Presentations

Today you present your final paper's information.

Have a visual for the screen. Do not read your paper.

Turn in your daybooks for the last check.

Homework:

1. Choose ONE essay to read for the class final tomorrow:

“The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry” by Jonathan Zittrain pages 926-929

  

OR 

“Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna MacKay pages 156-161.

 
Please read the essay before class tomorrow (1 pm in room 227) and come prepared to write an essay in response to a prompt I will provide. 

Final Version Due

Turn in the final version hard copy of your Controversy in Intellectual Property paper.

I return the assessment final.

In your daybook:

Describe how the in-class essay went for you. What is hard/ easy for you in a timed situation?

Presentation requirements for tomorrow:

Purpose: To share what you learned.

Method: 1. Explain the controversy to the class. (Do not read your paper. You may use notes.)

             

               2. Show an appropriate visual on the screen while you talk.

                        You may prepare a PowerPoint slide or two, or simply show an informative                            webpage (one of your sources? several?).

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Daybooks are due tomorrow, Tuesday Sept. 19.

The course final will be Wednesday Sept 20. We could meet at 1 PM to do the final in room 227.

Homework:

1. Get out all the papers you wrote for class this quarter. Answer the following questions in your daybook:

A.  Of all the papers, what was your best hook? Copy it down.

B. Out of all the papers, what was your best clincher?  

C. Of all the papers, which got the highest grade? Do YOU think it was the best? Why or why not?

D. Which of your papers was the weakest? Why? What was its grade?

E. Which assignment actually gave YOU the most practice in critical thinking? Why?

F. Which was your longest paper?

G. What's your favorite title that you gave a paper this quarter? 

H. How many pages did you write? (total of all graded papers plus the one handed in today)

Common Final Timed Essay

Today you will write an essay in response to David Sedaris's "Us and Them."

I will hand out a prompt; be sure to choose ONE option, and write your essay in response to that ONE assignment.

At the end of 50 minutes you will print and hand in what you have written. Try to take time to proofread before you print.

Homework:

1. Open your Draft #2 in Turnitin in Moodle and look at the comments Kate has made.

2. Make your last revisions and have the Final Version of your paper ready at the beginning of class on Monday.

Draft #2 is Due

You upload your draft into Moodle.

We discuss the Common Final grading rubric, and the test tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Read and study "Us and Them" by David Sedaris on pages 849-855 of the text. You may take notes in your daybook and use them tomorrow during the test.