Our time working together on Zoom will be over soon — the semester is drawing to a close. Here is a brief video to watch before tomorrow.

For May 13: By May 13 you will have started collaborating in a PAIR Document with a partner. Here is the link to the new PAIR folder in GoogleDocs. The Sample Worksheet 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 on May 11, 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. Overall editing and graphic design help is most welcome.)

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Hi Class. I made a video going over some points regarding our transition into UNIT III and what we have been working on together on Zoom. (I don’t talk much about the Diary, but I think it is off to a great start!) Here, I show you examples of SKILLS documents. I want you to get in and write in your Skills documents AND COMMENT on other classmates’ skills documents. Ask them questions. Think about making interesting suggestions and connections.

Greetings class. Our agenda for tomorrow, May 4, is simple.

1:00PM Roll /Attendance.

No lecture. No Do Now writing assignment.

lnstead: We will work, together, on GoogleDrive in our Skills documents and on a new group project that will be worth 15% of your grade. What is it? A giant diary. A hive document.

You will ask questions.  And I will do my best to help you. In real time. Kind of like a maker-bot community, but with English.

See you at 1:00PM. Come with your diaries. Be prepared to cut and paste them. Read and contribute to the Skills documents if you have not already!!

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Now that the GoogleDocs can be edited (thanks!) you can create and add to your documents. 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.

I will be on Zoom for a few more minutes now (1:45PM) to finish up with some talk/Q+A, etc.

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Attendance is mandatory. Agenda and link, below:

AGENDA:

1:00PM Music. Roll call check in. Write your name in chat.

ToDo: writing in real time exercise (app 5 minutes)

Moment of Silence to honor those we have lost

Circle Time and discussion

Discussion of UNIT III and the new Google Skill Docs

Discussion of publishing a larger class Diary and UNIT IV brainstorming

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Jonathan Dorival

1101-361

Prof. Schmerler

April 24-27th 2020

Unit II– Mid Semester– Life during Coronavirus

Section 1: Extended diary excerpt

April 24th – Manhattan, Ny 

12:30pm

Currently writing this on my phone while on my break. I’m really having mixed feelings about this Coronavirus quarantine situation ever since I got paid. Like I hate these twelve  hours shifts back to back but once I saw that direct deposit hit …. I was like Oh Sh** !!!  On the other hand, work was a calm day today and we only got two deliveries today from fedex. Hopefully it stays like this until my shift is over. Yes guys I work in a warehouse getting equipment that the nurses use for the Corona patients. My Sergeant won’t even let us go to the same floor as them unless we put on a whole bunch of protective clothing. Break time always seems faster than actually working. It’s like I can’t even catch a little nap.

April 25th – Manhattan, Ny 

12:30 pm

Another day, another dollar it’s like everyday is the same. Thankfully I’m not stuck in the house cause I would go insane honestly. Now that I’m really thinking about it.. I can’t really complain cause some people really have it worse than me right now. Stuck at home everyday because they either don’t have an essential job or their parents just too scared and don’t want anything to happen to their kids. I just hope eventually this doesn’t end soon but they allow us to go back outside sooner than later.

April 26th – Manhattan, Ny

I just realized that I’m so behind on classwork. Don’t even have time on my hand to hop on Zoom calls or anything because I’m always doing something here at this WAREHOUSE. Sometimes I actually missed school. Like I remember we were talking about distance learning one day in class but I never thought we would actually be in this situation honestly.

April 27 – Manhattan, Ny

9:16pm

Today was a good day. Although they had me working I got out early today at like 3pm. Which felt great of course. Came back to my room, ate some pasta, shower and went to sleep. Woke up and remembered that I forgot to submit this assignment. Even though I’m already late by a couple days. I talked to my mom and my family today. Thankfully they are all doing fine doing this quarantine time. My little brothers are enjoying this time from school more than I am. Lucky for them they didn’t even experience the stressful college life yet.

Section 2: Reflection and Analysis of Diary Reading

I chose the Diary of a Wimpy Kid because I used to love reading those books during middle school. I really enjoyed reading the series and I enjoyed every book from the first one to the last one. I liked the format of the book and also the little drawing that they had in the book to keep the book interesting of course. Jeff Kinney did a good job with writing this book. Wish I could meet him in person so I could talk to him about it more, see his ideas and hear what he has in store later on his time of writing books.

Section 3: Reflection On Unit 2

Unit 2 was  confusing at first because of the whole Coronavirus pandemic not only with my English class but all of the other classes. Trying to balance school work while working twelve hours every day has become very stressful. Also because this was my first time ever studying in an online class. I like how Professor Schmerler tried to create videos to help us understand the assignments better that was very helpful of course. I had a little hard time writing my daily blog post because of the way my schedule is with work but thankful I got it done. Better late than never