Thank you for handing in your papers — the Movie Review Assignment — on time (those of you who did!). And Thank You All for the feedback you gave me in class on my pedagogical approach to this last assignment (Movie Review Language). It had two components — critical reading and critical writing.Whether or not you are aware of it, you are all progressing nicely.

I will be grading your papers and handing them back to you; stay tuned for your next assignment, coming shortly. The next assignment will be based on how you approached your movie reviews. See above “Policies” for my grading rubric. : )

More feedback, please: Did you find the Alejandro Jodorowsky material to be too “outre”? : )

I didn’t have time to ask you in class.

I’m now an official Tutor in AG 31 — a tutoring room devoted to English that is part of the Atrium Learning Center, whose main branch in located in AG 18.

If you would like me to give you more in-depth, specific help with your papers…I’m there. It’s on a first-come, first-served basis. My hours are:

Wednesdays from 10AM  to noon

Mondays from noon to 3:30PM, and from 4PM to 7PM.

A reminder: Office Hour is Thursdays, 10:45AM – 11:45 AM in the Common Room near the Library, Atrium, 4th Flr.

Highlight (you can do large blocks) the new handout from the “Weird Movies” website; use the same color coding you used to diagram the other reviews. This exercise should be easiest of all!

Show the Professor your Journal on Feb 25. Again. Hopefully, if you didn’t have it in a proper format (namely, one that is easy to read, at a glance), you will have it better organized now. Note: you should not have to re-copy your work. I am not trying to add work on top of work; I simply want to see all your un-graded assignments in one place. This is a huge part of your Class Participation Grade. Thank you for having them on time — I have noted those who did.

Hand in your personal Movie Review. Typed. See previous post for parameters.

That. Is. All.

This is your first formal paper for me. It will be double-spaced, typed. Printed one-sided. It is due on Feb. 25.

Here is the assignment:

Write a movie review.

Length: 500 words.

Your first Journal Check will be Feb. 23.

You are not given a letter grade on journal entries and exercises. Your Journal does, however, constitute your Class Participation grade (20% of your overall semester grade). I will give you a ‘check’ system, noting completion is satisfactory.

What is in your Journal?

Any and all of the in-class writings, the Do Now early class exercises, the homework. If you don’t come to class on time to do the Do Now writing, you should be prepared to show extra effort here. I will collect the journals, and then give them back to you.

I suggested, at the start of the semester, that you have not only a spiral notebook or two, but that you have a place to put these pages together with any handouts (namely, a folder dedicated to English 1101) so that I don’t have to hunt. I use a 3-ring binder myself. Once I’m done writing in my spiral notebook, I put those pages into the binder; my binder also has a pocket folder.

Right now, you have had no handouts/photocopies…however, you should plan for a system like mine, above.

C U on the 23rd!

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If you don’t already know, this is a great place to know:

how to write a footnote? how to cite a source?

or even — how to practice your weakest grammar points.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Remember, you still have a grammar textbook, but this source, above, is Online and comprehensive.

…so you get a little extra sleep that day. And you don’t come to our classroom that day.

Every Freshman English section gets an orientation session, led by a librarian. Ours meets Feb. 18. Please show up outside the Ursula C. Schwerin Library on the fourth floor where we will take roll at 8:30AM sharp. We will then go inside the library and get our research tour, which is scheduled to last the rest of class time.

C U!!

(Above, a still from the video installation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Sea of Buddha,” 1997, on view soon at Pace Gallery, Manhattan. Hopefully, we will look as calm on Library Day.)

Highlighting pens in four colors: pink, blue, yellow, and orange  (If you can’t find orange, green is also fine.)

Pens/pencils, and lots of paper in spiral or other notebooks (preferably with 3-hole punch)

Regular sized notebook (10.5″ x 8″ approx.) for writing your assignments in class and at home, taking notes…

Small, portable notebook — preferably without lines, but with lines is also okay

A folder or folders

A formal notebook or 3-ring binder you will use to submit your Journal entries to the Professor. It is best to have a notebook/binder that includes folders in it, as well as space for written paper, so that I can easily see what you have written and read on a weekly basis. You can cull your writings from your daily notebooks into this larger Journal, periodically.

The Textbook, “Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers” by Jay Silverman, et al.