Graded assignments for this quarter are:
"How to write a paragraph"
"Five steps to writing a paragraph" (second analytic paragraph)
Two "Articles of the Week" (This has to be turned in today, was due yesterday)
"Lesson One, Part Three, The Analytic Paragraph"
Lesson One: Direct Quotations
CEE paragraph + direct quotations (including revision piece)
If you were not here yesterday, you have to do your quarterly assessment (T1 Q1 Assessment). If you WERE here, complete your course and self-assessment. If both of those assignments are completed, do any make-up work you have. If all your make-up work is complete, you have the opportunity for extra-credit. See me.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
ASSESSMENT DAY!!
As you know, today is our first assessment.
Go to the class page, where you will see TWO attachments. Please open "T1 Q1 assessment." That's your assignment. Complete and send to me as a Word document with the subject line "paragraph assessment."
Be sure to reread and revise your work. If you spent twenty minutes on it, it's probably not very good. This is 25% of your grade; take it seriously.
If you should happen to finish early, you can start working on the Q1 self-assessment. (If you're not going to be here tomorrow, make sure you get it done!)
Remember, Friday is the last day you can turn in work (including the article annotations!)
Go to the class page, where you will see TWO attachments. Please open "T1 Q1 assessment." That's your assignment. Complete and send to me as a Word document with the subject line "paragraph assessment."
Be sure to reread and revise your work. If you spent twenty minutes on it, it's probably not very good. This is 25% of your grade; take it seriously.
If you should happen to finish early, you can start working on the Q1 self-assessment. (If you're not going to be here tomorrow, make sure you get it done!)
Remember, Friday is the last day you can turn in work (including the article annotations!)
Monday, December 19, 2011
CEE paragraphs with direct quotations
Hi!
Read this CAREFULLY, because there's a lot of information here.
Take the first 10-15 minutes of class to finish your paragraph from yesterday.
When you are done, copy and paste a copy of your paragraph underneath the original one. You should now have a Word document with two copies of the same paragraph. Don't touch the top document; it's your rough draft, and it's what I'll be looking at for evidence of revision.
Next, read look over the "paragraph revision" powerpoint on your own. Revise your paragraph as per the powerpoint. There should be substantial difference between your first and second paragraphs.
When you are finished with BOTH the first and final draft, send in a Word document with the subject line "paragraph with revision."
Remember, this is practice for tomorrow's assessment.
Read this CAREFULLY, because there's a lot of information here.
Take the first 10-15 minutes of class to finish your paragraph from yesterday.
When you are done, copy and paste a copy of your paragraph underneath the original one. You should now have a Word document with two copies of the same paragraph. Don't touch the top document; it's your rough draft, and it's what I'll be looking at for evidence of revision.
Next, read look over the "paragraph revision" powerpoint on your own. Revise your paragraph as per the powerpoint. There should be substantial difference between your first and second paragraphs.
When you are finished with BOTH the first and final draft, send in a Word document with the subject line "paragraph with revision."
Remember, this is practice for tomorrow's assessment.
Putting it all together
Pick up your new Article of the Week ("Please Stop Sharing"), it's under the skeleton in front of my desk. It is DUE Thursday, and worth 5.5% of your grade.
OK, so this quarter we've learned how to write a CEE paragraph (using claim-explanation-evidence-explanation-wrap-up explanation), and we've learned how to use direct quotations. Today, we're going to put those two skills together. By the end of today, you'll understand how to write a CEE paragraph using direct quotations.
Tomorrow, you'll finish your paragraphs and revise them. On Wednesday, you'll have your ASSESSMENT (25% of your grade). For the assessment, you'll be asked to write a CEE paragraph using direct quotations, and revise it. You will be graded on your use of the CEE model, your use of direct quotations, citations, and evidence of revisions.
On Thursday, you'll have a little time to complete your assessment. You will then complete your first course and self-assessment (8% of your grade).
For now, get started by opening the document entitled "using direct quotations in a paragraph" and reading the example paragraph.
OK, so this quarter we've learned how to write a CEE paragraph (using claim-explanation-evidence-explanation-wrap-up explanation), and we've learned how to use direct quotations. Today, we're going to put those two skills together. By the end of today, you'll understand how to write a CEE paragraph using direct quotations.
Tomorrow, you'll finish your paragraphs and revise them. On Wednesday, you'll have your ASSESSMENT (25% of your grade). For the assessment, you'll be asked to write a CEE paragraph using direct quotations, and revise it. You will be graded on your use of the CEE model, your use of direct quotations, citations, and evidence of revisions.
On Thursday, you'll have a little time to complete your assessment. You will then complete your first course and self-assessment (8% of your grade).
For now, get started by opening the document entitled "using direct quotations in a paragraph" and reading the example paragraph.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Friday
Hey all,
I know I said we were going to work on using direct quotations in paragraphs today. However, I got home last night, and realized I was too sick to spend three hours putting that lesson together. We'll do it Monday.
Lucky for you!! That means you have today to work on whatever work you're currently missing. A few of you (Hi, Yekseny!!! Hi, Joel!! Hi Melanie! Hi Israel!!!) have turned in all your work.
If you have turned in all your work, go to one of the desktop computers. Find an article on www. nytimes.com (excluding sports section) and print it out. You can either a. annotate it for extra credit, or b. use it for next week's article of the week.
I know I said we were going to work on using direct quotations in paragraphs today. However, I got home last night, and realized I was too sick to spend three hours putting that lesson together. We'll do it Monday.
Lucky for you!! That means you have today to work on whatever work you're currently missing. A few of you (Hi, Yekseny!!! Hi, Joel!! Hi Melanie! Hi Israel!!!) have turned in all your work.
If you have turned in all your work, go to one of the desktop computers. Find an article on www. nytimes.com (excluding sports section) and print it out. You can either a. annotate it for extra credit, or b. use it for next week's article of the week.
Thursday, December 15
We are now more than slightly halfway through the first progress reports.
Graded assignments thus far are:
"How to write a paragraph"
"Five steps to writing a paragraph" (second analytic paragraph)
"Article of the Week" (This has to be turned in today, was due yesterday)
"Lesson One, Part Three, The Analytic Paragraph" (If you were here yesterday and you didn't turn this in, it's too late. If you were not here, you can send to me by Monday).
Take five minutes to go through your sent email file. If you did not send me all those assignments, send me an email (subject line: my plans for make-up work) and tell me when you will send it by (next Friday is last day I'll accept any work). If you do not respond, I'll assume you're not doing the work. If you don't make your self-imposed deadline, you will get a zero.
Graded assignments thus far are:
"How to write a paragraph"
"Five steps to writing a paragraph" (second analytic paragraph)
"Article of the Week" (This has to be turned in today, was due yesterday)
"Lesson One, Part Three, The Analytic Paragraph" (If you were here yesterday and you didn't turn this in, it's too late. If you were not here, you can send to me by Monday).
Take five minutes to go through your sent email file. If you did not send me all those assignments, send me an email (subject line: my plans for make-up work) and tell me when you will send it by (next Friday is last day I'll accept any work). If you do not respond, I'll assume you're not doing the work. If you don't make your self-imposed deadline, you will get a zero.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Good morning! Last day of the analytic paragraph
| As I write this, I'm not entirely sure that I'll be in school tomorrow. I have a fever and |
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You should take ten minutes (Five VOYAGES bucks to whoever wants to lead this conversation) to go through a couple of them. Then, on your own, you should write one more analytic paragraph (following the claim-evidence-explanation model, which is ACTUALLY the claim-explanation-evidence-explanation-evidence-explanation-wrap-up model.) Send the Word document to me by the end of the day (or the end of office hours, or after school if you need to come and complete it) with the subject line "Lesson One, Part Three." (In response to a student question: write about whatever you want to write about. If you can't think of a topic, do a google search for "essay topics" and you'll get a billion ideas.) Despite my grievous illness, I WILL be grading these this afternoon, so do the right thing and do your work. This assignment is worth TWENTY points. If you don't do the assignment, and I see that you were in school, you will NOT have the opportunity to make it up. Do the right thing.  |
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
How to read for college
A couple of house-keeping notes:
1. When sending me an assignment, always use the PowerPoint title as the subject line for your email. I will NOT open email that comes without a subject line.
2. All work should be done in Word and sent as an attachment.
3. The classwork grading policy as well as the assessment dates are now on the website. Take a minute to read it.
4. By now, you should have a Gmail account set up.
Today we're going to begin looking at active reading strategies. To begin, please post a comment to this blog that explains how you currently deal with difficult text.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Good morning!!
Last night I graded your first assignment, "How to Write a Paragraph." If you were not here yesterday, or you did not send it for some reason, please do so(with the subject line "How to Write a Paragraph."
Take the first fifteen minutes of class to write a CEE format paragraph (in a Word document) and send to me with the subject line "CEE Paragraph One). We're going to look at a few as a group before moving on.
Take the first fifteen minutes of class to write a CEE format paragraph (in a Word document) and send to me with the subject line "CEE Paragraph One). We're going to look at a few as a group before moving on.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Day Two, Let's get started!!!
Hi!
Please be gentle with the cables when you take your computers out. And, I'm not naming you, but some of you didn't plug in computers at the end of class. It takes five seconds; do the right thing!
Everyone has been assigned a computer. If you were here yesterday, take your computer out. If you were not here, see me for your computer number. The website really should have been bookmarked by now, but if not, here's the address.
https://sites.google.com/a/voyagesprep.org/english-with-frances/
Once you get to the home page, please enter the Intro to College Writing class page. Go to the subpage (College Writing Daily Lessons/PowerPoints) and open the PowerPoint titled "How to write a paragraph"
Please be gentle with the cables when you take your computers out. And, I'm not naming you, but some of you didn't plug in computers at the end of class. It takes five seconds; do the right thing!
Everyone has been assigned a computer. If you were here yesterday, take your computer out. If you were not here, see me for your computer number. The website really should have been bookmarked by now, but if not, here's the address.
https://sites.google.com/a/voyagesprep.org/english-with-frances/
Once you get to the home page, please enter the Intro to College Writing class page. Go to the subpage (College Writing Daily Lessons/PowerPoints) and open the PowerPoint titled "How to write a paragraph"
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Hi! My name is Frances and this is my blog!
Welcome to Introduction to College Writing!
If you're anything like almost every other student I've had, you're dreading this class. You think there's no way you can do this work, and you really don't care to try.
Well, let me tell you that you're wrong. You CAN do it, and when you succeed, you're going to be so freaking proud of yourself it's ridiculous. Seriously. And, when you're sitting in Eng 101, and you're the only person who has a clue as to what's going on, you'll be glad you took this class.
But that's enough cheerleading. Let's get started.
Everything you need to know is on this website (bookmark it if it hasn't been bookmarked yet):
https://sites.google.com/a/voyagesprep.org/english-with-frances/
I'm going to prove it to you by playing a game of XX questions. On the Intro to College Writing homepage, you'll see an attachment titled, "College Writing Question Game." Download (and save it! Ask me if you don't know how) the document. The answer to all those questions is somewhere on the website. By the end of the game, you will have familiarized yourself with the most relevant parts of this site, and learned something about the class.
You have fifteen minutes to answer these questions. Good luck!
If you're anything like almost every other student I've had, you're dreading this class. You think there's no way you can do this work, and you really don't care to try.
Well, let me tell you that you're wrong. You CAN do it, and when you succeed, you're going to be so freaking proud of yourself it's ridiculous. Seriously. And, when you're sitting in Eng 101, and you're the only person who has a clue as to what's going on, you'll be glad you took this class.
But that's enough cheerleading. Let's get started.
Everything you need to know is on this website (bookmark it if it hasn't been bookmarked yet):
https://sites.google.com/a/voyagesprep.org/english-with-frances/
I'm going to prove it to you by playing a game of XX questions. On the Intro to College Writing homepage, you'll see an attachment titled, "College Writing Question Game." Download (and save it! Ask me if you don't know how) the document. The answer to all those questions is somewhere on the website. By the end of the game, you will have familiarized yourself with the most relevant parts of this site, and learned something about the class.
You have fifteen minutes to answer these questions. Good luck!
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