Agenda+-+in-class+activities


 * Here's what we did today!**

**Thursday, December 3, 2009** - DUE: Essay 3 Final Draft - Finished Figurative Language

- Returned Essay 2, final draft - Reviewed general essay & MLA issues - Finished compare/contrast analysis - Argumentative essay examples & analysis **Tuesday, November 24, 2009** - Revise a Timed Writing in class - Idioms and proverbs (maybe Dec. 1)
 * Tuesday, December 1, 2009**

- Bring Essay 2 or 3 to workshop in class. - Finish Peer Reviewing (using a teacher provided essay) - Timed Writing Analysis - exercise 4.16 parts a, b, & c.
 * Friday, November 20, 2009**

- Compare/Contrast Chap. 6 Analogies - Descriptive language in writing - Bring Essay 3 with you to work on.
 * Thursday, November 19, 2009**

- Returned Essay 2 stress - final draft is due November 24. - Handouts to practice on your own: the verb "get", count/noncount, quantifiers. - Chap. 6 Compare/Contrast - bring your essay with you! - Essay 3 assignment (will be due December 3). - Assignment: DAW 6.14
 * Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- DUE!! Essay 1, final draft!!**

- Sample essay on "Effects of Living in a Foreign Country." Sample Essay Prompt - Add your group revision to the "Essay Revisions" page: type out your revisions here - Exemplification DAW p.119 - Read: DAW p.125 verb shift: 4.18, 4.19, 4.20 - continuing reading time shift on p.122
 * Friday, November 13, 2009**

- Compare and Contrast DAW 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 - Returned Timed Writing 4: Compare/Contrast your country and discussed global issues. - Alternating Method of organization: Organizational Methods - Returned Obesity paragraph - Changed due dates of Essays - READ: chap. 6, p. 125 verbs DAW __//ALWAYS bring Timed Writing 4 to class.//__
 * Thursday, November 12, 2009**

**Tuesday, November 10, 2009** - Review of MLA formatting/style ** - Continuation of DAW chap. 6 - READ THIS CHAPTER. - Subject-Verb Agreement in-class assignment.
 * - NEW due date! Cause paragraph is now due today, Nov. 10!

There is no way to make-up this in-class assignment; however, I will consider your effort if you complete this with a classmate over the weekend and include it in your essay envelope.
 * Friday, November 6, 2009**
 * - Bring in a copy of your Effects Essay (Essay 2 Stress) for class workshop time Peer Review #13.

- In-class timed writing assignment (quiz grade) [|quiz_timed_writing4.doc]** I will consider giving you some points (instead of a zero) if you can email me the timed writing quiz by Sunday night. Standard quiz rules: write an essay on one of the prompts in 45 minutes. These are asking you to use Compare/Contrast organization, which we went over in class yesterday. Time order is found on page 174; this is new information discussed in today's class. Timed Writing Information - DUE: Stress Essay 2 First Draft!! In an envelope with everything in it. **Envelope Contents If you were absent today, you need to still turn in your essay - Essay 2, Draft 1 on stress in an envelope with all the contents. I will accept this on Tuesday with a note from Olin Health Center, if you missed class because you were sick. You must have a sick note. Your essay will be reduced by one grade for being late with a note or by two grades without a note. It's not acceptable to have not finished a draft at this point, so I must reduce your grade.


 * Thursday, November 5, 2009**
 * - Begin Compare and Contrast Rhetorical Process **, DAW chap. 6

- Turned in homework: DAW 7.14, 7.15, & 7.16 - Finished ADJ.Clauses - Finished Effects Essay outline: check out the class notes on the "Homework" page Effects Essay Ideas - Finished Causes Paragraph Structure - Reviewed assignment: Causes homework "Synthesizing Sources" due Tuesday, November 10.Progression of an idea
 * Tuesday, November 3, 2009**

- Structures of Effect p. 210 DAW - Word Forms & Active/Passive Voice Sentences - Exercises 7.13 in class. - Exercises 7.14, 7.15, & 7.16 homework due Tuesday, November 3. Type or write out your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Include the following sentences in your homework assignment. 1. Seawater evaporates, which (that) contributes to the formation of water vapor. 2. Water vapor rises and cools, which results in (its) condensation. 1. Seawater evaporates, contributing to the formation of water vapor. 2. Water vapor rises and cools, resulting in (its) condensation. 1. The radiation of heat from the sun leads to the evaporation of seawater, which results in the formation of water vapor. or The radiation of heat from the sun leads seawater to evaporate, which results in the formation of water vapor. 2. The rising and cooling of vapor causes (its) condensation, which contributes to the formation of clouds (cloud formation).
 * Friday, October 30, 2009**

- Causes homework "Synthesizing Sources" due Friday, November 6.Progression of an idea - Changes made to Essay due dates. - Bring in a copy of my Stress outline for Tues. 11/3.

- Prepositions! - Returned Test 1
 * Thursday, October 29, 2009**

- DUE: Essay 1, Final Draft Don't forget your envelope with all your papers.
 * Tuesday, October 27, 2009**

- Timed Writing Test 1 at 10:30 a.m. - Return Essay 1, Draft 2
 * Friday, October 23, 2009**

- Focus on DAW chap. 7 order & language - p. 192 cause essay analysis - p. 204 effect essay analysis - Brainstorming & Organizing Essay 2
 * Thursday, October 22, 2009**

- Essay 1, Draft 2 DUE in envelope with extra papers. - Begin working on DAW chapters 6 & 7 Friday, October 16, 2009 - Finish Conclusions: DAW chap. 4 - Parallelism: homework assigned [|Using Parallel Structure.pdf] due on: Tuesday, October 27. - In-class Timed Writing Assignment Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Returned & Reviewed Quiz 2 - Revise Essay 1: bring a copy to class with you! - Review MLA style (DAW p.234 & Brief MLA section)
 * Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Quiz 2: DAW chaps. 2 & 4 - Topic Sentences - Concluding Sentences - Returned & Reviewed Time Writing Quiz from Friday Friday, October 9, 2009** - Continuation of Transitions - Transitional Words/Phrases by category [|Transitional_Words_Phrases.pdf] [|Transitional_answers.pdf] - Timed Writing Essay (quiz grade)

- Finish Peer Review 5 - Transitions - Conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, Subordinators, Adverbial - Read DAW sections beginning on p. 61 & p. 85 - Preview of Quiz 2 (to be taken on 10/13) - Preview of In-class Timed Writing (to be taken on 10/9)
 * Thursday, October 8, 2009**

- Announcements & Quiz 2 Preview - Review Transitions - Adverbial Conjunctions Worksheet - Revise & Edit Essay 1, Draft 1 for Adv. Conj. - Peer Review 5 Essay 1, Draft 1
 * Tuesday, October 6, 2009**

- Annotations & Outline of Essay 1 Articles due today - Review Brainstorming Topic, Focus, Thesis Worksheet [|brainstorming.doc] - Complete "Outside Resources" Worksheet in groups [|Sources Worksheet.doc] - Make any revisions necessary to Essay 1 outline - Introduce MLA style - Introduce Wikispaces - Begin Essay Test Instruction
 * Friday, October 2, 2009**