Count Day

Assemble your Problem/ Solution paper as instructed on the board. Then get out all your graded papers:

Lego Directions -green
Solo #1 Kickstarter Analysis -blue
Kickstarter on Paper -purple
Solo #2 Summary/ Response about "The Right to Fail" - tan
Summary/ Eval/ Response about S. King or G. Jones -gray
Problem -goldenrod
Solo #3 Summary/ Eval about your choice from Gale -cream
Problem/ Solution with MLA Sources -salmon (orange)
Common Final -pink

Once they are assembled, open our class in Moodle, and go to the bottom Course Final section.

1. Do the "Count Day Essays Analysis."
2. Count your pages, and post in the Count Day Forum
3. See the links to the reading choices for the final tomorrow. If you want to take the final at a time different from our scheduled class time, organize yourselves, and then talk to Kate.
4. Do the course assessment on The Hub.

When you have completed all of the above, you may leave.

Draft Problem/ Solution with Sources Due

1. Upload your draft in Turnitin  in Moodle.

2. Fill out the Writer's Page about your draft.

3. Exchange and read 2 drafts.

4. Turn in daybook.

Homework:

1. Create the final version of your Problem/ Solution essay to turn in. Bring all comment sheets, etc.

2. Bring ALL your graded papers for COUNT DAY. You will be doing an activity with the papers as well as counting pages.

Working on Problem/ Solution

Today you get your paper revised.

We do this:  http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/quiz.php?type=pre

Homework:

1. The only draft of the Problem/ Solution paper is due Monday.

2. Monday is also the last daybook check.

3. Tuesday will be Count Day. You will need to bring to class all your graded papers.

4. TWFTD: parenthetical

Problem/ Solution with MLA Style Documentation

https://prezi.com/jeqno3xjsrkx/f2f-creating-the-problem-solution-with-sources-essay/

MLA style review: http://prezi.com/qmf4siv3xukj/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

"My Friend Michelle" practice.

 Underline all the in-text citations as you read.

Answer these questions in your daybook:

1.  How many in-text citations are there?

2. When you read an in-text citation, check to see if it clearly leads to a source in the Works Cited list. List any problems you find.

3. Are there items on the Works Cited list that were NOT cited in the paper? List them.

4. If you know the page number where information occurred, you should include that in an in-text citation. Please put a star next to each in-text citation in "My Friend Michelle" that SHOULD have included a page number in parentheses. How many are there? [Hint: use the bibliography to help decide if there were page numbers in the source.]

Now open up your Problem paper. Do you already have places that need citations? Do you need sources?

Homework: 

1. Monday the only draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources is due. You should have a Works Cited page AND in-text citations so you know they're correct. Be prepared to upload your draft into TurnItIn in Moodle. The final version is due Tuesday of next week.

2. TWFTD: alcoholic 

Common Final

Today you have 45 minutes to write an essay in response to the prompt provided. CHOOSE ONE OPTION. Your thesis will make clear which prompt you chose. When you are done you will print one copy.

After you hand in your essay and the pink prompt, pick up your graded Problem paper and the assignment sheet for the Problem/ Solution paper. Read BOTH carefully before class tomorrow. Make sure you understand my comments on your paper; your grade on the Problem/ Solution paper will be influenced by whether you make revisions based on my feedback.

Homework:

1. Read both your graded Problem paper and the assignment sheet.

2. TWFTD: compelling

Solo #3 Due

1. Hand in Solo #3. Hand in the final version, the printed article, and the rubric.

2. Do the punctuation handout.

3. I hand out the assignment sheet for tomorrow's Common Final. You have time to re-read the article and complete a page of notes in your daybook.

I will return your graded Problem papers tomorrow, after you finish the in-class Common Final.  You'll get the assignment sheet for the Problem/ Solution paper with your graded Problem paper.

Homework:

1. Have at least one page of notes written in your daybook about "Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills." Look over the questions in Bedford at the end of the article; these might give you a good idea of what the essay prompts may be like.

2. TWFTD: your choice from "Computers..."

Typing Solo #3

Hand in the final version of your Problem paper.

Today in class you will practice writing an essay in 50 minutes.

Get out the cream colored assignment sheet for Solo #3, and the copy of the article from Gale that you printed off.

Write  an essay that has all the key elements of an essay that summarizes your article, as well as evaluating it using the CRAAP test.

Homework:

1. Create a finished copy of this essay to hand in on Monday.

2. Read "Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills" by David Gelernter. It is in Bedford pages 580-583. The Departmental Final will be Tuesday Sept. 13. You will have 50 minutes in class to write an essay about this article.

3. TWFTD: Your choice from the Gale article.

Working on Problem and Solo #3

1. Use TurnItIn to edit your Problem paper, due tomorrow.

2. Fill out the CRAAP Test worksheet about your article that you are writing about during class tomorrow. Review the cream colored assignment sheet to prepare for tomorrow.

3. Do the punctuation handout that is a review of coordination and subordination. We will go over it on Monday.

Homework:

1. Be ready to turn in your final version of the Problem paper, with all drafts and comment sheets.

2. Be ready to spend 50 minutes typing up Solo #3, the Summary and Evaluation of your Gale article.

3. TWFTD: your choice from your Gale article.

Draft #2 Due Problem Paper

 1. Upload today's draft to the Turnitin link in Moodle.

2. Read drafts and help each other with useful feedback. Evidence! Use the internet!

2. When you finish reading and commenting on two drafts, please read Section 29 Conciseness, in The Everyday Writer, and do Exercise 29.2 page 310-311 by either typing a revision or writing it into your daybook, whichever you prefer.

Daybook check.Tuck into your daybook the article you are using for Solo #3.


Homework:

1. Polish your draft. Tomorrow there will be some time for editing help. The final version is due on Thursday.

Draft #1 Due Problem Paper

I return the Sum/ Eval/ Response papers.

In your daybook, do the following:

1. Copy down your hook.
2. Copy down your thesis statement. (YOUR point)
3. Copy down your clincher (last sentence).
4. Explain which of 1-3 above was strong and why.
5. Explain which of 1-3 above was weak and why.

Today you read and comment on drafts.

Homework:

1. Prepare Draft #2 for Tuesday.

2. Choose a Gale article to write Solo #3 about. On Tuesday I will ask to see the Gale article you are writing about for Solo #3 (cream paper).

3. TWFTD: a fancy word that relates to your problem.

Solo #3 Assigned

1. Meet Mike Mulligan! Which leads to this article.

2. One source of credible material is a library database. (Maybe. CRAAP test still necessary.)

Go to The Hub and click on the Library (LRC) link (bottom of MENU items on top left).

We will all look at the top two databases, specifically Gale  and  EbscoHost

3. I hand out the assignment sheet for Solo #3 paper.

Begin looking for an article you can print, annotate, and assess using the CRAAP Test, and write about for Solo #3. Hopefully the article could also be a source included in your last paper, the Problem/Solution with Sources paper.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 of your Problem paper is due tomorrow, Thursday. Over the long weekend you should create Draft #2 and begin working on Solo #3.

2. TWFTD: credible in OED.

Example Problem Essay

Persuasion.

"Lay Off the Layoffs" by Jeffrey Pfeffer pages 138-141 in Bedford.
Read and answer questions 1, 2, 4 and 5 in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Begin writing your Problem essay. Draft #1 is due Thursday.

2. TWFTD:  empathy in OED

The CRAAP Test

Get out the assignment sheet for the Problem paper.

Problem Prezi

Topic: Self-driving cars.

http://prezi.com/cfbbhuup0xyl/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Google the topic you have in mind for the problem paper.  In your daybook, list the first 5 sites Google gives you, and do a quick CRAAP assessment of them. Write an explanation of why each would pass or fail for use in this paper.


Homework:

1. Take a page of daybook notes that begin to answer these questions:

A. What is the problem?

B. What are some causes of this problem?

C. What are some effects of this problem?

D. Who should care about it and why?

E. Are there any opposing views about this problem? What are they?

2. TWFTD:  relevant in OED.

Evidence

Thinking about problems:

Number in your daybook from 1-3. Write down your own answers as you watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVlaEbpJ7k   

(Mr. Rosling's sources: http://www.gapminder.org/)

You need to learn about your problem! 

What kinds of evidence will help?

Bedford pages 41-42.

Here's an example:  http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

How can this meet the assignment?

Homework:

1. Come up with two possible problems you could write this paper about. State a topic AND an actual sentence that states the problem.

2. TWFTD:  anecdotal evidence (phrase)

Sum/ Eval/ Response Paper Due

You hand in your paper -- see board for instructions.

Red Sox fun!

Critical thinking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyUHbexz04

The next genre: assignment sheet.

Homework:

1. Read Ch. 3 Bedford pages 37-45.

2. TWFTD: critical thinking 

Using TurnItIn

Seems like you don't like being copied by someone. But what about this: http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes   

Thinkwrite: Do you agree or disagree with this short? Explain.

But you "Always give credit where...."

Not only do you need to quote accurately, you must avoid this tricky problem:

Student paraphrase: Zinsser says that an adult who spends his time watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than a kid who quits college.

Zinsser's essay:  "Yet an adult who spends his days and nights watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than an eighteen-year-old who quits college..."

How would you fix this situation?

Now we see what TurnItIn can do to help you check that you are citing your sources clearly. Check your paraphrasing?

Open your draft in the Turnitin document reader.
 
In your daybook, copy down one of YOUR sentences that uses coordination to connect two or more clauses, and one sentence that uses subordination to connect two clauses.

Walk-through EasyBib again?You should have a bibliography for this paper.


Do the Red Sox assignment.

Turn in daybooks.

Homework:

1. The Final Version of Summary/ Evaluation/ Response is due tomorrow. Bring ALL drafts/ comment sheets to turn in.

2. TWFTD: none

Draft #2 of Sum/ Eval/ Response

Upload your draft into Turnitin in Moodle.


I return papers.

You read drafts.

Homework:

1. Use Turnitin to revise your paper. Final Version due Wednesday Aug. 24.

2. Daybook Check #3 tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: scrutinize in OED

Problems with Plagiarism

Critical Thinking practice: problems.

Define plagiarism in your own words.

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Identify a problem in this story. State it.

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?State it.

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome? Is there a problem here?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Is there a problem?

If the courts are in charge...

5. Do you see a problem here?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?  Is there a problem?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1.  Your Draft #2 of the Summary/ Evaluation/ Response is due Monday. Have the e-file available as well as a hard copy.

2. TWFTD:  intellectual property (the phrase -- use Wikipedia?)

Draft #1 Due

Get out the subordination/ coordination handouts.

Education is an elusive word, it means many things to many people.


You exchange drafts.


Homework:

1. Draft #2 will be due Monday Aug. 22. You need the e-file of your draft for class, as well as a hard copy.

2. TWFTD:  elusive

Understanding the Article

For homework, you read one of the articles.

Group discussion. Write the answers in your daybook.

Handout. Fill it out, either together or alone, your choice.

Homework:

1. Rough draft of the paper is due Wednesday. Have something for each required part -- summary, evaluation and response.

2. TWFTD:  your choice from your article, using the OED.

Solo #2 Due

A. First of all, we use EasyBib to create a Works Cited page for this paper.

B. Now you are going to highlight YOUR final version and post it in a reply to your post from Friday. So the two versions will both be posted in the forum in Moodle; your final version will be color-coded.

Please do a SAVE AS to create a NEW VERSION of your Final Version. DO NOT MAKE THIS THE PERMANENT FINAL VERSION, OVERWRITING YOUR FILE.

1. Italicize the sentence in your paper where you gave the title and author of the article you are writing about.

3. Make your  thesis green. This is your point about the article.

4. Make the summary yellow.   

5. Make your response to the content of the article pale blue. 

6. Underline any quotes. These are only places that used the exact words of the article.

7. Make BOLD any time you used “Zinsser”  or "the author" or "the article"– these are your author tags.

When you are done, please post this in the forum, in a reply to your post on Thursday.

C. NOW print your final version to hand in (PLAIN, NO COLOR).


Now about Paper with Feedback #3. See the handout. See the example in Moodle.


Homework:

1.  Look at the reading choices and choose which article you will write the next paper about. Read the whole article.

2. TWFTD: your choice from the article you have chosen, using the OED.

Writing Solo #2

Put the normal heading on a paper, and write up a summary/ response essay about the article you read.

Key Elements from the tan sheet:

1. Make up your own title.
2. Have a hook.
3. Later in your introduction, mention the title AND author of the article.
4. At the end of your intro, state your own point about the reading. (Thesis statement.)
5. Spend one paragraph summarizing the article objectively. Use author tags. (According to Staples...)
6. Spend a couple paragraphs explaining your opinion or reaction to the article. Use short quotes to support your reaction.
7. Finish your essay with a concluding paragraph. Revisit your hook? Point us in a new direction?

At the end of class, you will submit what you have written into a forum.

Homework:

1. Polish and or rewrite Solo #2. The hard copy with rubric is due on Monday.

2. TWFTD: your choice from Zinsser's article, using the OED.

What's Your Point?

First of all, let's look at the colorized paper. Use your tan assignment sheet to find Key Elements for a summary/response paper.

Review of thesis statements:

What was yours for Solo #1? Copy into your daybook.

Thesis Statements and Summary/ Response

Now, read and take notes (objective/subjective)  over the Zinsser article. During class on Thursday you will type or Solo #2, a summary/response essay about Zinsser's article. (Bring earbuds, if you wish.)

Homework:

1. Look at the assignment sheet to help you know how to write this essay. Decide on a point you wish to make about the article.

2. TWFTD: your choice from "The Right to Fail" using the OED. Find the definition that matches how the word is used in your article.

Kickstarter Due, New Genre

Hand in your Kickstarter on Paper, and post Language Use in Kickstarter in its forum (or put in daybook).

New genre -- summary/response. Pat Bourne questions? You do some writing....

Subjective vs. objective?

Now we read an example essay that is doing summary/ response (download from Moodle, do "Save As"  and add YOUR LAST NAME to the file name).

Go to Moodle for the forum with instructions on colorizing this example essay, so you understand how it is constructed. It is different from the last one you colorized. When you are done, submit your version in the forum.

See handout. There will be time tomorrow during class to take notes over "The Right to Fail."

Daybooks turned in.

Homework:

1. Read the assignment sheet carefully for Solo #2.

2. Read "The Right to Fail" once before class tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: fink in OED.

Citing for Kickstarters on Paper

Citing pictures in YOUR Kickstarter? Use EasyBib. I demonstrate -- you have one more day to do this correctly; turn the paper in tomorrow.

I return your essays, Solo #1.

Record number of errors: cs   ro    frag    sp     q    cap   c     apos      ?

I'm going to focus on these errors through the quarter.  We'll start here:  Coord/ Sub. Prezi .

Handout illustrates the comma rules connected with using these conjunctions.

Open The Everyday Writer to page 400.

Ex. 39.1and Ex. 39.2.

 Last 10 minutes -- one more handout. Read and answer the questions at the end in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish reading and answering the questions about Pat Bourne in your daybook for tomorrow.

2. Final Version Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow. Bring ALL drafts and comment sheets (purple) to hand in with your final printed copy.

3. Daybook Check #2 tomorrow. Have it ready to hand in at the end of class, and the Language Use in Kickstarter worksheet, as well.

4. TWFTD: mastectomy

The OED and Draft #2

A. Correct yesterday's exercise.

B. 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. ( If you pick the first definition, it will be the oldest, and possibly very different from any way you would use the word NOW).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.

C. You read drafts and give feedback.

Homework:

1. Do the final polish on your Kickstarter on Paper. The printed copy is due Tuesday, 8/ 9.

2. Complete the Language Use in Kickstarter worksheet, using Kickstarter and your notes over Sec. 23a-d. Due Monday.

3. Daybook Check #3 due Monday.

3. TWFTD: punk from the OED.

Why Is English So Hard To Spell?

Open Everyday Writer to Ex. 23.9 page 272. Number in your daybook 1-13, number the blanks in your book, and write the correct words down in your daybook.

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.

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


Homework:

1. Draft #2 Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow, Thursday. Have one typed hard copy.

2. TWFTD: punk

3. If the history of English interests you, watch this video, a "lighthearted" history of English in 10 minutes.

Draft #1 Due

Today feedback is for ideas. Help each other refine what you have. Try things out.

Step 1:  In a group of three, pass your drafts around. Each of you will read two drafts and fill out a Reader's Page for each. As always, you earn credit towards your paper based on the quality of feedback you give on those pages.

Step 2: When all in the group are done, have a discussion about what each writer plans to work on. Discuss each draft in turn. Give each other ideas for the different Key Elements.

When all are done, I'll assign the Language Use in Kickstarter activity.

Homework:

1. Draft #2 is due on Thursday Aug. 4. It must be typed. Pay special attention to layout; all of page 1 is your hook.

2. Work on Language Use in Kickstarter. It is due with the next daybook check, August 8.

2. TWFTD: cliché.

Solo #1 Due

Return of Lego paper. Keep the final version which is stapled to the grading rubric (on the top of your stack). The final version with grading rubric must be saved for your portfolio and the final page count.

Thinkwrite:  Look back through your Lego papers. What was the most useful piece of feedback that you got? Why? What did NOT help? What kind of feedback did YOU give?

We make a Works Cited page for Solo #1.

You need one copy of your Solo Paper #1 AND the grading rubric/ assignment sheet to hand in.

THINKWRITE: Please look back at the graphic on page 9 of Bedford. Think about the process you went through to write Solo #1. Describe the process you went through. What was helpful, and what you would like to do differently for the next assignment?

We shift gears to the Kickstarter on Paper.  I hand out a purple assignment sheet.

You get into groups and come up with a list of the Key Elements or sections that you think the Kickstarters On Paper should have. Note these down in your daybook.

We combine your input into a CLASS LIST OF KEY ELEMENTS/SECTIONS. Everyone will copy this onto their purple sheet.

Time to brainstorm.  Doodle over a page in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Write up a rough draft of a Kickstarter on paper. You may format it however you like. This is NOT an essay. You're trying to make a persuasive "pitch" for the idea, using the Kickstarter genre. Be creative! Have a hard copy of Draft #1 for tomorrow. It can be typed or written.


2. TWFTD: analogy

Typing Solo #1

A. Quick review of capitalization rules, Everyday Writer pages 437-440. In your daybook, do Ex.45.1 page 441. Write down only the words that need capitalized.

B. Questions about Solo #1? Write.

 C. At the end of 45-50 minutes, post what you have written to the forum in our class in Moodle.

Homework:

1. Complete, revise, and polish the paper to hand in on Monday. One copy, printed, at the beginning of class.

2. TWFTD:your choice from a kickstarter -- be sure to give the title as the source of the quote.

Thinking About Kickstarter Campaigns

Let's look at the colorized essay.

How exactly will you use your two example kickstarters? Kickstarter Key Elements?

 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/05/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-the-illusion-of-products-can-mislead-customers-about-the-realities-of-business/

This caused me to follow the link about the T-shirt. Which brought me back to Kickstarter.

Thinkwrite: What can we look for in a Kickstarter's campaign to help decide whether a Kickstarter project has the ability to actually produce its product? What do you think  the are the most important Key Elements?

Last bits of Section 23?

Homework:

1. Do whatever pre-writing you need to do to be ready to type your essay tomorrow. Mapping? Freewrite? Listing? Outline?

2. TWFTD: metaphor

3. Tomorrow you will have 50 minutes during class to type up Solo paper #1. You will turn in that effort using a Moodle forum; then you have the weekend to revise and finish it to turn in a hard copy on Monday.

Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse   

An Example Essay for Solo #1

Let's look at the assignment sheet for Solo #1 -- your first essay.

Thinkwrite: What are the Key Elements of an essay?

We list them.

I show you an example essay.

You go to Moodle to download the Example Analysis paper there.

Then open the forum in the same Moodle section, and follow the directions there.

When you finish, upload the colorized document into the forum in Moodle.

If you finish before the others, use the time to be working on your notes for your Solo #1 paper.

Also at the end of class, you will turn in your daybook. Make sure your name is visible on it.

Homework:

1. Begin prewriting for Solo #1. Make lists or outline or freewrite about what makes an effective Kickstarter campaign, and how your examples demonstrate this. (Not in your daybook.)

Kickstarter Rhetorical Analysis

What did you discover looking at Kickstarter? Thinkwrite: What did you see that was effective among the kickstarters you looked at?

Discuss.

I hand out the assignment sheets.

Narrowing your focus: find two kickstarters that are useful examples for analyzing Kickstarter campaigns.

Grammar: Some more notes about Section 23 Everyday Writer.

We do the daybook check.

Homework:

1. Fill at least two pages of your daybook with notes about the two kickstarters you have chosen for Solo #1.

2. TWFTD:  your choice from a Kickstarter.

Getting to Know Kickstarter

A. Word Choice and Spelling: Section 23 in Everyday Writer. Take notes. Up to Ex. 23.5.

B. Go to Kickstarter.com . Look around and find the answers to the following questions (write the answers in your daybook):

1. What kinds of projects can be put up on Kickstarter?

2. Who sets the money goal and deadline?

3. What happens if the money goal is NOT pledged before the deadline?

4. What’s the MOST a project has ever been pledged?

5. How many total projects have been funded at Kickstarter?

6. How do you see projects that have expired/failed (this may take clicking around)?

 Figure out how to use the search tool. You can put in a term that interests you and see what happens (“tractor,” “cooler,” “knife”).

7. Find 5 projects that interest you. List their A) title, B) the money goal, C) closing date, and D) the pledge amount and reward that you would choose.

Homework:

1. Complete the above work for Monday's Daybook Check. Be prepared to turn your Daybook in to me at the end of class Monday.

2. TWFTD: Your choice from The Everyday Writer Section 23.
 

Legos Due/ New Genre

Organize your Legos to be ready to hand in. (See white board.)

Nomenclature: context is key to communication. What does that mean?

How about assumptions? We watch Derek Sievers on assumptions.

Thinkwrite I: How did the Lego project go for you? Did you make any assumptions you were not aware of? How did you handle the nomenclature problem? Was it hard to give feedback AS you were building?

I show you the set of directions that taught me the key elements in this genre of writing (assembly directions with no pictures). I did not instruct you to do these; I was hoping you would discover them by trial and error. Key elements: ______.

Thinkwrite II: Assess the directions you created. Which of the key elements did you come up with on your own? Explain.

When you are done, please hand in your Lego Project. Only leave the parts in the bag if you think I might need to build it.

To keep you thinking about the relationship between the key elements of a genre and effective writing (rhetoric in action), our next two writing projects involve another genre that none of us has written before.

Look at Kickstarter.com.

Some projects I've found....#1 and #2 and #3 and #4.

Homework:

1. Spend some time looking around Kickstarter. There is a phone app you can download as well. Tomorrow during class you will be looking for specific information on the site.
 
2. TWFTD: crowdsourcing

3. The first Daybook Check is Monday July 25.

Legos Day 3: Second Build with Feedback

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

Thinking about thinking:

Copy these into your daybook:

Reading the directions-
Assembling the parts-
Writing/reacting on the directions-
Filling out the feedback green sheet-


Again, I pass out a green scoring sheet, and you build, give feedback, and score/comment.

After you have built two, your project and all papers should come back to you.
   
Homework:

1. Read the input from your builders. If there were still problems, make further revisions.

2. Print out a single FINAL version of your directions to hand in tomorrow. 

3. Bring ALL former versions to hand in, with ALL green score sheets, and the legos.

4. Be ready to discuss the Lego Nomenclature reading tomorrow. The questions at the end of the reading were answered in your daybook.

6. TWFTD: taxonomy

Legos Day 2 - First Build with Feedback

I give you a green comment sheet. You put your parts (taken apart) and the answer picture (well-folded) in your bag, to pass around with the directions (both copies) and green comment sheet.

1. As a builder, you put your name on the green comment sheet AND one set of directions. Have a pencil in your hand. You SHOULD write on the directions with comments and questions that you have as you are building. Be specific about what confuses you; watch for inconsistent orientations or unclear spatial directions. Make positive comments when it is going well.

2. Then when the build is complete, you must score it and write about it on the green scoring sheet. Remember, thorough comments earn you points.

3. Everyone builds two.

When all are done, your parts with comment sheets come back to you. You can see how others did with your directions. You will have some ideas for ways to improve your own.



Note: Everyone MUST now include a "General Description" at the beginning of their directions.

Homework:

1. Make typed changes to your directions and print the new version before class tomorrow (2 copies). You do NOT have to make all the changes that you brainstormed, but you MUST now have a "general description" at the beginning.  Show that you are thinking. Have 2 copies of the revised directions tomorrow.

3. Be sure to read and answer the questions on the Lego Nomenclature reading in our Moodle class.

4. TWFTD: superfluous

Lego Project Day 1

We review Audience/Purpose/Genre = Style/Content by looking at this: http://www.funeraltech.com/blogs/blog-entries/4/Marketing/6/Cringe-Worthy-Funeral-Home-Ads.html.

Look again at your example directions from yesterday.

Get out the green sheets you were to have read for homework. Compare the front and back of the page with the builder pictured on it. The information content is very similar between the two.

Thinkwrite: 1. What differences in style and content between the two sides do you see? 2. Which is more effective?

Audience, purpose, genre, content and style for the Lego project?

We look at MLA style page layout: pages A-2 and A-3 in Bedford.

You make the heading, insert page number top right with your last name, and the rest is up to you.


To get in the mood:
  Legos  we   love .  Indeed. And professional builder #1. Professional builder #2. Lego artist #3.

Homework:

1. Monday bring:

• A. TWO copies of your directions printed
• B. An answer key picture (either drawing or photo)
• C. Your legos.

2. Go to our class in Moodle. In the light blue highlighted section, click on the Lego nomenclature reading. Read it. There are questions at the end that should be answered in your daybook.

3. TWFTD: nomenclature. Use the reading in Moodle for your quote, please.

4. No typo that I know of.

Rhetoric

I.  Today we start with a video.

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

Apply this to p. 14 Bedford?


II. Now we look at your examples.

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-
Effectiveness:

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?

 The first writing project: directions. I hand out green sheets, you choose Legos.


Homework:

1. Read the green handouts, both sides. Questions?

2. Write up a draft set of directions for someone to build your Lego object. Be ready to type them during class tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: rhetoric.

4. No typo that I know of.

The Writing Process

Class start time?

 

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."

Ray Bradbury (SF writer)

Copy and thinkwrite. Discuss.
              
Groups share lists. Discuss.

All look at pages 7-11. See anything there you did not discuss?

Establish a vocabulary section in your daybook. Flag.

1. Enter TWFTD: drudgery.

2. Find a quote (by SOMEONE ELSE) that uses the word. For this word, today, you should use the sentence from the Bedford Guide. BUT for all other words, you must choose and copy down a quote using the word, AND GIVE THE SOURCE --an author and a site or publication.

3. Definition? Google? Always give teh source of your definition. Make sure your definition matches how the word is used in the text.


Homework:

1. Read pages 6-15 in Bedford. In your daybook, write out two paragraphs based on the "Learning by Doing" on page 14.

2. Find TWO EXAMPLES of written directions to bring to class. These could be the directions for any product OR a school assignment OR a "how to" from online OR in a manual. They must be hard copies.

3. There IS a typo on the blog today. If you found it, write it down, with a correction, in your daybook under the "Learning by Doing" assignment.

Welcome

This is the place for the daily happenings in class and HOMEWORK.

I will hand out the course information sheet and calendar. Copies are also available in the Moodle version of this course.

A. On paper, write the answers to these questions about the yellow handout:

1. Copy down my name. (You may call me Mrs. Loden, Ms. Loden, or Ms. Kate. Not a "professor.")

2.  Read the "Course Objectives" section at the top. Copy down the four goals of this class.

3. Circle the goal in #2 that you think is the most important for you to practice this quarter.

4. How many points is the daybook worth?

5. How many papers (projects) with feedback will you write?

6. How many "solo" projects (papers) will you write?

7. How many "polished" pages do you have to write to skip the final?

8. What do you think an English teacher might mean by "polished" pages?

9. How can you get a zero on a paper?

10. On this blog, what is the first link under the "Useful Links" section?

11. Look at our class in Moodle, and click on the "Grades" link under "Settings" (on the left). How many spots for a future grade do you count?

We discuss.

B. Now, on the back of your sheet of paper, please do some creative thinking/writing. Please imagine a scenario in the future where you will need to communicate clearly and effectively in writing (this includes typing on computers or phone). Try to describe it in as much detail as possible. Is it work-related? Or is it a personal situation? Is something important hanging in the balance?

Pkease remind me to collect these sheets at the end of class!

Homework:
1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook and a folder to hold all your graded papers.

2. On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "Steps for Writing a Paper." Underneath that title, please use your past experience to put together a list of steps you would go through for writing a long paper. You might start with "Sit down at my computer."

3. Did you notice the typo on today's  blog page? Then skip a couple lines below your "Steps for Writing a Paper" and write the typo from this blog page with its correction.

Problem/ Solution Final Version Due

Problem/ Solution Final Version Due. Assemble but keep.

Daybook:

Meet William Kamkwamba.  Information can change your life.

 William Kamkwamba. first time at TED.

Now, William later.

His website.

Thinkwrite: Do you/will you learn when you're not in school? How do you access ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE!

Count day. Questionnaire in Moodle. Count Day Forum.

Course evaluation on The Hub?

Daybooks due. Turn in both the Problem/ Solution paper and the Problem paper as well.

If your page count is less than 25 pages, choose ONE of the following essays to read:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112219425  "Dodging the Concussion Discussion" by Frank DeFord

http://www.npr.org/2005/05/16/4651531/be-cool-to-the-pizza-dude "Be Cool to the Pizza Dude" by Sarah Adams

Come to class prepared to write a short essay about one of the readings. You will able to look at the reading as you write.

If you had enough pages to make the final optional, taking it can only IMPROVE your grade.

Problem/ Solution Draft Due

JD: Turn in Solo #3.

Return of Common Final. Thinkwrite.

Daybook MLA quiz.

Upload your draft into Turnitin in Moodle.

Problem Solution Only Draft Due. Read and comment on two drafts.

Homework:

1. Make final revisions to your Problem/ Solution with Sources paper, due tomorrow.

2. Daybooks will be checked tomorrow.

3. Bring all graded papers for The Count tomorrow. If you have 25 pages, you will not have to take the final on Wednesday. If you have 25+ pages but wish to take the final to improve your grade, you may, without risk of lowering your grade.

4. If you must take the final, a reading will be assigned tomorrow that you can read ahead of class. You will get the actual prompt on Wednesday.

5. Thursday there is no class.

MLA Style Documentation

https://prezi.com/jeqno3xjsrkx/f2f-creating-the-problem-solution-with-sources-essay/

Assignment sheet? Look at the rubric.

MLA style review: http://prezi.com/qmf4siv3xukj/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

Let's look at the Schor questions from yesterday.

"My Friend Michelle" practice.

  Underline all the in-text citations as you read.

Answer these questions in your daybook:

1.  How many in-text citations are there?

2. When you read an in-text citation, check to see if it clearly leads to a source in the Works Cited list. List any problems you find.

3. Are there items on the Works Cited list that were NOT cited in the paper? List them.

4. If you know the page number where information occurred, you should include that in an in-text citation. Please put a star next to each in-text citation in "My Friend Michelle" that SHOULD have included a page number in parentheses. How many are there? [Hint: use the bibliography to help decide if there were page numbers in the source.]

Now open up your Problem paper. Do you already have places that need citations? Do you need sources?

Homework: 

1. Monday the only draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources is due. You should have a Works Cited page AND in-text citations so you know they're correct. Be prepared to upload your draft into TurnItIn in Moodle.

2. TWFTD: alcoholic in OED

Common Final

Write essay.

Answer the folowing daybook questions about Schor and MLA:

Please underline all the in-text citations you see in the article.

1. The first in-text citation is a footnote, which is unusual. Why did the author use a footnote, do you think?
2. If I wanted to look at the surveys mentioned in that footnote, what source do I need to look at? [the info should be on the Works Cited list]
3. Copy down every author-tag style citation you can find. (Just copy the "according to _____" part.)
4. In paragraph 6 there is a description of an "unmarried Hollywood executive" who bounces checks. If I wanted to read more about him, would I look in Hewitt or Tobias? Explain.
5. The very last sentence is followed by only a number. What source is that page in?
6. How many in-text citations did you underline?    How many sources are listed on the Works Cited list?
7. What's the oldest source used?       When do you think the piece was researched? How important is currency to this topic (using recent sources).


Homework:

1. Read assignment sheet for Problem/ Solution paper. Begin thinking about revisions.

Get Ready

JD - Turn in Problem Paper.

ASEP- Turn in Solo #3.

Reading assignment for in-class essay:
 
Read and be ready to write about "The Creation of Discontent" by Juliet Schor, pages 611-614. Take two columns of notes in your daybook.

Turn in daybooks.

Homework:

1. Be ready to write for 50 minutes about "The Creation of Discontent." You will have two prompts to choose between.

Final Version Due

Get your paper ready to hand in.

What's left? 

Solo #3- Gale article, hard copy summarized and evaluated using the CRAAP test.
Problem Solution - revise and add to Problem paper. MLA details count.
Common Final--reading assigned Tuesday, write in class Wednesday
Course Final (depending on page count)

Sentence boundaries worksheet.

MLA style will count for the Problem/ Solution paper.   http://prezi.com/qmf4siv3xukj/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

Modifiers in your daybook:

 Misplaced modifiers? Do Ex. 36.1, 36.2, 36.3 and 36.4, pages 381-385 in The Everyday Writer. Read each introductory discussion before doing the exercise.

Homework:

1. Finish Solo #3. Have the annotated hard copy of the article to hand in with your essay.

2. Have your daybook ready to check on Tuesday.