ENG1101,Fall2021

We are now in the home stretch for the fall semester. You should have a good sense of your course grade up to this point (please check the Gradebook). Email me (mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu) about any questions or concerns.

All final work for the class will be due by the end of the day, Tuesday 12/22.

This includes the Unit 3 final draft and reflection.

UPLOAD YOUR FINAL REFLECTION: HERE

Upload your Unit #3 Assignment HERE.

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Thank you for a wonderful semester all. Have a nice holiday break.

UNIT #3 Assignment:

In Unit 3, you will bring your thoughts out of the classroom and into the community, in the genre you determine is most appropriate. How will you entreat people to engage with your work? Will they read a photo essay, listen to a political speech or podcast, watch a video essay, read a magazine article or newspaper editorial? The genre choice is yours, as long as it is appropriate to communicating your message effectively and considers how to best reach your target audience.

Here is the full assignments with links to various types of genres.

Upload your Unit #3 HERE.

STUDENT TOPICS AND GENRE

Ariza,Bryant “Facebook is Hurting Our Children” – essay w/ pics

Flores,Miguel  “Why NASA Matters” – essay with pics

Irons,Joshua  “How the World Has Been Affected by CoVid” – essay

Kurgachev,Egor  “GMOs and the Food We Eat” – essay w/ links to video

Lewis Jr,Phillip Curtis “It’s Me or the Robot: Changes in the Workplace During the Pandemic” – essay w/ pics

Lopez,Hailey “Covid 19 and the Upending of Education” – essay

Ludd Jr,Arnold Walter “More Than a Theory: Teaching Real History in Schools”

Mallette,Jahlyssa Alexis “To Be (Vaccinated) or Not: An Inquiry Into Vaccination Hesistancy”

Martinez,Edwin  TOPIC???

Montano,Reina Del Milagro “Combatting Climate Change” – handbook

Paul,Bijoy Kumar “Religious Intolerance in Bangladesh” –

Perez,Maria G “Vaccinating Children, 5-11: Is It Safe?” – Persuasive Essay/OpEd

Pyram,Amir“Racial Disparities in America’s Health-Care – OpEd

Rodney,Justin Andrue “Rethinking School” – Photo Essay

Rowe,Sharif   “Film Review”

Sejour,Caleb TOPIC??? –

Simmons,James E. TOPIC???

Szkolut,Pawel “The Effects of the Pandemic on Education, Isolation, and Work”

Vela,Juan Anjel “The Consequences of Not Getting Vaccinated” – Essay

Williams,Chanell “The Importance of Traveling to Rejuvenate the Seoul” –

As you think about the genre of Unit #3, please read this short, cleverly written guest essay on the importance of paid maternity leave. It could serve a good model your own OpEd.

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Here is the taped session of how City Tech students made the The Memory-Keeper of Soho Film Documentary. It features Professor Josh Kapusinski (COMD, Moving Pixels Club), Jonathan Baez (City Tech alum and cinematographer), and Or Szyflingier (alum and director).

Telling and Narrating a New York Story Discussion

Watch the Documentary Here: Or Szyflingier and Jonathan Baez, “The SoHo Memory Project” (2020)

Read the article here: Kyle Spencer, “The Memory-Keeper of SoHo” (2015)

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UNIT #3 Assignment:

In Unit 3, you will bring your thoughts out of the classroom and into the community, in the genre you determine is most appropriate. How will you entreat people to engage with your work? Will they read a photo essay, listen to a political speech or podcast, watch a video essay, read a magazine article or newspaper editorial? The genre choice is yours, as long as it is appropriate to communicating your message effectively and considers how to best reach your target audience.

Here is the full assignments with links to various types of genres.

Upload your Unit #3 HERE.

STUDENT TOPICS AND GENRE

Ariza,Bryant “Facebook is Hurting Our Children” – essay w/ pics

Flores,Miguel  “Why NASA Matters” – essay with pics

Irons,Joshua  “How the World Has Been Affected by CoVid” – essay

Kurgachev,Egor  “GMOs and the Food We Eat” – essay w/ links to video

Lewis Jr,Phillip Curtis “It’s Me or the Robot: Changes in the Workplace During the Pandemic” – essay w/ pics

Lopez,Hailey “Covid 19 and the Upending of Education” – essay

Ludd Jr,Arnold Walter “More Than a Theory: Teaching Real History in Schools”

Mallette,Jahlyssa Alexis “To Be (Vaccinated) or Not: An Inquiry Into Vaccination Hesistancy”

Martinez,Edwin  TOPIC???

Montano,Reina Del Milagro “Combatting Climate Change” – handbook

Paul,Bijoy Kumar “Religious Intolerance in Bangladesh” –

Perez,Maria G “Vaccinating Children, 5-11: Is It Safe?” – Persuasive Essay/OpEd

Pyram,Amir“Racial Disparities in America’s Health-Care – OpEd

Rodney,Justin Andrue “Rethinking School” – Photo Essay

Rowe,Sharif   TOPIC??? –

Sejour,Caleb TOPIC??? –

Simmons,James E. TOPIC???

Szkolut,Pawel TOPIC???

Vela,Juan Anjel “The Consequences of Not Getting Vaccinated” – Essay

Williams,Chanell “The Importance of Traveling to Rejuvenate the Seoul” –

As you think about the genre of Unit #3, please read this short, cleverly written guest essay on the importance of paid maternity leave. It could serve a good model your own OpEd.

Writing Center READ Workshops Fall 2021

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

1. Save the date: Tuesday 11/16 1-2pm “SoHo Memory Project”

A discussion of the award-winning SoHo Memory Project documentary with Prof. Josh Kapusinski (COMD, Moving Pixels Club), Jonathan Baez (City Tech alum and cinematographer), and Or Szyflingier (alum and director)

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This week, we will be continuing with Unit 2: Good Trouble, the Reflective Annotated Bibliography.

After narrowing down your topic in conversation with me, AKA Prof. Noonan, begin researching.  Start with a search on The New York Times website, and also check out Opposing Viewpoints, Academic Premier, and Lexis/Nexis through the City Tech Library website.  Aim to find 2  sources that you can use for your bibliography.

Introduce your topic, why it interests you, and what you wish to find out more about

Begin scaffolding your Reflective Annotated Bibliography draft in a Google or MS Word doc. Copy and paste the HW (#1 and #2 below) into a comment below.

1. Write out your introduction paragraph, which should include what you are interested in researching, why this interests you, what you already know about it, and what you hope to find out/ some questions you have.

2. Begin your source entries. For each one of your 2 sources, write:

• the MLA citation. Input your source info on www.easybib.com to come up with the citation format
• 1-paragraph summary of main ideas (aim for 4-5 sentences)
• 2 key quotes you found that represent important ideas, with citation info (paragraph number)
• 1-paragraph response to the source, with your own opinion on the content (here you distinguish your own ideas from those of the author/artist) and why you chose to include it in your bibliography. You could also include a response to some of the quotes you chose. (5-6 sentences)
• We will mix in the final ingredients of the RAB (Rhetorical Analysis and Conclusion)  next week!

****Please check out this student  RAB Model

• For this week create a  free New York Times account. You will need to use your citytech email for this.
• Review the site for articles on issues and social topics that interest you.

Congressman John Lewis and President Obama

Unit 2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography (Good Trouble)

Unit #2 Assignment

• 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”
• Create free New York Times account.
• Homework: Review the site for articles on issues and social topics that interest you.

• FOLLOWING NEXT WEEK’S CLASS
  • Write a 1-paragraph Unit 2 topic proposal: what it is, why you’re interested in it, what you think or know about it already, and some potential questions you have.  Can you identify 2 or 3 sources in different genres that you plan to consult? (After our Library session in class)
  • Read and respond to two of your colleagues’ proposals (how to narrow down topic, possible source suggestion, question you have, or something you find cool or interesting about the proposal).

By Monday, Oct. 11, please upload a completed draft of your first essay on our googledocs drive (Label Your File “Final Draft – Name”)

GoogleDrive

Email me (mnoonant@citytech.cuny.edu) when you are ready for me to review your essay.

1. Review directions for your first writing assignment

2. Complete your Education-Narrative-Outline . Consider how you would like to tell your story.  Where do you want to start, and where do you want to end? What are some important ideas and memories? What are some compelling details you can provide throughout the narrative, to support your ideas? What might your paragraph order be? 

3. Draft your essay and it Upload to this GoogleDrive.

ASSIGNMENT:

• Review  Reading Strategies

Step 1: Read and re-read a text.

Step 2: Annotate the text, in your notebook, or by cutting and pasting the text into a Word or Google Doc.

• Underline sentences you feel are important, and put them in your own words (paraphrase)
• Write down main ideas next to each paragraph; be careful to distinguish main ideas from examples and details
• Circle unfamiliar words, look them up, and write down definitions
• Jot down your responses to the author’s ideas– what do you think? Do you have a question or response to what they wrote?

Step 3: Goal:  Write down 3-4 main ideas of the text, including what you feel is the thesis (central, overarching point). This will be your *summary.*

• Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” pages 1-6 (2011)
• How to Write A Summary

• Apply Reading Strategies to Caroline Hellman’s “In Defense of the Classroom” (2020) and Toni Morrison’s “The Reader as Artist” (2006)

• Post a Response (Length: Two Paragraphs):
  • 1. For each article (by Morrison and Hellman), copy and paste a quote (1-2 sentences)  that you found meaningful. Then paraphrase (put the quote in your own words)  and explain why you were drawn to it, commenting either on the idea or the writing technique.
  • 2. Respond with your own thoughts about the ideas in each article.   Be creative, be honest! College is about independent thought!

To comment on any post, click on the “comments” icon (above). You will then see a screen come up with LEAVE A REPLY. That is where you want to comment.

We will discuss your Replies  in class; also be ready to share any unfamiliar words that you looked up and ideas/questions that arose for you while reading.

Welcome Students!  

Welcome to City Tech and English 1101. This is a synchronous class that meets every Tuesday from 8:00 am – 11:20 am. We begin next Tuesday (8/31).

Class Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 846 0371 9357
Passcode: 036540

I can be reached at: mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu

Professor Mark Noonan

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Here are your duties BEFORE we meet on Zoom next Tuesday:

1.  Sign up for your OpenLab account with your name and a profile photo.  Log in, then join our course.  If you need  help,  contact the OpenLab Community Team

2. Look around our course site to familiarize yourself

3. Introduce yourself.  To write a new post, click the + sign at the top of the page. (It’s a small icon next to the class title and message box icon at the very top of the page). Fill in the subject heading with your name, then add your info and photo below.  After your work is complete, scroll down and check off OUR COMMUNITY under Categories (right side of page), then click Publish.

• Paragraph 1: Include how you would like to be addressed, your pronouns, and any other info you’d like to share. This could include where you are from, where you reside now, your academic interests or major, any hobbies or NYC activities you enjoy, how you feel about beginning college. Feel free to be creative!
• Paragraph 2:  Include a photo of something (place, space, person, pet, object, etc ) meaningful to you, and tell us about it.  You can paste the photo into the body of your message, or Add Media  to upload it to your post.
• Before next class, check back to read your classmates’ responses and reply to a few. Getting to know each other, we start building our community.

5. In a separate email (mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu), please let me know if you have any issues with technology and/or working space that may affect your ability to complete your coursework. 

We are all in this together!  See you soon!