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.