Students turned in their Annotated Works Cited in MLA style. The instructor chose a few at random and we looked at them on the overhead document camera and critiqued them. Some were nearly perfect, while others had mixed-up italics, oddball spacing, and other errors. The instructor will look at the AWC and assign a point value which is added to the student's class participation points.
Next the instructor introduced two items that are due at the next class on Friday, Sept. 30:
To Do for Next Class:
Go to poets.org and choose a form, a technique, a school, or a movement. Read the description and choose a poet from the article or through further research. This will be the topic for your multimedia presentation on poetry, and we will start presenting in about three weeks to a month. The presentation will consist of several papers, images, etc.
In your Lester book, look up in Ch. 1 what Lester has to say about the thesis statement. Write a working thesis statement and bring it to class. We will put it on a table, just like we did with the poetry selections.
Monday, Sept.26
Students brought their Annotated Works Cited, which is 10 sources in annotated MLA form. The students critiqued and corrected each other's papers.
First the instructor went over format, which was followed by a closer look at the format of each citation. The model citation was shown on the overhead projector.
Student papers were returned; the assignment for the next class is to bring in the corrected Works Cited.
