Thursday, September 4, 2008

 

Today’s Agenda

1) Discussion of annotations and observations

2) Discussion of journal writing

 

3)  Journal Assigment:

 

Describe “the student” in a couple of paragraphs. Now,

describe yourself in no less than two pages as a beginning

university student. What do you bring to your college experience from your hometown and high school experience? What kinds of expectations for yourself do you have? From your teachers, your peers? (These will be done in your journals).

 

 

4) Discussion: Who were you writing to in this assignment? How did that affect what you said or didn’t say? 

 

5) Journal Assignment: Write a page and a half journal entry in which you begin to compare the culture of your hometown and high school life with that you are experiencing here at college as of now.  Here you will begin to formulate some generalized observations of similarities and differences in your experiences.

 

Homework:

 Part 1) Answer this question in a full-page essay in your

journal: Why is the second chapter called “The Syllabus”?

 

Part 2)  Write a two page essay in which you describe your “culture”.  Be prepared to present this next time. The definition of this “culture” is up to you. It is your description and should include everything that you think is relevant.This is meant to be prewriting for a later stage of writing and should be considered as such.   Do take into account the kinds of things Albom mentions, for instance on page 42, but speak to the contemporary (current) issues.

 

Optional Video Lectures (watch if you want a refresher)

 

Video One

 

 

Video Two

 

Video Three

 

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