We'll be talking about portfolios next week and will start working on the portfolio essays so that students will get them in on time. The essay assignments in the portfolio include: all the cyber essays on MLK Jr. and Alice Walker, the Frontline World Responses, the Children of the Movement essays, Baldwin freewrite and Midterm, Research essay and all prewriting planning (outline, initial planning, document search, any grades revisions, and peer responses), Evaluation of a Website and all library assignments (from orientation), extra credit essays, if applicable, and The Color Purple essay. I will allow students to submit an essay from another discipline as a part of the portfolio. Ask the other teacher if it is okay first. Have the other professor sign off on the essay granting permission.
If students are okay with not reading Letters from Mississippi, we can just focus on the portfolios and wrap up any lose ends over the next few weeks. We can then read a a few Walker short stories, or Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," (I also have the new movie with Sean Combs), watch the Zora Neale Hurston documentary. We can respond to these on the blog.
The Color Purple Essay will be due next week. We'll write it perhaps Tuesday in class. Let me know Thursday, May 8, what you think about this plan. Respond here in the comment section. I certainly recommend the book.
Over the following class meetings we will look at different rhetorical styles. We will also look at the topic of knowing, how we know what we know and how we can apply these acquisition skills to other topics and areas of study.
Oh, bring in a hard copy of your research papers tomorrow to class. Print them out and bring to the Wriing Center. Include the outline, initial planning sheet, and document search. I believe some students posted their final drafts on the blog. You can all do this by tomorrow, even if you gave me a copy on a disk. Still bring in a paper copy to class. Label the final draft "final draft." If you have not previously posted all part of the research process, post it with the final draft, otherwise, just post the essay. Look at the "preview" to make sure you do not lose the formatting.
Elements of Style--we will be discussing the reading assignments in detail next week, so be sure to read the chapters mentioned. We'll complete the book by 5/15.
If students are okay with not reading Letters from Mississippi, we can just focus on the portfolios and wrap up any lose ends over the next few weeks. We can then read a a few Walker short stories, or Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," (I also have the new movie with Sean Combs), watch the Zora Neale Hurston documentary. We can respond to these on the blog.
The Color Purple Essay will be due next week. We'll write it perhaps Tuesday in class. Let me know Thursday, May 8, what you think about this plan. Respond here in the comment section. I certainly recommend the book.
Over the following class meetings we will look at different rhetorical styles. We will also look at the topic of knowing, how we know what we know and how we can apply these acquisition skills to other topics and areas of study.
Oh, bring in a hard copy of your research papers tomorrow to class. Print them out and bring to the Wriing Center. Include the outline, initial planning sheet, and document search. I believe some students posted their final drafts on the blog. You can all do this by tomorrow, even if you gave me a copy on a disk. Still bring in a paper copy to class. Label the final draft "final draft." If you have not previously posted all part of the research process, post it with the final draft, otherwise, just post the essay. Look at the "preview" to make sure you do not lose the formatting.
Elements of Style--we will be discussing the reading assignments in detail next week, so be sure to read the chapters mentioned. We'll complete the book by 5/15.
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