Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Week 12- Literature Drill (classroom)

Directive:

Instructor will assign certain students throughout week 12 to complete this drill. Students will be sent to the lab to complete.

1. Write do the questions prior to answering drill - just in case the online system fails.
2. Paraphrase answers. Identify your sources.
3. Have instructor check of your work at the end of the class period.

Known Knowledge

It is assumed that the student has preexisting knowledge of literature and the design of literature either from their high school academic exigence or through reviewing Jamaica Kincaid's material, course discussions, student's literature book and homework activities.The following questions related to Literature:

1. What is a theme?
2. What is a motif?
3. What is a protagonist ?
4. What is a symbol?
5. What is literature?
6. What is non- fiction?
7. What is function?
8. What is a plot?
9. What is an antagonist?
10. What is literary genre?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

W12 - Listing of Assignments (W's 9/10/11/12)

Assignment Check-off Listing

1. Literature review sheets (Journal entry)
2. Movie Night review assignment (Journal entry - blog driven)
3. Essay Paragraph revision (Journal entry/MLA paper)
4. Vocabulary Drill (classroom spelling) & Vocabulary word Definitions (Journal Entry)
5. Mock Proficiency Writing exam (classroom) & MLA typed paper upgrade

Friday, October 30, 2009

Week 12 - Literature Read


Weekend Homework


1. Read your book to completion this weekend.
2. As you read fill out the 4 x 2 = 8 pages in your journal that was assigned for this project.
3. Answer all ten questions assigned to the project during week 10 (classroom notes).
4. Be prepared to have instructor write off on this project.
5. Be prepared to discuss your book within a small group.

Week 11 - Copyright Criminals (questions - Online Classroom)

Friday, October 30, 2009




Tuesday - Movie Night - The Black Oak Project

Directive:
1. View material requested on this post.
2. If you attended event use recall to answer questions. If you did not attend the movie, review all the attachments offered within this post.
3. Put answers in your course journal under the title: "Copyright Criminals" - Week 11. 10/30/09 Online Classroom Drill.

View - Copyright Criminals Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Copyright-Criminals/49437687171?ref=ts

View - Copyright Criminals video trailer:http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1078916056578

Read - Discussion guide: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals/resources/COPYRIGHTCRIMINALS_discussion.pdf

Questions:
1. Define the term "Copyright"
2. Define the term "plagiarism"
3. Define the term "Hip Hop"
4. Can you own a sound?
5. What is "sampling"
6. Provide your position on this issue within a three paragraph statement, adopting the terms of the topic as your cornerstone of knowledge.

Posted by Lorenzo's 1100 English Course at 12:02 PM

Saturday, October 24, 2009

W10 - Literature & Mock Proficiency Drill

Monday - Online Classroom

Tuesday - Review of Literature

Wednesday - Literature min-lecture

Thursday - Writing Drill = Mock Proficiency Test (10 minute draft development) 35 minutes of writing topic.

Homework:
Type week Thursday writing drill essay and type into a MLA style document.
As you spell check the typed document, record the errors identified in spell check on to the hand written essay (Writing Drill).
Submit both documents and the draft pre-writing paper in a folder.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

W 9 - Homework

Self Editing Drill


Directives:

1. Take one of your journal entries and redesign into a two page TYPED paper.
2. Run spell check for editing paper - have your course journal open to record all of the edits that appear.

Example: The word 'fragment' appears in the correction box. You write down the term fragment. You then proceed to click on the 'explain' message, and write down the explanation and correct suggested offered in the text book.

Notes:

If a edit correction appears twice - list the times it appears, but do not write the recommendation more then once in your journal.

Record all of the misspellings that you have. If you misspell the same word more then once, identify how many times it was misspelled.

Submit this on Tuesday of week 10.