Thursday, September 11, 2009

Today’s Agenda:

Pass Back Journal:

•1) Journal should be just for this class

•2) Keep your posts separate, and make it easy to find each one.

•3) Keep all of your posts in the journal. No more loose leaf entries.

Today’s Journal Entry:

I want you to write a one and a half page journal entry on the following topic: Who are the “we” in Morrie’s statement “we are teaching the wrong things”?  Who taught you cultural attitudes you still have?

Your Homework for today was the following:

Write a two page essay in which you give your interpretation, at this early point in the book, of Morrie’s statement: “we’re teaching the wrong things” (35). The essay should be a thoughtful examination of Morrie’s statement and not a sermon on what should be offered instead (there’s time later to examine alternatives). This is not an evaluation of whether he is right or wrong at this point, but your attempt to put in writing what it is you think he means. You may quote from the author’s account of himself if it helps you. Please do use personal experiences or that of others you know as examples to help explain your interpretation if you can. You can and should utilize the ideas from your previous writing. Incorporate your ideas, for example, of “culture” and what you might think needs to be different or changed (again, not a rant or preachy), or what you believe to be right about yours.

You were to bring three copies of your essay with you to class. Get them out.

Discussion of the writing process:

•1) Prewriting

•2) Writing

•3) Proofreading

•4) Editing

•5) Re-writing!

We are going to count off into groups of four.

Get into groups

In your groups I want you to do the following:

•1) Give your three copies of your essay out to the members of your group.

•2) Your job is to go through each of the three essays and do the following:

•a. Locate the main idea of the essay. Where is it? Find it and circle it.

•b. Find the best piece of evidence that the author uses to support his or her main idea, circle it.

•c. Find the worst piece of evidence that the author uses to support his or her main idea, put a check mark next to it.

•d. When you are finished, I want you to write TWO detailed paragraphs on the back of the essay explaining what you though the writer did WELL, and what it is they need to focus on to make their writing better.

Optional Video Lecture Videos

Video One

Video Two

Video Three

Homework for Tuesday:

Annotate 46-88 of Tuesdays With Morrie.

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