Post your abstract for the Social Entrepreneur here. Also post your self-reflection and comments for each student presentation.

Today we are reviewing outstanding essays and working on revisions. We are also completing the Pidd Semester Survey essay. Write this essay in first person.

This is the plan for tomorrow as well. Wednesday-Thursday, we will give presentations. Don't forget copies of the abstract for classmates. These are to be polished presentations.

Practice in advance and bring support materials like film clips, music, artifacts, etc.

Dress up. Oh, if you get too nervous and blow it, don't worry, you can't mess up and it won't adversely affect your grade, but it can help swing minuses to pluses.

Today in class students who had drafty social entrepreneur essays shared. We spoke about the difficulty in crafting the essay as an argument using the outline strongly suggested for this assignment.

How is what a social entrepreneur does controversial, let alone cause for debate? Not everyone is a banker, like Muhammad Yunus. Money, capital, finance, is always a hot topic, especially for those who have none--the 99 percent (smile).

We chose Yunus, just because he is easy and everyone knows him and talked about the questions asked in the outline. For those questions where the writer cannot figure out an answer, leave it blank. You can't mess it up. The outline is a plan. Many of the answers to the questions have already been asked in other assignments in preparation for this essay, like the questions writers have been addressing for the SE exercises.

Sean wrote a great essay reflection on his two Grammar Exams. I shared it as a model (smile). Hope you didn't mind Sean, you were absent (smile). Yesterday, I wrote a sample introduction for the SPHE essay which looks at the entire book and its content. Everyone will not write this essay. You know who you are.

Meeting Location

Some students could not find me today. My office is: D-219. I am in the alcove near the elevator between D and C (second level). Tomorrow we will meet at C-211 and then go to D-114 (if you are late.) I don't have a key to the room yet, but the dean approved it for tomorrow. We will start with the SE essay and end with Pidd.

Social Entrepreneur Presentations

Practice your presentations in advance. Bring in abstracts for your audience. If you need copies, you can use the mail room. Get the copies in advance. An abstract is a short summary of your key ideas and argument. We will use the abstract to comment on the presentation.

Related Cyber-Assignment due immediately
A follow-up cyber-assignment will be a self-reflection on the presentation: what did you learn, what did you like most about the process, what would you change?

Students will also give a positive and constructive response to each student presentation: content, delivery, anything else you want to share. You will include these assignments as part of the SE portfolio when turning in the essay electronically to me. Start grabbing the cyber-assignments now.

Homework
Complete the SE essay. Revise essays, work on revisions. If you have essays without final grades, that is: C, B, A. Get the revisions in. All revisions at this point need a essay narrative in third person. Write it like you wrote the Pidd essays.

If you want to identify the errors and check them off with me first, before writing the essay, that is fine. If the correction essay is not correct, you will have to revise it.

1. Today in class we completed and corrected Grammar Exam 2. Homework is to write a recommendation and correction essay for the writer instructing him or her on what he or she needs to do given this second exam.

Compare the two exams. Note any improvement (positive reinforcement). Attach this essay to the exam(s) tomorrow. Be specific re: errors and total correct per section and for the entire essay. State the grammar rule(s) and corrected sentence(s) or phrase(s) for each error.

2. We will meet in Thursdays in D-114 for the rest of the semester.

3. Continue working on the SE essay. Bring in your 5 sources in MLA so I can check it off. You will not be able to revise the SE essay. The final draft is due next week. Many students have not gotten their revised essays into me. There are a few students who have not turned in a first draft. Those students should talk to me. If you have spoken to me and did not honor your commitment, drop the class.

I am not reading any first drafts of essays which are past due after Thursday this week. Students will not be able to revise the essay(s).

4. We practiced the 3-part essay (handout). This is the kind of thesis sentence I want you to use for this final essay. I also want you to use this outline model for the SE essay as well. Everything needs to be typed, however, students can fill out the sheet if he or she desires.

Last Thursday, we read the Yunus essay together and talked about it in great detail. We focused on signal phrases per SPHE pages 331-332, 351-371.

Students are to work on the SE essay. It is due this week.

Today we played hooky and watched the film I told students about maybe a few weeks ago, DEAF JAM, directed by Judy Lieff. Visit http://www.deafjam.org/presskit.html to read about the film, the director, her artistic team and the project connected to the film to bring poetry to the deaf community.

Funny, as I was reading the bios, one of the production team, Keiko Deguchi, editor, has made a film about Muhammad Yunus, called: To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunnus Banks on America (2010). I am going to see if she will send us a copy (smile).

Homework is to continue working on the SE essay. Today students were to bring in their 5 sources. Presently you should be completing the research process, that is, reading and watching and analyzing the data you have acquired to learn who the person is and answer the questions given in the assignment outline, the same questions you have addressed in the Frontline World pieces which you should be concluding this week.