Hall English 1101 Fall 2020

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The end of the semester!!

I am going to miss you guys! And, as I said, I am very very proud of you for making it through this difficult time and writing some amazing stuff while you’re at it.

Okay, so final portfolios are due on Dec 16th by 6 pm. CATEGORY: FINAL PORTFOLIO!Ā  Please look at the assignment sheet under “Major assignments.” Ā  The list of what to include is below:

Please post on Open Lab. You can submit as a (very long) blog post, or a Word Doc (you can attach!) or as a PDF. DO NOT USE OTHER FILE TYPES. PLEASE! These often do not come through and I’m left unable to open your portfolio or give you a grade.

  • FINAL REFLECTION
  • UNIT ONE (revised). Please write a 2-3 sentence introduction describing everything you’ve changed– or things you might like to change!
  • UNIT TWO (you may revise this unit OR Unit Three). Write a 2-3 sentence intro describing what you would change or would like to change, whether or not you revised. This should include:
    • Intro
    • All Four Source Entries
    • Conclusion.
  • UNIT THREE (you may revise this or Unit Two). 2-3 sentence intro, whether or not you have revised. This should include:
    • Unit Three project (you may need to include links to your webpage, podcast, video, etc)
    • Artist’s Statement.

PLEASE NOTE , IF YOU WANT, YOU CAN REVISE ALL THREE UNITS, BUT THIS IS NOT REQUIRED.


HERE is the slideshow about portfolios we watched in class. Ā If you’re confused about the portfolio, or if you missed Wednesday’s class, take a look!

HERE is the slideshow about revision– I suggest you look at it!

Also, if you would like to make up some homework credit, and get some help with revision, please do the assignment from last week below (it won’t count as late):

READ: ā€œThe Makerā€™s Eyeā€ by Donald Murray. https://robertnazar.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/themakerseye.pdf

In this essay, Donald Murray names several different elements writers can focus on when revising their work (here, Iā€™m talking about the words heā€™s italicized). This is a lot to think about in your revision, so Iā€™d like you to choose one of these element write about how you can apply it to improve your own work. Be specific.Ā  You may also want to discuss why youā€™ve chosen to focus on this element over the others! Write a blog post and post on Open Lab.

Final Reflection DRAFT

I have no idea where to begin with reflecting about myself as a reader, writer, and scholar. As my professor put it, it’s been a “couple weird months.” When I started writing my papers I knew what I ready to do and how that’ll differ from my past writings from high school. I learned a lot of things this semester, especiallyĀ the habit of procrastinating and that I need to drop it I want to move forward with college.Ā I am still on the path of achieving my goals like time management and ending procrastination. I achieved different goals like learning new things and retaining that knowledge when reviewing for exams. A surprise that I have encountered along the way is when I actually reserve my time and energy into things I get it down faster than expected me. Ā For example, my summons and complaint assignment for my intro law class, it was so long but I kept my focus on it so it was done so quickly. My goals are right on the money because everything that Iā€™m learning to valuable to an extent.

Final Portfolio

Overall throughout this semester I can say that my writing has improved because When I used to write it was always short, I was never a detailed person but now I feel like the assignments given now have brought that out of me. In this semester my favorite assignment was Unit two because I got to write about something that I am passionate about which is relationships. I’ve seen so many things happen revolving around relationships that I just have a passion to talk about it. My least favorite assignment was unit one which is the education narrative because not only did I get a low grade but I felt like I didn’t really do good in it and I also felt like I was a little bit all over the place. In my writing I learned to not write in big chunks and also to give details so that the reader won’t be left alone wondering with no answer. As the genre changed I learned that the more you learn in different genres the more your thinking expands. I never knew that Ted Talk is a genre till we started working on our unit three assignments. When it came to decision making in my assignments for content and designs, the padlets that we used in class and the suggestions that Ms Hall always put on the table for us was very helpful. When I began to write I was always insecure about my pronunciations because I used to always feel like the way that I wrote was not proper. Till My God mother and tutor helped me with my pronunciations for example I used to always put i as a lowercase not knowing it’s always supposed to be put as an uppercase.Ā  When it comes to revising Ms Hall has reminded me in her comments to reread. She isn’t the only teacher who has had to tell me that but now I have taken that as a key to a successful writing.For this semester one thing that has been challenging for me is reaching up to the word count I feel like once I’m given one I have a reader’s block. But now that I have been more used to being open to give more details I feel like it’s not as hard for me to reach the word count anymore.Ā 

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