Monday, October 01, 2007

Today, we were going to lsten to Brenda's Got a Baby and Keep Ya Head Up, both by Tupac, but the TV/DVD/CD player was gone and so we switched tasks. For the freewrite students looked at two poems from A Rose Grew From Concrete pp. 19 and 21. The task was to summarize the thesis and then take 1-3 lines from the poem and discuss the themes, then use Dyson's Holler If Ya Hear Meto substantiate the writer's claims. So and so is true because on page X,Y,Z Dyson writes....

Use Hacker to refresh your memory on how to use signal phrases and what is a quote and what is a paraphrase. For this exercise, which is due Tuesday, use 2 direct quotes and 1 paraphrase. Include a wroks cited at the end of the short (three-four paragraph long) essay response to the poem. Be prepared to share Tuesday.

Also students were to watch 60 Minutes (Sept. 30 episode on-line at CBS.com). Watch the segment on Vince Young, quarterback for the Tennessee Titans. Try this link. It is also transcribed: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/27/60minutes/main3304630.shtml.

We are going to compare Vince with Brenda from the song we didn't hear today.

I didn't mention it, but Friday, October 5, at the Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, there will be a movie on graffitt writing shown. We can go as a class if you like and I can get free passes for you. Let m

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