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For Thursday– Papers (and a brief note on presentations.)

Hey everyone– the final drafts of your revisions are due on Thursday. For details, please see the assignment under “Revision Assignments.” Make sure that somewhere on your article you’ve posted what publication you are writing for (for example: The New York Times Education section.) Remember that, if you are writing for a newspaper you do need to indicate what section you imagine your article in.

PLEASE spend your time working on your papers, NOT your presentations. However, please do post the images you intend to use in your presentations by class time Thursday.

As far as the presentations go, we will have the first 5-10 minutes of class to get prepared and then we’ll start. Remember, this is very low-key– you get credit just for being there and doing it. This is meant to be an IN-CLASS exercise. You’ll get quiz credit for doing it. Here’s what I’m looking for:

Information on your topic. I’m just trying to help us get situated in the world of the essay we’re about to read– so I’m not asking for deep analysis. Just tell us a little bit about the fashions (or whatever you are researching) and..
Show us some images! For some groups the presentation will be more image-heavy and for others, it will be more info-heavy (for fashion, we need to see more pictures than we do for the history of heroin addiction or an overview of James Baldwin.
Presentations should be at least 3 minutes. You may show a SHORT video but that does not count toward your 3 min minimum.

video HERE

In-Class Info

Here’s a link to some info on writing conclusions:

https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/conclusions/

In-Class presentation groups: (note: these questions are things I want you to cover, but you can talk about other topics as well)

These are mini-presentations– about 3 minutes. You just want to give us an overview of the topic. You should also have some sort of visual– some pictures or a SHORT video (this does not count toward your 3 mins)

Post images on OpenLab under the Categories “Sonny’s Blues” AND your subtopic (Baldwin, Harlem, The Village, Fashion, jazz, heroin.) Please list all group members’ names when you post.

James Baldwin
- What did he have to say about racism in America?
History of Harlem
- What was going on in Harlem in the 1950’s?
- What did it look like?
History of Greenwich Village
- What was going on in the Village in the 50’s?
- What did it look like?
- Jazz in Greenwich Village
1950’s Fashion
- Specifically, what was going on in African American fashion?
- What were the fashions of Harlem?
- Make sure to include Men’s and Women’s fashion!
1950’s jazz
- Who was Charlie Parker? Louis Armstrong?
- If you like, you can talk about other music of the time
History of Heroin addiction in the US
- Heroin addiction in NYC in the 50’s

For Tuesday– first 600 words of the rough draft

For Tuesday, please bring in the first 600 words of your rough draft. Please post online AND PRINT IT OUT. As usual, this is worth 20% of your grade for this unit.

Also, please bring a link to your mentor article!

Thursday: Homework and Quiz (and meetings)

Hey everyone! For Thursday, I would like you to write (and print out) an introduction for your revision. This should be about 200 words. Your intro should also:

Have a clear sense of audience–WHO are you writing for (recent high school graduates? College professors?) and what is the best way to reach this population? Think about diction (word choice) that best reaches this group
Know what publication you are writing for– remember, you are writing this revision as though you’re writing for a magazine/ newspaper/ website, etc… This should be a publication your audience reads!
Your intro should be interesting! That is, it needs to HOOK your readers. Think about the last time you read an article online. You read the first few lines and if you were bored, you stopped reading. How can you get your readers’ attention?
You should also, toward the end of your intro, introduce your thesis statement (probably.) It’s true that not all published articles do this, but it’s also true that it’s much harder to write with a “hidden” thesis than an explicit one.

There will also be a quiz on Thursday of some of the grammar stuff we’ve reviewed in class. There will also be one short essay question on “The Maker’s Eye” which we read last week. The grammar issues we covered are:

Sentence fragments and run-ons (review HERE)
Capitalization (look up on the Purdue OWL)
Apostrophes (look up on the Purdue OWL)
“Their/ They’re/ There” and “Your/ You’re”

Here is a copy of “The Maker’s Eye.” You may bring it to class.

Microsoft Word - Murray, Donald - The Maker's Eye.doc

Meetings (all in my office, Namm 525)

Weds, March 27:

2:00 Raymond
2:20 Ismael

Thursday, March 28

10:20 Ashley
10:40 Britney
11:00 Hadeel
12:50 Deo
2:40 Saalik

For Tuesday

Hey, everyone– for Tuesday, please read the handout below: “Choosing a Mentor Text” and then– choose a mentor text for your revision.

Remember– in the revision, you will be rewriting your first paper for a magazine, website, newspaper or other publication. You DO NOT have to keep to the original essay question, but you can’t rewrite your first paper 100% (this needs to be a re-vision, not a whole new paper.) The “mentor text” is an article from the publication you would like to write for– but it does not need to be about education. In fact, I don’t think it should be. That said, the publication you choose should be a publication where you can talk about educational issues. For example, Sports Illustrated probably would not work, UNLESS you plan to discuss issues surrounding athletics and education.

You don’t have to copy the mentor text exactly– it’s just there for you to learn from. With this in mind, I would like you to read and annotate your mentor text, and post a 200 word entry on Open Lab explaining what your mentor text is doing that you would like to do in your own writing. In other words, what can you learn from this writer?

Please also print out and bring a copy of your first paper to class on Tuesday– you will get some feedback from others about where to start on this revision.

To recap:

Read “How to choose a Mentor Text” (below). The publications listed in this handout are just suggestions– you can use others– whatever you want.
Choose a mentor text for your revision– this should be from a publication where you can imagine your revision being published.
Read and annotate your mentor text and write a 200 word response about what you learned from that mentor text that you want to use in your revision. Category: Revision One
Print out a copy of paper one to bring to Tuesday’s class.

mentor-text-handout

For Thursday

Hi you guys, for Thursday, please print out, read and annotate “The Maker’s Eye” below.

Also, if you didn’t do a “proper” bibliography for your last paper, please do so. You can use easybib.com or any other online bibliography generator. Remember we are using MLA citation, so you would need an MLA style bibliography.

Also, here are the conferences we scheduled. They are all in my office, Namm 525.

Weds, March 20:

2:20: Manny

Thursday, March 21:

11:00 Britney
2:00 Nina
2:20 Xavier

Tuesday, March 26

11:00 Jessica
2:00 Darlene

Microsoft Word - Murray, Donald - The Maker's Eye.doc

PAPERS DUE TUESDAY!

Hi everyone– papers are due BY CLASS TIME on Tuesday! For guidelines, see UNIT 2 (under “Units” on the header above.)

If you have any questions, please email me at chall@citytech.cuny.edu

For Thursday!

Hi everyone– I hope you enjoyed your day off. I sure didn’t! I’m still feeling pretty sick! For Thursday, I’d like you to bring in your essay drafts ON PAPER (as planned for today.) I’d also like you to do the following:

Print out, read and annotate the attached essay “S^&t” by my old student, Elijah Zeise. I do have permission to use this essay. It also won some big awards at the school I taught at previously. You’ll notice that it is less about a particular community than I have assigned you to write about. While you read, do the following:
Underline (or write it out if you think he doesn’t have a distinct “thesis statement”) What Elijah’s main point, or “So What?” is. What does he want readers to know or to think about differently after reading this essay?
For every paragraph, write a quick sentence or phrase in the margin about what you think that paragraph is trying to do-make it general enough that you could use Elijah’s “formula” with your own word, if you wanted. For example, in the first paragraph, he is using his word in a variety of different sentences to show the multiple ways it can be used. In the second paragraph he introduces himself and asks “what does this all mean?” Looking at the structure of a finished article like this is called “a reverse outline.”

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For Tuesday, March 12- ROUGH DRAFTS DUE

Hey everyone! Rough drafts of Paper Two are due on March 12. At least 600 words. Please post online AND BRING IN A PAPER COPY– both are important!!!

Just like last time, 20% of your paper grade is simply doing this rough draft– do it (even if it’s terrible) and you get 100% credit for the rough draft. Don’t do it and you get 0% credit for the rough draft.

The original due date for the final draft of this paper was March 14, but I’m changing the due date to March 19 because I think we need more time.

Also, on Tuesday, I have appointments with the following people in my office, Namm 525:

11:00 Brit
2:00 Jessica
2:20 Deo
3:20 Xavier
3:40 Ashley

Author: Carrie Hall