Thursday Sept. 25:
The instructor showed Lukeman punctuation metaphors as visuals and went through each one, e.g., comma=speed bump.
The instructor then discussed how to use short sentences to create certain types of effects. Students then did a short-sentence writing exercise and we looked at the results on the doc cam.
In a future session, we will work with long sentences.
We then discussed the drama paper and the instructor showed an example of a paper submitted by a student. This gave students an idea of how the paper might be constructed. Please note that the drama link to the glossary is at left.
Next we turned to the reading in Lester, Chapter 2 (about library sources) and the instuctor put the library's catalogs page up on the overhead screen. She showed the book catalog and how it worked. She showed the databases page and pointed out the trial databases and encouraged students to use them and give feedback to the librarians.
Tues., Sept. 23:
The instructor reviewed what we did in the last two classes.
She asked students for their person consistency worksheet. The worksheets were redistributed and students evaluated the work done by their colleagues. The instructor gathered the papers and will record points for each person who completed the assignment.
Next we discussed the drama assignment. The instructor will be distributing the written assignment at the next class. Today she discussed the role of stage directions in both producing a play but also in the reading of a play as literature. In addition, the instructor will put up the link for the drama glossary.
The example used was "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. We looked at pictures of stages that have been constructed for this play. Some are representational and others are abstract, the set being more suggestive.
The instructor will also post the reading schedule and distribute a copy in class.
The instructor distributed the notebook categories and a date of Oct. 2 was set for getting the notebook completed: categories and papers organized behind the categories. If this is complete, students will get three of the ten points allocated for the class participation section of the class.
For next class:
Two sentence-writing exercises from Lukeman, Chapter 1. Work on notebook. Continue to work on deciding research paper project. Obtain sources. Read Chapter 2 in Lester. Go to the drama glossary link and begin working with the terms. Research a play or attend the one starting on 9/25 at UCC.
