  Write until I stop you.

We look at pages 269-271 in The Everyday Writer. You spend five minutes working on Ex. 23.9 on page 272. Number to 13 and write the correct words in your daybook. Look at Section 24 for extra help.

I explain the Lego project, and you begin.

 

About quotes: who really said the above?

Homework:

1.  Finish writing out your directions and be ready to type them up tomorrow.  Make the picture to use for the answer key. (Draw or photo and copy. There is a color copier in room 136).

2. TWFTD: subsequent

Aristotle's Equation

We start here.

Audience + Purpose + Genre = Style (how it looks) and Content (what it says)

Look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Which is more effective?

Now we look at your directions.
 
In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Style-
Content-

 After filling in your chart, think about the effectiveness of each of your examples.  What specific choices in style and content work or do not work?

In groups you will compare the examples you brought to class.  Create a list as a group of the characteristics of effective vs. ineffective directions.  Record this in your daybook and then share with the class.

Homework:

1.  Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you were frustrated by ineffective written directions.  As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were with those directions based on today's discussions.

2. TWFTD: rhetoric

3. Tomorrow the Lego project begins. That will be your first short "essay," which is NOT an essay at all.