In the morning we will start with our presentations. If we can get through all in one class then great. If not, we will continue on Thursday or Monday. Most students are presenting in groups. We will have a peer review on Thursday. Bring in your book report essays and all the supplementary materials such as: notes, planning sheets and outlines.
Students will turn in their essays with peer reviews.
We will write the Possessives essay on Monday. We will write it out, so bring your books to class. There was cheating on Essay Exam 1, so we will do the essay in class. Hopefully we can get to the Parallel Structure quiz next week as well. We will complete the Parallel Structure essay when you return and the Subject Verb AGR essay the first week back.
We shared names of social entrepreneurs today. Many students are still undecided. Choose someone. Go to the KQED website and peruse the women profiled over the years as local heroes.
The play, Ruined closes at Berkeley Rep this Sunday, April 10, 2011. The International Women's Film Festival kicks off April 6-10, in San Francisco at the Roxie Theatre on 16th Street near Mission, http://www.womensfilminstitute.com/sfiwff-2011-films-and-schedule/.
The Oakland International Film Festival also kicks off this week, April 7-15, 2011, http://www.oiff.org/films.html with screenings in Oakland at the Grand Lake Theatre, Laney College Theatre and panels at the Claremont Hotel. Other screenings are at the Art Deco Auditorium in Alameda.
Today we read from Alice Walker's We Are the Ones (handout). The freewrite was in response to a meditation. Next week I am participating in a poetry reading in the library, April 12, 2011. April is National Poetry Month and within the month is National Library Week.
Sunday in San Francisco, April 10, 2011, at the SF Main Library is the Northern California Book Awards at the SF Main Library on Larkin. It is a great opportunity to meet marvelous writers from Northern California.
Students will turn in their essays with peer reviews.
We will write the Possessives essay on Monday. We will write it out, so bring your books to class. There was cheating on Essay Exam 1, so we will do the essay in class. Hopefully we can get to the Parallel Structure quiz next week as well. We will complete the Parallel Structure essay when you return and the Subject Verb AGR essay the first week back.
We shared names of social entrepreneurs today. Many students are still undecided. Choose someone. Go to the KQED website and peruse the women profiled over the years as local heroes.
The play, Ruined closes at Berkeley Rep this Sunday, April 10, 2011. The International Women's Film Festival kicks off April 6-10, in San Francisco at the Roxie Theatre on 16th Street near Mission, http://www.womensfilminstitute.com/sfiwff-2011-films-and-schedule/.
The Oakland International Film Festival also kicks off this week, April 7-15, 2011, http://www.oiff.org/films.html with screenings in Oakland at the Grand Lake Theatre, Laney College Theatre and panels at the Claremont Hotel. Other screenings are at the Art Deco Auditorium in Alameda.
Today we read from Alice Walker's We Are the Ones (handout). The freewrite was in response to a meditation. Next week I am participating in a poetry reading in the library, April 12, 2011. April is National Poetry Month and within the month is National Library Week.
Sunday in San Francisco, April 10, 2011, at the SF Main Library is the Northern California Book Awards at the SF Main Library on Larkin. It is a great opportunity to meet marvelous writers from Northern California.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 10:02 PM
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David Guzman
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9 a.m.
5 April 2011
The War, Free Write
Alice Walker's We Are the Ones
People who die in war are people that don’t know each other for the benefit of other people who do know each other but don’t kill one another. Alice Walker gives us an introspective of how ambiguous and dramatic war can be. On the one hand there is society’s pressure that constantly states: “one must die for his or her country.“ But, on the other hand, when a soldier dies did he really die for his country or for the people who control his country? The situation even turns ridiculous when one dies for a country that is not his or hers. I totally agree with the author when she implies that if Americans would travel abroad, they would understand the reality of other societies and recognize their people as peers no matter their religion or skin color. Have you ever noticed that when crossing a border the landscape and people look similar on both sides? The only thing that changes is people’s accent.
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