Final Week

12/09/15 -  Deadline for all Essay & Response paper submissions


Dear Class,

It was a pleasure having you all for class. I hope that you continue to pursue your academic and personal endeavors with all the success and best wishes in mind.  The road starts today for you. Never forget that.  Know that there will be difficult days ahead. You have your academic career ahead of you, but most importantly, you will grow and develop to be individuals with knowledge and experience on your side that will make you resilient and guide you through the most challenging times. I truly hope that you have learned something about yourselves as writers.

J. Reyna

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Those students that need to take the Departmental Exam at ACC:

Follow these instructions on the TICKET:

Instructor:  Jesus Reyna
Synonym: ENGL 1301
Section: 250


ENGL 1301
Option 2 :  Select TEST

Online Test Allowed: No

11/30 HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Essay 3:

• Essay 3 Due (Environmental Studies/Gender Studies)
• 3-4 pages long
• at least 2 sources
• APA with Works Cited 
• New Times Roman / 12pt font / Double Spaced
• Click HERE for Purdue OWL Literary Theories

Below this blog post, make sure to give me an abstract of what you plan to write about asap so that I can give you feedback.

Expanded Essay:

• Revise / Edit
• Title the essay
• Have a thesis sentence
• Eliminate definitions

Consider the following when revising:

What have you learned in the last few weeks about the writing process?

What have you learned about collaboration with your groups?

What have you learned about revising?

How can you possibly attribute these things to yourself as a WRITER?

Group Essay:

• Many of you are on your last draft
• Apply the feedback I've given you and be ready to discuss when we come back from the break

11/18

Define the following:

Literary Theory

Literary Criticism

Feminist Theory

Double Standards

Patriarch

Assignment 11/18

·         Under trending page

·         Based the above definitions on Literary Theory / Criticism / Feminist Theory

·         Look for news worthy article discussing gender in any kind of way 

·         Post article along with a short response on the article

·         Be ready to discuss

11/16

Assignment: Group Essay Draft 2 due

11/9

Read Sommers article provide response

Bring second draft of expanded essay (make sure you have a working title)

11/2

We will be taking a mock departmental exam (ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY)

Assignment over the weekend:

Bring second draft of Writing Experience Essay:

• Revise your essay
• Use feedback provided

Essay Notes

·         Avoid clutter à Make your point à Trim à Eliminate unnecessary words or passages à Things we already know

·         Never start sentence with “And” , “But”, “Which”, “As”

·         Rephrase: Run On/Fragment/Sentence is Too Long / Confusing

·       W.C = Word Choice

·         V then word = Insert

·         Capitalize I à proper noun

·         Time Based Organizing Patterns (TBOP)   benefit

First

Second

One experience

Another experience    mediocre

For example

For instance

Eventually

In conclusion

·         Avoid conjunctions in academic essays

“I’m”, “I’ve”

·         Concise

·         Efficient

·         Avoid definitions

• Think of a title for your essay

10/26

Watch documentary and write a responde under the blog:

First draft of Essay 2 Due.

10/21

Finish Wolk discussion

Bring rough draft of group essay

Post newsworthy video/reading on TRENDING TAB

• Be ready to discuss

10/19

Read: Wolk article
Provide Response paper for reading


Bring rough draft of group Essay 2

10/14

Meet with your groups
Begin thinking about how you will be incorporating your outside source/s into your essay
Focus on a specific topic within the essay

Assignment: Work on the first paragraph of your paper

• Thesis statement
• What will you be discussing be specific (Body)
• What kind of research will you be providing 

10/5 - 10/7

We will be finishing up Haberman essay.


Very important that you not miss classes this week
We will be doing the following:

• Research Methods
• MLA/APA Format
• Parenthetical Citations
• Annotated Bibliography
• 5 Paragraph Essay

READ KANTZ ESSAY: Provide three parenthetical citations using the article

• Make sure that you paraphrase 
• Refer to citation examples in the readings tab

10/1

Answer the following and turn in as "Haberman Response"


What’s the first thing you thought about when you read the title "Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching?


Define: SOCIOECONOMIC & SOCIOCULTURAL



What is Pedagogy of Poverty according to Haberman?



Elaborate on: Authoritarian and directive nature of the pedagogy of poverty is deceptive about who really is in charge àREAD 3^rd Column on page 292

- Interpret reading and provide analysis



Elaborate on: Good TEACHING with a focus on Sociocultural/Socioeconomic conditions
- How does this apply to you?
- How does this apply everyone else?

9/28

Group Assignment:  Read "Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching" - Martin Haberman

Presentation: 5-8 min 

Begin to critically analyze the text (construct/build meaning). 

You are not summarizing the essay to present. 

Pick something specific within the article that you wish to discuss as a group.  

You have the autonomy of presenting anyway you want

Medium:

• If you are using multi-media, please bring device to use in class that can be used with projector(ex. laptop computer)
• If using power point, save in USB drive
• YouTube does not work in class
• If handing out material, please make sufficient copies

Rubric:

• Everyone must participate
• I will be providing FEEDBACK for each individual group
• ORIGINALITY of presentation will be taken into account
• Looking for thoughtful ANALYSIS and interpretations of the TEXT (Article)   

I have extended the due date for your Expanded Essay so  you can focus on your presentations

• Due 9/30
• Construct meaning, use your writing experience, use discussions in class to guide your paper
• Use academic related information that we have used in class (Pedagogy/Metacognition/SDLvsTDL/Standardized Testing/Rhetorical Reading/Intrinsic &Extrinsic motivation/Receptive vs Constructive etc.) 

9/21

I will be out of town Monday 9/21.
Class will be meeting in the library.
Please be on on your best behavior while at the library.
It will be beneficial to print this blog out.

• Print Haas and Flowers article
• Highlight important sections in the article
• Mark page numbers and be ready to reference them

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND DEFINITIONS WILL BE TURNED IN AS YOUR READING RESPONSE:

Define the following:  

• Rhetoric

Answer the following according to information provided in the article:

What is Constructive vs Receptive?

How do we understand a text?

What is good reading?

What is critical reading?

Be ready to discuss case study. (Experienced Readers vs Engineering Students)

Lastly, and most importantly, while at the library:

Provide me with one outside source that discusses Pedagogy and Critical Reading.  Tell me a little bit about your source and the information provided by paraphrasing me at least a paragraph based on what you read.

If you have any questions, please leave me a comment.

9/16

Class will begin at 12:11 PM - 1 PM

• Read second half of Downs/Wardle 
• Provide Response
• Be ready to discuss in groups

9/14

Read first half of Downs/Wardle article (13 pages)

• provide one page response.
• Take Notes
• We will have group discussions

PRINT article, otherwise you need to have access to it ELECTRONICALLY

9/9

Work with your groups and be ready to discuss the 6 theories discussed in Rodney Skager article. (second half of article)

• Remember, don't just summarize the readings but attempt to connect theory with our class discussions on self directed learning, teacher directed learning, pedagogy, and meta-cognition. 
• Do Not Summarize....
• Groups will present
• Everyone must participate  

Assignment 9/2

Please Read& Respond to the Following:

• Students' Feelings about Themselves as Self Directed Learners - Serdahely & Adams

• Self-Directed Learning and Schooling: Identifying Pertinent Theories and Illustrative Research - Rodney Skager  (Half of The Article 12 pages)

• Write 1 page response on readings
• Response paper on Diaz & Lamott due as well

8/31

• Read the Diaz & Lamott articles under the assigned readings.
• Write a one page response that includes an analysis on both readings.

Make sure that you know what METACOGNITION & PEDAGOGY mean.  

We will continue our group discussions on Monday.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!! 

Welcome

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