Wednesday, November 16, 2011

 

Winding Down

Today in class students worked on revisions. Those students who missed the second grammar exam yesterday completed it today. I shared Corazon's introductions to her SPHE overview essay and her social entrepreneur essay.

Tomorrow we will hear from students who have done great work on the essays we have been working on for the past month: "Hip Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes" and "Afeni Shakur: Destiny or Choice; Nature vs. Nurture." The students I called on are: Michael and Aman. Other students can share as well.

Social Entrepreneur Presentations

Practice your presentations in advance. Bring in abstracts for your audience. If you need copies, you can use the mail room. Get the copies in advance. An abstract is a short summary of your key ideas and argument. We will use the abstract to comment on the presentation.

An entrepreneur is a business person.

Related Cyber-Assignment due immediately
A follow-up cyber-assignment will be a self-reflection on the presentation: what did you learn, what did you like most about the process, what would you change?

Students will also give a positive and constructive response to each student presentation: content, delivery, anything else you want to share. You will include these assignments as part of the SE portfolio when turning in the essay electronically to me. Start grabbing the cyber-assignments now.

Homework

Complete the SE essay. Revise essays, work on revisions. If you have essays without final grades, that is: C, B, A. Get the revisions in. All revisions at this point need a essay narrative in third person. Write it like you wrote the Pidd essays.

If you want to identify the errors and check them off with me first, before writing the essay, that is fine. If the correction essay is not correct, you will have to revise it.

Stewart Pidd Final Essay

Yesterday, I wrote a sample introduction for the SPHE essay which looks at the entire book and its content. Some students used this for their grammar exams evaluative essay. This is okay. You can combine this essay with the review of the entire book and its content.

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