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Hi Everyone,

I’ve given feedback for Unit 1 and posted mid-semester grades, so please check OpenLab Gradebook and Google Drive. We will talk more about this in class.

Unit 2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography (Good Trouble)

• View and write down main ideas:  John Lewis,   CCNY 2019 Commencement Speech
• Read and write down main ideas: John Lewis, “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation”
• Understanding-Unit-2PPT
• Answer below:
  • 1. After reading Lewis’s editorial and watching his CCNY speech, what ideas do you think are important?  What does he mean by good trouble? Do you think you have ever pursued, or wanted to pursue, good trouble in your own life?
  • 2. Write a 1-paragraph Unit 2 topic proposal: what you’re thinking of writing about, why you’re interested in it, what you think or know about it already, and some potential questions you have.

• Transforming your rough draft into a final draft
  • How can a piece of writing be improved? What is the difference between revising and proofreading?
  • Target areas: hook (attracts reader’s attention);  argumentation (clarity and quality of ideas); organization (each BP advances the story and contains a fresh idea); development (detail and text connection fleshed out); grammar and sentence structure (sentences are clear, without many grammatical errors)
  • Follow the Writing Process guide for the *quote sandwich* and *essay formatting*

• Complete Peer Review with partner (in class). Share google doc link with partner or email them feedback.
• Revise Unit 1 essay with feedback from Writing Center tutor, Professor, peer review partner
• Copy and paste your partner’s peer review feedback at the end of your essay document.
• Upload your final draft to the Google Drive Unit 1 folder  by 10/11  (Major Assignments–> Google Drive–>Unit 1). If you have a separate rough draft still in the Drive, delete that.