Thursday, December 4th

What we covered on Thursday, December 4th:  

* Highlighted revisions in portfolios 
* Completed evaluations 
* Relevant information about the final exam is here!

See you on Monday for the final! 

Tuesday, December 2nd

What we covered on Tuesday, December 2nd:  

* Working Day for the portfolio 
* Final questions 
* Relevant information about the final exam is here!

Homework

* Work on your portfolio! The whole thing is due on Thursday, in hard copy and in the dropbox!

Thursday, November 20th

REMINDER: If you have not signed up for a conference slot, do so as soon as possible! Failure to show up for your conference will result in one unexcused absence. 

What we covered on Thursday, November 20th:  

* Working Day for the portfolio 
* Conference Sign Up

What to bring for your conference: 

* An idea of which papers you want to include for your portfolio 
* Any rough or revised drafts you want me to look at 
* Any questions you have about revision or the portfolio in general

Happy Thanksgiving!   

Homework

* Begin working on your reflective introduction. You should have a rough draft of this paper for our next class on December 2nd. 

Tuesday, November 18th

What we covered on Tuesday, November 18th:  

* Completed postwrites for Unit 4
* Went over the guidelines for the portfolio and reflective introduction 
* Discussed conferences and conference sign up

Homework for Thursday:   

* Sign up for a conference slot by emailing Miss Cole (emilyrosecole@siu.edu)

English 101 ~ Fall 2014

Conference Sign-Up Sheet

Friday, November 21st (8 slots)

11:15am Belle Toussaint

11:30am Tamia Montgomrey

11:45 am Claudius Fincher 

12:00 pm Joseph Pagano

12:15 pm  John Broderick

12:30 pm Brittany Kyles

12:45 pm Andrew Sarsany

Monday, 24 November (10)

10:15 am ___________________________________________

10:30 am Judith Moore

10:45 am ___________________________________________

11:00 am ___________________________________________

11:15am ___________________________________________

11:30am Jackson Campbell

11:45 am Danny Viscarra 

12:00 pm Richard Joosten

12:15 pm Amari Thelmon

12:30 pm Valeria Sanchez

Tuesday, 25 November (6)

3:30 pm Thomas McLees 

3:45 pm ___________________________________________

4:00 pm ___________________________________________

4:15 pm ___________________________________________

4:30 pm Michael Caulfield 

4:45 pm Ricky Riggs-Truitt 

Thursday, November 13th

What we covered on Thursday, November 13th:  

* Peer Reviewed Unit 4 papers 
* Completed Peer Review Interviews 

Homework for Tuesday:   

* Submit your final copy of your Unit 4 paper to the dropbox before class starts on Tuesday!
* Bring your working folder to class. Consult the working folder breakdown to see what should be in the folder. (Please note that you only need to include items that are linked to a blog entry. The class postwrite will be completed in class on Tuesday, and you don't need to put anything in your folder for the participation grade). 
* Think of any questions you have about the final portfolio

Thursday, November 6th

What we covered on Thursday, November 6th:  

* Working day!

Homework for Thursday:   

* Your printed copy of your full draft of your Unit 4 paper is due for Peer Review! 

Tuesday, November 3rd

Reminder!!! Those of you working on a project that is not in the Mercury Reader must show me all five of your sources in class on Thursday!

What we covered on Tuesday, November 3rd:  

* Listened to the cheating playlist and compared and contrasted each song, relating it to synthesis
* Had some free work time

Homework for Thursday:   

* Make sure you've decided on your topic!

Thursday, October 30th

What we covered on Thursday, October 30th:  

* Brief freewrite exercise on what topics you like related to civil rights
* Went over the guidelines for the Unit 4 paper
* Went over a synthesis paper and discussed what makes good synthesis  

Homework for Tuesday:   

* Read pages 303 - 307 of the A & B guide (starting with "Synthesis Writing as an Extension of Summary/Strong Response Writing" and including the sample synthesis paper in the text). 

Tuesday, October 28th

What we covered on Tuesday, October 28th:  

* Briefly discussed and reflected on our visit to the library
* Completed postwrites for Unit 3
* Talk about the Unit 4 paper and about how synthesis means analyzing a variety of sources and finding the connections between them
* Discussed how different types of writing appeal to different audiences (and how audiences react differently to different types of writing: one seeks out poetry and novels for pleasure and not for research, but seeks out articles and papers for research purposes) 
* Had a brief brainstorming session to choose topics for Unit 4 papers (at least one source from the Mercury Reader or approved list of Unit 3 articles must be used, OR you may come to me with a list of five sources by next Thursday to be approved for a different topic) 
* Learned how to access electronic feedback for Unit 2 and future papers. 

Homework for Thursday:   

* Go to the movie review website RottenTomatoes.com and find a movie that you love (or hate). Summarize the movie in 3 - 5 sentences and then quote three different movie reviews (cite with the author's last name, but you do not need to make a works cited page) and synthesize the reviewers' arguments. What did the reviewers agree and disagree on? (To do this effectively, you'll need to write at least 2 paragraphs). 

Thursday, October 23rd

Reminder: 

1)The Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival is happening this week! For 5 points of extra credit (and just for fun!) attend any of the readings and write a 1-page write-up of how you felt about it.

What we covered on Thursday, October 23rd:  

* Library day! We learned how to effectively use resources from the library.

Homework for Tuesday:  

* READ: The Allyn and Bacon Guide, Concepts 5 - 7, Pages 37-49

Tuesday October 21st

Announcements: 

1) We will be meeting in Morris Library room 640A next class,  Thursday, October 23rd! We will not meet in ASA as usual, instead meet in Room 640A, which is on the sixth floor of the library. If you need directions, consult the library floor map.
2) The Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival is happening this week! For 5 points of extra credit (and just for fun!) attend any of the readings and write a 1-page write-up of how you felt about it.

What we covered on Tuesday, October 21st:  

* Compared and discussed grades for the model essays
* Completed peer review 

Homework for Thursday:  

* SUBMIT: Your final draft of your Unit 3 paper online to the D2L dropbox
* BRING: Your working folder with these items (remember everything you need is linked to the blog entry it was assigned in) 

Thursday, October 16th

Announcement: We will be meeting in Morris Library room 640A on Thursday, October 23rd! 

What we covered on Thursday, October 16th:  

* Briefly reviewed how to properly quote and cite in MLA format. The example I gave is linked here, and if you need help with MLA citation, check the OWL at Purdue
* Briefly reviewed the Unit 3 guidelines
* Signed up for articles. If you have not signed up for an article, email me immediately. 
* Had productive in-class work time for your Unit 3 papers


Homework for Tuesday:  

* READ: Model essays one and two
* WRITE:  Grade each essay as per the rubric and write a justification of the score you gave each category 
* WRITE AND PRINT: The full rough draft of your paper for peer review on Tuesday

Thursday, October 9th

Announcement: If you would like to choose your own article to summarize and analyze for the Unit 3 paper, email me the article by Monday and so I can read and approve it. 

What we covered on Thursday, October 9th:  

* Learned about summary, paraphrasing, and quoting: 

1)   Summarizing

·      Summarizing References the original source text

·       Condenses the original text to make it shorter (ex: an abstract of a paper can condense an article to a paragraph)

·      Uses your own words, NOT the sources’

2)   Paraphrasing:

·      * References a specific portion of the source text

·      Uses the author’s own words

·      Condenses the source text, but may elaborate on it

·      Must be cited in-text

3)   Quoting

·      References a small, specific portion of the source text

·      Uses the sources’ words exactly (within quotation marks)

·      Must be cited in-text

4)   How to quote things in text: traditional quotes

·      According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

·      According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).

·      Is it possible that dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184)?

·      In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).

5)   Block quotes

·      Quotations longer than four lines of prose are considered “block quotes”

·      Should be indented one inch from the margin (hit tab twice). The don’t have quotation marks

·      they still need to be introduced in your own words, and the citation should still come at the end

* Practiced summary by breaking into groups and summarizing an approved article and then presenting it to the class 


Homework for Thursday: 

* READ: another one of the approved articles and summarize it in 5 -7 sentences

Tuesday, October 7th

What we covered on Thursday, October 7th:  

* Talked about rhetorical critique vs. idea critique (Rhetorical critique deals more with the rhetorical triangle, logos, ethos, pathos, investigation of audience, investigation of sources used. Usually this is closed form prose about closed form prose. Idea critique usually applies more to open-form prose, like poetry, stories, or plays. In this type of critique, you apply your own personal experience to the ideas in the piece. Mostly, you’re looking to agree or disagree with the ideas and themes expressed in the piece, not a close reading of what the author is doing)
* Completed a freewrite about how you read for pleasure versus when you read for school
* Talked about how reading for pleasure tends to lean toward open-form prose and engages more idea critique than rhetorical critique (i.e. people tend to be more focused on whether or not they agree with the general goals of the piece than on how the piece is written and how the argument is functioning
* Watched Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I Have a Dream speech and analyzed it rhetorically as a group. 

Homework for Thursday: 

* Summary exercise. WRITE: A 4 - 7 sentence summary of a movie, book, or TV show episode that you like. Be sure to cover all the main points, but make sure your summary only fits into a couple of sentences. 

Thursday, October 2

What we covered on Thursday, October 2nd: 

* Completed postwrites for Unit 2
* Handed in working folders
* Went over the guidelines for the Unit 3 essay
* Discussed the rhetorical triangle and how it can be used 

Homework for Tuesday: 

* READ: Rhetorical Critique vs. Idea Critique A&B pp. 104-108 
* READ: Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech

Tuesday, September 30th

What we covered on Tuesday, September 30th: 

* Read through the Sample Paper
* Peer Reviewed rough drafts of Unit 2 Paper

Homework for Thursday: 

* Complete your final drafts and put them in the dropbox by classtime on Thursday 
* Prepare your working folder and bring it to class on Thursday (you should have a physical folder to hold your work!) 

Thursday, September 25th

REMINDER: 

The due date of your final draft has been pushed back to Thursday, October 2nd. Peer review is on Tuesday. Remember that you need a full rough draft, and that peer review is worth 20 points of your Unit 2 working folder grade! 

What we covered on Thursday, September 25th: 

* Presented pitches for your designing advertisements projects 
* Revisited the guidelines for the Unit 2 paper
* Had some class time to work on your papers 

Homework for Tuesday: 

WRITE: 

* A full rough draft of your Advertisement Analysis for Peer Review on Tuesday 

Tuesday, September 23rd

What we covered on Tuesday, September 23rd: 

* Talked about how advertising agencies pitch and sell advertisements 
* Worked on the build your own advertisement assignment 

Homework for Thursday: 

* Be ready to present your advertising pitches in class! 

Thursday, September 18th

What we covered on Thursday, September 18th: 

* Discussed the importance of angle of vision -- how the presentation of a message changes depending on the audience for that message
* Wrote letters to three different audiences describing the same incident (a totaled car) to show how the way you discuss a person, object, or incident changes depending on your audience
* Talked about the rhetorical triangle and how a solid argument or message will be strong in all three areas: logos (the internal logic and structure of the argument), ethos (the credibility of the speaker) and pathos (the audience's emotional reaction) 
* "Elements of Effective Layout" project presentations 

Homework for Thursday: 

WRITE:  

*  Choose: a print advertisement (not a commercial) to use as a basis for your Unit 2 paper. You may find this ad online or in a magazine but the ad must have a target audience. This means that you should not use a Google image search to find an ad! I recommend starting with products you like or would use, and be sure to find an ad that you find an ad that is interesting to you and that uses at least 2 of the basic appeals.

* Write the following information about the ad you choose:  

1) Who is the target audience for this ad? (You may have to do some demographics research based on the magazine or website where you found the ad!)
2) What are 2-3 basic appeals in the advertisement?
3) What elements of layout, structure, and copy do you recognize within the ad? For example, is the layout's balance formal or informal? How is the copy (slogans, product information, narrative copy etc.) functioning in the ad?

Tuesday, September 16th

What we covered on Tuesday, September 16th: 

* Wrote about and presented on the effectiveness of the advertisements you found for homework
* Briefly discussed how the marketing appeals and strategies for an ad changed based on its audience
* Participated in the structure and layout exercise by finding advertisements that embody different structural concepts in advertising layout 

Homework for Tuesday: 

READ: 

* Reread Concepts 8 and 9 of the A&B (pgs. 52 - 58) 
* "Making the Pitch in Print Advertising" (Mercury Reader, pgs. 164 - 170) 

Thursday, September 11th

What we covered on Thursday, September 11th: 

* Wrote about the best (and worst) commercial you've ever seen
* Had a brief quiz on the 15 basic appeals of advertising 
* Discussed the appeals and came up with examples for them

Homework for Tuesday: 

READ: 

* Dorothy Cohen's "Elements of Effective Layout" (pgs 137 - 140 in the Mercury Reader)

WRITE, PRINT, BRING TO CLASS: 

·       Find a PRINT advertisement for a product that you want or that you use regularly, print (or cut) it out, and bring it to class on Tuesday. Write answers to the following questions:

o   Where did you find this ad?

o   Based on where you found this ad, who would you guess the advertisement’s intended audience? (including age range, income, male or female etc.)

o   What message is the ad trying to deliver?

o   What  appeals is the ad making to you as a consumer? (List the appeals and then justify them)