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MLA Workshop [|Purdue OWL]

December 13, 2013

Final Papers Due.

In Class Work: TBD

December 11, 2013

TBD

December 9, 2013

5 page Rough Draft Due December 6, 2013

Bring 2-3 pages HARD COPY to class to be Peer Reviewed.

December 4, 2013

Annotated Bib DUE

Thesis and Drafting Process

MLA Overview

December 2, 2013

Bring Completed Works Cited Electronically

Annotated Workshop November 25th, 2013 Choose a Research Question

Answer That Question to Form a Hypothesis

Find: Two Books, One Journal, One Magazine, and One Newspaper.

Put them Into a Works Cited Page. November 22, 2013 No Class. Cause and Effect Papers to be uploaded before your class time.

November 20 2013 Chapter 12-Argument Explain 1020 Similarities "Reply to the US Government" by Chief Seattle

November 18, 2013 Read "Cancer's Oddest Effect" by Dan Barry "Analyzing the Marriage Gap" by Hal R. Varian November 15, 2013 Cause and Effect Paper Assignment Lab Day [|MLA Citation Information]
 * Pre Writing Exercise: Think of an event in your life that has caused you to see the world differently. Write about it. You have ten minutes.**

November 13, 2013 Finish Chapter 11 Notes Read: Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "The Way to Reduce Black Poverty in America" and Henry L. Roediger III's "Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?" [] November 11, 2013

Complete MLA Worksheets

Chapter 11 Notes November 8, 2013

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 * Jack Horner, Thinking Outside the Box: The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dyslexia


 * Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country

November 6, 2013 Chapter 10 Notes Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

November 4, 2013 NO Class but YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE TO THE WIKI

November 1, 2013 Read "But What Do You Mean?" by Deborah Tannen

and "Her Kind"

For Writing #1 (370) In Class Free Write

October 30, 2013

Read "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson (336)

and "People Like Us" by David Brooks (352)

October 28, 2013

Read "Food for the Soul" by Nicolas D. Kristof (303)

and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" (Translate to Modern English)

Now that we all have our essay topics and thesis statements, we are going to put together a Venn diagram.

October 25, 2013 Lab Day. Compare/Contrast October 23, 2013 "The Meaning of Life" by Cohen "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" by Catton

October 21, 2013 "The Way I read a Letter's --this-- " by Dickinson (Exercise on the dash) Chapter 8 Notes 285 #2

October 18, 2013 "How to Pull an All-Nighter" by Borgenicht "I Will Survive...Or at Least Be Delayed" by Barry October 16, 2013 Explaining a process visually p. 231 Student example In-Class Process Analysis October 14, 2013 Read "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" by Ulrich and "Ritual Acts" by Rich Start Chapter 7 notes October 11, 2013

"Piling on the Cookies" by David Barboza

"Happy Meals and Old Spice Guy" by Joanna Weiss

Discussion about Marketing ploys: Let's develop a list of examples.

October 9, 2013

*What is your point?p. 177

State your point and provide sufficient examples.

*Your examples must be REPRESENTATIVE.

We are going to read the Student Example on p 183 and go through some follow up questions as a class.

October 7, 2013

"Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White

Chapter 6 Notes

*What is a For Instance?

*Why do we cite examples?

"All Seven Deadly Sins at a Church Bake sale" “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Hurston

October 4th, 2013 NO CLASS

October 2nd, 2013 “More Room” Judith Ortiz Cofer

September 30, 2013 __//** Free Write: Page 145, For Writing #1: **//__** Write several paragraphs describing your childhood home. Try to capture the dominant sense--of stability, bewilderment, or some other feeling-- that living there gave to your childhood (or a part of it). ** Chapter 5 continued “Little House in the War Zone” by Zainab Salbi “Perfection in the Horseshoe Pit” by John Branch
 * a waiting room
 * a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket
 * a cell phone
 * a treasured belonging
 * a laptop computer
 * a favorite restaurant
 * your dream house
 * your ideal roommate
 * a closet
 * your memory of a place that you visited as a child
 * a locker
 * an accident scene
 * a city bus or subway train
 * an unusual room
 * a child's secret hiding place
 * a bowl of fruit
 * an item left too long in your refrigerator
 * backstage during a play or a concert
 * a vase of flowers
 * a rest room in a service station
 * a street that leads to your home or school
 * your favorite food
 * the inside of a spaceship
 * the scene at a concert or athletic event
 * an art exhibit
 * an ideal apartment
 * your old neighborhood
 * a small town cemetery
 * a pizza
 * a pet
 * a photograph
 * a hospital emergency room
 * a particular friend or family member
 * a painting
 * a storefront window
 * an inspiring view
 * a work table
 * a character from a book, movie, or television program
 * a refrigerator or washing machine
 * a Halloween costume

September 27, 2013

“Longing to Belong” by Saira Shah
 * //__Final Draft of Narrative on Wiki by Thursday__//**

Picture and Description

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September 25, 2013

Start Chapter 5 “Render Unto Larry’s” by Phil Holland Picture and Description [|Picture 1] [|Picture 2]

September 23, 2013 Peer Review "Strangers" by Toni Morrison September 20, 2013
 * //__Rough Draft to be uploaded before class begins__//**

Workshop on Turning Point Doc Picture and Explanation [|Picture 1] [|Picture 2] [|Picture 3] [|Picture 4]

September 18, 2013 "The Sanctuary of School" by Lynda Barry RC and SS (88) [|Page 65 Excerpt from The Autobiography of BF=Success Story] September 16, 2013 Chapter 4 Notes on Narrative Discuss BF Success Story="Turning Point" Composing a Narrative Notes Template on p. 69 Transitions, Verb Tenses, Plot, **//Dialogue(75)//** License Plate and other pictures [|Jedi] [|Corvette]

September 13, 2013 Read “Dog” by Richard Russo p. 113-118 RC, SS Quiz September 11, 2013 Agree, Disagree, Both, and Who Cares? In class prompt on your research. September 9, 2013

Chapter 3 worksheet Sample topics include: PED use, Global Warming, Oil Spills and other related topics.

Develop a question, i.e.: Should athletes be allowed to use steroids?, Should their be stricter laws on emissions?,

Should oil companies be forced to perform maintenence every two weeks?

September 6, 2013 //**1. Rough Draft Must be Uploaded before Class begins!**// //**2. Chapter One Notes and Reading exercise on p. 7**// //**3. Reading Closely Q's 1-3 and SS Q's 1-4.**// //**4. Book Cover on p. 6**// //**5. [|Other Cover]**// //**6. [|Cover Three]**//

September 4, 2013 1. Make sure everyone has uploaded their one page draft to the wiki or has a hard copy. 2. Notes on Literacy Narratives+ Chapter 2 notes 3. Literacy Narrative Organizational Exercise 4. One page Rough Draft Peer Editing Session

August 30, 2013

Distance Learning Students: I understand there may be some connectivity issues today. If so, listed below is our agenda for today's class. We will be completing the two worksheets attached and I am assigning the Literacy Narrative Rough Draft. (See Links) 1. Wiki accomodations-Make sure everyone is a member of this class wiki 2. LearnBoost emails 3. Benjamin Franklin handout 4. Watch BF Clip The Dead White Guy-Benjamin Franklin 5. Virtue Handout(Guess where Franklin's 14 marks appear on this chart) 6.Literacy Narrative (Have one page rough draft uploaded to class wiki by next wednesday) The assignment doc and a link to Norton's website will help you get started.