Category: To Do Lists (Page 9 of 11)

For today’s Session 7, you will finish your first draft of the Educational Narrative and post it on  the OpenLab as a post.

For today’s session:

1. Read: Ron DePeter’s “How to Write Meaningful Peer Response Praise”
2. Watch:  this technology video presentation, How to Create and Post a  PDF File on the OpenLab
3. Finish: the first draft of your Education Narrative
4. Create: a pdf file of your finished Education Narrative
5. Complete: the  Participation Activity below–post your Education Narrative onto an OpenLab post before 7 am on Tuesday, Sept. 21 (Note: the deadline is a few hours earlier so I can prepare groups for our Peer Review)
6. Remember: our Peer Review session on Tuesday will be configured into the grade for your first essay. If you want a good grade on the essay, don’t skip Tuesday’s session! Post your own and participate by commenting on the group you are in!  On Tuesday, I will provide a detailed video about how Peer Review works, the technology instructions for how you will comment , and instructions and advice for coming up with meaningful things to say.

Participation Activity

(Due before 7 am Tuesday, Sept. 21  for attendance credit)

After watching the technology video presentation, “How to Make and Post a PDF File on the OpenLab,” post the first draft of your Education Narrative onto the OpenLab for Peer Review.  Remember to post before 7 am on Tuesday, Sept. 21. On Tuesday, I will have a detailed video about how Peer Review works. For this current session, focus on finishing your essay and posting it.

Note: The deadline for this session’s  participation activity  is 7 am instead of 10 am on Tuesday, so I can divide you into groups for Peer Review in our next session.

Questions about something on our TO-DO List? Email me anytime at: jsears@citytech.cuny.edu 

We can also meet online for office hours on Zoom.
Office hours are:

11-noon on Tuesdays; 11:45 am-12:45 pm on Thursdays

For today’s Session 6, we will go over your upcoming assignment, the Educational Narrative. Here is where you start writing your first essay.

For today’s session:

1. Read: the Education Narrative assignment in this post
2. Watch:  the Education Narrative video presentation which includes the fun stuff: expectations, grading, format, etc.
3. Read:  Annie Lamott’s advice on writing in her 2 page essay: “Shitty First Drafts”
4. Do: the short but incredibly important Participation Activity below
5. Do for homework: start writing the first draft of your Education Narrative!

Participation Activity

(Due before 10 am Thursday, Sept. 17 for attendance credit)

Discussion Board Title:  Understanding the Education Narrative Assignment

Discussion Board Task: This is a short assignment, but it is required and very important! After reading the materials about your upcoming assignment, log on to our discussion board and ask any questions you have about our assignment. I will check frequently and answer all questions! You can ask one question, several questions, as many questions as you want.

• If you don’t have questions, you still have to participate. Simply state: I have read the assignment and have no questions.
• Remember I also have office hours today, 11 am-noon. If you attend, you still have to do the discussion board for session 6.

Remember to post before 10 am on Thursday, Sept. 17! Use the link above or this URL: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/eng1101-lc09-fall-2020/forum/topic/participation-activity-understanding-the-educational-narrative/

In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Here are comments on last session’s discussion board. Read the discussion board for ideas for your own writing.  Carry on, writers!

Questions about something on our TO-DO List? Email me anytime at: jsears@citytech.cuny.edu 

We can also meet online for office hours on Zoom.
Office hours are:

11-noon on Tuesdays; 11:45 am-12:45 pm on Thursdays

For today’s session, you will read two short essays that are great reads and also give excellent examples of ways to approach the educational narrative or educational autobiography.

First, read these two posts and the materials linked to them:

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s: “Getting to Here from There: One Woman’s Journey from the South Bronx to the Academy”
• José Olivarez’s: “Maybe I Could Save My Life by Writing Poetry”

Note: On Tuesday, you will get more information about the first essay you will be writing for this class. Keep the notes you are taking on these essays and the writing and brainstorming  you are creating for our discussion boards, so that you can draw on them for this essay.

Participation Activity

(Due before 10 am Tuesday, Sept. 15)

Discussion Board Title:  One Story about My Education

Discussion Board Task: Your post on this thread will have two parts.

1. In your first paragraph, consider the ideas discussed in today’s readings by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and/or José Olivarez and reflect on your own educational history. What stories do you have? Tell one!  You might write, as Sealey-Ruiz does, about how the educational choices made by parents or siblings encouraged or put pressure on you to do well and/or a specific event in which you realized the education you received did or did not support you. You can also write about a time you did well at something and how that was received by your family and teachers. You might write, as Olivarez–who took it upon himself to use education as power and writing as a way to take ownership of his experience–about a time you found your own “voice” in your educational environment or a time you might have felt your voice was threatened or even taken away.
2. In a second  paragraph, respond to the person who writes on the discussion board before you. Pick a specific line the person wrote that stands out to you and explain why it stands out.

Remember to post before 10 am on Tuesday, Sept. 15! Use the link above or this URL:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/eng1101-lc09-fall-2020/forum/topic/participation-activity-one-story-about-my-education-2/#post-67644

Questions about something on our TO-DO List? Email me anytime at: jsears@citytech.cuny.edu 

We can also meet online for office hours on Zoom or on email.