Daily Recap for Thursday

Professor Ogden assigned our next essay, which will be due next Thursday, February 2, 2012. You can find it here: http://professorogden.wordpress.com/2012-wi-eng-1a-inspired-profile-position-essay/

Daily Recap

• We wrote more deeply about our concept as it linked to our beliefs.
• We viewed the Ted.org talk by Simon Sinek–”How Great Leaders Inspire Action” located here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
• We worked in pairs to compose annotations of the video, and MLA citations, as well as 3 Level 1 questions about the video.
• We watched the video a 2nd time, and developed level 2 and 3 questions, and then moved on to an overview of the next essay assignment.
• *We ran out of time to discuss hooks ch. 13.

HOMEWORK:

1. Visit the Essay Assignment Page for this weekend’s Research Excursion Homework: The creation of a “My brain on research” visual, aural, or text-based map. (At least 5 points on the “map.”) Find it here: http://professorogden.wordpress.com/2012-wi-eng-1a-inspired-profile-position-essay/
2. Make sure we purchase December Sky and begin reading it at a pace that will allow us to be completed with the text by Thursday, 2 February 2012
3. Read:
   • By Monday, 1/30/2012: When Ordinary People achieve extraordinary things: http://thisibelieve.org/essay/7/
   • By Monday, 1/30/2012: bell hooks’s Where We Stand: Class Matters Chapters: Ch. 4–Money Hungry, ch. 10 and Ch. 11
   • TYPE and PASTE into our spiral notebooks: “This I Believe” taken from freewrites — Taped into your spiral by Monday, 1/31/2012
   • View this Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement

SO, LOTS of reading this weekend. Make sure to annotate and make time for the reading. It only gets MORE busy and challenging from here on out!

Daily Recap for Wednesday, January 25, 2012 ENG 1A

Well. We were T I R E D  today, but we made it through.

Today we went over a pretty extensive, 2-hour self-editing checklist process.

Professor Ogden will be emailing us the process to Google Groups for our future use.

We turned in our Essay 2.

Homework:

No newly-assigned homework today.

For tomorrow’s class, we have the following due:

1. Study Guide for hooks Chpater 13 is due on THURSDAY (Typed)

2. READ: Review chapter 13 hooks and Pipher “Point of View” . Begin reading hooks chapter 10 and 11 for discussion on Thursday AND Monday.

4. Have DECEMBER SKY finished and Annotated by next week Thursday.

5. We will have another essay due next week Thursday, so get some sleep tonight!

XTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY–4 points within Homework Category (That’s like a WEEK of homework!!!)

–Read or Watch President Obama’s State of the Union speech (it’s about an hour and a half listen, or a 20-minute read).

Read it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/state-of-the-union-speech-text_n_1229394.html

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD_wUNb0cw8

–Email to Professor Ogden a 200-300 word response to the State of the Union in which you characterize the TONE of the speech based on 2 or 3 examples of word choice and sentence variety. Type your response like a personal letter to Professor Ogden (see HACKER–Business Letter). Due by end of class on Thursday.

Dialy Recap for Tuesday, Jan 24

Today we orked for aobut 75 minutes in groups to examine the bell hooks chapter 2 and we created a “Study Guide” (see English 1A Tab) for Chapter 2. Then we met with our revision partners to go over our essays.

HOMEWORK:

1. Study Guide for hooks Chpater 13 is due on THURSDAY

2. Essay 2 “Personal to Political” is due TOMORROW (Wednesday). If YOU are late, your essay is late.

3. READ: Review chapter 13 hooks for Thursday, and Pipher “Point of View” for Thursday. Begin reading hooks chapter 10 and 11 for discussion on Thursday AND Monday.

4. Have DECEMBER SKY finished and Annotated by next week Thursday.

NOTES FROM TODAY’S CLASS SESSION:

LEVEL 1: They have a correct answer, and it doesn’t require any “heavy lifting.”

What is freewriting according to Peter Elbow?

What is “class consciousness” according to bell hooks?

LEVEL 2: There is still a correct answer but it may be implied rather than outright stated; I have to get evidence and examine the text a little bit to find the answer.

Compare hooks’s ideas in chapter 1 to her ideas in chapter 2.

How can freewriting improve my writing?

 

LEVEL 3: There’s no right or wrong answer, although you must be knowledgeable in the material in order to answer it.

• Should bell hooks take stands in defending and representing the Af-Am working class or is she not a credible source?
• How does hooks’s college experience affect her views of “class consciousness.”
• Do you believe that hooks is accurately expressing what she is intending to convey? Is she sincere in her desire to change her readers or is she merely venting?
• What does racism have to do with how college students in urban areas view class?
• What is hooks’s views on race and class? In what ways are the two connected?
• Why does American society create class barriers?

NOTES ON WHAT WE MIGHT REVISE IN OUR ESSAYS TONIGHT:

• • ESSAY PURPOSE: Paragraph Cohesion (Pipher)—How much of ourselves do we want to expose to the reader? How does this relate to my essay purpose?
  • AUDIENCE: (Point of view)
  • Examine closely your openings and closings

Monday, 1/23/2012 Daily Recap

NOTE: Our “Personal is Political” essay is due on WEDNESDAY, not Tuesday.

DUE TUESDAY: Your typed response to questions for your partner’s essay, and your typed response to questions for your essay.

Homework:

1. Read PIPHER chapter 9–Point of View

2. RESPOND to your partner’s paper: Tonight, concentrate on reviewing Pipher’s Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 again, and employing Hacker’s Global Revision Strategies for assessing your draft and your partner’s draft. Read your partner’s draft and, using the worksheet questions you were given in class, type out specific answers to the questions to help your partner revise his or her essay. You will do the same for your own essay as well.

**Be prepared for our hooks discussion tomorrow on the chapters you’ve previously read.

English 1A Thursday, January 19 Daily Recap

1. We opened class by immediately getting into our groups of 4 from yesterday, and then Professor Ogden guided us in a 15-minute freewrite:

Please assemble in your groups from yesterday.

1^st we’ll freewrite with a “focused” topic:

Using Pipher’s “Know Thyself” pg.33(paper) sample, write your own exploration of where you’re from, who you are, and what has informed your values and choices.

2^nd: PLEASE READ TO YOUR NEW FRIENDS.

3^rd: (3 minutes of quickwrite) Were you changed by something you heard? (even in the smallest way? How?)

We then heard from several students who read their “where I’m from” freewrites, or who read their “how I was changed” quickwrites. We talked about the connections between “change writing” “freewriting” and “personal is political.”

Then we worked in our groups from yesterday and we extended our Active Reading questions to chapters 2, 3, and 4 of Pipher’s Writing to change the world. At half-time, Professor Ogden introduced us to our next essay assignment: The “Personal is Political” essay, located here: http://professorogden.wordpress.com/eng1a-wi2012-personal-is-political-essay/

Then she explained our 1-hour Library Odyssey–we left for an hour and went to the library, where we completed research on 2-3 topics pulled from our “Know Thyself” freewrites.

When we returned to class, we shared with our groups about what we found, and then the groups shared their findings about the Pipher chapters.

HOMEWORK:
1. Read Pipher ch. 6 and ch. 8 for Monday. Make sure it is well-annotated. Type up a 1-paragraph summary (no more than 150 words) of each chapter, although the paragraphs can be on the same page and single spaced.

2. Read hooks ch. 2 (two) and chapter 13 (thirteen). Annotate well. Type up a 1-paragraph summary (no more than 150 words) of each chapter, although the paragraphs can be on teh same page and single spaced.

3. Draft your “Personal is Political” essay using guidelines on our assignment sheet, and insight/suggestions from Pipher’s ch.6 and ch.8. Type up, double space, and print your draft. Try to include the quotes from your sources–or at least copy out the quotes you think you might use.

4. Continue freewriting and continue adding to your Annotated Bibliographies.

5. There *MAY* be a quiz on Pipher and hooks on Monday. (hooray!)

6. Read “Black Men and Public Space” (linked from assignment page for Political essay” here: http://facstaff.uww.edu/carlberj/Journal3.htm or download the PDF here: http://classes.mohawkschools.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8481.0;attach=5390  )

English 1A Wednesday Daily Recap January 18, 2011

Hi students!

Today we spent the first half of class going over the SENTENCE VARIETY sheet. We completed a freewrite, and were then asked to highlight in different colors the 4 types of sentences in our freewrites. We also revised a freewrite for different moods and tones using just the 4 sentence types. HOMEWORK related to this: Photocopy our freewrites and then revise them 3 different ways, for three different moods. Staple and turn in on Thursday. (Worth 3 homework points). Also, pick up the PUNCTUATION PATTERNS green sheet from the Writing Center to help with the revision.

Then we worked in groups to discuss Chapter 1 of Mary Pipher’s Writing to Change the World. We answered Hacker questions on “Active Reading” in the A-tab (as a group).

Finally, we reviewed the Annotated Bibliography drafts and Professor Ogden went over small changes and corrections we should be making. HOMEWORK CONNECTED TO THIS: Hand-correct our annotated bibliographies and bring them for review tomorrow.

READING HOMEWORK:

1. Purchase December Sky–it is now in the bookstore
2. More copies of Pipher are in the bookstore
3. Read Pipher through chapter 4
4. Read bell hooks’s preface, intro, and chapter 1
5. Continue freewriting; annotate everything we read.

English Class Canceled on Tuesday

Students, I’m very sorry; I’ve had an unexpected emergency and need to cancel classes tomorrow. If you have any questions you can email me–I will be available via email (finally! Sorry for the silence).
Please read Chs 3 and 4 of Pipher and I’ll see you Wednesday.

Enjoy the sun.

Prof. Ogden

FRIDAY DAILY RECAP

Important information! There’s NO SCHOOL MONDAY! It’s a holiday in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

 

If you’re checking in, I’m offering a 1 point of homework extra credit if you post your freewrite here as a COMMENT. 2 points if you read someone else’s and point out a line of observation, a line of reflection, and any hungries!

 

Have a beautiful weekend!

 

ENG 1A Daily Recap and Questions 1.12.2012 THURSDAY

REMEMBER: MONDAY IS A SCHOOL HOLIDAY! GO TO THE BEACH. PICK UP SOME TRASH FOR HALF AN HOUR, FREEWRITE IN YOUR JOURNAL, THEN REWARD YOURSELF WITH HANGING-OUT TIME!

To Do:

1. Friday I will upload the Course Outline. Please PRINT yourself a copy, or review it and take some good notes.

2. STUDY the Sentence Types this weekend, and the Survival Grammar Sheet.

3. Complete and Print your first Annotated Bibliography Draft.

4. READ Pipher Chapter 2 and 3. Annotate. (You gave me your email in you didn’t have the book, although you should check your local Barnes and Noble etc. for a copy.)

5. If you have spare time, read ahead in Pipher!

YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWERED:

• Some of you are still wishing for more connections between Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking. Our discussion on these will continue throughout the semester, but hopefully you have a foundational understanding after the end of this week
• Several of you are still uncertain of the differences between Observation, Reflection, and “hungry.” We will be writing these types, formally, in week 2, and that may help to further differentiate the concepts for you.
• Finding your “voice”–it’s an ongoing thing. Begin looking in your journal entries for rhythms and common phrasings that you use. See how your voice differs from the voices of others we hear and read. That’s a start.
• Q: How can you make us enjoy thinking? A: I can’t! Ha ha! You’ll have to decide what you’re curious about, and then follow your brain and joy!
• How can I place onto paper the critical thinking of my mind? A: Begin with freewriting. Begin with observing things in the world and then reflecting on them–and you will build your “critical thinking” muscle.
• Q: How long should I write for the in-class essay? A: It’s up to you. You have 90 minutes to use as you please for the 3-9 paragraph essay.
• Q: WHen beginning a freewrite, is it ok to have an idea of what to write about, or should we take a Zen approach and clear our minds first? A: Try both! I think both are fine. I will sometimes give you topics, and sometimes we’ll just write.
• Q: How do I get to the hungry part of my brain? A: Keep writing. I wish I had a better answer for you, but its really all about the more comfortable you get writing, the easier it will be for tapping into that subconscious side of yourself.
• Q: I don’t understand “hungry.”  A: When you’re writing, sometimes there are things you’re afraid to write about because of “societal politeness.” Society tells us we can’t say or do certain things–that those things aren’t appropriate. That leads to a lot of editing of our voices. The hungry part of you is HUNGRY. It wants to say what it wants to say. Feed it.
• I’m still uncomfortable with Annotating. I don’t like it. What’s the point? A: Annotating takes a lot of time and it feels weird to have a pen in your hand when you’re writing. It makes more sense when you’re reading something REALLY CHALLENGING, because the basic skills of annotating help you to break down a text and then analyze its parts–and that deepens your understanding of the complex ideas and vocabularies in the text. Try starting with reading a few paragraphs and then at the end of those paragraphs, restating what the paragraphs said. That will help you get started.
• Q: How does Critical Thinking affect our everyday lives? A: We’re pretty much conditioned NOT to think. Entertainment, Corporations, Multi-Media–it’s all there to keep our attention so that we don’t question too deeply and don’t look too closely. Jump off that merry-go-round and begin asking some questions.
• Q: Are Observation, Reflection, and Hungry only required during the reading process? A: No–we use them with writing and with thinking too!

ENG 1A, Wed Daily Recap & Possible Essay Questions

Scroll down to the bottom for a Recap of what we did today in class. Immediately below are possible essay topics for tomorrow’s Timed Write:

• How do freewriting and critical thinking go hand in hand in finding your own personal identity or voice?
• What are the main points involved in freewriting?
• What is the responsibility of the teacher in limiting or not limiting the creative ideas of children?
• How does understansing our surroundings or set standards about society and what is acceptable contribute to our ability to think critically?
• How do reading and writing connect to each other? How does society prevent and support the action of critical thinking?
• To what extent have we let society influence our way of reading, writing, critical thinking abilities?
• Given the information these three articles offer, consider whether it is better to conform to our societ’s current form of education, or to ignore it by becoming a critical thinker at a young age, regardless of the consequences?

By the way, you are NOT reading the bell hooks BOOK, you’re referencing the single ARTICLE  I gave you today.

 

HOMEWORK:

1. Continue freewriting

2. Read Intro and Ch. 1 of Pipher, with annotations.

3. Bring a blue book tomorrow and prepare for the in-class essay. You can bring a dictionary, 1 page of handwritten notes, the Diana Hacker handbook, and a pen.

TODAY IN CLASS WE:
1. Completed Hot Tips!

2. Reviewed lingering syllabus questions

3. Reviewed the homework and the Timed Essay for tomorrow.

4. Reviewed the concept of Freewriting, shared some of the research we found, did some freewriting, and then we shared.

5. Reviewed a handout: Critical Thinking by bell hooks. (a brief article) and then worked in small groups to outline the article and then examine how thinking, reading, and writing are connected. Each group developed a question connecting all 3 concepts that Prof. Ogden might revise to use as one of the Timed Essay choices for tomorrow.

6. Completed an “exit ticket.” if anyone had general questions for the exit ticket, they will be answered on THIS POST in the COMMENTS section.

See you tomorrow! We’ll discuss Pipher and then take our essay examination!