Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Comm 128 Students

If you left a notebook in my mailbox, I have checked it in on the gradesheet and it has been put above the mailbox. Please pick it up as soon as possible as they regularly clear off materials on top of the shelf at the end of the term. Your grade is on the inside front cover.

Notice to Group Comm Students

For students looking to download files at Blackboard, stop back there in a day or so. Right now I'm focusing on grades and have had to delay putting up those files.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Attn: MWF Writing Students 102

All weekend long I have been helping students out with their conclusions. The papers are to my right and if you need some help, just email.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

1402 Speech: What Happened in Class

At our final class on Friday, we finished the speeches. The instructor will post here when grades have been recorded. We also checked text outlines and did the notebook grades.

At our last class, Francheska spoke on electronic textbooks. Here is a story appearing in today's Star Ledger about how Princeton is using the Kindle.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Attention: Tues-Thursday Writing102 Students

If you haven't seen a play yet and need to see one to get your drama paper done, you might consider this, going on Saturday at UCC:



CRANFORD (MAY 9TH, 2009) OPENING NIGHTS ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON



The Theater Project, Union County College's Professional Theater Company, is proud to present a staged reading series of original plays by members of The Theater Project’s Playwrights Development Workshop, which is led by Artistic Director Mark Spina. These script-in-hand performances offer the excitement and immediacy of actually sitting in on rehearsals with the talented members of The Theater Project.

On Saturday, MAY 9TH, The Theater Project’s series presents BURN OUT written by Ed Lataro and directed by Lou Scarpati.

BURNOUT: Eric has one last chance to escape his hellish government job!

His work helping blind people connect to services may be a noble pursuit, but the bureaucracy is killing him. Eric is perfecting an invention that will allow him to escape the civil service maze.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the playwright, director, actors and audience, in the Union County College Student Commons, 1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, NJ.

ADMISSION IS FREE, thanks to the support of The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Union County College Foundation, a HEART Grant (History-Education-Arts-Reaching-Thousands) from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the generosity of Ms. Stephanie Fein and Mrs. Marion Curka.

Ed Lataro writes theatrical plays and screenplays. His productions include MINOTAUR at the Basic Theater in NYC, and BUBBLE WORLD and BLUE PEOPLE at the THEATER PROJECT in Cranford. In June he will have VICTOR and WIDOWMAKER produced at the Bergen County Playfest in Dumont He received honorable mention in Writer’s Digest Magazine Playwriting Contesting. Ed holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Montclair State College. He resides in Nutley, NJ.


WHAT: OPENING NIGHTS ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON Staged Reading Series:

BURN OUT by Ed Lataro, directed by Lou Scarpati.

Presentation followed by discussion with author and cast

WHEN: 3 PM, SATURDAY, May 9th, 2009

TICKETS: FREE



1033 Springfield Ave, Cranford, NJ 908-659-5189 TheTheaterProject.org

Thursday, May 7, 2009

What Happened in Class Tues-Thurs

Important end-of-semester information:

The Langan chapters that were required for the class will be listed here after 8: p.m. tonight.
(Note: I haven't heard from Vanessa, sorry.)

I will put all drama papers and others in my mailbox next week alert you to when they are there via this blog. You will have one week to pick them up.

Drop off drama papers until Monday, 2-3:20, H 211

You may e-mail me for your poetry grade.

What we did in class today:

We listened to poetry presentations, and after that we did check-in work with notebooks, Langan chapters, etc. The instructor returned research papers with the final grade.

Friday, May 1, 2009

What Happened in Class 1402 Tues-Friday

We checked a few outlines both before and after the class.

We listened to student speeches.

Next class:

Student persuasive speeches

Finish text outlines and get them checked off