Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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ENG 101:  College Composition I
Class Notes
Objectives:
  • Understand the goals, requirements, and expectations of the course
  • Meet and get to know your instructor and classmates
  • Describe and use several different reading strategies to read college-level prose critically
  • Define the following terms:  rhetorical situation, audience, purpose, genre/text, writing process, invention, exploration, organization, drafting, revising, editing, and publication
  • Describe and use several different invention strategies to generate ideas for a composition assignment
  • Understand the requirements for the first paper and get started
Steps:
  • Attendance, introduction to the class, and syllabus (15)
  • Icebreakers and Syllabus Worksheet (30)
  • Reading strategies using the Slate reading then discussion (45)
    • Annotate the reading “I Got Myself Arrested” as you are reading it.
    • Take inventory of your annotations (page 528).
    • Make a brief, informal outline of the main points of the article. (529- don’t do a formal outline like it shows in the book; just jot down main points)
    • Use your outline to write a short summary of the reading (532-533)
    • With your group discuss the context of the reading (534-535) and evaluate the logic and credibility of the writer (539-543).
    • Be prepared to discuss with the class.
  • BREAK (5)
  • Go over assignment sheet (10)
  • Watch Super Size Me excerpt (YouTube Super Size Me in 7 minutes) as example and discuss (in class) (30)
  • Invention strategies (15)
    • Cluster/concept map/web
    • Listing
    • Chunking
    • Cubing
    • Dialoguing
    • Dramatizing
    • Freewriting
    • Journaling
    • Looping
    • Questioning
  • Use invention strategies to generate ideas (15)
  • Characteristics of an effective profile and the Cable essay if time
For Wednesday:
  • Read:  Chapter 3 and 15
  • Due:  Questions on page 72, 80, and 577 (15.5), and 584 (15.15) and work on profile invention and exploration
ENG 101:  College Composition I
Class Notes, Day 2
Due Today:
Read:  Chapter 3 and 15
Due:  Questions on page 72, 80, and 577 (15.5), and 584 (15.15) and work on profile invention and exploration
Objectives:
  • Understand how to use our course Blackboard site
  • Define the following terms: profile, description, showing (instead of telling), naming, detailing, simile, metaphor, dominant impression, perspective
  • Identify the basic features of an effective profile essay
  • Describe how the sample readings use the characteristics and evaluate how well
  • Use the describing activities to compose vivid description
  • Continue planning your profile essay
Attendance and Questions (5)
Blackboard Walkthrough (5)
Review of terms from Monday:  First group to write down correct definitions in your own words gets double participation points (extra credit): rhetorical situation, audience, purpose, genre/text, writing process, invention, exploration, organization, drafting, revising, editing, and publication (5)
Profiles (45)
    1. What are some profiles you have seen or viewed lately?  When/how might you have to write a profile for school, work, or personal life?
    2. Basic features of a profile:  detailed info about an interesting subject, a clear, logical organization (you’ll be using a narrative rather than a topical organization), the writer’s role (participant), a perspective on the subject (so-what)
    3. “The Last Stop”  Each group gets 1-2 margin questions to answer (5 mins max), then we are going to go through this essay together.
    4. Test your topic choice:  What would happen if I…                                                              Do you feel curious about this subject or did you pick it because you thought it would be easy?                                                             
      1. Am I confident that I will be able to make the subject/experience interesting for my readers?
      2. Can I actually carry out this idea and any research I may need to do in the time we have?
      3. Tell your idea and why you are interested in it and why you think readers would find it interesting.  Readers, tell whether or not you would find it interesting to read about and why or why (be honest!).
Description (45)
    1. “I’m Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing” questions (page 72)
    2. What is description?
    3. Describing Strategies
      1. Naming, detailing, comparing, sensory details, descriptive words, show don’t tell, dominant impression
      2. Show don’t tell handout
      3. 577 (15.5) and 584 (15.15)
      4. Example 1
    4. You try!  Aka PRACTICE  Grab your notebook or laptop and go find somewhere on campus to sit for 10 minutes.  Write down EVERYTHING you observe using your 6 senses.  Come back to class at 11:40 and use your observations to write a description; make sure to use the strategies we just learned about!  NOTE:  Don’t describe the same place/thing as a classmate, or you’ll both get fewer points (i.e. BE CREATIVE!!!).  Turn this assignment in for informal writing points.
Developing A Perspective aka a So-What
    1. Questions on page 80
    2. What was the so-what of the “I Got Myself Arrested” article?  Of Super Size Me?
Outlining your profile-  time order and making a good story
Choose one of the homework activities due today to turn in for informal writing points and turn in the syllabus worksheet
For Monday:
    1. Read: Chapter 13 and 14, pg. 81-87, 96-100
    2. Due:  Profile Outline and questions on page 85 (first 2 questions on this page) and questions on page 86
ENG 101:  College Composition I
Class Notes, Day 3
Due Today:
  • Read: Chapter 13 and 14, pg. 81-87, 96-100
  • Due:  Profile Outline and questions on page 85 (first 2 questions on this page) and questions on page 86
Objectives:
  • Outline Profile paper
  • Define the following terms: narration, cueing, showing (instead of telling), plot structure, time order and transitions, narrative action, dialogue, cueing strategies
  • Practice showing instead of telling
  • Identify the plot structure of a narrative
  • Use the describing activities to compose vivid description
  • Outline profile
Attendance and Questions (5)
Review of description from Wednesday:  Show Don’t Tell and Figurative Language handouts and practice
Narration
    1. Activity on page 10
Narrating Strategies
    1. Plot diagram/Dramatic Arc (page 12)
    2. Time order and time transitions
    3. Narrative action
    4. Dialogue
Cueing the Reader
    1. Each group will review the assigned section of Chapter 13 and give the class an overview of their cueing device
Examples
    1. “A Gringo in the Lettuce Fields”
Profile
    1. Outline your profile
      1. What did you do? (describe in detail)
      2. What happened?
      3. What insight did you gain?
    2. Work on developing your perspective (99-100)
      1. What did you learn?  Why should your readers care about your experience?
    3. Start Drafting
For Wednesday:
    1. Read: 103-108, H5-H9, H51-H59
    2. Due:  Profile Rough Draft in hard copy
ENG 101:  College Composition I
Class Notes, Day 4
Due Today:
  • Read: 103-108, H5-H9, H51-H59
  • Due:  Profile Rough Draft in hard copy
Objectives:
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of your profile
  • Effectively peer review a classmate’s profile
  • Transform your profile into a blog post
  • Identify and correct the following grammatical errors:  
  1. Attendance and Questions (5)
  2. Introductions and conclusions
  3. Grammar Review
  4. Peer and instructor review of profile
  5. How to make a blog post using Blogger
Due by the end of day Saturday:  Submit your profile on Blackboard
Due Monday:

  • Read: Chapter 4 and Coolhunting Readings
  • Due:  Merchants of Cool notes and questions on pg. 132 and last 2 questions on pg. 133
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