Artwork by Reem Flifel
My drawings folder is really important to me, along with my drawing kit, so if I’m going to a different place for about three days or more, I have to get them with me so I could look back at my previous drawings and draw. There was even that time when I got my drawing sketch and went to Corona park to draw, I just love taking it with me in places with inspiration like also that time when I went to North Coast for a couple of days~ (^｡^)♡
In this series, students will post a short piece of writing about a personal item that either offers a sense of identity and/or helps them feel more secure as they define their identify as new students at New York City College of Technology. These pieces were written after an in-class discussion of the freshmen essays run in the New York Times in Spring 2014.
“Daniel Goleman – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011” by World Economic Forum – Flickr: Daniel Goleman – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Goleman_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011.jpg
Here is a link to Daniel Goleman’s essay about important factors of “emotional intelligence” cultivated not just by college freshmen by the world’s most successful corporate leaders. Read the whole article “How to Be Emotionally Intelligent” in the New York Times for his descriptions, but briefly, Goleman’s four categories and subcategories are:
“Seeing Eyeball” selfie
In today’s class, we read the New York Times photo essay about students new to school. You also wrote your own reflections on items that have relevance right now for you and for your identity as you progress through this year of transition. Before we meet again for our Wednesday lab on October 14, please upload to this site OR send me an email of the paragraph you wrote in class about the object along with a selfie. The selfie can include the object but that is not always possible.
I look forward to reading them!
Here is a link we’ll look at in class today. Please review again on your own time.:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/25/sunday-review/srw25collegeKids.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1
Today we looked at more beginnings of essays.
We considered pronouns. The first sample had too many vague pronouns (you, he, and it)
We also considered ways to transition in and out of your ideas and the outside sources. The second sample needed some rearranging for better flow and conciseness.
This online resource is helpful:
http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/quotes.htm
We will look at this in class today. If you are absent, please check the link and try the interactive quiz.
Here are the sample introductory paragraphs we worked on in class. Remember these were first drafts written very quickly! The main idea here is to understand the three basic components of an introductory paragraph for a college essay:
Here are the handouts you received in class today for the essay you are writing in-class on Monday, Sept. 28.
First, ENG 1101 Narrative Essay Assignment Sheet: choose only 1 of the options. You are responding to either Colson Whitehead’s essay or Nelson George’s essay.
Second, ENG 1101 Planning Sheet Narrative Essay. Please fill out the planning sheet over the weekend. I am attaching the documents here if you change your mind and want to write a new one. Reminder: I will collect the planning sheets with your essay. You should fill the out before our class not during our class.
Nelson George by Jelena Vukotic (from Brooklyn Book Festival website)
This Sunday is the Brooklyn Book Festival! The event is at Borough Hall Plaza, St. Francis University, and at Brooklyn Law School . We’re reading Nelson George right now in our class and he is one of the featured speakers on a panel with David Simon at 4 p.m. For the full list of speakers visit: http://www.brooklynbookfestival.com/ It’s a truly great event and all readings and talks are free.
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