Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Class Assignments
Today in both classes we read Martin King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." I ran out of copies.
The link is http://www.thekingcenter.org/prog/non/Letter.html (This includes an audio link.)
In the morning class we reflected in a freewrite on the significance of January 20, 2009, what we did that day, and what impact it would have on the rest of our lives (10-12 class). Quite a few students didn't watch the inauguration, so they couldn't respond to the freewrite assignment, so for the second class I omitted the Obama reference.
In both sections, students hadn't read the essay, so we read the first couple of pages today and discussed the difference between paraphrases and summaries and practiced the former. Homework is to post a 250 word summary response to the Letter. This is due by Monday, January 26.
Students can post their group paraphrases of a selected paragraph at the Letter link also. (Morning class only). In the afternoon class we looked up the definitions of the words paraphrase and summary. The American Heritage definition is:
Paraphrase: "A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words" (AHD). The reason we paraphrase is to clarify meaning.
Summary: "A condensed statement of the substance of a larger work" (AHD).
In the afternoon class we looked at the prefix "para" and "par" as in paragraph, paradigm, paratransit, paraphrase, paradox...to see if we could decode the word this way.
Homework due the day of class is to bring in an annotated copy of the President's Inauguration speech. It is at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_obama_text
This is just a cool recap of Inauguaral events: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.inauguration/index.html
Bring the annotated copy to class.
What else? Oh, buy your books. If you can order the Stewart Pidd on-line visit www.attackthetext.com. The other Obama book is at the public library.
The link is http://www.thekingcenter.org/prog/non/Letter.html (This includes an audio link.)
In the morning class we reflected in a freewrite on the significance of January 20, 2009, what we did that day, and what impact it would have on the rest of our lives (10-12 class). Quite a few students didn't watch the inauguration, so they couldn't respond to the freewrite assignment, so for the second class I omitted the Obama reference.
In both sections, students hadn't read the essay, so we read the first couple of pages today and discussed the difference between paraphrases and summaries and practiced the former. Homework is to post a 250 word summary response to the Letter. This is due by Monday, January 26.
Students can post their group paraphrases of a selected paragraph at the Letter link also. (Morning class only). In the afternoon class we looked up the definitions of the words paraphrase and summary. The American Heritage definition is:
Paraphrase: "A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words" (AHD). The reason we paraphrase is to clarify meaning.
Summary: "A condensed statement of the substance of a larger work" (AHD).
In the afternoon class we looked at the prefix "para" and "par" as in paragraph, paradigm, paratransit, paraphrase, paradox...to see if we could decode the word this way.
Homework due the day of class is to bring in an annotated copy of the President's Inauguration speech. It is at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_obama_text
This is just a cool recap of Inauguaral events: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.inauguration/index.html
Bring the annotated copy to class.
What else? Oh, buy your books. If you can order the Stewart Pidd on-line visit www.attackthetext.com. The other Obama book is at the public library.
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Timothy Grube
01/23/09
Eng 201B 10-12pm, m,w
(we are suppose to post our free writes here about were we were on the inauguration rite?)
Well here we go.
I was in my Biology class on the day of the inauguration. It was to my understanding that the inauguration happened in the afternoon, but I heard people saying it started early in the morning. I then left class at about 12:30 pm and walked around town looking for another job. I did get to see about two minutes of something about it on the television at the local pizza-ria but that is all I experienced for myself.
I then was working on some homework and went to work later that evening. I do say though, it was the "talk of the town." The inauguration was a big step for this country and the world. It has been the first time a president has entered the White House, who has not been an affluent European American male.
Even though, we change a president every four to eight years, this is the largest change this Country has seen in a long time. At lease, possibly the greatest political movement in this country in my life time.
01/23/09
Eng 201B 10-12pm, m,w
(we are suppose to post our free writes here about were we were on the inauguration rite?)
Well here we go.
I was in my Biology class on the day of the inauguration. It was to my understanding that the inauguration happened in the afternoon, but I heard people saying it started early in the morning. I then left class at about 12:30 pm and walked around town looking for another job. I did get to see about two minutes of something about it on the television at the local pizza-ria but that is all I experienced for myself.
I then was working on some homework and went to work later that evening. I do say though, it was the "talk of the town." The inauguration was a big step for this country and the world. It has been the first time a president has entered the White House, who has not been an affluent European American male.
Even though, we change a president every four to eight years, this is the largest change this Country has seen in a long time. At lease, possibly the greatest political movement in this country in my life time.
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Where were you on January 20, 2009? What happened that changed your life and the Country (world) forever?
Keisha Simmons
1/24/2009
Eng 201A 10am class
On January 20, 2009, I was just returning back home from taking my kids to school, as I stopped by my neighbor’s apartment first and noticed she was watching the inauguration.
I stayed for a moment to watch the very beginning, then I went to my apartment just in time to see Baraka Obama announced as the President of the United States of America.
I could not believe it; it really is true that we finally have an African American President. He made statements that I felt were the best statements any President of America has ever made, of the 35years of my life.
My favorite statement that he made was for everyone to “Have Hope instead of Fear.”
Hope- Hope to me means to believe have faith and to think positive .
Fear -Fear to me means to be afraid not to only think but view life negatively.
Finally, I feel that the coming years will be a lot of pressure lifted off, not only me and my family, but so many other families as well. I feel so many of us feel we are not fortunate, but we are fortunate.
Like our new President said, “Have HOPE Instead of FEAR”!
If you have a Dream, have hope. It is up to you to make your dream come true. Our new President did!
Keisha Simmons
1/24/2009
Eng 201A 10am class
On January 20, 2009, I was just returning back home from taking my kids to school, as I stopped by my neighbor’s apartment first and noticed she was watching the inauguration.
I stayed for a moment to watch the very beginning, then I went to my apartment just in time to see Baraka Obama announced as the President of the United States of America.
I could not believe it; it really is true that we finally have an African American President. He made statements that I felt were the best statements any President of America has ever made, of the 35years of my life.
My favorite statement that he made was for everyone to “Have Hope instead of Fear.”
Hope- Hope to me means to believe have faith and to think positive .
Fear -Fear to me means to be afraid not to only think but view life negatively.
Finally, I feel that the coming years will be a lot of pressure lifted off, not only me and my family, but so many other families as well. I feel so many of us feel we are not fortunate, but we are fortunate.
Like our new President said, “Have HOPE Instead of FEAR”!
If you have a Dream, have hope. It is up to you to make your dream come true. Our new President did!
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: 1:07 PM
Larry Smith
1/24/09
Eng 210 B 1- 250 M, W
Summary Of MLK Letter
We all know Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of great leadership and was a person a lot of people looked to for guidance. He was a pro at speaking in front of large crowds and was a man that led by example and really tried his best to push positivity and years later after his death his famous dream is being lived on. Dr. King basically served sometime in the Birmingham jail trying to push leadership and push the gospel to the people.
Martin Luther king was bothered by the way people right were being violated out there in Birmingham Alabama, he didn’t want to sit and home and let the things going on out here continue so he chose to take action and he went to serve in one of the Birmingham local jails. By Birmingham being one of the most divided cities in America in terms of racism there’s a big divide between blacks and white out there so the blacks where having different marches for the racism to stop out there because the whites were destroying the homes and churches of the blacks out there. Dr. King wanted to bring in a more non violent approach to what they were doing out there he wanted to bring forth negotiation. He talked to them about how freedom is not given but has to be taken or demanded. He mentioned that it would take time for them to finally be treated equally to get freedom because nothing can really be hurried. By him being a minister he trying to handle the situation in the easiest way possible.
1/24/09
Eng 210 B 1- 250 M, W
Summary Of MLK Letter
We all know Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of great leadership and was a person a lot of people looked to for guidance. He was a pro at speaking in front of large crowds and was a man that led by example and really tried his best to push positivity and years later after his death his famous dream is being lived on. Dr. King basically served sometime in the Birmingham jail trying to push leadership and push the gospel to the people.
Martin Luther king was bothered by the way people right were being violated out there in Birmingham Alabama, he didn’t want to sit and home and let the things going on out here continue so he chose to take action and he went to serve in one of the Birmingham local jails. By Birmingham being one of the most divided cities in America in terms of racism there’s a big divide between blacks and white out there so the blacks where having different marches for the racism to stop out there because the whites were destroying the homes and churches of the blacks out there. Dr. King wanted to bring in a more non violent approach to what they were doing out there he wanted to bring forth negotiation. He talked to them about how freedom is not given but has to be taken or demanded. He mentioned that it would take time for them to finally be treated equally to get freedom because nothing can really be hurried. By him being a minister he trying to handle the situation in the easiest way possible.
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: 4:39 PM
Keisha Simmons
1/25/09
Eng 201A 10am class
In Martin Luther King Jr. letter from a Birmingham Jail he writes to a man he believes is of genuine good and answered the criticized statements calling Martin Luther King Jr. present activities as unwise and untimely.
Martin Luther King Jr. felt the need to address to the man on behalf of himself and the eighty-five affiliated organizations in which he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He addresses the issues and facts to the man in the letter the reasons for him and his organizations as they were called to engage in a non-violent direct action program.
He speaks on his faithfulness as a Christian and to the Christian Religion. He explains why he is in the Birmingham jail because of the injustice there. He believes that un-justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. How the city’s White power structure left the Negro’s community with no alternative.
He also wrote in his letter how colored people were cheated, no colored people in motels, nagging signs of white and colored. The different names they were called other than their birth names, and were treated as nobody’s.
He speaks on so many important facts, issues, and truth about how the laws are just and unjust, segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound but it is morally wrong and sinful. He says how the Negro’s frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination and how oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of strong beliefs as a Christian whom acted on ways of the bible as Jesus acted as well as others of the love and worship of God through Jesus Christ.
He wrote such a long letter covering every issue this world has with how racism needs to end, how all man should be treated equal. He continued to stand up for what God has giving to every man, woman, and child, that everyone should be treated equally and not by their color.
Martin Luther King Jr. ends his letter saying he has never before written a letter so long and if he were at his desk it would had been shorter and said, “What else can one do when he is alone in a jail cell other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers”.
Yours, for the cause of Peace and brotherhood; as he used this statement of closure for ending his letter.
1/25/09
Eng 201A 10am class
In Martin Luther King Jr. letter from a Birmingham Jail he writes to a man he believes is of genuine good and answered the criticized statements calling Martin Luther King Jr. present activities as unwise and untimely.
Martin Luther King Jr. felt the need to address to the man on behalf of himself and the eighty-five affiliated organizations in which he is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He addresses the issues and facts to the man in the letter the reasons for him and his organizations as they were called to engage in a non-violent direct action program.
He speaks on his faithfulness as a Christian and to the Christian Religion. He explains why he is in the Birmingham jail because of the injustice there. He believes that un-justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. How the city’s White power structure left the Negro’s community with no alternative.
He also wrote in his letter how colored people were cheated, no colored people in motels, nagging signs of white and colored. The different names they were called other than their birth names, and were treated as nobody’s.
He speaks on so many important facts, issues, and truth about how the laws are just and unjust, segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound but it is morally wrong and sinful. He says how the Negro’s frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination and how oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of strong beliefs as a Christian whom acted on ways of the bible as Jesus acted as well as others of the love and worship of God through Jesus Christ.
He wrote such a long letter covering every issue this world has with how racism needs to end, how all man should be treated equal. He continued to stand up for what God has giving to every man, woman, and child, that everyone should be treated equally and not by their color.
Martin Luther King Jr. ends his letter saying he has never before written a letter so long and if he were at his desk it would had been shorter and said, “What else can one do when he is alone in a jail cell other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers”.
Yours, for the cause of Peace and brotherhood; as he used this statement of closure for ending his letter.
# posted by : 3:08 PM
: 3:08 PM
Sabah said
English 201B
Mon/Wed 10 12
1/21/09
Free write: where were you January 20, 2009? What happened that changed your life in this country (world) forever?
Obama Inauguration
On Jan 20, 2009 I was at home early morning watching the inauguration for a while. I left right after he had his speech and went to school to go to my Biology class at the time and we discussed how it felt to have Obama as president also about the speech he made. After class I went straight home and continued to watch it. Barack Obama is the change in our lives that has been made for him to be president. Him being the first African American president is memorable, he made history. President Obama talked about how he was going to make a lot of changes for the better. President Obama finally takes in and enters the white house with his family. That was something very exciting to see. As Obama made the speech he presented that there is going to be a lot of changes and things that were done in the past, are going to be different in the future. Its one of the most memorable life changing thing to know Barack Obama is finally the one to take over our country and make an improvement.
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English 201B
Mon/Wed 10 12
1/21/09
Free write: where were you January 20, 2009? What happened that changed your life in this country (world) forever?
Obama Inauguration
On Jan 20, 2009 I was at home early morning watching the inauguration for a while. I left right after he had his speech and went to school to go to my Biology class at the time and we discussed how it felt to have Obama as president also about the speech he made. After class I went straight home and continued to watch it. Barack Obama is the change in our lives that has been made for him to be president. Him being the first African American president is memorable, he made history. President Obama talked about how he was going to make a lot of changes for the better. President Obama finally takes in and enters the white house with his family. That was something very exciting to see. As Obama made the speech he presented that there is going to be a lot of changes and things that were done in the past, are going to be different in the future. Its one of the most memorable life changing thing to know Barack Obama is finally the one to take over our country and make an improvement.
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