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.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
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? _______________
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? _______________
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Final stuff for the class.
Don't forget - I need what you know, what you want to know, an outline, notes, and a rough draft with your paper.
This is worth 50 points.
Everything gets turned in tomorrow.
If you want to know the answers to any questions, please let me know ASAP. I'll be answering until 10pm tonight.
Get the grade that you want and deserve!
This is worth 50 points.
Everything gets turned in tomorrow.
If you want to know the answers to any questions, please let me know ASAP. I'll be answering until 10pm tonight.
Get the grade that you want and deserve!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Week 6-8 Schedule
July 21 - July 28 – MLA and essay writing skills
July 29 – Review of grammar by letting you go online and finish the www.mywritinglab.com post test (or time in class to work on completing lessons from said website).
August 2 – Grammar Test of everything that you learned along the way from me and from www.mywritinglab.com .
August 3 – In class time to ask me whatever questions you have about your final essay, which is due tomorrow at the beginning of class.
August 4 - Final exam that leaves you finished with COM051. Since you have worked hard, you get to enjoy the rest of the year without any more papers or anything like that to worry about. Congratulations! You’re through with your first semester and you have achieved success. I am very proud of you. If you don’t have a final essay, you will automatically fail this class. Don’t let this happen.
July 29 – Review of grammar by letting you go online and finish the www.mywritinglab.com post test (or time in class to work on completing lessons from said website).
August 2 – Grammar Test of everything that you learned along the way from me and from www.mywritinglab.com .
August 3 – In class time to ask me whatever questions you have about your final essay, which is due tomorrow at the beginning of class.
August 4 - Final exam that leaves you finished with COM051. Since you have worked hard, you get to enjoy the rest of the year without any more papers or anything like that to worry about. Congratulations! You’re through with your first semester and you have achieved success. I am very proud of you. If you don’t have a final essay, you will automatically fail this class. Don’t let this happen.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Mid Term on Monday - DIRECTIONS
You have an article. You need to read chapters 5+6.If you don't have it or you can't read it, then you have several options.
1) Go on Angel in the 7 articles section of materials and get the word file.
2) Go to Borders or Barnes and Nobles and read chapters 5+6. You don't have to buy it; you can just sit there and read it.
2) Go to Borders or Barnes and Nobles and read chapters 5+6. You don't have to buy it; you can just sit there and read it.
When you're done, you will take ONE 3x5 NOTECARD MAX on the information that you will need to do an article critique on the author's reason for writing this article. You are not writing a biography, but you will need details. As I said in class, one sentence sums up the whole article.
Directions are located on the how to do article critiques ppt. (last 3 slides),which is also in the 7 articles section.
You will have 1 class to do this. It must be done in class on Monday.
Question? Contact me ASAP.
Homework for Monday:
1) midterm
3) journals
4) Stephen Hawking essay is due
5) any redo papers that you need to do and that you have gotten permission to do (no permission, no redo - REALLY).
and for Tuesday...
6) the Anne Frank quiz on Angel. This was originally due Monday, but it is now pushed back until Tuesday.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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
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
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