1. Literature Circles: Today in class we are looking at practical applications for They Say in Half the Sky and in our own first essays. Students start by doing exercises 1 & 2 on page 70-72.
2. Develop character profiles for the key figures in each chapter. Also note the place and the presenting problem/solution. Are any of the solutions 100 percent effective? Why or why not? How do the authors keep the readers optimistic despite repeated failures or partial successes?
How do the authors develop empathy for the characters? Do the stories ever feel like too much?
3. Read Aloud Protocol (demonstration)
3. Read Aloud Protocol (demonstration)
4. Revisions recommended (optional). If you chose to revise the first essay, for students who got C-, include a narrative indicating what changed between the drafts. Use Hacker for the rules that might govern the change. Have a works cited or reference page as well. Quote the error and write what the revised passage looks like now.
For example:
For example:
In Wanda Sabir's first essay, "Tough Love for Leymah," she makes many errors, so many she fails the assignment. Lucky for her, she was not alone in the deep blue sea of errors (smile). She decides to take advantage of the opportunity to revise her essay and decides to tackle it one paragraph at a time with the hopes of getting a passing grade this time around.
Her first error is dropped quotes, the authors in They Say, I Say, call them "hit and runs." She kills a lot of readers in this short yet deadly composition. There are at least eight accidents--I don't know how she is still operating in the English language. Her license should have been revoked.
The first error is in paragraph 3. She writes: "XYZ" (1). We don't know who is speaking. There are many rules pertaining to incorporating text into one's discourse. In this case, she should set the context in the signal phrase, so the reader while see how the citations follows from what is said prior: "Leymah Gbowee says while initiating a new policy at the ABC council meeting of the region (page number and author re: reference).
Wanda makes similar errors on this page elsewhere. She writes: "VNM." Once again there is no signal phrase, but this time, we know who is talking, so "She says, 'VNM'" would work here.
Not only does the writer play hit and run games with citations, she doesn't seem to know how to use MLA when citing in-text, whether that is at the end of a block quote or a shorter citation. She has a lot of trouble with quotes within quotes. Take for instance, the error in paragraph 10. Wanda writes, "OPL." (4).
Not only does the writer play hit and run games with citations, she doesn't seem to know how to use MLA when citing in-text, whether that is at the end of a block quote or a shorter citation. She has a lot of trouble with quotes within quotes. Take for instance, the error in paragraph 10. Wanda writes, "OPL." (4).
And so on.
5. Homework --finish the book. We'll do the Initial Planning Sheet and outline in class. We will write an introduction on Thursday and share.
6. Freewrite--song or Walker (smile)
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Name: Tsgereda Leul
Professor Wanda Sabir
Date: 02 July 2012
English 1A summer 2012
Freewrite: Response for the Library Orientation
After attending the orientation at the College of Alameda library, I learned how to research articles for my paper. College level writing is different and it requires research. Steve Gerstle, Instruction and Reference Librarian at the College of Alameda were the one who gave us the information on how to access the Library database off-campus. When we are writing an essay it’s good to know about the author, so we can use biographies and the book reviews to get more ideas. We saw how we can access information from the database for the books. For instance, Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. By just putting the key word “Half the Sky” we found 42 academic journals, 155 magazines, and 88 news that are related to that key word. We can always make our search specific too.
Mr. Gerstle talked about how we can evaluate websites too. When we evaluating the website, we have to answer this questions like: Who owns the website? Who is the author? Is the information complete? and etc…. Our final essay is based on a social entrepreneur. At the orientation Mr. Gerstle showed us how to research social entrepreneurs and also gave us a website list to use. The other major thing we discussed about was how we can be ascertain whether an article is publication or scholarly. Scholarly or peer-reviewed articles are written by experts in academic or professional fields. They are excellent sources for finding out what has been studied or researched on a topic as well as to find bibliographies that point to other relevant sources of information. When publication articles are to inform, entertain, or persuade. The articles often written by reporters or other paid staff writers; or it can be by freelance writers. And it is written for general public; those without specialized knowledge.
Ka Wai Ng
Professor Sabir
Eng1A Summer2012
07/02/2012
Response to the Library Orientation
From the library orientation, I discovered that there are more ways for me to research the articles. It introduced me a way of how to defined different types of articles. One of the staffs who works at the library at the College of Alameda name Steve Gerstle, had taught us how to use the library to do the research off-campus. For searching the resources, it only takes us few seconds to do so. For example, if you are doing a research on a book, you can type in the book's name, or perhaps that you forget the name of the book, the you can also type in the author's name. Then, Professor Steve showed us how to search for the specific social entrepreneur. After that, he taught us how to defined an article to be publication or scholarly. The biggest difference between publication and scholarly is that the scholarly articles are written by the expert who holds advanced degree in the subject covered by the article or in a very closely related field and is able to be study by the others. The publication articles are most likely to be written by the reporter and the novelists.
Linde Huang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
July 3, 2012
After attending the library orientation, I learned that there are many different things that the College of Alameda has to offer. The orientation has also taught us how to look up books for more information either about the publication, or the book itself. He taught us how to start our essays by showing us a circular chart. It starts wit identifying options, then by selecting our sources, then to analyze content, present finding, then define tasks, and finally, evaluating. We received a lot of papers from the orientation from which we can take. He also showed us a lot of online sites, as well as how to use the peralta edu website.
Raymond Hui
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
July 4, 2012
The library database will definitely benefit the students greatly after our orientation. The ability to access it not only from the campus, but off is very convenient. We can research books that we have read and related books as well to further our knowledge on a certain subject. The social entrepreneurs portion of the orientation will make it easier for us to pick one for our report. From what I understand, a social entrepreneur is a person who creates jobs to help benefit people in unfortunate situations, such as the resort which has a internship for teens in need.
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