• Freewriting
• Small Group sharing on hooks’s Assumptions, chapter by chapter
• Break–turn in small-paragraph assumption responses

Discuss Pipher’s ” Ch.7: The Psychology of Change” and how to be “change writers” using Pipher’s principles of change writing and examine “This I Believe” essays for “Change Writing” principles

• Review the Drafting Guidelines handout–#’s 1,2 ,3
• Draft and develop draft of “I Believe” Profile-Position Papers
• **KEEP Research Maps and Research quotes/analysis

HOMEWORK:

1. Rough Draft  + Works Cited Page (due Wednesday, 2/2/2012)  Develop your Profile-Position essay draft; type and print 5 copies of the draft+Works Cited page for tomorrow’s class.
2. Continue reading December Sky to be completed by next week Tuesday
3.  Read/view Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
4. NOTE: The Essay Due Date has been extended to MONDAY.

Wheeeee!!!!!!!! In case you’re crazy, watch this for a little lighthearted laughter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3iFhLdWjqc&feature=related

The ASSUMPTIONS powerpoint is located here: http://ogdenstudent.wikispaces.com/Power+Points

The Videos and Readings are located here:

• Alexandra Wallace Song Response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA
• Alexandra Wallace Racist Rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=zQR01qltgo8&annotation_id=annotation_706692&src_vid=zulEMWj3sVA
• This I Believe Essay: “Ordinary People” http://thisibelieve.org/essay/7/

HOMEWORK:

1. After discussing the assumptions of these videos/texts, Professor Ogden asked us to examine bell hooks’s chapters 4, 10, 11, 13 again and to choose 1 of the 4 chapters and type a 1-paragraph, 1-typed, double-spaced page examining at least 3 assumptions in hooks’s chapter(s).
2. We will turn in our Research Journey Maps on Tuesday
3. Read This I Believe Essays: http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16407/ and http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16931/
4. We need to compile and re-review the research we’ve found. Annotate–take notes–and bring those notes and that information in to tomorrow’s class for review and examination.
5. Continue reading December Sky

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!

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.

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

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.

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  )

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.

Enjoy the sun.

Prof. Ogden

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!