September 2022
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Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Labor Day
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Last Day to submit Pass/Fail and Apply for May graduation
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Read p. 419-27 / Discuss Narrating / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
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Then, read this fragment from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This fragment serves as a model narrative.
Finally, reflect on the narrative model and review the paragraphs written by your group members.
Try to give feedback related to spelling, grammar, pertinent details, audience, purpose, style (engaging, concise, etc.), and organization of ideas.
Work on Thesis Statement
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Quiz on Narrating / Discuss Narrating and The Mad King / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
Thesis statement practice (1,2,3,4) / Students can use peer readers in Quip before uploading the Thesis to D2L in PDF format on Friday. / Another Look at the Thesis
Thesis Statement
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Revise your Research Paper’s Thesis Statement and upload it to D2L by the end of the day.
Add a graphic plot line to your automobile accident narrative. Then, consider your peer feedback and edit the narrative. Finally, add an effective title to the narrative.
Read Abstracts (Section 14 in Norton p. 185-87)
Find and read an article for the Informative Abstract due next Friday.
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Genre for narratives or recurrent literary form (autobiography, biography (1), life story, short-story, novel [ bildungsroman, Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Little Women, Harry Potter, House on Mango Street], non-fiction oral history or photo history (1,2))
Volunteer Quip Reading
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Return to the Narrative writing assignment and edit your peers one more time using the Paramedic Method.
InQuizitive:
1. How to Use InQuizitive
2. Editing the Errors That Matter
Start writing the rough draft for the first Short Writing Assignment.
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Finish final draft of Short Writing Assignment 1
Finish Second Revision of the Accident Narrative on Quip.
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Short Writing Assignment 1
Last Day to Submit Incomplete Grade
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Did you apply the Paramedic Method to the Accident Narrative on Quip.
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Group Description Paragraph: Upload to your group folder in Quip the paragraphs about the interviews and observations that you completed in class. Remember, one must be in the 1st person, another in the 2nd person, and the last in the 3rd person.
Last Day to Complete 'Credit by Exam'
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Group Description Paragraph: Review the paragraphs that your group uploaded last class. Select the most interesting and pertinent information from the three. Then, write a Newspaper article that combines this information and upload to Quip. Each member of the group should contribute to this article, provide constructive suggestions, and edit the final draft.
Prepare your Preliminary Bibliography.
Examine your notes on Samsara. What are the main pieces of the visual narrative? Is a narrative argument being made?
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Samsara (1, 2, 3) / Take notes and try to string together the “narrative” or potentially “narrative argument” / Steps to follow
Preliminary Bibliography
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Finish watching Samsara. Then examine your notes on Samsara again. Consider these questions again: What are the main pieces of the visual narrative? Is a narrative argument being made? Finally, upload a paragraph to Quip in which you explain the presence or absence of a narrative and whether or not it is a narrative argument.
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InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
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Parts of Speech Wheel / Use Xodo, complete the Parts of Speech activity, and send as an Email attachment.
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Midterm
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Eng 1112-02-F22