I already assigned the peer review groups in class so if you missed class, you will have to email some classmates to see if anyone will help you. If not, you must go to a tutor on campus in person 2 TIMES and get receipts that you went, or I am going to have to take 10 pts off your final paper.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Oct 29
In class:
Common errors: the contest!
Autopsy of an essay
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HW:
1 Peer review with 2 partners online
2 Essay dailogue for essay 1
3 Vocab log up to date
4 Final draft of essay
** due in your folder with your essay 2 are the last 3 items. Please email your peer reviews to me as well as to your partner by Sunday at 5pm (use this email for peer reviews: misshsfsu@yahoo.com)
PICK YOUR 3 BOOKS!!!!!!
Common errors: the contest!
Autopsy of an essay
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HW:
1 Peer review with 2 partners online
2 Essay dailogue for essay 1
3 Vocab log up to date
4 Final draft of essay
** due in your folder with your essay 2 are the last 3 items. Please email your peer reviews to me as well as to your partner by Sunday at 5pm (use this email for peer reviews: misshsfsu@yahoo.com)
PICK YOUR 3 BOOKS!!!!!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
book list
Your final art and resistance group paper and project will be based on one of these books that you have selected to read. Do some research: look at plots, author info, book length, reviews, and the like to decide which books will work for you. Select 3 books by the day you turn in essay 2, as that is the day we will create groups and go over the final assignment.
FICTION
1. In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez
2. The Bluest Eye, Morrison
3. In the Lake of the Woods, O'Brien
4. Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
5. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
6. Maus I and Maus II, Speigelman AND Persopolis: Story of a Childhood, Satrapi
7. Native Son, Wright
8. Plum Wine, Davis-Gardner
NONFICTION
1. Red Scarf Girl, Jiang
2. Fast Food Nation, Schlosser
3. Guests of the Ayatollah, Bowden
4. What is This Thing Called Jazz?, Porter
FICTION
1. In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez
2. The Bluest Eye, Morrison
3. In the Lake of the Woods, O'Brien
4. Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
5. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
6. Maus I and Maus II, Speigelman AND Persopolis: Story of a Childhood, Satrapi
7. Native Son, Wright
8. Plum Wine, Davis-Gardner
NONFICTION
1. Red Scarf Girl, Jiang
2. Fast Food Nation, Schlosser
3. Guests of the Ayatollah, Bowden
4. What is This Thing Called Jazz?, Porter
Monday, October 15, 2007
Oct 15 Classwork and Homework
Oct 15
In class:
-roots
-reading q's
-passives and focus: expert groups and practice
-intro to paper 2
-essay dialogue and return paper 1: **Remember, essay dialogues are due with essay 2, so you have until 10/5 to complete them. This goes for revision as well.
HW:
1. Revise one paragraph from essay 1 for active voice and better focus. Highlight or underline all changes, and post the paragraph to the blog sometime BEFORE class starts next week. In order for your changes to show on the comment you attach to the blog, you will need to put changes in ALL CAPS SO WE CAN SEE THEM AS DIFFERENT FROM the rest of the regular text. Post them to the blog section marked: Paragraph revision. You can also choose to bring your parag. to class instead, and simply highlight/underline that copy. I am just trying to save trees and printer ink.
2. Choose the topic you want to work with and write on it, for 5 minutes, without thinking about grammar or spelling. This is a freewrite: see where it takes you. When you are done, post the THESIS only to the blog section marked: Thesis. This must be done by Saturday, 10/21, by 12 noon.
3. Post either an outline or a rough draft that shows you have begun to consider the structure and what you will need to prove your argument to the blog anytime before class. This I do want you to post, not bring to class, because I want people to be able to see each others work for inspiration. Post to the blog section marked: Outlines.
In class:
-roots
-reading q's
-passives and focus: expert groups and practice
-intro to paper 2
-essay dialogue and return paper 1: **Remember, essay dialogues are due with essay 2, so you have until 10/5 to complete them. This goes for revision as well.
HW:
1. Revise one paragraph from essay 1 for active voice and better focus. Highlight or underline all changes, and post the paragraph to the blog sometime BEFORE class starts next week. In order for your changes to show on the comment you attach to the blog, you will need to put changes in ALL CAPS SO WE CAN SEE THEM AS DIFFERENT FROM the rest of the regular text. Post them to the blog section marked: Paragraph revision. You can also choose to bring your parag. to class instead, and simply highlight/underline that copy. I am just trying to save trees and printer ink.
2. Choose the topic you want to work with and write on it, for 5 minutes, without thinking about grammar or spelling. This is a freewrite: see where it takes you. When you are done, post the THESIS only to the blog section marked: Thesis. This must be done by Saturday, 10/21, by 12 noon.
3. Post either an outline or a rough draft that shows you have begun to consider the structure and what you will need to prove your argument to the blog anytime before class. This I do want you to post, not bring to class, because I want people to be able to see each others work for inspiration. Post to the blog section marked: Outlines.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Essay 2
From the readings and discussion we have had about controversial art, draw out one of the controversial issues and create an arguable thesis for that issue. (I will be checking to make sure your thesis will work.) Argue convincingly for your thesis, using:
• PIE paragraphs
• Concession
• Good sentence focus and minimal passives
• Great grammar: NO FRAGS, NO COMMA SPLICES, NO RTS
• Sentence variety
• At least 2 quotes for regular students and at least 4 quotes for honors students, cited correctly and presented in a quote sandwich
• A title for the essay and a works cited page
• Good funnel intro and reverse funnel conclusion
• Plenty of transitions within and between paragraphs
(Look how much you know!)
DATES:
• Thesis statements brought to class for checking: 10/22
• Rough draft 1 OR a comprehensive outline brought to class: 10/29
• Peer review (this time everyone will do 2) online:
o -email your draft to your partners by 11/1 5pm
o -email your reviews to your partners and to me by 11/4 12:00 noon
• Final draft brought to class: 11/5
PAGE REQUIREMENT:
• 3-5 pages for regular 100 students
• 4-7 pages for honors students
Monday, October 8, 2007
Ok, so...
1. Homework from last week should be emailed to me by tomorrow at 4pm. You can keep hold of your visual of a controversial art piece (and paragraph too, if you are in honors) til next week. Bring to class.
2. Outstanding papers are due to me by tonight at 7pm. Email them. Katrina and Oksana, you are the only two I am missing now.
3. We will be going over active voice and sentence focus in class next week. Prior to that, I want you introduced, so read over these sites:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_actionverb.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_expletive.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_vaguenouns.html
Now try to rewrite this paragraph with active voice and better focus in sentences. Bring your rewrite to class.
There are many people who think that there needs to be a better justice system. Currently prisoners are put away by the system when sometimes they aren't even guilty. This is a concern in the area of equal rights and predujice since the majority of convicted criminals are poor or ethnic minorities. There needs to be a solution to this problem or not only the prisoners but also society at large will never be given real justice.
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4. In keeping the theme of art as controversy, take a look at the section from Maus on page 1007 in Short Story and Its Writer. Maus is a graphic novel about the Halocaust, and the father mouse you see in the cartoon is a Holocaust survivor. Next, read over Persepolis on page 1008-1009 (Short Story). This is a segment from a graphic novel about the Taliban taking over in a young girl's country.
Questions:
a) what might the author get out of turning these serious issues into cartoons?
b) do you think it is disrespectful to put such serious issues into an art format or do you think this works as a way of educating people?
5. Read The Things They Carried, pg 608 in Short Story. Write for two minutes after you read, just reacting to the story.
6. Read "On Tim OBrien's Things They Carried," pg 885 in Short Story.
Questions:
a) How does Mason say O'Brien makes a profound impact? Do you agree?
b) How does O'Brien's story work as both a piece of art and as a controversy?
7. Now, changing topics but staying in the theme, write down your opinion of grafitti: is it art or is it a crime, or both?
8. Read this article:
http://www.graffiti.org/faq/stowers.html
questions:
a) Look at the name of the author. Does that lend credibility to or take credibilty away from his thesis? Why?
b) What is his thesis?
c) How does he prove it?
d) Do you agree or disagree after reading this work?
9. Visit this link:
http://www.dougweb.com/grlinks.html
Surf some of the links there.
questions
a) what are the anti-grafitti movements main reasons for being against grafitti?
b) do they prove their points well with these links and info?
c) do you agree or disagree with their points?
10. Go to: http://images.google.com/
Type in "graffiti" and surf until you find a work that either repels you or that you fall in love with. Either print out the piece or simply note the URL and then write a short description of the work.
questions
1. WHat about the piece caught your eye?
2. How is this work both art and controversy? Can we learn anything from this piece?
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Bring your answers to class next week, Oct 15, for credit then. Also bring the example of controversial art I asked you to find on Oct 1.
See you, with your graded papers (!) in class on 10/15!
1. Homework from last week should be emailed to me by tomorrow at 4pm. You can keep hold of your visual of a controversial art piece (and paragraph too, if you are in honors) til next week. Bring to class.
2. Outstanding papers are due to me by tonight at 7pm. Email them. Katrina and Oksana, you are the only two I am missing now.
3. We will be going over active voice and sentence focus in class next week. Prior to that, I want you introduced, so read over these sites:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_actionverb.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_expletive.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CCS_vaguenouns.html
Now try to rewrite this paragraph with active voice and better focus in sentences. Bring your rewrite to class.
There are many people who think that there needs to be a better justice system. Currently prisoners are put away by the system when sometimes they aren't even guilty. This is a concern in the area of equal rights and predujice since the majority of convicted criminals are poor or ethnic minorities. There needs to be a solution to this problem or not only the prisoners but also society at large will never be given real justice.
--
4. In keeping the theme of art as controversy, take a look at the section from Maus on page 1007 in Short Story and Its Writer. Maus is a graphic novel about the Halocaust, and the father mouse you see in the cartoon is a Holocaust survivor. Next, read over Persepolis on page 1008-1009 (Short Story). This is a segment from a graphic novel about the Taliban taking over in a young girl's country.
Questions:
a) what might the author get out of turning these serious issues into cartoons?
b) do you think it is disrespectful to put such serious issues into an art format or do you think this works as a way of educating people?
5. Read The Things They Carried, pg 608 in Short Story. Write for two minutes after you read, just reacting to the story.
6. Read "On Tim OBrien's Things They Carried," pg 885 in Short Story.
Questions:
a) How does Mason say O'Brien makes a profound impact? Do you agree?
b) How does O'Brien's story work as both a piece of art and as a controversy?
7. Now, changing topics but staying in the theme, write down your opinion of grafitti: is it art or is it a crime, or both?
8. Read this article:
http://www.graffiti.org/faq/stowers.html
questions:
a) Look at the name of the author. Does that lend credibility to or take credibilty away from his thesis? Why?
b) What is his thesis?
c) How does he prove it?
d) Do you agree or disagree after reading this work?
9. Visit this link:
http://www.dougweb.com/grlinks.html
Surf some of the links there.
questions
a) what are the anti-grafitti movements main reasons for being against grafitti?
b) do they prove their points well with these links and info?
c) do you agree or disagree with their points?
10. Go to: http://images.google.com/
Type in "graffiti" and surf until you find a work that either repels you or that you fall in love with. Either print out the piece or simply note the URL and then write a short description of the work.
questions
1. WHat about the piece caught your eye?
2. How is this work both art and controversy? Can we learn anything from this piece?
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Bring your answers to class next week, Oct 15, for credit then. Also bring the example of controversial art I asked you to find on Oct 1.
See you, with your graded papers (!) in class on 10/15!
Friday, October 5, 2007
ALERT! No classes Monday the 8th
Hello people- I have just discovered that indeed Skyline DOES honor Columbus Day and there is no school on Monday coming up. I was misinformed about this by the night admin people, but that means that:
A) we don't meet as a class on Oct. 8.
B) you need to email me your homework from last week by Tueday, Oct 9, at 4pm. Email it to me either at my school email or at MissHSFSU@yahoo.com
C) in order for us not to have to meet during finals week, you will have to complete some more homework for the week of the 8th that will be due in class on the 15th. I will have to put that up on the blog for you as soon as I work out a way to combine the classwork for the 8th with the homework. I do not want to overload you but we cannot fall behind if I am going to reach my goal of not making you come to school during finals. I will put the work on the blog sometime Monday so look for it Monday night late or Tueday the 9th.
D) those of you with papers coming un on the 8th, email them to me by 7pm on Monday, the 8th, either hibblea@smccd.edu or at the yahoo address above.
Sorry kids - I hate to miss so much class but I think we can stay on track if you are on the ball and do your work online.
Cheers and enjoy the night off,
Miss H
A) we don't meet as a class on Oct. 8.
B) you need to email me your homework from last week by Tueday, Oct 9, at 4pm. Email it to me either at my school email or at MissHSFSU@yahoo.com
C) in order for us not to have to meet during finals week, you will have to complete some more homework for the week of the 8th that will be due in class on the 15th. I will have to put that up on the blog for you as soon as I work out a way to combine the classwork for the 8th with the homework. I do not want to overload you but we cannot fall behind if I am going to reach my goal of not making you come to school during finals. I will put the work on the blog sometime Monday so look for it Monday night late or Tueday the 9th.
D) those of you with papers coming un on the 8th, email them to me by 7pm on Monday, the 8th, either hibblea@smccd.edu or at the yahoo address above.
Sorry kids - I hate to miss so much class but I think we can stay on track if you are on the ball and do your work online.
Cheers and enjoy the night off,
Miss H
Monday, October 1, 2007
Announcement for honors students!!
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HONORS STUDENTS!
This is your friendly reminder that we're holding an honors student meeting
this Wednesday at 1:30 in Room 6203. I've gotten only a few RSVPs, so if
you intend on coming and want to eat some pizza, please RSVP as soon as
possible.
This is an important meeting -- please try to attend!
Sincerely,
Katharine Harer
HTP Coordinator
HONORS STUDENTS!
This is your friendly reminder that we're holding an honors student meeting
this Wednesday at 1:30 in Room 6203. I've gotten only a few RSVPs, so if
you intend on coming and want to eat some pizza, please RSVP as soon as
possible.
This is an important meeting -- please try to attend!
Sincerely,
Katharine Harer
HTP Coordinator
Oct 1
In class:
Quiz
Reflection
HW:
DW (Decisive Writer):
Pages 249-251
1. Read essay on 251
2. After reading, identify what, if any, problem the writer made clear to you. Is there a solution to the problem? Does there need to be a solution?
3. Answer the questions under "Consider This" on page 257.
4. Read on to 258, and read the essay here. Identify the cause, effect, and solution the writer sets up in her intro:
5. What is her thesis?
6. Answer all the questions "Consider This" on page 262.
7. Read on to 265 and complete the Writer's Break questions on 265.
8. Read on to 267 and read the essay here.
9. What is the author's main point?
10. What do you think of his style?
11. Read onto page 269 and read this essay here.
12. Comment on the intro and conclusion for this essay. Do you see a funnel intro and reverse funnel conclusion?
13. Read onto page 269 and read this essay here.
Comment on the intro and conclusion for this essay. Do you see a funnel intro and reverse funnel conclusion?
14. Answer the questions "Consider This" on page 273.
15. Read on to page 274.
16. Review the information on 282-284. For extra help with sentence grammar, see
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html and/or
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html
17. Collect your two vocab words for the week.
18. And finally, bring a controversial piece of art in to class. This can be a CD, a photo, a drawing, an ad- anything that is, to you, art and that could spark some kind of debate or reaction.
19. HONORS STUDENTS: do a one paragraph write up for your chosen art. What does it represent to you? What kind of debate could your art start? Why is that debate important?
Quiz
Reflection
HW:
DW (Decisive Writer):
Pages 249-251
1. Read essay on 251
2. After reading, identify what, if any, problem the writer made clear to you. Is there a solution to the problem? Does there need to be a solution?
3. Answer the questions under "Consider This" on page 257.
4. Read on to 258, and read the essay here. Identify the cause, effect, and solution the writer sets up in her intro:
5. What is her thesis?
6. Answer all the questions "Consider This" on page 262.
7. Read on to 265 and complete the Writer's Break questions on 265.
8. Read on to 267 and read the essay here.
9. What is the author's main point?
10. What do you think of his style?
11. Read onto page 269 and read this essay here.
12. Comment on the intro and conclusion for this essay. Do you see a funnel intro and reverse funnel conclusion?
13. Read onto page 269 and read this essay here.
Comment on the intro and conclusion for this essay. Do you see a funnel intro and reverse funnel conclusion?
14. Answer the questions "Consider This" on page 273.
15. Read on to page 274.
16. Review the information on 282-284. For extra help with sentence grammar, see
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html and/or
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html
17. Collect your two vocab words for the week.
18. And finally, bring a controversial piece of art in to class. This can be a CD, a photo, a drawing, an ad- anything that is, to you, art and that could spark some kind of debate or reaction.
19. HONORS STUDENTS: do a one paragraph write up for your chosen art. What does it represent to you? What kind of debate could your art start? Why is that debate important?
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