Portfolio Checklist for Fall 2013

This checklist can serve as the table of contents. Put a check next to the items to show inclusion in the portfolio. Use as the second page to the portfolio, after the cover sheet. Where there are questions for the section, students can post the answers to the narrative there. Number the pages with a header.

Name ______________________________
Date ______________________________
Class including class code and semester ____________________
Address _______________________________________
Phone number __________________________________
Email address__________________________________

COA ENG 1A Fall 2013 Syllabus Professor Wanda Sabir Revised English 1A Composition and Reading (3 classes)

Class code: 40002 Lec 08:00-8:50 AM MTWTh  meets in A 202
Class code: 40007 Lec 10:00-10:50 AM MTWTh meets in D205
Class code: 40008 Lec 11:00-11:50 AM MTWTh meets in D205

Class Meetings: August 19-Dec. 5; Holidays: 9/2; 11/11; 11/28-Dec.1;

Final Exam Week: M-F, Dec. 9-13 (Portfolios due via e-mail by Friday, Dec. 13, 12 noon).

Finals Schedule: CANCELED
Class code: 40002 Lec 08:00-8:50 AM: 8-10 a.m., Fri., Dec.13;

Class code: 40007 Lec 10:00-10:50 AM:10 a.m.-12 noon, Mon., Dec. 9;

Class code: 40008 Lec 11:00-11:50 AM:10 a.m.-12 noon Wed., Dec.11.

The finals are conducted in the classrooms, unless otherwise noted. The final is not optional.

Portfolio Due Date Deadline:
Portfolios due via e-mail by Friday, Dec. 13, 12 noon Noon via e-mail coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com  Make sure you receive a receipt for your submission. No paper copies, no exceptions.

Drop-in Portfolio Assembly Workshop  _______________
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, A-205:  9 - 12 noon. (I can stay later if needed). 

Grade Justification
What grade do you think you've earned this semester? What evidence supports this conclusion?

1. Portfolio Essay 1 Reflection on COA Fall 2013, Professor Sabir’s English Class_______

The narrative will look at the theme this semester: Rebellion or Resistance and Social Change Agents who recognize a problem and fight for its resolution through the three essays: Rosa Parks, Book Report and Social Entrepreneur Profile. In 50 Essays and the earlier essays by Frederick Douglass, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X, and Helen Keller we also explored similar topics.

What have you learned about yourself this semester? What have you learned about the discipline you are studying here: reading and writing that you plan to carry forth into your lifelong pursuit of learning.

We shared this essay last week in a Finals Salon. ___________ (check here if present)The essay shared in the Finals Salon can take the place of Essay 1 here. You do not have to write another essay.


2. Portfolio Essay 2 Reflection on revision process__________________

Look at the writing process and what you have been learning about yourself as a writer. Take two essays and talk about the planning, research and revision strategies you used. It helps to choose an early paper and compare to a later paper. Often you can more easily see the differences in your writing and a better example of mastery of certain concepts. Look at the role grammar plays in the writing process. Include here a discussion of your two MCE scores.

Also discuss skills you need to improve and how you plan to address that.

Include The Write Course Video: "Revision Strategies," the two chapters from Writing with a Thesis,  Diana Hacker's Rules for Writing, and They Say, I Say, in your bibliography. Site at least two of these sources in your analysis of your revision process. Also cite your essay(s) used as examples in this second essay. This is a scholarly essay and it does count. There are cyber-assignments connected to the Write Course video and the Writing with a Thesis chapters, not to mention your responses to me re: the MCE. Use this writing where appropriate to write this second essay.

Additional narrative considerations for the portfolio essay:

The second essay has students look at the writing process and discuss their own writing process: the topics chosen, the information used, revision strategies, writing as a process. This should include a definition of the difference between editing and revising and a value statement on the place for both in composition.

I am really interested in discourse about audience and how that shapes or determines how the writer approaches her topic.

I am also interested in discussion of the revision process, and whether or not seeing writing as a work in progress or a draft, liberates or stagnates the creative process. (Students are to use examples from their writing to illustrate these points.)

I'd also like students to think about and give at three specific ways how they have grown as writers and thinkers this semester. Essay 1 is about 250 words. Essay 2 will probably be a bit longer (500-750 words) since you are citing your essays and scholarly sources.

Give your essays a title.

Social Entrepreneur Portfolio

Planning _____________

List of sources (5) minimum in MLA format (post in the portfolio)_________

If included check off.
Essay: Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis__________
First Draft (peer review)__________
Final Draft Grade ______________

Cyber-Assignments:
Frontline World __________
New Heroes__________

Muhammad Yunus_________

Book Report

Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________
Revision Goals Narrative(s)________________
Cyber-Assignments: ___________

They Say___________

 
Book Report Presentations
Grade is an “A” for all presentations or “-0-“ for opting out. The presentation is a quarter of the grade for this assignment
Abstract___________
Self-reflection__________
Feedback_____________
Grade_________

Rosa Parks Essay
Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________ (How many?)
Revision Goals Narrative(s)________________  (Summarize all of them here. Walk us through the writing process for this essay. Why did you have to revise it 1,2,3-5 times (smile).

Cyber-Assignments: ___________

They Say___________

Reading Logs_________

Text Books

They Say, I Say Exercises____________ (How many?)
NOTE: Only post Assignments here that you posted on the blog which are not a part of an essay portfolio. If the assignment is a part of an Essay Portfolio, do not re-post.


50 Essays+:

Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X____________

50 Essays Assignments includes Freewrites ________ 

Additional Cyber-Assignments and Freewrites (type them) (not connected to an essay)
How many?__________ (Post here in the Portfolio)

Exams

Multiple Choice Exam 1 Score with narrative and plan________

Multiple Choice Exam 2 Score with narrative________

In-class MLA Formatting Exam score with narrative _________

Extra Credit Assignment_________

Students can submit an essay from another course or discipline if the other teacher is okay with this provision. Include the assignment prompt, course and the grade. The essay has to use research and MLA style documentation, so certain courses are not applicable. 

Anything else? _____________________________________________



Teacher research

Can I use your work in presentations and publications? Would you like to be anonymous? If I plan on using your essays or work in a book, I will let you know and share any proceeds.

Yes, I agree. _____________
No, do not use my work._____________

Final Grade

Portfolio checklist _____________
Portfolio Essay 1_______________
Portfolio Essay 2_______________
Portfolio Grade_________

Course Grade_________

Essay 3 Due Dates Revised

Essay 3 is due for peer review today, Tuesday, November 26, 2013. The final draft is due into me via email by 12 noon Tuesday, December 3. Grades are final. make sure the MLA for the academic essay, in-text citations, works cited and bibliography are perfect.

Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, we will meet in A-205 for another peer review with Microsoft Comment. We learned today how to change the colors for each reader.

Review the rubric for the course and make sure that grammatical errors, including spelling errors are minimal. If they overwhelm the paper, your grade will suffer. We have a Writing Center where tutors will give students assistance. If you have never visited L-231, now is the time.

We reviewed these areas:

From They Say

Metacommentary
Tone--author's voice
Naysayer
Multiple Perspectives
Quotation Sandwiches
Signal Phrases
So What? Who Cares? Creating empathy for the topic

Initial Planning Sheet
Outline
Evidence
Purpose

3-Part Thesis
Organization

Rules for Writers
Pages 83 and 36-37

Students also added three areas they wanted classmates to read for.

It goes without saying that we emphasize what is working well.   

The class portfolio is due the day of the final. These dates vary per class. On the day of the final students will present there research on Rebels.

What is a rebel?

Students will use the three essays beginning with Rosa Parks and ending with your Social Entrepreneur to illustrate your definition.

I suggest students make a poster presentation, that is, divide a folding board into three parts where each aspect of your Rebel presentation is outlined and your essays highlighted with visuals. I have examples of poster presentations I can show you.

I plan to videotape these presentations for scholarly research and documentation.

Later today, I will post the portfolio checklist for this semester. Students will also get a paper copy. The checklist can serve as the table of contents for the portfolio which is due the last day the week of finals: Friday, December 13 by 8 a.m. My grades are also due this day. If the portfolio is late or turned in incorrectly, you will fail the course.

I will not have time to call students or return the portfolio for those who have not submitted the work correctly. Make sure you come to class this week and next week to practice and assemble your portfolio.

Ode Article on Muhammad Yunus Cyber-Assignment

Identify the moves the authors make using They I, I Say templates (221-235). 
 http://professorwandasposse.blogspot.com/2013/04/microcredit.html

Essay 3; Revisions, MLA Worksheets

This week we are meeting in A-205 working on revisions for the second essay, and getting feedback on the third and final essay for the semester.

We started with looking at a resource website: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rules7e/#t_669460____
Students also picked up about eight MLA worksheets to complete over the next week. We will review a few Wednesday and the rest next week, Monday, Nov. 25.

If you have to write a revision for Essay 2, complete that first, before continuing onto essay 3. We might be in different places with this essay. All revisions should be finished by this Thursday.

The peer review for Essay 3 is Monday, Nov. 25, 2013.

We will also complete Multiple Choice Exam 2 this week if we have time. 

Events this weekend

I mentioned the Emmett Till Event at Allen Temple Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, 7-9 p.m. Here is a link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/417867735005410/?source=1

A Raisin in the Sun is up at Oakland School for the Arts, Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 14-16, 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, 2 p.m. (sold out on the website). Visit http://www.oakarts.org/

Tomorrow at COA Cracking the Code, film and discussion 9-12 in the F-Building. Free.

Tonight, Nov. 14, 2013, in correlation with Emmett Till, a river and Theatre of Yugen’s upcoming 35^th Season, the Company will also host 35 and Counting a lecture/symposium on why it matters to create art that investigates events of historical and cultural significance. It will be led by Larry Bogad, author, performer and the founding director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. Mr. Bogad has been a commentator on political performance on Air America, NPR, and other radio stations and has led Tactical Performance workshops helping activists create performative, nonviolent images to contest and critique power.

WHAT: 35 and Counting

WHEN: November 14, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30 pm (pre-show)

WHERE: Mariposa Studios (next door to NOHspace)

2808 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

TIX: 35 and Counting is a community-building event for the theatre and admission is strictly Pay-what-you-will. Bento dinners will be available for $15 with an advanced reservation.

See http://www.theatreofyugen.org/?spec=94

Muhammad Yunus

This week in class we looked at the 3-part thesis statement. Today we watched a New Heroes video about Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank. We also developed thesis sentences together using the 3-part thesis sentence to structure it.  Here is a link to program description: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html

Here is the program on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGU5gkI6-Y

Muhammad Yunus: Skoll Lectures "Create Social Fictions"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU97gXWj0


Essay 3 Homework

Homework is to bring in an outline using the form described in the worksheet handed out (3-part thesis). Students are also to bring in their thesis sentences completed and an Initial Planning Sheet.

Bring They Say and Rules for Writers to class daily. 

Note:

If you have been excessively absent or have not turned in Essays 1-2, you should make an appointment to see me to see if there is a chance you can pass the class.  If you missed the presentations, have not gotten your Social Entrepreneur approved, or shared with me your literature search this week, it's time to talk to me.

Make an appointment. I am around a lot during the week.

Notes 2

Here are notes from the board today re: 3-part thesis sentences

Although chronic homelessness is a huge problem in major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mimi Silbert's Delancey Street Foundation tirelessly addresses this need daily, because she believes rehabilitation is real or possible for everyone given the right tools.

Although Mrs. Rosa Parks is primarily known for her refusal to release her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, a recent political biography shows us a Parks virtually unknown in popular culture, because (according to scholar and author Jeanne Theoharis, on Parks's 100th anniversary year) the fictitious veil seems to be fastened with super glue.

Mimi Silbert, Delancy Street Foundation

We watched a video this morning profiling Mimi Silbert, one of the founders of Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco. Write a three (3) paragraph essay based on this woman and her work. Use information from the film to answer the questions posed in the Frontline exercise.

Here is a link to the Silbert New Heroes video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW-pzSnYYBQ

In each of the three paragraphs use one citation: 1 short direct quote; 1 block quote and 1 free paraphrase.
Here is a link to the New Heroes: http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html

Monday, Wednesday Cyber-Assignments: They Say, I Say Chapters 9 & 10

In They Say, I Say complete:

Chapter 9: "Academic Writing Doesn't Mean Setting Aside Your Own Voice." Read the chapter. Complete exercises 1 & 2. Post here today.

For Wednesday, read chapter 10, "In Other Words: The Art of Meta-Commentary." Complete exercises and post here.

For the evaluative reading choose something from 50 Essays, an essay you have not commented on before.

Monday-Thursday, November 4-7, 2013 Assignment

Start your research for the Social Entrepreneur Project. See the Frontline World Cyber-Assigmment: http://professorwandasposse.blogspot.com/2013/10/frontline-world-cyber-assignment.html

The proposal for the person you'd like to profile is due in hand Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Bring in a copy printed out. See the assignment for the details: http://professorwandasposse.blogspot.com/2013/10/social-entrepreneur-essay-assignment_1.html

Daughters of the Civil Rights Movement Speak, Sat., Nov. 9

The daughter of prominent Civil Rights leaders will be in conversation with veteran journalist Belva Davis, this weekend, Sat., Nov. 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m. at the Oakland Marriott, Civic Center, 1001 Broadway.  RSVP at the link below.   This is a Barbara Lee, Elihu Harris Lecture Series for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Oakland: http://www.mlkfreedomcenter.org/lecture-series