Establish Eportfolio is due October 4
Free Draft Paper 2 is due October 13
Formal Draft Paper 2 is due October 27
Interview with a Grown-up is due October 30
Learning Log is due October 16
*Last updated October 17
Week 6—Restak vs. Anderson
October 2 (Monday)
- Introducing the Extra Effort Paper Bonus!
- Paper 1 Due
- Online Possibilites Forum
- Learning Targets: In class goal and strategy-Grammar 101 Class
- Layered Active Reading Exercise: Restak “Brain Deficit Disorder”
- For next class:
- Richard Restak’s “Brain Deficit Disorder” Emerging pages 235-239
- Complete First Round Questions for Restak
- Come in with one conversation prompt for the class. Perhaps Restak has raised your critical eyebrow. Can you form this criticism into a question? Maybe Restak makes a point you would like to explore using class discussion. Maybe you would like to ask your peers for help understanding a reference, relationship, or idea.
October 4 (Wednesday)
- Class Grammar Time
- Discuss Restak
- Establish Eportfolio Due
- Writing Prompt 2
- Glossing the text for greater understanding
- “Interview with an Adult” Assignment
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- Read Sam Anderson’s “In Defense of Distraction”
- Complete Round Questions for Anderson
- Read Prompt 2 and use your favorite brainstorming technique (if you are coming up short, visit Emerging, pages 10-14 for some strategies for making connections) and begin to form connections between our two new texts. Post a picture of your “brainstorming session” results into your ePortfolio Blog and type a 150 word framing statement about the connections you are beginning to make. Email me a link.
Visit your “ePortfolio clusters” and leave a comment on their pictures. Did one of your peers notice a connection you missed? Is there something you think they could/should look into as they continue to think about their paper?
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Week 7—Driving Responsibly
October 9 (Monday)
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- Our ePortfolios leaving comments
- “Interview with an Adult” Assignment
- Collect Anderson questions—Discuss Anderson
- Discuss Ideas and Evidence in Anderson and Restak (Small Groups)
- Developing connections and using outlines to write—Writing Prompt
- (If time) Brainstorming as “Preliminary Sketch”
- Hand back papers—Learning Log Assignment
- For next class:
- Complete an architectural draft
- Revisit Henig or King with purpose
- Work on Learning Log
October 11 (Wednesday)
- Unnecessary or Missing Apostrophe-Kat, Glen, Kacie
- MLA update and Russian Dolls
- Workshop Architectural Drafts
- Expanding ideas and Generating words–TRIAC paragraph
For Friday
- First Draft Paper 2 Due as Google Doc
For Monday
- Prepare Peer Review
Week 8—Taking Temperature
October 16 (Monday)
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- Learning Log Due
- Digispace/ePortfolio time
- Peer Review
- For Next Class
- Read Klinkinborg Handout
- Taking Klinkinborg into consideration, select a wordy paragraph or 5-8 of your own problematic sentences to rewrite. Post your results (before and after) as a blog post on ePortfolio.
October 18 (Wednesday)
- Passive Writing vs. Active Writing: Sydney
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- Update on Interviews / Podcast Tutorial
- Peer Review
- Discuss Klinkinborg–Complete Wordy Writing Exercise
- For Friday:
- Complete Revision Strategy for paper 2 (200 words)–on ePortfolio
- Feel free to reference (and link) to Learning Log
- Make sure to highlight your goal and your plan to achieve this goal. What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of achieving this goal?
- For Monday:
- Read They Say/ I Say 105-118.
- Using your paper, complete exercise 2 on page 120 in They Say/I Say. Post a picture of your results into your ePortfolio. Write a 150 word framing statement.
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Week 9—Changeable Essay, Changeable Us
October 23 (Monday)
- Wrong Word: Ryan, Suki
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- Don’t be rude at the table
- Naysaying
- For next class:
- Work on Podcast and Paper 2
- Read They Say/I Say page 78-91 on planting a “Naysayer”
- Using your TRIAC formula structure plant a “Naysayer” into your paper. If you already have a Naysayer in your text, use the templates to refine your Naysayer. Post on your ePortfolio.
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October 25 (Wednesday)
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- Faulty Sentence Structure: Alex, Lucas
- Poorly Integrated Quote: Jack, Mike
- Vague Pronoun: Kyle, Mary
- Grade a Paper
- Library Field trip/Writing Prompt 3
- For Friday: Formal Paper 2 Due
- For Monday:
- Read “My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project” by Bill Wasik
- Complete Wasik Questions Round 1
- Interview Podcasts Due
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October 30 (Monday)
- Interview Podcasts Due
- Library Field Trip
- For next class:
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- Choose next essay. Complete Library exercise. Post on ePortfolio as post. Please make sure your peers can comment.
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