Article Critique on Jackie, Kwame, Abe, or Anne due by Wednesday night at 6pm (must have TYPED rough draft that you show corrections on). You MAY NOT choose your own person. You may not use Valeen since I gave you a sample where I used her.

Work Cited Page:
Author's Last Name, first name. Article (in quotes). Web Magazine (in italics). Date created. Web. Date accessed. URL (I require this for my entries EVEN THOUGH Purdue Owl doesn't want it there). These are double spaced. Hit enter at the end of each line to tab in line 2,3, etc.

See info you got in class. See how to write article critiques PPT and Word Document.

See my sample essay on Jackie Robinson for what this looks like in real life.

Anne Frank paper will be returned to you.
Kwame James redo will be returned to you.

Redos of Lincoln are due.

Journal 7 for Monday!

My Writing Lab!!

Anne Frank essay due by Monday night at 6pm (must have TYPED rough draft that you show corrections on).

Work Cited Page:
Author's Last Name, first name. Article (in quotes). Web Magazine (in italics). Date created. Web. Date accessed. URL (I require this for my entries EVEN THOUGH Purdue Owl doesn't want it there). These are double spaced. Hit enter at the end of each line to tab in line 2,3, etc.

See Kevin's sample essay on Jackie Robinson for what this looks like in real life.

Valeen Schnurr article for Monday at 6am (quiz is on Angel).

Abraham Lincoln paper will be returned to you.

Journal 6!

My Writing Lab!!

Abraham Lincoln essay due by Wednesday night at 6pm (must have TYPED rough draft that you show corrections on).

Work Cited Page:
Author's Last Name, first name. Article (in quotes). Web Magazine (in italics). Date created. Web. Date accessed. URL (I require this for my entries EVEN THOUGH Purdue Owl doesn't want it there). These are double spaced. Hit enter at the end of each line to tab in line 2,3, etc.

See Kevin's sample essay on Jackie Robinson for what this looks like in real life.

Anne Frank article for Wednesday at 6am (quiz is on Angel).

Kwame James paper will be returned to you.

Journal 5!

My Writing Lab!!

Kwame James essay due by Monday night at 6pm (must have TYPED rough draft that you show corrections on).

Work Cited Page:
Author's Last Name, first name. Article (in quotes). Web Magazine (in italics). Date created. Web. Date accessed. URL (I require this for my entries EVEN THOUGH Purdue Owl doesn't want it there). These are double spaced. Hit enter at the end of each line to tab in line 2,3, etc.

See Kevin's sample essay on Jackie Robinson for what this looks like in real life.

Abraham Lincoln article (this 1 - not the side bar 1) for Monday at 6am (quiz is on Angel).

Redos of hero 5 paragraph paper will be returned to you.

Journal 4!

My Writing Lab!!

Enjoy goofy sci-fi / monster movies in Phoenixville at Blobfest!!

The water lillies are in full bloom at Longwood Gardens also. They're INCREDIBLE.

Have a good 1 - I will be in West Virginia and out of touch from Friday at 3pm until Monday morning at 9am.

Kwame James quiz by Wednesday morning at 6am.

Redos of hero 5 paragraph paper by Wednesday start of class.

Journal 3!

My Writing Lab!!

Enjoy the time off and the picnics and the family and the friends and the fireworks!!!

Come back refreshed and ready for the stretch run!!!!

We are going to learn how to do outlining.

While I KNOW that you should see this place that we are doing, I have chosen to do this place more for its repetitive nature (everything is a canyon) and for its spellings that are in Navajo and Hebrew.

Really!! Yep - it's meant to confuse you!! It's important that I do this in practice - it will keep you from getting mixed up in reality.

To do the outline, we will watch a video of the national parks of the Colorado Plateau (if you were not in class, the video is in the library - you must watch it there).

The thesis is the Roman numberal (I).

Each place (1 national park, 1 national monument, and 1 other place) is a capital letter (since it is the forecast). These have sufficient subdivisions (at least 3 regular numbers that are listed in order of importance) under it with at least 2 descriptive details (lower case letters).

You will have your places arranged like this (according to the sample outline set up paper):

I. Other Places
A. Ricketts Glen State Park
1. Waterfalls
a. Harrison Wright
b. B. Reynolds
c. Ganoga

2. Trails
a. Waterfall Trail
b. Bulldozer Trail
c. Hemlock trail

3. Other pursuits
a. Fishing on Lake Jean
b. Snowmobiling
c. Picnics
d. Camping

While I can't show tabbing here, these must be tabbed appropriately (each different type of division - capital letters, lower case letters, and regular numbers) are tabbed over 1 additional tab from where the last level went to.

I have a lot of additional video of these places here. By virtue of being alive and in college in 2011, you know how to search these places out on youtube and google. You can find other video for all kinds of places. I recommend seeing as many of these places as you can.

I also have pictures of these places here.

A good website with lots of info on the Colorado Plateau is here.

If I could take great pictures instead of just really good ones, I would be hosting this website.

Both video and pictures include Zion National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Arches National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Waterholes Canyon, the Wave, Antelope Canyon, Ute Mountain Tribal Park, In the Desert Solitaire (a reference to Edward Abbey's incredible book entitled Desert Solitaire), Clear Creek Canyon, and Paria Canyon. Not all of these are on the video, but not all of these are meant for casual hikers.

I KNOW WHICH PLACES ARE IN MY VIDEO AND WHICH ARE ON THE WEB. SINCE WE ARE ONLY CORRECTING AN OUTLINE, WE DON'T NEED TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE IMAGES AND IDEAS WE HAVE WATCHED. WE MAY NEED TO CHECK SPELLING OR FACTS, BUT AS A WHOLE, WE DON'T NEED TO GET SUPER IN DEPTH.

My journeys to the Wave and my finally making it into this geographic wonder are the most influential journeys I have been on since graduating from RACC and Alvernia College to become a teacher. From not getting to this destination on 3 different occasions, the 4th time became a defining moment in my life.

Here, it is.
My 3 videos of my trip to the Wave (story to follow).

Week 2 deadlines

Jackie Robinson article and quiz to be read and quizzed by Monday June 27th in the morning at 6am.
On Wednesday June 22 at 5pm, I will screen the Jackie Robinson sections of Ken Burns Baseball. It's not mandatory, but if you want to see the article brought to life, come to the classroom at 5pm.
Week 2 journal (smart students will finish all journals ASAP) by Monday June 27th AT THE START OF CLASS (6PM).
Keep working on grammar.
Keep working on My Writing Lab (smart students won't procrastinate on this because they know those students who do will be marked for not passing).
Hero 5 paragraph essay + typed rough draft by Monday June 27th in the morning at 6am. The rough draft must be edited and significantly different than the final draft. You must mark them clearly as to which is the final and which is the rough draft. This is due the minute class starts (6pm). If you're late, you don't get a redo. This can be handed in up to 1 week late for credit. After that, you will fail the class for not handing it in as you haven't met the standards of the class and there will be no way you can catch up on classwork with this being a summer class. You will be advised to drop the class immediately.
If you have questions, please send them ASAP.

Links for class

http://www.adanglassworld.org/Coppermine/ - your teacher's travel pictures.

http://www.onlymypride.blogspot.com/ - your teacher's COM121 website - links to many useful things on the sidebar.

Welcome to COM051!!

If you are reading this, then you are completing the homework, which was to see the class site on the web that would be this for help and information.

All you have to do is send me ALL OF THE INFORMATION FROM THE APPROPRIATELY MARKED SPOT in an e-mail with YOUR NAME BEHIND the appropriate places before the next class (NO NAME BEHIND EACH PART, NO CREDIT - BE SURE TO READ EVERYTHING), and I will give you 10 points. For another 10 bonus points, you will have a question that you will need to answer and provide a URL of where you found it at the end.

For those students that are interested in my favorite books, they are here. I definitely recommend all of those and many other books. Ask me if you have any questions on them.

CUT AND PASTE FROM HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT CREDIT
MUST BE E-MAILED.

1. All students should talk to the people who they care about and those people that care for them and discuss what the commitment of college means. Just because you're an adult doesn't mean that people shouldn't be putting your good grades on the refrigerator or giving you a pat on the back for doing well. Just because teachers don't always do this doesn't mean that we don't care, but you do need to impress people. Did you do this? ___________

2. Going to college means jumping through hoops. Plan to get 3 names for your resume during your experience here. These names aren't "friends." They're professionals with letters in front of and behind their names. You don't need an A to have a reference, but you do have to impress people by doing your best. This doesn't mean kissing a teacher's butt, either. Just do your best and let people help you to success. Really. Are you prepared to do this? _________

3. Going to college means taking care of yourself. Eat healthy, get enough sleep, do fun things, balance your schedule, go to the FREE gym that is on campus, set goals, and get rid of the negative influences in your life. On top of this, use the facilities at this school to make the decision to be great. Are you doing what this and your College Success Strategies and College Study Skills tell you? _________

4. I have found that two things in my life will ALWAYS give me problems: 1) thinking I know something and 2) doing things solely for the $. In this, I pass this advice on to you: 1) "don't think - it can only hurt the ball club" (BULL DURHAM) - know or find out, and 2) do things that you're good at and dedicated to because they make you happy. Just because a job can earn you a lot of $ doesn't mean that you would be good at it or have the abilities to do it. You can see advisers to find out a career or major for you. You can access a lot of things here, and by all means, you should do them. If you want to do something, give it your all, and with that, you should try your hardest (especially if you don't like a class and it's needed to complete your major), but if you find that a major isn't for you, then you should seek out something that is. Are you willing to dedicate yourself to a pursuit that you can excel at and make a difference at? __________

5. In this class, you will write lots of papers. These are not artworks. They're not the ink and paper forms of living beings. They are simply papers. You're paying to learn to do something well that you obviously need to learn. I needed to learn to write as a student, and you now need to learn to write as a student. A critique of your paper is just that - a critique of your paper. It's not a statement that you're a horrible person. My job is to improve your writing. If I don't tell you what can be better, you'll just be the same now as you were then. That doesn't work in my books. Also, writing papers about things that we're so committed to and thinking that every word is a work of art or an expression of love or sadness for some person or event keeps us from realizing that some things need to alter or be removed to have a successful paper. This is something that we learn in all the things that we do. Are you prepared to learn from criticism not being critical about you - it's not the same and to make the changes that you need to be great at college and in life? ________________

6. Have you accessed Angel Online, which is where I house many handouts? Whether you use this or not to look at assignments, you have been assigned to use it and are responsible for what is contained within this site. You will be held responsible accordingly. __________________

7. Now that you're sending me your e-mail, are you prepared to continually see this site for homework, to contact me for help, to use peer help systems, to keep up with current events, to read often and for fun, and to faithfully keep up with your work for the 10 weeks of this class? _______________

Assignments for week 1

1. Death of an Innocent (read and online quiz) by Monday morning at 6am.
2. Issues in Your Paper (read and online quiz) by Monday morning at 6am.
3. Journal rules (read and online quiz) by Monday morning at 6am.
4. First week journal (online drop box) by Monday morning at 6am.
5. Go to the link on Survey Monkey and take my survey ASAP (after the other things on this list).
6. Go to Angel Online - sign in and e-mail me from there.
7. Get set up on My Writing Lab and take the ENTIRE warm up test by Monday morning at 6am.

ANY QUESTIONS? Consult your Sid Stocker handout and / or contact me IMMEDIATELY.

Summer classes are too short to not know what you're doing or to not do things.