Work Day for P6; you are not required to come to class, but with Agawasie Day tomorrow, you may want to finish up P6 and upload it to the correct Dropbox.
P6 is due Friday.
I’ll introduce the Shortfolio & Final My Words Test on Friday as well.
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Students will work on the Shortfolio (the Utopia Project) in class today.
Other things to complete in class today:
—A small handout containing Plagiarism assessment (it’s a campus thing).
—Introduce the Final My Words Test with a handout.
—CB for this week (first in Final Stuff unit) is worth bonus points.
The presentations are next Monday; our last CB/evaluation/reflection* will be assigned next Monday, too.
*I haven’t decided what that will be yet.

Students handed in their My Words (if they hadn’t placed them online under Unit 6 already) and I wrote down who had what for the ABC Experiment. I assigned possibly our last small writing assignment for Wednesday & then they had time to work on P6. P6 is due Friday; I’ll introduce the Shortfolio & Final My Words Test on Friday as well.
Students will work on the Shortfolio (the Utopia Project) in class today and Wednesday; there may be small assignments in class on these two days. The presentations are next Monday. The Final My Words Test and our last CB will be assigned next Monday, too.

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. |||

||| P5 Presentations .||| Sedaris reading activity due (Columns of Connections). ||| Another Sedaris reading and activity will be assigned for Monday. ||| All reading activities are due in class. ||| 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. |||

||| 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.

Workday for P5. ||| Sedaris reading activity due (10 T/F statements of “Rooster at the Hitchin’ Post”). ||| Two more Sedaris readings and activities will be assigned for Wednesday (Jeopardy). ||| All reading activities are due in class. ||| On Wednesday: we’ll create Storyboards and look at 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.

Workday for P5. ||| Sedaris reading activity due (10+ sentence summary of “The Change in Me”). ||| Another Sedaris reading activity & essay will be assigned for Monday. ||| All reading activities are due in class.
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.

Introduce David Sedaris. ||| Listen (and read along) to his essay #14, “Six to Eight Black Men,” Pages: 157-164. It covers Christmas in the Netherlands. ||| Then introduce P5 and P5.5 with the handout. ||| Show examples. ||| Assign a Sedaris reading for the next class time.

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.