With a small week, here's how we'll "CATCH-UP" from last week and start to "WRAP-UP" into next week.
||| From last week's email:
--- Read the rest of the essays from Sedaris on our white chart; there aren't many left. Be prepared to talk about them or summarize them next Wednesday (April 27) in class.
--- Create/complete your P5.5. Those will be due next Friday (April 29). There is a Dropbox for those.
--- We'll finish the P5s on Wednesday (April 27), so make sure your P5 letters are ready to be handed in - physically on paper - IN class on Friday (April29).
--- I'll introduce P6 on Friday, April 29. This project will take us into next week & it's the last "big," individual paper.
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||| This week: We'll look at Chapter 26 and write up a CB about offensive phrases... Thursday's reserved for P5 in-class Writing Conferences as well as the introduction to our last project, the Shortfolio - which, for the on-campus English 120ers, has turned into the Utopia Project. Next week, we lose a day due to Agawasie Day, but that should still give them enough time to work, in groups, on Monday and Wed towards wrapping up the Shortfolio. Those projects are presented the Monday of Finals Week.

||| Hi all,I'm not feeling very well today (Wed), so for next week, let's do the following:
--- Read the rest of the essays from Sedaris on our white chart; there aren't many left. Be prepared to talk about them or summarize them next Wednesday(April 27) in class.
--- Create/complete your P5.5. Those will be due next Friday (April 29). There is a Dropbox for those.
--- We'll finish the P5s on Wednesday (April 27), so make sure your P5 letters are ready to be handed in - physically on paper - IN class on Friday (April29).
I think that covers everything. Have a nice Easter break,
p.s. I'll introduce P6 on Friday, April 29.
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||| Hi all,
I'm not feeling very well today (Wed), so for Thursday, let's do the following:
--- Read Chuck's essay #2.
--- Write up your last Mini-Argument. We'll hand those in on paper tomorrow.
*If you look at the Mini-Argue tab online (under Unit 7), you'll see that thereis a fun option for this last one.
--- The last batch of MyWords is due before class time tomorrow. Please place those online under Unit 7, but don't attach a document.
--- Create your P5 draft for Peer Review tomorrow. Shoot for 250+ words & make sure to look at that list and implement those items.

||| This week, we're watching P5s, reading more of Sedaris, and working (out of class) on P5.5. ||| Note: P5 = PowerPoint MusicVideo. Tell a story visually with text, sound, and images. ||| P5.5 = Literature Made Visual. Take one of David's essays and make it visual. |||
||| This week, we're starting the second-to-last paper which is the last individual paper, too. It's P5 where we'll mimic Chuck Klosterman. ||| Yesterday, I introduced P5... and assigned Chuck's #4 (with an activity) & the last batch of My Words for tomorrow. |||

||| Storyboards will be due in class and I'll "show off" my example P5.5. ||| Sedaris reading activity due (Jeopardy). ||| More Sedaris readings and activities will be assigned for Friday. ||| All reading activities are due in class. ||| Workday for P5. ||| Note: P5 = PowerPoint MusicVideo. Tell a story visually with text, sound, and images. ||| P5.5 = Literature Made Visual. Take one of David's essays and make it visual. |||
||| GBP writing conferences this week. ||| There will be out-of-class assignments on eCompanion - check your email to find out what they are. ||| Hint: It's the last CB in Unit 6.

---Maybe I should consider making more of booklet for the English 110 syllabus next fall. That may be kind of fun. And I should put some essays/articles in there so that if the bookstore has issues with my books again, I'm prepared to have 'em read some things in the syllabus (well, there's always Doc Sharing, too). Here's what I've saved thus far for English 110.
---And then there's English 120 Online. I don't have a lot of flexibility with how that syllabus looks, but I could make the printable version pretty neat. Yeah. They jump right into using the book, kind of. Well, the first two weeks are book-free to a certain degree, so I could use some of the articles/essays I have linked to Delicious as reading material during those first days.
---I don't have as much new stuff for World Literature (English 240), but I'll dig around this summer...

Search engines I've collected:
http://www.delicious.com/scrible77/search

The search engines I use & like:
Bing.com
Mashpedia.com
Qwiki.com
Blekko.com
Sortfix.com
Sweetsearch.com
www.twurdy.com
www.questia.com

English 110: Finished up P4 presentations; P4.5 is due at midnight. We'll start David Sedaris and P.5 and P5.5 on Wednesday.

English 120: We watched Critical Media movies and brainstormed questions for the GBP; we're reading Chuck's #12 for Wed as well as answering some questions he has in the book elsewhere.

Watch P3s and Vote for Top 5 in class. ||| What's up for the rest of the week? The instructor is at the UND Writer's Conference. ||| Complete the following = Unit 6 = READ everything about P4: GBP + CB + Mini-Argument = all due Saturday at midnight!
*Note to me: I have 5 more P2s in this class to assess.

Student Flickr/Pixlr Projects from my English 120 students (on-campus class).
Click on them to see them in a larger layout.

\ Hand in the Fake Assignment, if you haven't already. \ Hand in My Words and 50pt Assignment dealing with Chuck's #13 and Chapter 25 (similar assignment to the first CB in Unit 4 which I thought was different - Oops!) \ Mini-Argument (in Unit 4) to complete in class = We'll be doing it a wee bit differently. \ Peer Review to be conducted next class time, so put together a draft if you don't have one. \ Also, next class time: Writing Conference Sign-Up for next week. \ Notes for next class time: Open-book Citation quiz (after I hand back the Fake Assignments and talk about them); plus that I.Q. test for bonus? Then Peer Review...