SPRING 2013 SITE INSTRUCTIONS
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ENGLISH 9–THE LAST WRITING PROMPT
Hello!
Your last writing prompt:
View these two videos and then Represent Yourself on the Page:
1. Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks about the most astounding fact in the universe
2. Louie Schwartzberg talks about Nature, Beauty, and Gratitude
**Please visit Canvas to send me your Snail Mail for a surprise over winter break!
English 100 TTH Daily Recap
Final Exam on Thursday 8-10am
- WHAT Context/foundation overview: “This paper examines several key texts and films that . . .”
- HOW Offer the Thesis and points of discussion: “Each writer and artist explores the importance of mentoring in order to develop personal identity by . . .”
- WHY Offer an expanded definition or overview of why you’re writing about what you’re writing about—why is it important?
- WHO Preview what readers could learn / should learn from your paper; how will it be useful to them? “Students of color might find such a discussion valuable as they learn to negotiate academic life . . .”
- 1. Read it to your partners.
- 2. Line edit to elevate the language.
- 3. Help the writer get specific with names, labels, ideas. (De-emphasize figurative language or language with flourish).
- 4. Make sure the elements of abstract are there—especially THESIS.
English 100 Notes TTH
ABSTRACT
100-200 words that summarizes your project
OUTLINE
- Thesis: These texts all share how people are judged based on their education, based on their race, based on their family backgrounds and histories, and based on their economic status.
A. Summary of the texts (context)
B. Overview of the points of synthesis
1. Freedom Writers and Eric Liu overlap with Mi Voz Mi Vida in discussions about education and judgment of people (Emerson)
2. James Baldwin’s two essays as well as
3. Family background and history (Liu and Baldwin)
4. economic status (Eric Martinez)
C. Concluding position regarding the points of synthesis
- Point 1. Freedom Writers and Eric Liu overlap with Mi Voz Mi Vida in discussions about education and judgment of people.
- Quote
- Paraphrase
- Commentary
- Quote
- Paraphrase
- Quote
IV.
V.Concluding Statement: People shouldn’t be judged on these factors; these affect who they are, but people should be judged by their actions.
Thesis: The authors of these readings write about how when people go through hard times, such as being impacted by racism and prejudice, even though its hard and difficult, it can shape people into who they are.
Concluding statement: Experiences connected to racism and prejudice impact the writers, but the writers learn that it’s good to represent and be proud of themselves—their cultures, their races, their …..
THESIS: Most of the writers discuss how a person is judged based on different aspects such as skin color or education, and how these aspects can destroy a person emotionally, and can also destroy the process of positive change in society.
- What the writers discuss (summary) and some off-topics
- How people are judged based on skin color
- How people are judged based on education
- How being judged can destroy a person emotionally
- How judging individuals on skin color or education level can halt positive change in society.
SO WHAT (Concluding Statement): Less improvement in society if we’re going to keep judging each other based on these aspects.
COLLEGE 1: Important Announcement for Tuesday, 12/4
Hi everyone!
The Computer Lab was BOOKED for Thursday, so I got us in on TUESDAY:
Tuesday, December 4th from 10:25-11:40 in D101
We will meet in D101. Please bring ALL of the materials you’ll need to begin putting together your e-Portfolio. So, have electronic copies of .doc and .docx and .jpg and video and audio and all of that stuff ready to go, scanned in and so forth so that you can begin putting together and finessing your ePortfolio. Have more than you think you’ll need–pictures and whatever else. Have it in Drop Box, your email, the cloud, google drive, or a flash drive. You may also bring your own computer to the lab.
The Club Week presentations will happen on Thursday, as will the HELA presentations. We will discuss MINDSET via CANVAS Thursday evening.
ALMOST THERE! Wow!
ENGLISH 100 Students
Remembering the great James Baldwin (1924–1987), who died 25 years ago today.
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
English 100 TTH Thursday Recap and Notes 11/29
HOMEWORK:
***Your Annotations for Eric Liu, Freedom Writers, and your 2 research sources are due on TUESDAY or THURSDAY (your choice, as Thursday is a Workshop Day) along with your freewrite journals.
1. Type up your finalized draft of Works Cited Page
2. Revise (and write more) “Quotation Analysis” so that they become seamless paragraphs. –optional to type and print and bring them to our next class for a quick look.
3. Draft a formal outline that pulls from your Quotation Analysis paragraphs and that tries to put them into a structure underneath an umbrella Thesis Statement of your choosing. Type it and bring it in. Visit OWL to read more about formal outlines. Also look in Diana Hacker Handbook ACADEMIC WRITING tab, and/or LINKS on ProfessorOgden.com
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/544/01/
NOTES AND STUFF BELOW!
Works Cited
Baldwin, James. “A Letter to My Nephew.” The Progressive. Progressive, Inc. Dec. 1962. Web. 20 Nov.
2012.
Martinez, Eric. “The Devils Within.” Mi Voz Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories.
Eds. Andrew Garrod, Robert Kulkenny, and Christina Gomez. Ithaca and London: Cornell
UP, 2007. 17-33. Print.
Rodriguez, Joseph. “Dignity and Doubt.” Mi Voz Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories.
Eds. Andrew Garrod, Robert Kulkenny, and Christina Gomez. Ithaca and London: Cornell
UP, 2007. 34-56. Print.
“What Does it Meant to be an African-American Woman who Loves Hip-Hop?” dir. Briana Noble.
YouTube.com. Media that Matters. 25 Oct. 2012. Web. 20 Nov. 2012.
REFLECTION and PARAPHRASING=Restating
“Like Holden, I think that everyone around me seems phony. I go to school with a bunch of conformists.” (122).
Referencing a character from the novel The Catcher in the Rye, this freedom writer feels like his or her peers are fake and are followers.
“[He was] born where he was born and faced the future that he faced because he were black and for no other reason. The limits to his ambition were thus expected to be settled. He was born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity and in as many ways as possible that he was a worthless human being. He was not expected to aspire to excellence. “
Baldwin explained to his nephew how being black and for no other reasons gives his nephew disadvantages to his life. Baldwin feels It was already assumed that Blacks have no room for success or growth. When born into the society, Blacks had no value and no assurance for greatness.
Many of the readings this semester explore identity issues. Latino College student and writer Eric Martinez, in his essay about growing up Latino, says “All the influences of my life have shaped me into the man I have become; yet I am my own man now and dictate my destiny. I can finally take control,” (33). Experiences and mentors formed and contributed to Martinez’s perspectives on life; yet he is the one who decides his future choices. Eric Martinez may have a slightly different lifestyle than most of the authors writing about identity, but his story does share the common theme of ‘finding your identity.’ Martinez’s ideas in his essay echo in James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew.” In the letter, Baldwin tells his nephew that his nephew’s father wore many faces—his nephew’s father had to be many men in order to survive in a racist society. These “faces” that Baldwin’s brother had were the result of obstacles, and it was these obstacles that shaped Baldwin’s nephew’s father into the man that his father became—and for Baldwin, this was a broken man. For Martinez, luckily, he comes out stronger with his identity intact.
