Friday
We finished the first two pages of the Introduction, Conclusions, and Titles handout.
We went over semicolon usage. The instructor showed a Powerpoint and we wrote sentences at certain breaks in the presentation.
Next class:
Read Langan and write the conclusion.
Wednesday
The instructor returned the Pt 3s with comments. Students looked over their comments and clarified any they did not understand with the instructor.
A handout on introductions, conclusions, and titles was distributed and from that we worked on writing a funnel opening. Students wrote their thesis statement and worked upward toward the most general statement, which will be the opening statement.
The instructor helped some students refine their thesis statements.
Students are to write their funnel opening and bring it to the next class.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Comm 128 What Happened in Class
We did peer readings and commentary on each other's papers. Each paper received two readings. The quality of student comments is taken into effect in final grading.
While students did the reading the instructor looked over notebooks and issued grades.
Students turned in their theory paper. Next week (last week) the "I Am" papers will be returned along with the media theory papers.
After the peer readings, we did an experiential learning exercise where students evaluated communication in the workplace. The instructor handed out the "Supportive and Defensive Climate Reflection Worksheet." She explained to students how to answer it. After doing the reflections, students convened to small groups to discuss the communication. They were to focus on the following parameters:
Strategy vs. spontaneity
Dogmatism vs. flexibility
Control vs. collaboration
Evaluation vs. description
Detachment vs. empathy
Superiority vs. equality
Next week:
Last class.
Three-minute theory presentation from your paper
Notebooks checked in during the last half of class
Two papers returned
While students did the reading the instructor looked over notebooks and issued grades.
Students turned in their theory paper. Next week (last week) the "I Am" papers will be returned along with the media theory papers.
After the peer readings, we did an experiential learning exercise where students evaluated communication in the workplace. The instructor handed out the "Supportive and Defensive Climate Reflection Worksheet." She explained to students how to answer it. After doing the reflections, students convened to small groups to discuss the communication. They were to focus on the following parameters:
Strategy vs. spontaneity
Dogmatism vs. flexibility
Control vs. collaboration
Evaluation vs. description
Detachment vs. empathy
Superiority vs. equality
Next week:
Last class.
Three-minute theory presentation from your paper
Notebooks checked in during the last half of class
Two papers returned
Writing101-02 Tues.-Thus. What Happened in Class
Assignment sheet will be posted here Wed. a.m.
Genre/Poet/Poem:
Tierra: Free Verse/ Flora Launa/" "
Nida: Renga/"The Old Cathedral"/Sanders, Gross, Tebo, Mills
Tyesha: will advise today
Kyle: Ekphrasis/Suzanne Bruce/"Invisible"
Ebony: Found poems/David Austin
Brian: Walt Whitman "A Woman Awaits for Me"
Vanessa:
Bernard: Anaphora/
Carlos: Gilgamesh
Ronald: Ode/Percy Sherry/"The Indian Serenade"
Saudia: Blues/Langston Hughes/"The Weary Blues"
Salome: Rondeau/Paul Laurence Dunbar/"We Wear the Mask"
Sam: Dramatic Monologue/Shakespeare/Julius Ceasar
Joe:
Aya: Prose
Carolyn: Sonnet/Browning/My Letters All Dead Paper Mute and White
Arielle: Chance operations/Jackson Macklow/A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair
Atim: Epigram/John Dryden/Here lies my wife....
Presenting Thursday:
Vanessa
Kyle
Saudia
Ebony
Atim
Ronald
Sam
Carolyn
Brian
Salome
Tyesha
Genre/Poet/Poem:
Tierra: Free Verse/ Flora Launa/" "
Nida: Renga/"The Old Cathedral"/Sanders, Gross, Tebo, Mills
Tyesha: will advise today
Kyle: Ekphrasis/Suzanne Bruce/"Invisible"
Ebony: Found poems/David Austin
Brian: Walt Whitman "A Woman Awaits for Me"
Vanessa:
Bernard: Anaphora/
Carlos: Gilgamesh
Ronald: Ode/Percy Sherry/"The Indian Serenade"
Saudia: Blues/Langston Hughes/"The Weary Blues"
Salome: Rondeau/Paul Laurence Dunbar/"We Wear the Mask"
Sam: Dramatic Monologue/Shakespeare/Julius Ceasar
Joe:
Aya: Prose
Carolyn: Sonnet/Browning/My Letters All Dead Paper Mute and White
Arielle: Chance operations/Jackson Macklow/A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair
Atim: Epigram/John Dryden/Here lies my wife....
Presenting Thursday:
Vanessa
Kyle
Saudia
Ebony
Atim
Ronald
Sam
Carolyn
Brian
Salome
Tyesha
2415 Group Comm What Happened in Class
Friday
We listened to student presentations of concepts from the last chapters. We will do the same at the next class.
Tuesday
The instructor went over what will be happening in the last few days of the class and who will be presenting on what days. Ursula asked about the evaluation of the final presentations, and the instructor said it would be based on the assignment as such:
How clearly was the concept explained?
1234 (4 is high)
How effectively did the team/student use the software to present the concept?
Presentation skills
Paperwork backup: outline, Reference page for anything outside the text
Small groups:
In addition to the above, does the group show they have effectively used the concepts learned to date in this class?
Next we went on to reviewing the personality type material. We reviewed the types and then broke into small groups to discuss introversion and extroversion.
Next class: presentations by Victoria, Anthony's problem-solving group, Adriana, Vincent, and Emily.
We listened to student presentations of concepts from the last chapters. We will do the same at the next class.
Tuesday
The instructor went over what will be happening in the last few days of the class and who will be presenting on what days. Ursula asked about the evaluation of the final presentations, and the instructor said it would be based on the assignment as such:
How clearly was the concept explained?
1234 (4 is high)
How effectively did the team/student use the software to present the concept?
Presentation skills
Paperwork backup: outline, Reference page for anything outside the text
Small groups:
In addition to the above, does the group show they have effectively used the concepts learned to date in this class?
Next we went on to reviewing the personality type material. We reviewed the types and then broke into small groups to discuss introversion and extroversion.
Next class: presentations by Victoria, Anthony's problem-solving group, Adriana, Vincent, and Emily.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Public Speaking 129 Fri. evening
The instructor returned the "bad apple" papers and talked about the last question, which few students answered correctly.
Next we reviewed dates for the end of the semester and what happened in the last class.
The instructor handed out the worksheet for the class exercise, which was called "Sell Me Something." With this exercise, each person has 30-60 seconds to sell a product that they have with them and that they find indispensable. The objective was to gain experience working through the "motivated sequence" in a classroom situation.
Students delivered a 30-60-second speech using the sequence.
Next class:
persuasive speeches
Next we reviewed dates for the end of the semester and what happened in the last class.
The instructor handed out the worksheet for the class exercise, which was called "Sell Me Something." With this exercise, each person has 30-60 seconds to sell a product that they have with them and that they find indispensable. The objective was to gain experience working through the "motivated sequence" in a classroom situation.
Students delivered a 30-60-second speech using the sequence.
Next class:
persuasive speeches
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
End-of-Semester Dates (All Classes)
Last day of class:
1402: May 8
2415: May 8
128: May 5
102 TThu: May 7
102 MWF: May 11
129 Fri: May 8
Due Dates:
2415: May 1, 5, & 8th Final Assignment Presentation Dates
128 Comm Theory/Film paper due April 28.
Notebook checks
128 Comm 3" presentations on May 5
Notebook checks
102 TTh final research paper due April 30
102 TTh final research paper returned May 7
102 MWF final research paper due May 11; return date is day of final. Pick up paper only (no final exam).
1402: Presentations each day until the end of class.
1402: May 8
2415: May 8
128: May 5
102 TThu: May 7
102 MWF: May 11
129 Fri: May 8
Due Dates:
2415: May 1, 5, & 8th Final Assignment Presentation Dates
128 Comm Theory/Film paper due April 28.
Notebook checks
128 Comm 3" presentations on May 5
Notebook checks
102 TTh final research paper due April 30
102 TTh final research paper returned May 7
102 MWF final research paper due May 11; return date is day of final. Pick up paper only (no final exam).
1402: Presentations each day until the end of class.
Comm 128 What Happened in Class
The instructor gave the students an in-class field trip assignment. Students were to watch for nonverbal communication in three designated areas of the campus. First the instructor went through the worksheet. Next the class watched a video that demonstrated many of the areas that were mentioned on the worksheet. After the video, we looked up any areas not covered in the video.
Students then went out on their field trip with their partners. In class, we discussed the various questions and what students saw on their field trips.
Next we worked on Chapter 10 vocabulary terms.
Duplicates of some of the "I Am" papers were collected.
Next class:
Turn in Theory/Film paper
Prepare for brief 3" explanation, scheduled for May 5
Notebook checks
Students then went out on their field trip with their partners. In class, we discussed the various questions and what students saw on their field trips.
Next we worked on Chapter 10 vocabulary terms.
Duplicates of some of the "I Am" papers were collected.
Next class:
Turn in Theory/Film paper
Prepare for brief 3" explanation, scheduled for May 5
Notebook checks
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