Agenda, October 31

Today, you should continue working on the rhetorical analysis piece that we began yesterday. 

The quarterly assessment is up. We'll go through it tomorrow together, but you're welcome to look at it today/start it tonight. On Monday we'll craft our essay introductions together. 

(Yesterday, some of you were concerned about your "Challenger Disaster" work disappearing. I put it in my "to be organized" pile, and it got organized. It's been returned to the bin. My apologies.) 

Agenda, October 9

Just because I'm not here doesn't mean you don't have work to do! 

Make sure you turn in your Coates "Notes from the Blue Period" piece, as well as the annotated text. 

If you are done with those, look at the blog from Monday and figure out what you're missing. 

If today is your first day in class (section 7), there is a questionnaire for you to fill out. 

I'm back

So, less than ten of you completed the self and course assessment that you had two days to finish. That means the majority of you are beginning the second quarter with a zero. Not cool. 

This is a short quarter; it ends on May 3. That means we do not have time to write a second essay. We'll use this quarter to really develop our annotation and analytic skills. Then, we have essays due on for the third and fourth quarters. 

While I was in Texas, I learned a new way of read text closely and thoughtfully. It was cool. So, that's what we're going to work on today. It connects to and builds on the annotation work we did last quarter. 

To get started, pick up a copy of "Tip 22: Pay attention immediately after you make a mistake." Read and annotate it (I'm not going to tell you what to do for your annotations). 

Get started!

By spending the first ten minutes of class continuing to work on your evidence. Your evidence should include any witness statements from the story. 

We'll go through the evidence together, and then move on to analysis.