Today, and all due dates.

Today:
Finishing as much work as possible on Annotated Bibliographies, due Sunday night by 11:59 pm.

When finished, continue work on essay 3, where you choose a side and prove your argument based on your exploratory essay research. Essay 3 Due: May 22 (Sunday) at 11:59pm.

Classical Argument Form:

Intro (Stylized and dazzling)
Background (historical context)
Argument (probably 2 paragraphs)
Counter-argument (a nod to the other side)
Rebuttal (Counter the counter argument)
Conclusion (Stylized and dazzling)

The Kite Runner Essays Due Tuesday May 31 by 11:59pm.

Class notes on Citations

Wed:
Meet in Room M-125 for exciting researching. 
Sandwich your quotes.
Don’t start or end paragraphs with a quote!!
Sandwich: lead into the quote, use the quote (cite), respond to the quote.
Here’s my point, here’s quote that supports my point, here’s why this quote is significant.

Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here’s an interesting fact “This may be because it is applied broadly to any art form—in any media—that mocks or sniggers at convention” (Colletta 1).

Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. More interesting facts from Colletta, “This may be because it is applied broadly to any art form—in any media—that mocks or sniggers at convention” (1).

Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. Colletta implies that media that mocks the news is considered satire (1).

Here is some brilliant writing, brilliant sentences, dazzling prose, and a verb here and there. There are implications that media that mocks the news is considered satire (Colletta 1).

Information from an internet source, says “the embattled singer is participating in an out-patient treatment program for substance abuse” (“Whitney”).

“How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

“Whitney Houston Checks into Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program.” EW.com. Entertainment Weekly, May 9,2011. Web. 9 May 2011.

Whete, Brad. “Whitney Houston Checks into Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program.” EW.com. Entertainment Weekly, May 9,2011. Web. 9 May 2011.

Don't forget hanging text! :)

Monday and Beyond

Ok, For Monday: (Not in Lab)
We’ll finally finish discussing The Kite Runner

Feel free to be working on our last few projects during homework time.

1.) Annotated Bibliography. 15 sources. Due Sunday 5/15 by 11:59pm to my email box.

How to Annotated Bib:
1.) Find source.
2.) Put all of the source's info in MLA format.
(for example: Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.)
Don't forget to make the text hanging.

Also see the Owl at Purdue for help. here

3.) Summarize the article in one solid paragraph (see handout).
4.) Discuss whether this essay will be helpful to Essay 3, your classical argument, or not, and why.

5.) Move on to Source #2.

Also:
Essay 3 due Sunday 5/29. Classical Argument format:
1.) Stylized Introduction (review those handouts)
2.) Background
3.) Argument
4.) Counter-argument
5.) Rebuttal (counter the counter)
6.) Awesome, dazzling, stylized conclusion

The Kite Runner Essay (Final)
Topic of your choice.
You should have emailed this idea to me after Spring Break. If you don't hear back, assume your topic is fine. I do need to see topics, though.

You can discuss anything in relation to The Kite Runner:
Politics in Afghanistan
Islam in Afghanistan
Relationships between characters
The idea of the redemption story, who needs it, who gets it?
Role of homophobia in the story, or Islam, or both.
Etc.

In the Lab!

Hey, guys!

I'll post something in the room, but, we got the lab!

We'll be in room M 125 all Wednesdays in May (the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th), so if you read this, report there.

And still bring pencils. :)

For Wed

Also, please bring a pencil to class, if possible.

For Wed:
Finishing The Kite Runner
Handout.
And we’ll discuss “essay” 2.

Consider what you've learned about Afghanistan from our reading. Is this a country that needs "nation building"? If so, are we the ones to do it?

Yeehaw.

For Mon 5/2

For Mon:
1.) Kite Runner to the end!!!

Work for Mon and Wed

For MON: Work INDEPENDENTLY (not in class) on a topic you want to investigate from The Kite Runner. Email me your topic ideas by 2:50 Monday afternoon.

For Wed 4/27: Be prepared to discuss The Kite Runner up to CH 22, and “Countering” from the Rewriting text I handed out last week.

For Next Week

For Monday 4/11: The Bachelorette essay (handout)

For WED 4/13:
• The Kite Runner to the end of CH 13
• AND “Countering” CH 3 from Rewriting (handout)

For Wed

Read up to CH 11 in The Kite Runner :)

For Next Week

For Monday:
1.) Read handout from Galician, about The Bachelor
For Next WED
1.) The Kite Runner through CH 10

For Wed 3/30

For WEDNESDAY, read up to CH 6 in The Kite Runner (+ quiz, for old time's sake)

For next MONDAY, read "'Must Marry TV': The Role of the Heterosexual Imaginary in The Bachelor" handed out in class today.

Paper Stuff

Ok. Exploratory Essay 1 due to me Sunday by midnight. dmghunt at gmail dot com.

4 FULL pages (probably 5).
Use 5 sources.
Use the evalutation sheet I gave you
Consult the norming session essays
Use the OWL at Purdue for help with MLA format, in-text citations, and the works cited page.

You can email me questions, but do not wait until the last minute, I cannot promise to be available all weekend.

No reading for Monday.

For WEDNESDAY, read up to CH 6 in The Kite Runner

For Wed 3/23

CH “Measuring Bodies” p. 142 in Gould. Quiz.

Essays due this weekend. We’ll talk specifics on Wed.

Keep reading The Kite Runner. Blog assignments to begin next week. Yay!

Work for Monday 3.21

For Monday: p. 38 from “Rewriting” (in the “Forwarding” chapter)

"Conversing in Writing

Find a listserv or blog whose topics interest you. Spend a few days following the exchanges on it. Note down those moments at which the members of the list or board really seem to be 'conversing in writing' with each other, and also note points where they seem to be doing something else (forwarding, flaming digressing, whatever). How useful is the metaphor of conversation in describing the exchanges you've observed? What does the metaphor distort or fail to describe?"

Be sure to write a paragraph to turn in answering these questions, and be ready to show and discuss your online discussion in class.

Also, start reading The Kite Runner

For Wed. 3/16

For Wed: Ch 2 in Gould, or on e-reserve. Woot. Instructions for e-reserve are in previous posts.

Keep researching for your exploratory essay. These are my brilliant notes to think about:

Exploratory Essays: thesis-seeking.

They move:
Question to Question
Idea to Idea
Quote to Quote (source to source)

Keep at it! :)

Library Session on Wed! OMG.

Library session on Wed room L-304

Controversy in your chosen field:
For example, in education: NCLB, standardized tests, student-teacher relationships.

Google profession + controversy
Keep a running log (or use your blog!) to bring on Wed.

For example:
• Searched google for “nursing + controversial topics”
• Found a list of controversial topics, chose “Restraints and Nursing Homes”
• Searched Restraints and Nursing homes, found http://www.rehabnurse.org/pdf/GeriatricsRestraints.pdf Told me: restraints agitate patients and increase bad behavior

Make sure your topic has 2 sides.

etc. Have a topic TO research on Wed.

Please be prepared.

Your Blog Post #1

Hi, Class!

For your first blog post, I want you to introduce yourself to me as a writer. Please complete this assignment by Monday morning.

How do you feel about writing? Do you consider yourself a writer? Why or why not? Tell me more about your relationship with writing in the past, and how you hope this class helps you become a better writer. Tell me anything else you want me to know, as well, like your favorite color, or how you're obsessed with roller coasters.

For help with things like spelling and grammar, I encourage you to type this blog post into a Microsoft Word Document, and then paste it in the fancy text box provided to you by the wonderful people at blogger.

Be sure you're entering this information on YOUR blog, not mine, and not email.

Readings for Monday

On eReserve: http://eres.kingsborough.edu:8080/eres/default.aspx

Or here

Remember to use the guidelines from "Rewriting", Projects "Translating a Text into Your Own Terms." p.24

You're going to want to have a good half-page to a page of these notes, and I will collect them on Monday.

Email me with questions! Have a good weekend!