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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Draft #2 of Kickstarter on Paper Due

Here's a link of interest about English as a world language: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/?tid=pm_pop_b

Print ONE copy of your Draft #2.

Get out the purple Writer's Page from Draft #1 to pass around with your draft and the new comment sheets. Everyone reads and comments on TWO drafts.

Please look at the back of the Writer's Page, and read from top to bottom through the "Excellent" column.

Now you are reading closely for details that need work, and ways to help each other earn the "excellent" in each category. You may help each other with spelling and punctuation details, so you can write on the draft as well as filling out the comment sheet.

When you finish, please read the above link more carefully. Pay special attention to Section 7.

Homework:

1. Have your daybook ready to hand in Monday.

2. The final version of your Kickstarter on Paper is due Tuesday Feb. 2.

2. TWFTD: a fancy word of your choice

Why Is English So Hard to Spell?

Correct the homework.

Why is English so hard to spell?

I hand out a sheet. Read it over and complete anything on it you can.

Here is the link to today's lecture on "Why Is English So Hard to Spell?

Fill your handout in as we go. After class I'm hoping you'll open this up and look at the links I skipped over.

Tuck the handout in your daybook for the daybook check (Monday).


Homework:

1. Draft #2 Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow, Friday. Have one hard copy and the Writer's Page from Wednesday.

2. TWFTD: punk

3. If the history of English interests you, watch this video, a "lighthearted" history of English in 10 minutes.  Of course, this is a topic that could provide a lifetime of study....