Cyber-Assignments and Due Dates, Catching Up
Today we reviewed Pidd exercises and quizzes connected to the sections on "Confused Words" and "Sentence Punctuation."
Students are to complete the exercises in "Sentence Punctuation" or at least try to (smile). Next week we will complete the first essay.
We also spent a few minutes paraphrasing a sentence from the "Introduction" in Tupac, the second page on. Students who worked in pairs and completed a literal paraphrase of a topic sentence, post the paraphrase and the original sentence with page number here. Put both names on the post. Students who didn't finish can post as individuals. Again chose a topic sentence and write a literal paraphrase--keep the sentence structure.
August 29 Assignment
We also spoke briefly about the articles students read about the Gulf 6 years post-Katrina. Tomorrow for our freewrite, students will post a summary of the article. We will practice citing from a newspaper as well.
Other Homework
Continue doing exercises in Pidd up to page 30. Continue doing exercises in Pidd related to "Plagiarism and Paraphrasing." I gave students copies of the reading schedule for Dyson and Guy with tentative essay due dates. I also passed out an assignment schedule for Pidd.
Next week's homework is to complete templates for Essay 1 and read chapter 1 in Dyson: "Dear Mama." Keep reading and doing exercises in Pidd on "Plagiarism and Paraphrasing."
Tupac Readings for Fall 2011 All classes
We will read a book a month. In August-September as we work our way through SPHE we will read Michael Eric Dyson’s Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur.
Weekly there will be at least 2-3 weekly cyber assignment connected to each section. At the end of the book we will write a short essay reflecting on a central theme from the book or a character analysis of Tupac Shakur based on Dyson’s scholarship. We will listen to select songs as well as write a skit based on one of the chapters and perform it in class (smile).
Week 2: Aug. 29-Sept. 1: Introduction-Preface
Summaries, paraphrasing and outlines. In class and cyber-assignments
Week 3-4: Sept. 5 – 8: Childhood Chains: “Dear Mama” (21) & “Son of a Panther” (47); “No Malcolm X in My History Text” (69)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 5: Sept. 12-15: Portraits of an Artist
Give Me a Paper and a Pen (105); For All the Real Niggas Out There (141)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 6: Sept. 19-22: Bodies and Beliefs
“Do We Hate Our Women” (175); “But Do the Lord Care” (201); “I Got Your Name Tatted on My Arm” (231)
“Epilogue: How Long Will They Mourn Me?”
Posthumous Presence of a Ghost Saint (247)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 7: Essay plans and essay
Plans Monday/Tuesday, Sept. 26-27
Essay due Sept. 27-28 for peer review 1
Essays due Sept. 29 for peer review 2
Final drafts due: Sept. 30 via mail coasabirenglish201@gmail.com for English 201 and coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com for English 1A.
There will be a separate essay assignment sheet.
Readings for Fall 2011 All Classes con't. (English 201 & English 1A)
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy is an easier read than Dyson and we will finish it quickly. I like to look at the themes: nature vs. nurture for this book as well as forgiveness of self and others. These will be the topics students can consider for the essay based on this book.
We will start the book in October, October 10, but students can start sooner. We will read, beginning with the preface, 50 or so pages a week. We will finish the book the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 3.
Essay plans are due: Nov. 1. First drafts are due Nov. 2/3. Final drafts are due: Nov. 7.
Students will already be looking at potential subjects for the final essay on a Social Entrepreneur and the research associated with this essay will start in November. The essay is due at the end of the month, Nov. 21/22, the presentation Nov. 29-Dec. 1.
We will be multitasking. Students will be watching videos late October on Social Entrepreneurs into November to get a feel for what a business person who creates wealth for social good, looks like.
There will be separate assignment sheets for all the essays. This is an overview for the semester. Students who have free time should read ahead. We will be finished with Pidd by the time the first essay is due—that is the plan (smile). Stay on top of the work and ask for help and get help if you are not grasping a concept. If you don’t ask questions, I don’t know what you don’t know until the essays come in.
There are quizzes associated with the Pidd work. We will take the short quizzes and longer Grammar Exams in class.
We will also squeeze a Library Orientation into the September mix (smile). Plan to be busy. This is a plan, so it is open to revisions and suggestions if it isn’t working for students. The only constants are the end marks or dates for the beginning and ending of the semester, as well as holidays like Labor Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. We do not have a sitting final. The final is an e-assignment – the portfolio which we will work on the final week of classes.
Stewart Pidd Hates English Assignment Schedule for Fall 2011
English 1A/English 201 Professor Wanda Sabir
WEEK 2-3 August 22-Sept. 8
Part 1, Confused Words (p. 1)
Paraphrase exercise (pages 339-354)
Read MLA Format (pages 312).
Part 2, Punctuating Sentences (p. 18) (WRITE ESSAY)
MLA exercises (pages 319-320)
Do “Titles” and “Quotations” exercises (pages 322-329).
Paraphrase ex (pages 346-350)
WEEK 4 Sept. 12-15
“In-text parenthetical” exercises (pages 330-332)
More in paraphrases (pages 355-380)
Part 3, Pronoun Agreement (p. 69) (WRITE ESSAY)
MLA exes (pages 319-320)
“Ellipsis marks” (pages 333-334)
Part 4, Pronoun Case (p. 108) (In Class Essay)
WEEK 5 Sept. 19-22
Part 5, (144-175) Point of View (WRITE ESSAY)
Part 9, Subject-Verb Agreement (p. 277)
WEEK 6 Sept. 26-29
Part 7, Possessive (p. 221) (Take-home exam: optional)
Part 6, Be Verb (p. 178) (WRITE ESSAY)
WEEK 7 Oct.-3-6
Part 8, Parallel Structure (p. 243) (In class Essay)
Today we reviewed Pidd exercises and quizzes connected to the sections on "Confused Words" and "Sentence Punctuation."
Students are to complete the exercises in "Sentence Punctuation" or at least try to (smile). Next week we will complete the first essay.
We also spent a few minutes paraphrasing a sentence from the "Introduction" in Tupac, the second page on. Students who worked in pairs and completed a literal paraphrase of a topic sentence, post the paraphrase and the original sentence with page number here. Put both names on the post. Students who didn't finish can post as individuals. Again chose a topic sentence and write a literal paraphrase--keep the sentence structure.
August 29 Assignment
We also spoke briefly about the articles students read about the Gulf 6 years post-Katrina. Tomorrow for our freewrite, students will post a summary of the article. We will practice citing from a newspaper as well.
Other Homework
Continue doing exercises in Pidd up to page 30. Continue doing exercises in Pidd related to "Plagiarism and Paraphrasing." I gave students copies of the reading schedule for Dyson and Guy with tentative essay due dates. I also passed out an assignment schedule for Pidd.
Next week's homework is to complete templates for Essay 1 and read chapter 1 in Dyson: "Dear Mama." Keep reading and doing exercises in Pidd on "Plagiarism and Paraphrasing."
Tupac Readings for Fall 2011 All classes
We will read a book a month. In August-September as we work our way through SPHE we will read Michael Eric Dyson’s Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur.
Weekly there will be at least 2-3 weekly cyber assignment connected to each section. At the end of the book we will write a short essay reflecting on a central theme from the book or a character analysis of Tupac Shakur based on Dyson’s scholarship. We will listen to select songs as well as write a skit based on one of the chapters and perform it in class (smile).
Week 2: Aug. 29-Sept. 1: Introduction-Preface
Summaries, paraphrasing and outlines. In class and cyber-assignments
Week 3-4: Sept. 5 – 8: Childhood Chains: “Dear Mama” (21) & “Son of a Panther” (47); “No Malcolm X in My History Text” (69)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 5: Sept. 12-15: Portraits of an Artist
Give Me a Paper and a Pen (105); For All the Real Niggas Out There (141)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 6: Sept. 19-22: Bodies and Beliefs
“Do We Hate Our Women” (175); “But Do the Lord Care” (201); “I Got Your Name Tatted on My Arm” (231)
“Epilogue: How Long Will They Mourn Me?”
Posthumous Presence of a Ghost Saint (247)
Selections from The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Week 7: Essay plans and essay
Plans Monday/Tuesday, Sept. 26-27
Essay due Sept. 27-28 for peer review 1
Essays due Sept. 29 for peer review 2
Final drafts due: Sept. 30 via mail coasabirenglish201@gmail.com for English 201 and coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com for English 1A.
There will be a separate essay assignment sheet.
Readings for Fall 2011 All Classes con't. (English 201 & English 1A)
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy is an easier read than Dyson and we will finish it quickly. I like to look at the themes: nature vs. nurture for this book as well as forgiveness of self and others. These will be the topics students can consider for the essay based on this book.
We will start the book in October, October 10, but students can start sooner. We will read, beginning with the preface, 50 or so pages a week. We will finish the book the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 3.
Essay plans are due: Nov. 1. First drafts are due Nov. 2/3. Final drafts are due: Nov. 7.
Students will already be looking at potential subjects for the final essay on a Social Entrepreneur and the research associated with this essay will start in November. The essay is due at the end of the month, Nov. 21/22, the presentation Nov. 29-Dec. 1.
We will be multitasking. Students will be watching videos late October on Social Entrepreneurs into November to get a feel for what a business person who creates wealth for social good, looks like.
There will be separate assignment sheets for all the essays. This is an overview for the semester. Students who have free time should read ahead. We will be finished with Pidd by the time the first essay is due—that is the plan (smile). Stay on top of the work and ask for help and get help if you are not grasping a concept. If you don’t ask questions, I don’t know what you don’t know until the essays come in.
There are quizzes associated with the Pidd work. We will take the short quizzes and longer Grammar Exams in class.
We will also squeeze a Library Orientation into the September mix (smile). Plan to be busy. This is a plan, so it is open to revisions and suggestions if it isn’t working for students. The only constants are the end marks or dates for the beginning and ending of the semester, as well as holidays like Labor Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. We do not have a sitting final. The final is an e-assignment – the portfolio which we will work on the final week of classes.
Stewart Pidd Hates English Assignment Schedule for Fall 2011
English 1A/English 201 Professor Wanda Sabir
WEEK 2-3 August 22-Sept. 8
Part 1, Confused Words (p. 1)
Paraphrase exercise (pages 339-354)
Read MLA Format (pages 312).
Part 2, Punctuating Sentences (p. 18) (WRITE ESSAY)
MLA exercises (pages 319-320)
Do “Titles” and “Quotations” exercises (pages 322-329).
Paraphrase ex (pages 346-350)
WEEK 4 Sept. 12-15
“In-text parenthetical” exercises (pages 330-332)
More in paraphrases (pages 355-380)
Part 3, Pronoun Agreement (p. 69) (WRITE ESSAY)
MLA exes (pages 319-320)
“Ellipsis marks” (pages 333-334)
Part 4, Pronoun Case (p. 108) (In Class Essay)
WEEK 5 Sept. 19-22
Part 5, (144-175) Point of View (WRITE ESSAY)
Part 9, Subject-Verb Agreement (p. 277)
WEEK 6 Sept. 26-29
Part 7, Possessive (p. 221) (Take-home exam: optional)
Part 6, Be Verb (p. 178) (WRITE ESSAY)
WEEK 7 Oct.-3-6
Part 8, Parallel Structure (p. 243) (In class Essay)
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Stephanie Kiick
Nseke
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 August 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original:
"One of the reasons Tupac still resonates in the culture is his outsized literary ambition."
(Pg. 2 of Introduction)
Paraphrase:
An important factor of why Tupac still lives in society is his colossal erudite passion.
Lena Chhit
Wanda Sabir
English 1a 11am-1150am
31 August 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original:
"His language was inflamed with love for the desperately poor; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who explained the plight of the downtrodden in rebellious rhyme."
(p. 2)
Paraphrase:
His language was reddened with love for the anxiously deprived; Tupac was a ghetto Dickens who advocated the predicament of the oppressed in iconoclastic rhyme.
Marcel Rollock
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 August 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original:
“Perhaps it is Tupac’s ability to reach a broad audience within and beyond hip hop that separates him from most of his peers.”
(P.7 Introduction)
Paraphrase:
Possibly Tupac’s capacity to reach such a diverse set of listeners within and outside hip hop sets him apart from his peers.
Kyle Tay
Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am - 11:50am
31 August 2011
Literal Paraphrase
Original:
"After I recovered from his unanticipated sonic blast, my brow furrowed and my eyes slightly bucked, he continued, laughing at my response and the way the crowd momentarily froze." (p2)
Paraphrase:
Subsequently I restored from his unpredictable scream, my eyebrows rose and my eyes somewhat widened, he moved on, chuckling at my reaction and the way the audience suddenly froze.
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Quincy Taylor
Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am-11:50am
31 August 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original:
"Perhaps it is Tupac's ability to reach a broad audience within and beyond hip hop that separates him from most of his peers."
(Pg.4 of Introduction)
Paraphrase:
Perhaps it is Tupac's power to gain a broader audience within and beyond hip hop, which separates him from most of his peers
Nina Pesco
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50am
31 August 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original
"Of course, those who admire Tupac don't always understand him the first, second, or even the third go-round." (Pg.4 of introduction)
Paraphrase
Even though his fans greatly appreciated his body of work, sometimes they had a hard time grasping his ideals.
Daniel Gargantilla
Brianna DeGrano
Tori Coleman
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 August 2011
Original:
"Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him."
(Page 4 of Introduction)
Paraphrase:
Tupac enjoyed literature because he was passionate about his environment.
Jesse Pinkney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 August 2011
(Original)
Tupac Amaru Shakur is one of the most important and contradictory artist to have spoken in and to our culture.
(Paraphrase)
Tupac Amaru Shakur has touched and effected many lives that will remember his name for ever in the urban society.
(Original)
"Tupac was enamored of literacy creators and characters-from Sun Tzu to Maya Angelou, from Richard Wites to Niccolo Machiavellis The Prince".
(Paraphrase)
Tupac read books and was inspired by other great intelligent people like Sun Tzu, and Maya Angelou, Richard Writes to Niccolo Machiavellis The Prince.
Edwin Peabody
Professor Sabir
English 1A
31 August 2011
Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him.
Paraphrase: Tupac read literature because he was eager to learn more about the side of the world that lived in poverty.
Sean Newton
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 August 2011
Original : One of the reasons Tupac still resonates in the culture is his outsized literary ambition.
Paraphrased : One of the many reasons Tupac still reverberates in today's society is his grand literary ambition.
Marjerie Deang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00AM-11:50AM
31 August 2011
Original:
"Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him."
(Page 4 of Introduction)
Paraphrased:
Tupac read literature because he was profoundly wondering about his own surroundings.
Melody Webster
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
1 September 2011
Original: "Tupac is perhaps the representative figure of his generation." (pg. 13)
Paraphrased : Tupac is possibly the quintessential leader of his era.
Javier Flores
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00 AM -11:50 AM
1 September 2011
Original: "A full decade after his death, Tupac Shakur has the culture in a headlock."
Paraphrase: Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur has the culture in a choke hold.
Darrin Webster
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 AM
1 September 2011
"Like so many of the 'troublesome' artists who preceded him, it was Tupac's tolerance for lives gray ones that provided a constant problem for both his critics and those seeking to interpret his work."
Paraphrase:
Because Tupac's work kind of co-insides with the "gangster rap" stereo type as well as a social activist type stance , it makes it hard for listeners to classify it because of its contradictory nature.
Ryan Chua
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50
1 September 2011
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original:
"Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him."
Paraphrase:
Due to Tupac's passion and curiosity for the surrounding world, he read many books throughout his life.
Janelle Martin
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 AM
1 September 2011
Original :
"Perhaps it is Tupac’s ability to reach a broad audience within and beyond hip hop that separates him from most of his peers."
Paraphrase:
Maybe the fact that Tupac has such a talent for reaching a broad audience inside and outside of the hip hop culture is what makes him so different from many other rap artists.
Joe Kempel
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
1 September 2011
Original: The reason there’s so much to say about Tupac is that there are so many parts of Tupac to say something about.
Paraphrase: The reason there’s so much to discuss about Tupac is that there are so many aspects of Tupac to have a discussion about.
Tyler James
Currie
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50am
Sepetember 1st
Topic Sentence Paraphrase
Original Sentence
“There are a lot of reasons why Tupac continues to be even more popular in death than he was in life.”
(Page 8 introduction)
Paraphrase
There is tons of examples why Tupac strives to be more prominent in his passing than his living.
Chantha Khiev
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50am
01 September 2011
Plagiarism and Paraphrasing
Original:
“Perhaps it is Tupac’s ability to reach a broad audience within and beyond hip hop that separates him from most of his peers”.
Paraphrasing:
Possibly it is Tupac’s ability to attain a wide audience within and further than hip hop that split him from most of his peers.
Kevin Freeman II
Profressor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
1 September 2011
Original:
Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him. He agreed with Socrates that an unexamined life isn’t worth living. (Dyson 4)
Paraphrase:
Tupac studied books because he was greatly puzzled about the world around him. He sided with Socrates that an unexamined existance isn’t worth living.
Samuel Yihdego
Professor Sabir
English 1A
14 September 2011
original:
"Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him."
Paraphrase:
He was a man who is well aware and futuristic in realizing the world, he was eager to best understand the future
Debanique kemp
Professor sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
15 September 2011
Plagiarism and Paraphrasing
Original:
A full decade after his death, Tupac Shakur has the culture in a headlock.
Paraphrase:
It has been ten years since the death of hip hop legend, Tupac Shakur and his work still emulates culture today.
Original:
One of the reasons Tupac still resonates in the culture is his outsized literary ambition.
Paraphrase:
Tupac’s was a visionary, His wisdom and desire for success is the reason his work still reflects and relates to a lot of the issues in society today.
Original:
Tupac read books because he was deeply curious about the world around him.
Paraphrase:
Tupac had an inquiring mind; he read books to obtain knowledge about the world around him.
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