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.
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.
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