Find your Final Exam document, complete with instructions on how to complete the exam and submit it, here: FINAL EXAM 1101.
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A document containing this information is also linked here: Eng 1101 Instructions for End of Term Finals Week.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR END OF TERM — Final Exam and Online Uploads for Unit I
FINALS WEEK
ENG 1101 361
PROF. SCHMERLER
What to expect for your final exam:
Your final exam will be a take-home exam consisting of a reading and prompt to which you will respond in essay form.
Exam due date: No later than 2:20PM on May 20th.
Had you been in an actual classroom, your final exam would have been timed, and would have lasted 75 minutes.
This Online exam is not timed — but you are welcome to approach it as such: to sit down, as though you were in class, and complete the essay as though you were in the classroom final exam period that day (May 20th), which normally would have ended at 2:15PM.
Request of Submission of Unit I, Online:
Please submit to the Professor an electronic copy of the Literacy Narrative as well as of the UNIT I Reflection you handed in at the beginning of the term.
Please upload these electronic documents to OpenLab with the following nomenclature in the post: UNIT I_COPY_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME. You may, of course, make your post “private.”
If you have the hard copy of these papers, you may photograph the pages and upload them – ideally as a pdf. If you have an electronic copy of these documents, please upload that. If you have neither, please speak up soon.
Note from the Professor: Units II and III were submitted completely Online. Having digital records of Unit I will be helpful to me and speed the submission of my final grades – and most importantly will lessen the amount of time I will need to spend on campus once I get security clearance to access my desk. The less time I spend outside, the better. Thank you. I appreciate it. -Prof. S.)
Date you will receive your grade for this course: Grades are due from all Professors on CUNYFirst on midnight, May 28. Here is the most recent news from the Provost on CUNY’s new grading policies during confinement.
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For May 18: Here is how to complete UNIT III, which is due May 18.
- As you know from our last Zoom meeting: Instead of waiting for you to find your own affinities, I assigned you into pairs. There is now a sub-folder called PAIRS. You can look there and see who your new assigned partner is. There also is a sample document in this new folder. Please look at it and, as you know, copy it into your own PAIR document.
Once you have had fruitful discussion, and have populated your PAIR document, you are well on your way to completing UNIT III.
The final format document for submitting your work in UNIT III is below. You will upload your work to OpenLab with the post heading LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_UNIT 3. Please use that same naming system for creating your WORD document:
SAMPLE-DOCUMENT-FORMAT-UNIT-III –affinity and inquiry
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For May 13: By May 13 you will have started collaborating in a PAIR Document. Here is the link to the new PAIR folder in GoogleDocs. The Sample Document there will give you instructions. If you do not choose a partner, one will be chosen for you by the Professor.
Also, by May 13: Professor will grade your participation in the GIANT CLASS DIARY. check minus, check, check plus–Unsatisfactory, Satisfactory, Good. This counts as a journal check.
(If you were not at our Zoom meeting and are still confused as to how to contribute to the Giant Class Diary, you must contact the Professor asap. If you helped with formatting or editing other entries besides your own — great! — just write a comment so we can know you helped.)
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For May 6: Continue to work on your SKILL document, comment on others’ skills, and write some connections you are finding in our shared AFFINITIES document. You can watch the video in this post if you need some help.
Also, everyone must continue to contribute to our shared Diary document. It needs many more entries. This replaces your Journal grade.
For May 1: You have created a SKILL document for yourself with LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_SKILL as the title in our shared GoogleFolder. There is a sample document there to help you get started. You should have yours populated with info, and comment on at least three other people’s documents, by Friday, May 1. Write to them. Give them encouragement, but also: ASK them a good question. You’re not trying to stump them; you can encourage them to make this a deeper discussion that helps us all learn.
I have created another document in the folder called “Affinities.” Go in there, please, and tell us what you think. You don’t have to write a lot.
Also, continue to write diary entries for your own experiences. We will be pooling these into a larger document, as well. If you miss a day, or a lot of days already, you can: reflect/ look back and try to remember. You can write in the past tense on a later day. You can also go into the news and paste in some headlines/news/links for a day you missed.
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For Apr 29: You are doing two things. 1) continuing to write in your regular diaries. and 2) Creating a new document in Google Docs on your Skills/Interest. This is a work in progress for UNIT III. Look in the MENU above for this site and you will see a new listing there called GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER. In the orange shared SKILL folder you will create a Document with the following nomenclature: YOURLASTNAME_YOURFIRSTNAME_Skill . I already created a Sample Document there to give you an outline of the format. To summarize: our next step will be to share some skill/interest/pursuit that we have had during our confinement — something that gives us joy or makes us feel interested in life and in bettering ourselves. We also discussed that part of this next step will be to do some research and learn more about this skill/interest.
At preset there is no length limit or minimum on this assignment. It is a work in progress. It is, however, required as part of your UNIT III grade. Due date: I expect EVERYONE to have started this document by Wednesday Apr 29.
We will discuss our work on Wednesday. Check back for a Zoom meeting link. Our next meeting will be April 29 at 1:00PM.
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WEEK of Spring Break, 2020:
This assignment is 2,000 words, total. Here is a document OUTLINING the FORMAT for proper submission of your MID-SEMESTER UNIT II ASSIGNMENT: SAMPLE-DOCUMENT-FORMAT-UNIT-II-MID-SEMESTER ENG 1101 361
Here are links to free PDF’s for Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
And here is a short video in which I discuss the assignment:
This Assignment is graded. Your grades will be posted in Private to OpenLab. it is due by midnight April 19.
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WEEK of March 23-29: These assignments are required of each student. Your work is time and date stamped by OpenLab.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS WEEK: Become familiar with our new MEMBER ROLL. Scroll down the right-hand side of our site. There you will see the name of everyone in the class who has posted (including yourself). You can easily search for a post this way, as well as keep track of your own work.
These Circle Time assignments were also posted to our front page: CIRCLE TIME Activity 1: Agree, in writing, in a comment to the Professor’s post, with the words “I, [YOUR NAME HERE], agree to abide by the rules of Circle Time.”
CIRCLE TIME Activity 2: Write 3 Comments. You will notice that I (the Professor) have endeavored to comment once on each person’s “Diary 2” Entry. Now, it is your turn. Write a comment on someone’s post — preferably someone who has not gotten many comments yet. Also, write a comment on anyone’s post you wish. Write more than one to one person, if you wish. Post a minimum of 3 comments before Thursday, March 26. (As Admin of the site, I see all comments in the dashboard.)
WEEK of Apr 3-Apr 8:
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1 — DAILY DIARY: Write a daily Diary. Make it a WORD document. I will put a sample format here: ENG 1121 and 1101 DIARY FORMAT DOCUMENT .
ELECTRONIC Format: This journal is going to be a WORD document that you edit and cut and paste. It goes from oldest date to most recent date. In this WORD document you will want to follow grammar and punctuation rules, and clean up your text in general. I love your more informal blog posts — we don’t edit those. Now, I am also looking for greater polish and clarity for a diary that you will hand in to me for a grade. You can start out messy — but you will be revising. Understood? You may use any word-processing program you need to for now. I will ask you to publish excerpts from your diary to our website from time to time.
What do you write about?: Lots of things, anything, as long as you include the date and time and location. You can talk about what room in your house you are in. You can keep track of what you did, or how you are feeling in the morning, or at night, after the events of your day are done. May I give you a word of advice for a daily writing assignment?: Consistency helps. You need to write a minimum of 1,000 words every week. You write an entry every single day. If one day is very short and one day is very long, that’s okay. Consistency. You will begin posting installments/excerpts of it to the class this Thursday, Mar 26.
Still wondering what to write?: Are you getting fatter? Thinner? More fit? Less? Are you practicing something — an instrument, a sport? Are you going crazier by the minute or more depressed by the day?
Be real.
Try to inspire yourself. You don’t have to try to inspire the rest of us. Just you.
READING AND REFLECTING ASSIGNMENT Week 1, Due Mar 30: Familiarize yourself with some kind of diary — read parts of it. Maybe it is Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Maybe it is Anne Frank’s diary? I will include pdf links to both of those below, but there are other diaries out there you can read. You must write a 300-word reflection on what diary you have read, and say why you liked it. Describe the format/design of the diary you chose and say whether you liked it or not; say how it may or may not inspire your diary.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, link.
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, link.
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WEEK of March 19-20: This assignment is required of each student. If you have not yet posted to our site, I can’t add you to the new Members Links I have created on the site, and it will be much harder for me to track your work and give you credit.
Assignment for Week of March 19-20, Due Mar 23: Write a post to this site. Title it Diary Entry 2 and put your FIRST NAME in the title. For example: Diary Entry 2_Sarah. Write about how you are doing now; how you have been doing up to now; add details, names, places — don’t just speak in generalities. Say what you’ve been up to, and/or what those close to you have been up to.
I am not grading you on perfect grammar here, but you should be as clear and error free as possible, and use language in an honest, direct, and understandable way. Keep the reader’s experience in mind, even if that reader is only you. Write like you care and you mean it. There is no length requirement, per se. Write what you wish.
Note 1: Please note that I changed the Privacy settings so that only those registered to our course can see the posts. However, if you still feel that you would like to have only me (the Professor) read your post, please adjust the “Visibility” setting on the upper right of your screen from “Public” to “Private.”
Note 2: During the last two classes before Recess, we all discussed how to post to OpenLab. Most of you complied with my first request to post, and I’ve already recorded your entries. Great! If you are still having trouble, see the OpenLab Help pages link.
Note 3: I strongly suggest you start doing your Online work on a device larger than a phone — at least at first — as the mobile interface is harder to navigate.
Check back here as assignments are given in virtual learning, after March 19, 2020
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