I am copying this from the ASSIGNMENT menu, above. My The Force Be With You:

Your next paper assignment is due on March 22. Here are the parameters.

Write without using the definite article; put simply: do not use the word “the.”

Length: 500 words.

Format: Typed, double spaced.

Here is a quick snapshot calendar of your pending work:

Your “The” paper is due March 22.

Your (“Dialogue”) paper is due March 15. See the ASSIGNMENTS menu, above, for details.

We will practice for the Mid-Term Exam on March 10, in class. I will show you the format.

Your Mid-Term will be March 17.

We will do a sample mid-term on March 10th. Come to class prepared to write, in class, for the majority of, if not all of, the session.  The actual, real Mid-Term Exam will be on March 17.

Our Exam will be a straight, single essay, written in class.

We will go over tips and procedures on the 10th, and will discuss them further in the following week.

Check the ASSIGNMENTS menu, above, for your new assignments in dialogue/conversation. If you missed class on March 1st, you will definitely need to look!

DEEP THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Here are a couple of ways of regarding this assignment: See your notebook, or any blank page, really, as “Sticky” Paper — imagine it to be a piece of masking tape that someone left facing sticky side up. Information just gets stuck there.

Also, what if, instead of “writing” an essay, you looked at The Concept of Writing, overall, not so much as generating something new, but as Note-Taking — jotting down information around you; jotting down what you think.

Hmmm. Does that take the pressure off?

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.