Subjective vs. Objective Observation

Write on the board two of your ideas for what you could observe for this long paper.

Watch a pro at observation.  Put a notebook in his hands as he sits at the table.  What kind of notes is he writing down? There was a real man...

Subjective/ Objective notes on page 87.

We are going to play with this idea today. In Moodle you will find the Subjective/Objective Forum.  You will choose a picture from Wednesday's collection and type a set of notes about it into a forum post.  You will give the fonts different colors to indicate subjective vs. objective notes.


Also in Moodle there is a link to another apostrophe exercise.  Do it today and record your score in the daybook.

At the end of class, turn in your daybooks.

Homework:

1.  Begin your observation.  Your goal is at least 2 pages of detailed notes.  You can staple these in your daybook when you get it back.

2.  No word.  See you Tuesday, Jan. 22.

Observation/Description

Correct apostrophes.

Groups discuss the homework reading.

Here is an example of observation:

"In the Laboratory with Agassiz" . What college students were wearing then. The fish. Scudder later in life.

Answer in your daybook as I read:

ichthyology-
entomology-
interdicted-

How long did he have to look at the fish?

What was "the best entomological lesson [he] ever had"?


Read Bedford pages 86-87.


Homework:

1.  List at least three places you could do your observation.

2.  TWFTD: objective

Legos Due // On to Observation

You turn in all related Lego papers, including the final version of your directions. You decide whether you turn in your parts in the bag or dumped in the bin.

A. And how did the Lego build go for you? Assumptions?

We discuss the nomenclature problem, and you thinkwrite about it.

Did you spend time considering what your audience might need? How did that work for you?

B. What are apostrophes for? Where in Everyday Writer?  Then do Ex. 41.1 on page 105 in the Exercise book. Number 1-10 in your daybook and just write down the italicized words with possession added.

C. Here is an interesting place. In your daybook, describe what you see in picture #3.

You just did a little observation and description.

D. I hand out the assignment sheet. We discuss.


Homework:

1.  Read "Communications" p. 82-84 in Bedford.  In your daybook answer questions 3, 4 and 5 on page 84. This is an example of a student's Observation/Description paper which meets this assignment.

2.  Remember, I will collect the daybooks for the first check this Friday, Jan. 18.

2. TWFTD:  subjective