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Today we discussed the homework and the upcoming essay assignment. You will need to pick up the handouts the class was given to help you write your paper on Monday.
Your rough draft is due on Monday and your final paper will be due on Wednesday April 2, 2008 (next week).
We went over the attached Power Point presentation on Writing Thesis Statements.
Your assignment for Monday is to complete your first rough draft and to complete the lab assignments:
Grammar, Punctuation, Mechanics Lessons
Parts of Speech (if you don’t have a printer make sure to write down the information at the end that should be printed)
Parrallelism
Today we discussed homework and completed notes on organization. We did some class work on creating clusters and outlines.
There was a handout on audience, purpose, and tone and we read some articles and discussed those as a class.
Homework for Wednesday is to complete one worksheet, read pages 15-31 and complete the following assignments: Excercise 1.1 and Excercise 1.5.
I have attached the power point that we took notes over today and the handout that was given on audience, purpose and tone as well as the articles discussed in class. If you were not in class today you will not be able to make up the class assignment, but make sure to complete the homework assigned and bring it to class on Wednesday.
You have two journals due on Wednesday (your diagnostic essay was considered a journal for this week).
Handouts for today (available)
super-delegates.doc catching-up.doc Work Life Balance
Today’s Power Point
Assignment read pages 8-9 and 11-14. For each essay complete the before you read questions 1 and 2 and the Pre-writing Practice question 3.
You will also need to pick a topic for your first paper and complete one of the pre-writing techniques for that topic. We had notes on pre-writing and we brainstormed for ideas for our first paper.
Thanks for the great discussion today!
During the first day of class we discussed some note taking tactics and went over a power point on the topic. The class also took a diagnostic test to help me decide what we should focus on learning during the next eight weeks. We went also went over the syllabus and discussed the journal requirement for this course. The handouts are attached to this post. Please post any questions about the class that you may have and I will discuss them in class on Wednesday or respond to the blog.
