Final Version Remembering Due

Words.

You put together your Final Versions.  You describe how each step of this paper went: Choosing, Collecting, Drafting, Revising and Editing.

We look at page 128 in Reid. And page 129. I hand out the assignment sheet for the next paper.

Then you think about "political correctness" and "multiculturalism."

We read Ehrenreich page 134-136.  You summarize.

Homework:

1.  Review pages 129-132 of Reid, and write a one paragraph response to "Teach Diversity with a Smile" in your daybook.

2.  Read pages 302 to 307, "How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently" by Tannen.  Answer Question #1 from page 307 in your daybook.

3. Choose between the following two articles to write your Summary/Response paper about:  Twitchell's "Miss Clairol's 'Does She or Doesn't She?': How to Advertise a Dangerous Product" on pages 205--210 in Reid  OR  Tannen's "The Argument Culture" on pages 403-407. Read them both, and if you want me to provide a copy for you, send me an email before Monday class.

4.  Two vocabulary words.

Draft #2 Remembering

Words.

Discussing Alice Walker.

You write the beginning for your draft that you prefer on the board.

Read each other's drafts.  When you finish read Section 25 pages 262-264 in Everyday Writer and do Ex. 25.1 on pages 264-265. That means writing two versions of each sentence down in your daybook.  If I have your daybook, finish it later.

I return your papers.

Again, I try to collect daybooks.

Homework:

1.  Create the final version of your Remembering paper.  Edit carefully for the kinds of errors you had in the Observation  paper.  If you have doubts, check it in Everyday Writer.

2.  Two vocabulary words.

Draft #1 Remembering

Freewrite:  Thinking about memories, is there someone whose memoirs you would really like to read?  Discuss.

Alexander Sohzhenitsyn. The Uses of Writing.

Groups discuss "The Red Chevy" Q. 2, 3 and 4 page 124.

 As there is time we look at Everyday Writer Ex. 24.2.

You read each other's drafts.

If you finish early read the handout (goat beginnings) and then start on the homework, reading Alice Walker's "Beauty."

HAND IN YOUR DAYBOOKS.

Homework:

1.  Read Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other..."  page 94 to 100.  Be ready for a quiz over it.

2.  Create Draft #2 of your Remembering paper.

3.  Write out at least one alternative beginning for your draft.  Try to start it in a completely different way.  Write a full paragraph.  This will be handed in on a separate sheet of paper with all your drafts of this paper.

4.  Two vocabulary words.

Final Version Due Observation/Description

You organize and turn in the Observation/Description papers.

The next paper: Remembering.

We look at "The Day Language..."

Groups annotate "The Boy's Desire."

We look at the journal prompts on page 94.  Think about these.

We review subordination and coordination.  You do Ex. 24.2 starting on page 259.

Homework:

1.  Read "The Red Chevy" on pages 121-124.

2.  Fill at least one daybook page brainstorming about  possible topics for this paper.  You may use an idea from page 94 or not.  See also page 107 for ideas.

3.  Create the first draft of your Remembering essay.  This may be simply an extended free write -- it can be very rough.

4.  Two vocabulary words.

5.  I will collect daybooks for the first check Wednesday.

Draft #2 Observation/Description

Vocabulary words.

Mowat quiz.  Groups discuss Mowat.

Go over Everyday Writer worksheet.

Coordination and Subordination:  sentence level editing.  You do Ex. 24.1 from page 257 in the Everyday Writer in your daybook.  You may use a combination of coordination AND subordination to make the paragraph more interesting.

Read each other's drafts.

Homework:


1.  Prepare the final version of your Observation/Description paper.  Use the MLA style heading and layout on page 466 in the Everyday Writer.


2. Go to the blue box on page 75 of Reid called "Postscript on the Writing Process."  In your daybook, answer #1 and #5.  In #5 don't answer the last question (you could not choose audience or genre).


3.  Read pages 88-93 in Reid.


4.  Two vocabulary words.

Draft #1

Put up a vocabulary word.

Daybook quiz on "Permanent Tracings."

Groups discuss Macke, Questions 1, 2 and the first part of 3, all on page 81.

We discuss revision and its three levels:  global, structural and sentence-level.

Everyday Writer worksheet.
Analytical reading?

Then you read each other's drafts.

Homework:

1.  Read "Observing Wolves," the handout.

2.  Complete the Everyday Writer worksheet.

3.  In your daybook describe:  a) What comments readers had for your draft and
b) What you learned through reading other's drafts.

4.  Revise your draft.  Use pages 74-75 to help you.  Draft #2 -- which should be typed -- is due Wednesday.

5.  Two vocabulary words.

Observation

Put a vocabulary word on the board.

We watch this. 

Quiz from Chapter 2.  I redirect our attention to "The Struggle to be an All-American Girl" and her rhetorical gamble.

Get into groups and share and chart your genre examples.

Then, in your daybook explain "Show, don't tell."

We read pages 53-56 together.

We look at the Techniques for writing about observation, page 48 and 49.

Then groups look at Muir's essay on pages 50-51 together.

I hand out the assignment sheet for the first essay.  

Homework:

1.  Read pages 76-81 for an example of a student doing this assignment.

2.  In your daybook create TWO full pages of notes taken while you observe your subject.  These can include sketches and diagrams.

3.  Write the first draft of your Observation essay.  It should be several pages long, and it's up to you whether it is typed or hand-written.

4.  Two vocabulary words.

The Rhetorical Situation

Vocab words on the board.

Quiz on the reading.

We look at Ch. 1.

Ch. 2:  read page 16 and in your daybook explain 1) why writing is valuable and 2) what rhetoric is.


The roots of rhetoric: Greece.  Athens.  Sparta.  Athens now.  Sparta now.

Who needs to be good at rhetoric nowadays?  What is a rhetorical situation?  What does genre mean?

Then you read Wong page 27 and Zoellner page 28 and then get into groups and discuss questions 2,4 and 5 page 30.

Homework:

1.  Read in Reid pages 16-26, then  46-49 and  52-53.

2.  In your daybook, do Freewriting: Inventory of Your Writing in the blue box on page 19.

3.  Then do #2 in the Warming Up -Journal Exercises on page 33.  You will bring to class on Weds. examples of FOUR different genres of writing and be prepared to discuss them.  You should describe them in your daybook and explain the purpose/audience/context for each.  Especially look for examples of ineffective writing.

4.  Two vocabulary words.