Daily work
older dates have been moved to the bottom of the page for your reference
Week Fourteen:
Monday, 4/17: We are not technically meeting today, but since we were unable to secure a computer lab for class last week, you will have class time today to visit a lab independently or to visit the Learning Lab to make final revisions to your Paper 3 and to submit it to Google Docs by the end of class time (shared with [email protected]). Remember to title your paper file name: Last name, WTIN, class time.
Wednesday, 4/19:Share on the board: What cause/issue/topic are you passionate about?
View TEDx talk on apathy.
Journal entry: Pre-writing for mini-paper (our last writing assignment)-- How does Mackenzie Lombardi describe apathy? Are you apathetic? What are you emotionally invested in on this planet?
Discuss final mini-paper (due Monday 4/24) and final portfolio (due by Friday, 4/28 at noon)
Begin mini-paper brainstorming in your journal (What are you burning to tell the world? If you knew you would be abducted by aliens tomorrow, what would you want to say today? )
Friday, 4/21: Journal entry: Letter to future self
I will collect your journals today.
Complete the course evaluations in class
Week Fifteen:
Monday, 4/24-- Mini-paper is due today to Google-docs.
Self-evaluation and final reflection:
For the self-evaluation, please take the following criteria into consideration. Remember you only need a 70% or better to pass. Which categories do you feel your grade is weakest and strongest?
Grading Criteria for English 098
10%: Participation, attendance, in-class group work & quizzes
10%: Homework assignments and your writing journal
20% Short writing assignments (rough drafts)
20%: Midterm Portfolio with first two major writing assignments revised
40%: Final Portfolio-- all four major papers
Final reflection: Student Learning Outcomes for 098
For the final reflection, read over the SLOs for the course listed below. Do you feel you have met all of the goals of 098 to move on to 101? This is also the place to discuss any extenuating circumstances that may have impacted your performance.
SLOs--Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
Wednesday, 4/26: Study day: Use this time to study for your final exams and to work on any necessary revisions of your essays before 4/28.
Friday, 4/28 Study day
Week Sixteen
Finals Week
We are not having an 098 final; please submit any revisions of your essays by Friday, 4/28 at noon. Any revisions made to your work after this time will not be considered.
Monday, 4/17: We are not technically meeting today, but since we were unable to secure a computer lab for class last week, you will have class time today to visit a lab independently or to visit the Learning Lab to make final revisions to your Paper 3 and to submit it to Google Docs by the end of class time (shared with [email protected]). Remember to title your paper file name: Last name, WTIN, class time.
Wednesday, 4/19:Share on the board: What cause/issue/topic are you passionate about?
View TEDx talk on apathy.
Journal entry: Pre-writing for mini-paper (our last writing assignment)-- How does Mackenzie Lombardi describe apathy? Are you apathetic? What are you emotionally invested in on this planet?
Discuss final mini-paper (due Monday 4/24) and final portfolio (due by Friday, 4/28 at noon)
Begin mini-paper brainstorming in your journal (What are you burning to tell the world? If you knew you would be abducted by aliens tomorrow, what would you want to say today? )
Friday, 4/21: Journal entry: Letter to future self
I will collect your journals today.
Complete the course evaluations in class
Week Fifteen:
Monday, 4/24-- Mini-paper is due today to Google-docs.
Self-evaluation and final reflection:
For the self-evaluation, please take the following criteria into consideration. Remember you only need a 70% or better to pass. Which categories do you feel your grade is weakest and strongest?
Grading Criteria for English 098
10%: Participation, attendance, in-class group work & quizzes
10%: Homework assignments and your writing journal
20% Short writing assignments (rough drafts)
20%: Midterm Portfolio with first two major writing assignments revised
40%: Final Portfolio-- all four major papers
Final reflection: Student Learning Outcomes for 098
For the final reflection, read over the SLOs for the course listed below. Do you feel you have met all of the goals of 098 to move on to 101? This is also the place to discuss any extenuating circumstances that may have impacted your performance.
SLOs--Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate accurate comprehension of a written assignment.
- Complete various stages of the writing process, such as prewriting, drafting, and
- revising.
- Produce multi-page essays incorporating or analyzing text.
- Produce thesis-driven essays with paragraphs, including an introduction, body and conclusion.
- Compose essays with no pattern of verb errors or sentence-boundary issues.
- Analyze their own thinking, reading, and writing processes. Evaluate effectiveness of their own writing via feedback from professor, peers and self
Wednesday, 4/26: Study day: Use this time to study for your final exams and to work on any necessary revisions of your essays before 4/28.
Friday, 4/28 Study day
Week Sixteen
Finals Week
We are not having an 098 final; please submit any revisions of your essays by Friday, 4/28 at noon. Any revisions made to your work after this time will not be considered.
Older Weeks' Work Schedule for your reference
Week One:
Wednesday, 1/18: Introductions, syllabus review, expectations, goal setting
Friday, 1/20 (inauguration day, 9:00 a.m.): Diagnostic essay-- this is an ungraded essay for the purposes of assessing classroom needs as a whole, as well as making sure students seem to be properly placed in English 098.
Week Two:
Monday, 1/23: Listen to "Active Learning Classrooms Break The Mold" and respond in small groups on the white boards-- how do you anticipate this class being different because we are in an ALC? How would you like to utilize this space?
Discuss.
Next, using our textbook if you have it, brainstorm (again, as a group) topics or readings that you would like to focus on this semester. Write your notes on the board and be prepared to discuss with the class.
Wednesday, 1/25: Discuss expectations for journal entries:
What are your most vivid (not necessarily good) memories from your childhood? What details do you recall when you think about your childhood home? What do you miss? Is there anything about that time in your life you long to return to? Try to include rich description when possible- smells, colors, tastes?
Complete a found poem (*only 12:40 did this on Wed.)
Discussion questions from reading(time permitting):
1. Which characters and locations does Carter develop within "The Home Place"? Make a list and share a key feature of each.
2. Find what you feel is the most descriptive section in the reading. Why does it stand out to your group?
3. Every form of writing has a purpose, typically to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Which is Carter doing?
Friday, 1/27: For #funtimeFriday, we will begin by watching a short monologue by Aziz Ansari from last week's SNL. Respond in your journal to this monologue by considering/discussing how Ansari's diction and tone affect his message. Although he is a comedian, he makes some very serious claims and arguments. What are they and which did you find powerful or noteworthy?
Complete found poem based off of your journal entry from today. Begin by circling 25 or so words/phrases from your childhood memory and rearrange them to form a poem-- it may or may not retain the same meaning when you create the poem. See examples on Instagram.
Review assignment sheet for hiereth assignment
Monday, 1/30: Opening journal entry: View the photo on our Instagram. Respond/react/interpret in one paragraph.
Discuss the readings- Note each one is of a single scene. Read "Hills like white elephants" aloud with four volunteers: the narrator, the woman, the man, and the waitress.
Group questions:
Week Three:
Wednesday, 2/1: Read a few samples of vivid description in class.
Journal entry-- Some say that a home is never a physical place, but rather a person. If you had to choose one person who feels like home to you, who would it be? It could be a parent, sibling, friend, loved one, pet, etc. Next, write a detailed, rich description to show us what this person looks like. Don't focus on other attributes or actions, just outward appearance. Paint a figurative picture for your reader of this person who is home to you.
Next, we will (in small assigned groups) view several sample hiraeth narratives. Each group will look at a different one and then present it to the class, explaining the following:
Sample Two "C'est la vie"
Sample Three "Granny"
Sample Four "Untitled"
Sample Five "Aunt Carol"
Friday, 2/3: #funtimeFriday
Listen to Fiona Apple's "Anything We Want" and respond in your journal: Music is powerful and can express emotions in a way different from the written word alone. How does this song represent hiraeth? Can you think of a song that reminds you of a time that you cannot return to?
Watch portion of tutorial on Google Docs and Google Drive
Group work Friday: Get into hiraeth groups and individually/one at a time, log in to your Google docs account and create two folders: "Final Drafts" and "Hiraeth," and in the "Final Drafts" folder, make sure [email protected] has permission to view and comment on documents in this folder. Then, go to the "Hiraeth" folder and add [email protected] AND the email addresses of your group members.
You should have print versions of your hiraeth scenes today. You will share them with your group members and get feedback while I respond/read them on Google Docs (so be sure you've shared it with me at [email protected]!).
Week Four:
Monday, 2/6: Official Super Bowl hangover recovery day. You should use class time today to continue drafting your hiraeth narrative. If you have not yet shared it on Google docs with your group members and [email protected] you should consider yourself behind and losing participation/homework points.
Wednesday, 2/8: Quick video on peer criticism
Today will be spent on Google docs in your hiraeth groups; I will provide the initial prompts for what you should be asking yourselves as you complete your peer reviews.
To begin, pull up one group member's draft at a time and read it aloud. As a group, answer these questions:
Friday, 2/10: #funtimeFriday
Final editing (grammar, punctuation, formatting, folder help, etc.) with your groups on Google docs. Your draft should be complete.
Week Five:
Monday, 2/13: DUE DATE ALERT! You will turn in your final hiraeth assignment to me by the START of your class time. Please re-name your file Last name, Hiraeth final, class time (Example: Mangini Hiraeth final 8:00).
Late submissions will be noted, so please don't give me reasons why it will be late.
Reflection (not in journal-- to be turned in before leaving today): Is there anything I need to know before reading your narrative? What did you struggle with in writing this assignment? If you had more time, what would you want to improve? Describe your experience working in a group. Was it productive? Were you a good group member? How or how not?
Class time to begin homework reading for Wednesday, or a general time of relief and reflection that your first paper is at last turned in. Pat yourself on the back. You did it. One down; three to go!
Wednesday, 2/15:
*Journal entry (8:00 a.m. only): Some words are difficult to comprehend given just a dictionary definition; for example, the dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection," but it may mean something very different to you (different criteria, something deeper, etc.). In your journal, brainstorm a list of as many words you can think of (shoot for at least 5-10) that you feel the dictionary cannot adequately define.
*Journal entry (12:40 only): Found poem based on our board's graffiti(12:40 section only)
*Introduce Paper 2
*Group/class sharing of words/brainstorming for Paper Two
Friday, 2/17: As I mentioned on Wednesday, I will be participating today in the Strike4Democracy, so class today is canceled. HOWEVER- please note the homework for today and use class time to complete your initial brainstorming for Paper 2.
Week Six:
Monday, 2/20 (President's Day-- yes, we have class):
In your journal: Since it is Presidents Day (the official federal holiday is known as “Washington’s Birthday”) NOT Presidents Day), consider the quote: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America" (Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993). What did Clinton mean by this quote and how or why is it still relevant today?
Introductions video & Examples of Attention-Getters
Notes on introductions
Group time to share your topics that you've chosen. Check with your group members. Does this fit the assignment? Is it original and something no one else would necessarily write for themselves? Does it have the potential to be persuasive.
Time to start (in your journal) brainstorming your own introduction (or polishing what you have if you've already written one).
Wednesday, 2/22: Journal entry: Respond to "That Lean and Hungry Look" (you read this for homework, p.180). Did you like her tone or find it offensive? How does Britt define thin people? In other words, what is her thesis? What strategies does she use to make her persuasive argument? What are some of the topic sentences that support her thesis?
In Zinsser's essay "Simplicity," he writes, "The writer must therefore constantly ask himself: What am I trying to say? Surprisingly often, he doesn't know. Then he must look at what he has written and ask: Have I said it? Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time? If it's not, it is because some fuzz has worked its way into the machinery. The clear writer is a person clear-headed enough to see this stuff for what it is: fuzz." Respond. Do you have "fuzz" in your writing? In your essay you are writing now, can you read your introduction and answer the questions: What am I trying to say and have I said it?
Now, in your groups, read your introduction. Don't say another word-- just let your group members talk and answer:
In addition to catching up on Chapters 7 and 8 reading, you have until the end of your scheduled class time today to have your Definitional Argument rough draft shared with me and your group members on Google Docs. This is worth 50 homework points.
Before coming to class Monday, I expect that you will have visited all group members' drafts (worth 50 homework points). You should leave thorough feedback regarding:
Week Seven:
Monday, 2/27: Journal entry: This is Week SEVEN, meaning midterm is almost upon us. In your journal for today, it is your chance to reflect, to vent, to think about your progress in this class, as well as others. How do you feel right now? Are you keeping up with your class work in all of your classes? What are your goals for the last 7-8 weeks of the semester (these can be bullet points if you prefer). Do you feel your are doing all you can to pass 098 at this point? Why or why not?
The art of the six-word story. This is the ultimate practice in being concise (a skill beneficial for summaries). Once asked to write a full story in six words, novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." In this spirit of simple yet profound brevity, I am asking you to write a story (the story of your own life if you need guidance) in a single sentence-- then share them on the board.
Wednesday, 3/1: Peer reviewing other groups...
Friday, 3/3: Share your Definition Argument to me via Google docs before 12:40-- remember to change the title to Last name definition, class time (Smith Definition 12:40).
Be prepared to share your definition papers in class today-- either read aloud, prepare a previously recorded reading (Soundcloud), or create some other creative interpretation of your paper to share with the class (comic strip, YouTube, etc.)
Week Eight:
Monday, 3/6- Saturday, 3/11: Spring Break (college is closed)
Week Nine:
Monday, 3/13
Wednesday 3/15 & Friday, 3/17: Dr. Mangini will be in Portland for CCCC conference. No 098/108 class
Week Ten:
Monday, 3/20: Welcome back! Today I will return your journals. I have marked only the number of entries you have at this point (if you are curious what the # means at the end of your last entry).
*Journal entry: If you are American, are you "proud" to be an American? If you are not a citizen, what about America made you want to come here? Next-- what is America best at? What about America do you think we need to change? What are other countries doing better than we are? How can we improve?
*Freewrite (NOT in journal): Midterm grades are due today by 11PM and I will be turning yours in right after this class. In 200 words or less, tell me what grade you should get and why. Use the syllabus and course requirements to support your argument. Turn this in to me before you leave today.
Wednesday, 3/22: Discuss your homework and begin viewing Where to Invade Next.
View the first 47 minutes of the film-- rest of the time to respond in your journals (this is homework; we may not have time to do this in class)-- what stood out to you so far? Initial thoughts, reactions, notes.
Note:If you are not in class when we view portions of the film or if you would like to watch it again, you can view it for free if you sign up for Amazon Prime Student (Click here to sign up for six months free).
Week Ten
Friday, 3/24:
Continue viewing Where to Invade Next through 1:25.
BEFORE leaving today (in other words, not for homework), recap what you learned today from the film in your journal. What stood out to you? What surprised you? Interested you? What would like to explore more?
Week Eleven:
Monday, 3/27: Finish the film (Tunisia and Iceland)- in your journals: now that we have completed the film, choose ONE of these ideas from ONE of these countries that you feel would help the United States the most and summarize the country's policies and explain why you feel it is better than what we do here in the U.S. (or in your home country if you would prefer if you are not from the U.S.). This will serve as pre-writing for Paper 3.
Friday, 3/31: In-class discussion of the film in your WTIN groups; discussion of Chapter 21: Argument
Week Twelve
Monday, 4/3: Video on MLA8 and MLA Cheat Sheet
Did you know the library has a web page?
EBSCOHOST
As a class, find the most reliable source for free community college for all in the U.S.
Use remaining time to find the perfect source for your own topic.
Wednesday, 4/5: Journal: Write/free-write/brainstorm in your journal for ten minutes today about your research paper. What do you already know? What do you need to find out? How do you want to open your paper? What are your strongest points of argument? If you don't know where to begin, just start writing about your ideas.
You should have your source printed out and ready to share with the group. Does your source pass the CRAPP test? Fill out the handout with your groups using the source you printed out and brought to class today.
Friday, 4/7: Video on in-text citation. As a class, review a sample MLA paper, noting the in-text citation, integration of paraphrase and direct quotes, and the Works Cited page. Use remaining time to work on your rough draft or find your source if you haven't done so yet.
Wednesday, 1/18: Introductions, syllabus review, expectations, goal setting
Friday, 1/20 (inauguration day, 9:00 a.m.): Diagnostic essay-- this is an ungraded essay for the purposes of assessing classroom needs as a whole, as well as making sure students seem to be properly placed in English 098.
Week Two:
Monday, 1/23: Listen to "Active Learning Classrooms Break The Mold" and respond in small groups on the white boards-- how do you anticipate this class being different because we are in an ALC? How would you like to utilize this space?
Discuss.
Next, using our textbook if you have it, brainstorm (again, as a group) topics or readings that you would like to focus on this semester. Write your notes on the board and be prepared to discuss with the class.
Wednesday, 1/25: Discuss expectations for journal entries:
- separate page for each new entry,
- date your entries,
- more than a few sentences,
- coming in late is not an excuse for not having thorough entries
- about 1/2-1 pages of handwritten text per entry
- Have to be done by hand in a notebook; I discourage laptop use in an ALC
What are your most vivid (not necessarily good) memories from your childhood? What details do you recall when you think about your childhood home? What do you miss? Is there anything about that time in your life you long to return to? Try to include rich description when possible- smells, colors, tastes?
Complete a found poem (*only 12:40 did this on Wed.)
Discussion questions from reading(time permitting):
1. Which characters and locations does Carter develop within "The Home Place"? Make a list and share a key feature of each.
2. Find what you feel is the most descriptive section in the reading. Why does it stand out to your group?
3. Every form of writing has a purpose, typically to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Which is Carter doing?
Friday, 1/27: For #funtimeFriday, we will begin by watching a short monologue by Aziz Ansari from last week's SNL. Respond in your journal to this monologue by considering/discussing how Ansari's diction and tone affect his message. Although he is a comedian, he makes some very serious claims and arguments. What are they and which did you find powerful or noteworthy?
Complete found poem based off of your journal entry from today. Begin by circling 25 or so words/phrases from your childhood memory and rearrange them to form a poem-- it may or may not retain the same meaning when you create the poem. See examples on Instagram.
Review assignment sheet for hiereth assignment
Monday, 1/30: Opening journal entry: View the photo on our Instagram. Respond/react/interpret in one paragraph.
Discuss the readings- Note each one is of a single scene. Read "Hills like white elephants" aloud with four volunteers: the narrator, the woman, the man, and the waitress.
Group questions:
- what is "Hills like white elephants" about?
- what do the hills symbolize?
- how is the use of dialogue here more effective than a story told entirely by a single narrator?
Week Three:
Wednesday, 2/1: Read a few samples of vivid description in class.
Journal entry-- Some say that a home is never a physical place, but rather a person. If you had to choose one person who feels like home to you, who would it be? It could be a parent, sibling, friend, loved one, pet, etc. Next, write a detailed, rich description to show us what this person looks like. Don't focus on other attributes or actions, just outward appearance. Paint a figurative picture for your reader of this person who is home to you.
Next, we will (in small assigned groups) view several sample hiraeth narratives. Each group will look at a different one and then present it to the class, explaining the following:
- What is the thesis of this project?/What is the "place" the author is writing about?
- Share a particularly compelling/powerful section with the rest of the class.
- Share a section where the author is showing, not just telling.
- What could be improved?
Sample Two "C'est la vie"
Sample Three "Granny"
Sample Four "Untitled"
Sample Five "Aunt Carol"
Friday, 2/3: #funtimeFriday
Listen to Fiona Apple's "Anything We Want" and respond in your journal: Music is powerful and can express emotions in a way different from the written word alone. How does this song represent hiraeth? Can you think of a song that reminds you of a time that you cannot return to?
Watch portion of tutorial on Google Docs and Google Drive
Group work Friday: Get into hiraeth groups and individually/one at a time, log in to your Google docs account and create two folders: "Final Drafts" and "Hiraeth," and in the "Final Drafts" folder, make sure [email protected] has permission to view and comment on documents in this folder. Then, go to the "Hiraeth" folder and add [email protected] AND the email addresses of your group members.
You should have print versions of your hiraeth scenes today. You will share them with your group members and get feedback while I respond/read them on Google Docs (so be sure you've shared it with me at [email protected]!).
Week Four:
Monday, 2/6: Official Super Bowl hangover recovery day. You should use class time today to continue drafting your hiraeth narrative. If you have not yet shared it on Google docs with your group members and [email protected] you should consider yourself behind and losing participation/homework points.
Wednesday, 2/8: Quick video on peer criticism
Today will be spent on Google docs in your hiraeth groups; I will provide the initial prompts for what you should be asking yourselves as you complete your peer reviews.
To begin, pull up one group member's draft at a time and read it aloud. As a group, answer these questions:
- What do you see as the writer’s main point in this draft?
- Which part of the draft interests you the most? Why?
- Where do you feel you would like more detail or explanation? Where do you need less?
- Do you find any parts unclear, confusing, or undeveloped? Mark each such spot and write a question/comment in the margin to the writer.
- Address both global and local issues that may need to be addressed in the draft.
Friday, 2/10: #funtimeFriday
Final editing (grammar, punctuation, formatting, folder help, etc.) with your groups on Google docs. Your draft should be complete.
Week Five:
Monday, 2/13: DUE DATE ALERT! You will turn in your final hiraeth assignment to me by the START of your class time. Please re-name your file Last name, Hiraeth final, class time (Example: Mangini Hiraeth final 8:00).
Late submissions will be noted, so please don't give me reasons why it will be late.
Reflection (not in journal-- to be turned in before leaving today): Is there anything I need to know before reading your narrative? What did you struggle with in writing this assignment? If you had more time, what would you want to improve? Describe your experience working in a group. Was it productive? Were you a good group member? How or how not?
Class time to begin homework reading for Wednesday, or a general time of relief and reflection that your first paper is at last turned in. Pat yourself on the back. You did it. One down; three to go!
Wednesday, 2/15:
*Journal entry (8:00 a.m. only): Some words are difficult to comprehend given just a dictionary definition; for example, the dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection," but it may mean something very different to you (different criteria, something deeper, etc.). In your journal, brainstorm a list of as many words you can think of (shoot for at least 5-10) that you feel the dictionary cannot adequately define.
*Journal entry (12:40 only): Found poem based on our board's graffiti(12:40 section only)
*Introduce Paper 2
*Group/class sharing of words/brainstorming for Paper Two
Friday, 2/17: As I mentioned on Wednesday, I will be participating today in the Strike4Democracy, so class today is canceled. HOWEVER- please note the homework for today and use class time to complete your initial brainstorming for Paper 2.
Week Six:
Monday, 2/20 (President's Day-- yes, we have class):
In your journal: Since it is Presidents Day (the official federal holiday is known as “Washington’s Birthday”) NOT Presidents Day), consider the quote: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America" (Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993). What did Clinton mean by this quote and how or why is it still relevant today?
Introductions video & Examples of Attention-Getters
Notes on introductions
Group time to share your topics that you've chosen. Check with your group members. Does this fit the assignment? Is it original and something no one else would necessarily write for themselves? Does it have the potential to be persuasive.
Time to start (in your journal) brainstorming your own introduction (or polishing what you have if you've already written one).
Wednesday, 2/22: Journal entry: Respond to "That Lean and Hungry Look" (you read this for homework, p.180). Did you like her tone or find it offensive? How does Britt define thin people? In other words, what is her thesis? What strategies does she use to make her persuasive argument? What are some of the topic sentences that support her thesis?
In Zinsser's essay "Simplicity," he writes, "The writer must therefore constantly ask himself: What am I trying to say? Surprisingly often, he doesn't know. Then he must look at what he has written and ask: Have I said it? Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time? If it's not, it is because some fuzz has worked its way into the machinery. The clear writer is a person clear-headed enough to see this stuff for what it is: fuzz." Respond. Do you have "fuzz" in your writing? In your essay you are writing now, can you read your introduction and answer the questions: What am I trying to say and have I said it?
Now, in your groups, read your introduction. Don't say another word-- just let your group members talk and answer:
- What is his/her thesis?
- What do you think he/she is trying to say?
- Is he/she saying it?
- Is it attention-grabbing?
- Does it avoid the methods we said to avoid on Monday?
- Is there "fuzz" here?
- What needs to go?
In addition to catching up on Chapters 7 and 8 reading, you have until the end of your scheduled class time today to have your Definitional Argument rough draft shared with me and your group members on Google Docs. This is worth 50 homework points.
Before coming to class Monday, I expect that you will have visited all group members' drafts (worth 50 homework points). You should leave thorough feedback regarding:
- effectiveness of the thesis and introduction
- Title help
- Transitions
- Clear topic sentences
- Organization
- Any major issues, confusion, or concerns
Week Seven:
Monday, 2/27: Journal entry: This is Week SEVEN, meaning midterm is almost upon us. In your journal for today, it is your chance to reflect, to vent, to think about your progress in this class, as well as others. How do you feel right now? Are you keeping up with your class work in all of your classes? What are your goals for the last 7-8 weeks of the semester (these can be bullet points if you prefer). Do you feel your are doing all you can to pass 098 at this point? Why or why not?
The art of the six-word story. This is the ultimate practice in being concise (a skill beneficial for summaries). Once asked to write a full story in six words, novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." In this spirit of simple yet profound brevity, I am asking you to write a story (the story of your own life if you need guidance) in a single sentence-- then share them on the board.
Wednesday, 3/1: Peer reviewing other groups...
Friday, 3/3: Share your Definition Argument to me via Google docs before 12:40-- remember to change the title to Last name definition, class time (Smith Definition 12:40).
Be prepared to share your definition papers in class today-- either read aloud, prepare a previously recorded reading (Soundcloud), or create some other creative interpretation of your paper to share with the class (comic strip, YouTube, etc.)
Week Eight:
Monday, 3/6- Saturday, 3/11: Spring Break (college is closed)
Week Nine:
Monday, 3/13
Wednesday 3/15 & Friday, 3/17: Dr. Mangini will be in Portland for CCCC conference. No 098/108 class
Week Ten:
Monday, 3/20: Welcome back! Today I will return your journals. I have marked only the number of entries you have at this point (if you are curious what the # means at the end of your last entry).
*Journal entry: If you are American, are you "proud" to be an American? If you are not a citizen, what about America made you want to come here? Next-- what is America best at? What about America do you think we need to change? What are other countries doing better than we are? How can we improve?
*Freewrite (NOT in journal): Midterm grades are due today by 11PM and I will be turning yours in right after this class. In 200 words or less, tell me what grade you should get and why. Use the syllabus and course requirements to support your argument. Turn this in to me before you leave today.
Wednesday, 3/22: Discuss your homework and begin viewing Where to Invade Next.
View the first 47 minutes of the film-- rest of the time to respond in your journals (this is homework; we may not have time to do this in class)-- what stood out to you so far? Initial thoughts, reactions, notes.
Note:If you are not in class when we view portions of the film or if you would like to watch it again, you can view it for free if you sign up for Amazon Prime Student (Click here to sign up for six months free).
Week Ten
Friday, 3/24:
Continue viewing Where to Invade Next through 1:25.
BEFORE leaving today (in other words, not for homework), recap what you learned today from the film in your journal. What stood out to you? What surprised you? Interested you? What would like to explore more?
Week Eleven:
Monday, 3/27: Finish the film (Tunisia and Iceland)- in your journals: now that we have completed the film, choose ONE of these ideas from ONE of these countries that you feel would help the United States the most and summarize the country's policies and explain why you feel it is better than what we do here in the U.S. (or in your home country if you would prefer if you are not from the U.S.). This will serve as pre-writing for Paper 3.
Friday, 3/31: In-class discussion of the film in your WTIN groups; discussion of Chapter 21: Argument
Week Twelve
Monday, 4/3: Video on MLA8 and MLA Cheat Sheet
Did you know the library has a web page?
EBSCOHOST
As a class, find the most reliable source for free community college for all in the U.S.
Use remaining time to find the perfect source for your own topic.
Wednesday, 4/5: Journal: Write/free-write/brainstorm in your journal for ten minutes today about your research paper. What do you already know? What do you need to find out? How do you want to open your paper? What are your strongest points of argument? If you don't know where to begin, just start writing about your ideas.
You should have your source printed out and ready to share with the group. Does your source pass the CRAPP test? Fill out the handout with your groups using the source you printed out and brought to class today.
Friday, 4/7: Video on in-text citation. As a class, review a sample MLA paper, noting the in-text citation, integration of paraphrase and direct quotes, and the Works Cited page. Use remaining time to work on your rough draft or find your source if you haven't done so yet.