Portfolio Essays and Narrative Questions
Well, this must just be a semester where students don't have time to visit professor office hours. You final is Wednesday, Dec. 17, 10 to 12 noon. We'll meet in L-226.
We meet in L-202E on 12/11 to write our essay on the Coldest Winter Ever. Decide what question you'd like to respond to so you can ask clarifying questions tomorrow. We'll meet in L-226 tomorrow morning.
Oh Monday, 12/15, I am hosting a study hall from 9-12 noon. If you have a final that ends at 12 noon, and want to come by my office, I can stay, just let me know in advance. I will also be around 12/16 after 10 a.m., if you need to talk.
Portfolios
The portfolio narratives for English 1A
There is an example of a portfolio in the comment section below. You can see more examples, just ask, I have lots of them.
Each narrative is 250 words minimum
1. The first narrative essay will look at the past 18 weeks of study, and the themes we looked at this semester as we explored hip hop culture and its impact on American society and the global community. Talk about what you've learned and discovered this semester about writing and yourself, college and life, which have transformed or changed you.
What have you learned about the discipline you are studying: reading and writing that you plan to carry forth into your lifelong pursuit of learning.
Please also comment on the texts and whether or not they were helpful in this process. You can also talk about the instruction, culture of the class and the teacher.
2.Essay 2 has each student look at the writing process and discuss his or her own writing process: the topics chosen, the information used, revision strategies, writing as a process. This should include a definition of the difference between editing and revising and a value statement on the place for both in composition.
What have you learned about yourself as a writer? Take two essays and talk about the planning, research and revision strategies you used. It helps to choose an early paper and compare to a later paper. Often you can more easily see the differences in your writing and a better example of mastery of certain concepts. Also discuss skills you need to improve and how you plan to address that.
I am really interested in discourse about audience and how that shapes or determines how the writer approaches her topic.
I am also interested in discussion of the revision process, and whether or not seeing writing as a work in progress or a draft, liberates or stagnates the creative process. (Students are to use examples from their writing to illustrate these points.)
I'd also like students to think about and give at three specific ways how they have grown as writers and thinkers this semester. Each essay should be minimally 1-2 pages (250-500 words).
Essays
The essays should include all of the essays on your progress report, specifically: Change, Dyson/Hurt, Africa Bambaata, Can't Stop, Won't Stop Loop, Dyson reflections from Know What I Mean, research essay on a "Woman in Hip Hop" and the Coldest Winter Ever. The portfolio will also include a section for the freewrites, ancillary essays, and any extra credit essays like a graded research essay from another discipline. It needs to be this year, not necessarily this semester.
Extra Credit essay
Students can submit a graded essay from another discipline this semester if the other instructor doesn't mind to exchange for an assignment. You have to talk me me first. This essay has to be one where you used research and has to be minimally 4 pages long plus a works cited page (5 pages).
Presentations
Your presentation the day of final is on your "woman in hip hop." Make sure you bring in an abstract for your classmates. I can make copies for you if you give it to me (via email) in advance.
Final essay
The last essay is the one that takes it's topic from The Coldest Winter Ever. We will write that essay on Thursday, Dec. 11. You can come to class early. I have the room reserved from 8 AM to 12 noon. It is open book, open notes. You need a planning sheet, an outline and at least scholarly source, plus the novel, outside the book. Adam Mansbach's essay in Chang's Total Chaos works. (I might have left some essays out, this list is not exhaustive. If you need other essays, let me known in advance.
Narrative practice
We will work on the narratives during the optional Study Hall, Monday, Dec. 17, in the smaller writing lab, L-226. We will also practice this as a freewrite tomorrow.
You have a copy of the assigned essays this semester. See below. The check-list is the same with grades posted next to the assignment. I'll post one later. We will look at this the last day of class. Our final is Wednesday, Dec. 17, from 10 to 12 noon. We will meet in the Writing Center, L-226. If you need technology, let me know ASAP.
Final
Your portfolios are due 12/17 unless other arrangements are made in advance. Students who do not turn in a portfolio with the portfolio essays fail the class. I guess if you had an A on everything, if you missed the final, you'd probably get a C. I'd have to do the math, since the presentation is not optional. I say this because I've had students skip their final exam.
They are to be digitized and saved on a CD or diskette or travel drive, emailed (MS Word 2003). No exceptions. The only paper copies are the freewrites and reading logs. Do not give me your originals. I can make copies, if you can’t. Oh, there are no regular class meetings next week. You come to class only on the date of the final.
Well, this must just be a semester where students don't have time to visit professor office hours. You final is Wednesday, Dec. 17, 10 to 12 noon. We'll meet in L-226.
We meet in L-202E on 12/11 to write our essay on the Coldest Winter Ever. Decide what question you'd like to respond to so you can ask clarifying questions tomorrow. We'll meet in L-226 tomorrow morning.
Oh Monday, 12/15, I am hosting a study hall from 9-12 noon. If you have a final that ends at 12 noon, and want to come by my office, I can stay, just let me know in advance. I will also be around 12/16 after 10 a.m., if you need to talk.
Portfolios
The portfolio narratives for English 1A
There is an example of a portfolio in the comment section below. You can see more examples, just ask, I have lots of them.
Each narrative is 250 words minimum
1. The first narrative essay will look at the past 18 weeks of study, and the themes we looked at this semester as we explored hip hop culture and its impact on American society and the global community. Talk about what you've learned and discovered this semester about writing and yourself, college and life, which have transformed or changed you.
What have you learned about the discipline you are studying: reading and writing that you plan to carry forth into your lifelong pursuit of learning.
Please also comment on the texts and whether or not they were helpful in this process. You can also talk about the instruction, culture of the class and the teacher.
2.Essay 2 has each student look at the writing process and discuss his or her own writing process: the topics chosen, the information used, revision strategies, writing as a process. This should include a definition of the difference between editing and revising and a value statement on the place for both in composition.
What have you learned about yourself as a writer? Take two essays and talk about the planning, research and revision strategies you used. It helps to choose an early paper and compare to a later paper. Often you can more easily see the differences in your writing and a better example of mastery of certain concepts. Also discuss skills you need to improve and how you plan to address that.
I am really interested in discourse about audience and how that shapes or determines how the writer approaches her topic.
I am also interested in discussion of the revision process, and whether or not seeing writing as a work in progress or a draft, liberates or stagnates the creative process. (Students are to use examples from their writing to illustrate these points.)
I'd also like students to think about and give at three specific ways how they have grown as writers and thinkers this semester. Each essay should be minimally 1-2 pages (250-500 words).
Essays
The essays should include all of the essays on your progress report, specifically: Change, Dyson/Hurt, Africa Bambaata, Can't Stop, Won't Stop Loop, Dyson reflections from Know What I Mean, research essay on a "Woman in Hip Hop" and the Coldest Winter Ever. The portfolio will also include a section for the freewrites, ancillary essays, and any extra credit essays like a graded research essay from another discipline. It needs to be this year, not necessarily this semester.
Extra Credit essay
Students can submit a graded essay from another discipline this semester if the other instructor doesn't mind to exchange for an assignment. You have to talk me me first. This essay has to be one where you used research and has to be minimally 4 pages long plus a works cited page (5 pages).
Presentations
Your presentation the day of final is on your "woman in hip hop." Make sure you bring in an abstract for your classmates. I can make copies for you if you give it to me (via email) in advance.
Final essay
The last essay is the one that takes it's topic from The Coldest Winter Ever. We will write that essay on Thursday, Dec. 11. You can come to class early. I have the room reserved from 8 AM to 12 noon. It is open book, open notes. You need a planning sheet, an outline and at least scholarly source, plus the novel, outside the book. Adam Mansbach's essay in Chang's Total Chaos works. (I might have left some essays out, this list is not exhaustive. If you need other essays, let me known in advance.
Narrative practice
We will work on the narratives during the optional Study Hall, Monday, Dec. 17, in the smaller writing lab, L-226. We will also practice this as a freewrite tomorrow.
You have a copy of the assigned essays this semester. See below. The check-list is the same with grades posted next to the assignment. I'll post one later. We will look at this the last day of class. Our final is Wednesday, Dec. 17, from 10 to 12 noon. We will meet in the Writing Center, L-226. If you need technology, let me know ASAP.
Final
Your portfolios are due 12/17 unless other arrangements are made in advance. Students who do not turn in a portfolio with the portfolio essays fail the class. I guess if you had an A on everything, if you missed the final, you'd probably get a C. I'd have to do the math, since the presentation is not optional. I say this because I've had students skip their final exam.
They are to be digitized and saved on a CD or diskette or travel drive, emailed (MS Word 2003). No exceptions. The only paper copies are the freewrites and reading logs. Do not give me your originals. I can make copies, if you can’t. Oh, there are no regular class meetings next week. You come to class only on the date of the final.
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