At the point we have almost completed SPHE. We have two more essays to write: SV Agreement and the Bad Granny Essay. We will complete the SV Agreement essay this week and work on Bad Granny next week as we read Evolution of a Revolutionary. Students should have passing grades on seven essays: Sentence Punctuation, Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Case, POV, Be-Verbs, Possessives, and Parallel Structure. A passing grade is a C+ or above.
Students have also completed about 21 Cyber-Assignments (freewrites and essays from August 26 to now. These assignments include: Felicia Pride narratives from The Message, Many Thousands Gone, the Hurricane Katrina assignment, Holler essay question, plus the summaries ofHoller chapters, The Holler presentation outline, notes and reflection, the Holler essay with planning and revisions, the Rose commentaries and short essays, Bastards of the Party assignments.
Look through your work and identify all these assignments and put in a Word Document with labels: Cyber-Assignments, Freewrites, SPHE, Holler If You Hear Me, Evolution of a Revolutionary….
Parallel Structure
We did not complete the Parallel Structure essay, but we did complete the quiz. Bring in three templates and your essay heading already completed tomorrow. I will give students 15 minutes to complete the essay and then we will go over Subject Verb Agreement and read from Evolution. Bring Rose daily also.
Students are to keep working in SPHE. The next section is Subject Verb Agreement. If you are behind you have until Nov. 23 to catch up. I will not accept any essays after this date, no exceptions.
Final Essay
Our research question is: How much of who Tupac becomes a result of his parents (nature/DNA) and how much is a result of his environment (nurture)? Was he destined to be the person he became or did he have a choice?
Did Tupac have a choice regarding his life or is the person he became predestined? Some philosophies speak of predestination that one’s life is already written, so a person doesn't have a choice in the outcome.
1. Argue the point in either direction regarding Tupac Amaru Shakur: choice/destiny? Use the book Evolution of a Revolutionary to decide and as evidence. How does knowing more about Afeni Shakur help us know Tupac?
2. The initial planning sheet (handout—if you need another, let me know) and essay plan will be due Nov. 18. The first draft is due: Nov. 23. The final draft is due, Nov. 30.
3. Bring in an outline for a 6-8 paragraph essay (1250 words plus a works cited page). Use as a source: Dyson's Holler If You Hear Me and Jasmine Guy's Evolution of a Revolutionary, plus one scholarly source using an article on Nature vs. Nurture.
Conclusion
4.(Writers can use another illustration to take the discourse to another place. Perhaps in your research you find that Tupac was a combination of both. Look at the films: Precious, Antoine Fisher, Forest Gump, Cider House Rules. In each film the protagonist or main character is born into circumstances which are daunting and life-threatening, yet for each, they make it out despite the odds. How is this? Is it a choice or was it in their genes all along? What would have happened if along the way each of these characters hadn’t like Tupac met someone who saw their potential and helped them? Are they the exception: "Precious," "Antoine Fisher," "Forest Gump," or the young physician in Cider House Rules?)
5. Between Nov. 19-20 and Nov. 23, go to the Writing Center (L-234) and have a teacher or writing tutor listen to your paper as you read it aloud and give you feedback on questions you have developed in advance about your paper. Students should be able to identify and correct grammar errors, so your questions should be more substantive, that is, look at the big questions like: thesis, non-debatable evidence, coherence in the essay, unity in the paragraphs, transitions, functions of the conclusion and introduction, diction, etc.
Outline
Thesis
Introduction (5 sentences minimally). I'd suggest beginning the essay with a story about Tupac in the first paragraph and then analyzing the example in the second, concluding the analysis with a thesis statement.
1st major point
Evidence
Evidence
2nd major point
Evidence
Evidence
3rd major point
Evidence
Evidence
4th major point
Evidence
Evidence
5th major point
Evidence
Evidence
Conclusion
(5 sentences minimally. Do not use the summary conclusion format.)
Students have also completed about 21 Cyber-Assignments (freewrites and essays from August 26 to now. These assignments include: Felicia Pride narratives from The Message, Many Thousands Gone, the Hurricane Katrina assignment, Holler essay question, plus the summaries ofHoller chapters, The Holler presentation outline, notes and reflection, the Holler essay with planning and revisions, the Rose commentaries and short essays, Bastards of the Party assignments.
Look through your work and identify all these assignments and put in a Word Document with labels: Cyber-Assignments, Freewrites, SPHE, Holler If You Hear Me, Evolution of a Revolutionary….
Parallel Structure
We did not complete the Parallel Structure essay, but we did complete the quiz. Bring in three templates and your essay heading already completed tomorrow. I will give students 15 minutes to complete the essay and then we will go over Subject Verb Agreement and read from Evolution. Bring Rose daily also.
Students are to keep working in SPHE. The next section is Subject Verb Agreement. If you are behind you have until Nov. 23 to catch up. I will not accept any essays after this date, no exceptions.
Final Essay
Our research question is: How much of who Tupac becomes a result of his parents (nature/DNA) and how much is a result of his environment (nurture)? Was he destined to be the person he became or did he have a choice?
Did Tupac have a choice regarding his life or is the person he became predestined? Some philosophies speak of predestination that one’s life is already written, so a person doesn't have a choice in the outcome.
1. Argue the point in either direction regarding Tupac Amaru Shakur: choice/destiny? Use the book Evolution of a Revolutionary to decide and as evidence. How does knowing more about Afeni Shakur help us know Tupac?
2. The initial planning sheet (handout—if you need another, let me know) and essay plan will be due Nov. 18. The first draft is due: Nov. 23. The final draft is due, Nov. 30.
3. Bring in an outline for a 6-8 paragraph essay (1250 words plus a works cited page). Use as a source: Dyson's Holler If You Hear Me and Jasmine Guy's Evolution of a Revolutionary, plus one scholarly source using an article on Nature vs. Nurture.
Conclusion
4.(Writers can use another illustration to take the discourse to another place. Perhaps in your research you find that Tupac was a combination of both. Look at the films: Precious, Antoine Fisher, Forest Gump, Cider House Rules. In each film the protagonist or main character is born into circumstances which are daunting and life-threatening, yet for each, they make it out despite the odds. How is this? Is it a choice or was it in their genes all along? What would have happened if along the way each of these characters hadn’t like Tupac met someone who saw their potential and helped them? Are they the exception: "Precious," "Antoine Fisher," "Forest Gump," or the young physician in Cider House Rules?)
5. Between Nov. 19-20 and Nov. 23, go to the Writing Center (L-234) and have a teacher or writing tutor listen to your paper as you read it aloud and give you feedback on questions you have developed in advance about your paper. Students should be able to identify and correct grammar errors, so your questions should be more substantive, that is, look at the big questions like: thesis, non-debatable evidence, coherence in the essay, unity in the paragraphs, transitions, functions of the conclusion and introduction, diction, etc.
Outline
Thesis
Introduction (5 sentences minimally). I'd suggest beginning the essay with a story about Tupac in the first paragraph and then analyzing the example in the second, concluding the analysis with a thesis statement.
1st major point
Evidence
Evidence
2nd major point
Evidence
Evidence
3rd major point
Evidence
Evidence
4th major point
Evidence
Evidence
5th major point
Evidence
Evidence
Conclusion
(5 sentences minimally. Do not use the summary conclusion format.)
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