Thursday, October 16
The class took a drama exam which we graded in class.
After the drama exam, students turned in their Google personalized web page keywords and their first page of Point One of the research paper
Next week we will start on poetry. The first assignment, which will be done in a group, will be given out next Tuesday. In addition, on Monday we will work on commas. This is a review of the rules of commas and has a three-page worksheet to accompany it. Students were previously asked to read the Lukeman chapter on commas, and we will continue to work on commas the following Thursday from the Lukeman standpoint.
Next Thursday, two papers will be due. One is the drama paper and the other is two pages of Point Two of the research paper.
Readings: Skim over Chapter 4 of Lester and read Chapter 5 thoroughly ("Recognizing Ideas and Setting Goals").
Tuesday, October 14
The instructor reminded the class of the drama test on Thursday and gave the students pointers on what areas to study. The exams will be corrected in class on Thursday. Bonus 10 points: bring one page of your Medea printout with it annotated.
At the next class, students should turn in a printout of their personalized news page (print out only the first page). This will be worth three points.
We went outside to the gazebo for the rest of the class. Unfortunately we were plagued with leaf blowers. Nevertheless, students wrote out a working thesis and three major points that would be made to support their thesis.
Students are to turn in one page of Point One of the research paper at the next class.
The instructor reminded students that they should be putting their sources in as they write. Toward that end, she passed out a handout on how to cite sources within the text. We went over each of the different ways to note the source in the text.
Next class: Write one page of Point One of the research paper to hand in to the instructor.
Study for the drama exam.
Readings: Lukeman, comma.
At an upcoming class, we will be working comma rules.
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Kyle Switek: see these links re your research paper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html
http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?s=5
