Week 4+5 Schedule

July 6 - Collect the Kwame James essay. We discuss the Valeen Schnurr article and go over the quiz. If you want to do a summary of this story, then you will turn it in Wednesday. No grammar fun today, we’ll be discussing pre-writing and outlines. The assignment for 6am on July 7th is to access the Stephen Hawking quiz online. You will read the article and then answer the questions. This is worth 10 points. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/02/stephen.hawking
July 7- Collect the Valeen Schnurr essay. We discuss the Stephen Hawking article and go over the quiz. If you want to do a summary of this story, then you will turn it in Monday. The rest of the class is doing the in-class National Parks Outline assignment, which is due on July 12th.
July 8 – Today is the in class midterm assignment. You will write a 5-paragraph essay in class based on an article that I will have given you previous to this. You will be allowed to test under the same conditions that you would take the final exam. That’s it. You’ll be exhausted when it’s done, so I’ll send you home to regroup for the next week. The assignment for 6am on July 12th is to access the Anne Frank quiz online. You will read the article and then answer the questions. This is worth 10 points. http://ngadventure.typepad.com/blog/deep-survival-lessons-from-anne-frank.html
July 12 - Collect the Stephen Hawking essay. We discuss the Anne Frank article and go over the quiz. If you want to do a summary of this story, then you will turn it in Wednesday July 14th. When class is all but over, I will go over the midterm. You will then be allowed to individually ask me whatever questions that you have. You will be given a complete assessment of where you stand in class so that you can make up your mind about whether to stay in class or withdraw (should you want the option). I can’t make you withdraw, but I can tell you the reality of where you stand in being able to pass the pass the class.
July 13 – We will work on grammar today after we go over your National Parks Outline assignment. The assignment for 6am on July 14th is to access the Doris Voitier quiz online. You will read the article and then answer the questions. This is worth 10 points.
http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/31/myths-of-hurricane-katrina
July 14 – Collect the Anne Frank Essay. Today, we will do the Civil War note taking assignment (the Cornell Method). This will take the entire class (just about). We discuss the Doris Voitier article and go over the quiz. If you want to do a summary of this story, then you will turn it in Thursday.
July 15 – Collect the Doris Voitier Essay. Assign essay of your choice as an article critique. Begin going over the rules of writing article critiques. This is due on Tuesday July 20th.
July 19 – Questions on rules of article critique writing. Begin to go over how to do MLA research writing – you must have a hero to write an article about by this day.
July 20 – Collect the Article Critique Essay on your choice of the 7 articles that we did together. MLA research writing will be today and every day up to the end.
July 21 - July 28 – MLA and essay writing skills