We first discussed the poetry assignment. Students were to bring in a source for the poetry genre they selected. Some students were unable to find anything on their genre in the databases, so the instructor called up the poets.org article for the genre and showed students how to find other key terms in the article. She suggested they use these terms not only in the four databases, but in the Encyclopedia Britannica and on a general web search.
For next week, students are to put the sources they brought 2/18 plus two more sources on an Annotated Works Cited. This is a separate (and second) Annotated Works Cited. The other Works Cited is for the research paper.
We also did a poetry explication. The instructor showed how to copy and paste the explication questions to a Word document. We chose a poem from the poetry reading (posted under Links) and pasted it into the Word doc, along with the explication questions. We then went through the questions.
Students are to do the explication questions for their poet's poem and turn it in next week. The font is to be differentiated from the question by color, boldfacing, or italic.
In the next part of the class, we discussed the drama reading Part I. The instructor used a .ppt to show students examples of the amphitheater, etc.
For next week, students are to read the second part of the drama reading (found in Links section at right).
When we went to the computer lab, students were asked to research a NJ play. We found a Jersey City play, Macbeth.
Articles about play:
Touring company.
Touring company web site.
We will vote on a date to attend the play at a future class. Cost is $10 per ticket for students.
At the computer lab, we worked on apostrophes. We normally would have worked on commas, however, we did not all have access to writershelp. The instructor advised students that another student had told her the bookstore now has the access cards. Students should get the car this week, as we will be working with the exercises and the site next Saturday.
There may be an apostrophe quiz next week.
The instructor picked up the students' tentative working theses statements and while they were working on their apostrophe worksheets, she was able to read three of them and they were returned with suggestions for Pt. 1 and possibly Pt. 2. The students who received their suggestions are encouraged to begin writing Pt. 1 this week.
Next week we will return to working on commas.
To Do for Next Week:
1. Poetry Annotated Works Cited
2. Continue research on research paper. Add sources to Annotated Works Cited. Minimum of two new sources.
3. Poetry explication; turn in in Q/A form
4. Read 2nd part of drama reading (link at right)
5. Read about play (links above) and think about a date you would like to attend.
We would like to attend as a class, however, if some students cannot make the date, they can attend on their own.
6. Get writershelp.
7. Review apostrophe use in case of quiz next week.
