Earning Today’s Hours

As I alluded to earlier when I announced that we would not be having class today, you will still be able to earn the two hours of attendance credit for class today.  Here are the details on how to do that.

Look over the Sentence Materials I posted recently.  Then visit some of these websites that discuss various aspects of sentences and clauses.  Write a two-paragraph explanation of what you have learned, in particular about the difference between independent clauses and dependent clauses.  Post your paragraphs here as a comment.  Work posted by 5pm tomorrow, Thursday, October 22, will count for the two hours of attendance for today.

Class Canceled Wednesday, 10/21

As I mentioned in the email I sent out this morning, I’m am home sick today (sore throat, stuffy nose), so class is canceled today.  I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, especially if you found yourself driving to campus in poor weather this morning.

This will, of course, force us to make some changes to our schedule.  Check back here later today for more details.  But for now I can tell you this: We will still write Essay 4 in-class on Monday, October 26.  We will move today’s discussion of sentences to next Wednesday, October 28.

Later today I will post an exercise for you to do to earn today’s attendance hours, and another for this week’s participation credit.

As always, feel free to email me if you have any questions.  I will see you Monday.

Sentence Materials

Here are some materials that we will use in class on Wednsday:

1. Grammar packet
2. Sentence Patterns handout

Movie Reviews

Here are the links to the movie reviews we looked at in class today:

• The Informant!
• Bright Star

Grammar Pre-Test

On Monday, in addition to discussing Essay 3 and preparing for Essay 4, we will initiate a discussion of sentences and grammar.  Part of that will include looking at this Grammar Pre-Test.  (Since this is not a graded test, feel free to look over it before class.)

Week 7 Participation Credit

For this week’s participation credit post a comment here responding to this question:

• How did your writing process change in writing Essay 3? Did you find yourself doing things differently with the in-class essay, compared with how you wrote the first two essays?

Post your comment here by 5pm Friday to earn this week’s one-hour participation credit.

For Wednesday 10/14

This Wednesday, October 14, we will write Essay 3, which will b  an in-class essay due at the end of class time.  Prepare by looking over what we have done for the last week and reading Models for Writers pages 387-388.  Be sure tyo bring pen, paper, and a flash drive.

Week 6 Participation Credit

For this week’s participation credit, post a comment here with a brief response to the following question:

• What did you learn from writing today’s practice in-class essay and how can you use this experience to better prepare for Essay 3?

Post your comment here by 5pm Friday, October 9, to earn this week’s one-hour credit. (If you earned the participation credit as part of Monday’s review quiz, you do not need to do this.)