Agenda: Week 3

Hi all! Below is the work for next week. But first here is the information I announced in class:

Many freshmen and transfer students are missing their high school diplomas, which will result in their being dropped from classes.

Just in case, if you are a freshmen or transfer student, you should check your CUNYFirst account to see if your high school diploma is missing. If it is missing, then you can drop off a copy of your diploma at Admissions

Admissions is located in room NG 17 and on-campus hours are 

• Monday        9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
• Tuesday        9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
• Wednesday  9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
• Thursday       9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
• Admissions can be contacted at 718-260-5500 and admissions@citytech.cuny.edu

For Monday, 9/12 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Re-read the assignment guidelines for Unit 1: Education Narrative. 
• Then, do the following to continue brainstorming and developing ideas for the Unit 1 assignment. 
  • Start a new Google doc and name it “First Name Last Name Unit 1 Scaffolding.” For example, my document would be titled “Ruth Garcia Unit 1 Scaffolding.”   
  • In your document, spend 5 minutes on each of the following prompts:
    • Choose your favorite brainstorming strategy and write for 5 minutes writing about all of the times you can think of that changed how you approached the learning process or shifted how you felt about education
    • Choose your favorite brainstorming strategy and write for 5 minutes writing about your chosen major or career goals and all the valuable moments that shaped your interest in your chosen field 
    • Choose your favorite brainstorming strategy and write for 5 minutes writing about all of the moments when you “woke up” in some way and changed a central belief, ­­­value, or idea that your felt certain about for a long time
    • Choose your favorite brainstorming strategy and write for 5 minutes about the experiences you mentioned in your double entry journal for Douglass and/or Malcolm X. Include as many details as possible. 
• Read and Annotate “Shitty First Drafts.”
• After reading “Shitty First Drafts,” think about how you approach writing assignments.
• Write a Post that includes the following: 
  • A paragraph describing your approach to drafting; for example, do you write several drafts? wait until the last minute? proofread carefully? Give honest details! Then, add what you would like to change or improve about your writing process. 
  • At the end of your paragraph on “Shitty First Drafts,” add a link to the Google Doc with the brainstorming you did above. Make sure you have changed the share setting so that anyone with the link can edit. 
• Before publishing your post, make sure you do the following:
  • Title it “Unit 1 Brainstorming”
  • Pick the category “Unit 1 Work”
  • Then, publish the post you just wrote
    

For Wednesday, 9/14 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “Allegory of the Cave” (Book VII) from The Republic, by Plato.
• Watch “The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay.” 
• Watch “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” by Alex Gendler.

Note- you can read the Plato text quickly as we will read it out loud in class.