We finished the apostrophe .ppt and did a worksheet on "its" and "it's."
We had two poetry presentations. Bernardo discussed Imagism and Shanika presented metaphysical poetry.
The instructor collected Pt II.
Roundtables for Apr 5 are: Dana, Christian, ChaVonne
Roundtables for Apr. 7 are: Diana, Emily, Sindy
Link for student dates for poetry roundtable.
To Do for Next Class:
Read Lester chapter on plagiarism
Work on poetry paper/roundtable
Study drama vocabulary words and "How Drama Works" for April 7 quiz.,
Tuesday, March 29
We had our first poetry round table, which was Charlene's. Her genre was "The Spoken Word" and her poet was Amiri Baraka. Two other students were to go today but they weren't in class.
We talked about bringing in literary criticism to the poetry papers. An example was put on the overhead projector. Students read the literary criticism and then saw how to bring in the author of the criticism.
We talked about the drama paper and the instructor went over the various requirements for this part of the class:
a) read "How Drama Works"
b) attend play (see details below)
c) Study glossary terms (details below)
d) Write drama paper (example paper at links on right, due date below)
The instructor announced that the final will be on Thursday, May 5, the last day of class. Students with perfect attendance, no cell phone incidents, and no more than three lates from now through May 3 will not have to take the final.
The final activity in class was to work on apostrophes. We did in-class exercises that were worth 3 CPPs.
To Do for Next Class:
--Bring in Pt 2 of research paper
--Read link at right, "How Drama Works." There will be a quiz on April 7.
--Read the drama glossary, A-C, at right. The Apr. 7 quiz will include terms
--Continue to work on poetry paper
The drama paper will be due May 3.
We will attend the play on Thurs. evening, April 28. Students do not have to attend class on that date. Students who attend on other dates should bring their ticket stub to be excused from attendance on Thursday.
