Essay 1 Grades

Y'all.

I emailed you comments and grades tonight.  If you didn't get it, email me.  Have a good weekend.  READ.  :)

The Final Countdown!

Kite Runner:  Feb 4-5
Essay 2:  Feb 6
Thousand Splendid Suns:  Feb 7 and 11
Essay 3:  Feb 14
Novel Projects:  Feb 19 (In class)

For TH 1/31

ATS for "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" p. 275 and " The N-Word is Flourishing" p.138

Scans for Monday 1/27

Hey, guys.

Sorry these are late, but you should have the books already anyway, and my scanner was being persnickity. ;)

Reminder that the last day to officially withdraw is Monday.  If you're having attendance issues, to get the W is better than the WU.

Is Facebook a Fad
Hip-Hop Is No Longer Cooler than Me

Essay 2

Annotated Bibliography.

1.)  Choose a topic related to pop culture and the readings in the anthology.  Feel free to run this topic past me.

2.)  Use the databases to find 8 academic sources related to your topic.  The other 2 sources will come from the anthology.

3.)  For each source, gather all of the works cited information.  Under that information, write 2 paragraphs:
           1.)  A short paragraph (5-6 sentences) summarizing the article.
           2.)  A short paragraph (5-6 sentences) discussing whether this source will or will not help you develop an argument, and why or why not.

4.)  Before the Annotated Bib is turned in, make sure the references are in alphabetical order, with all citation information, and with hanging text.

Examples (although these are slightly different than what I'm asking for):


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B040mhSGYg3RNWRGUDlMTWNNMEk/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B040mhSGYg3RNVNfeU9vQTBkblk/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B040mhSGYg3RS0d2SkY4R0NyNDA/edit

For tomorrow 1/29

Tuesday:

Tomorrow:

1.)            ATS for “My Zombie, Myself” p. 384, and “Mystical Black Characters” p. 310

For Monday 1/28

For Monday:

Two essays I haven’t scanned yet.  One about Facebook, (p. 222) one about Hip-hop (p.162).  Keep your eye on the blog.  Complete ATS, type, be prepared to turn it in.

Start reading The Kite Runner, we'll discuss it not next week, but the week after. 

Bring This to Class TH 1/24

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

If you have the book, it's on p. 236

Wed 1/23

Ok, y'all.

Tomorrow, we are in the lab, M-111.

If you're interested in peer review, be prepared for that.  :)

Your essays will be emailed as attachments in either Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) or saved in other programs as a rich text format (.rtf). 

They are due by 11:59pm Wed 1/23 night.

Email me at my gmail.  dmghunt.

Woot.

For Tuesday 1/22

For Tuesday:

Read, and complete the Analysis Think Sheet in your notebooks for this article from our Pop Culture book (p. 266 if you have it):

Erica Lies Mary Tyler Moore

Be sure to finish writing essay 1 this weekend, so you can spend next week proofreading, editing, and other detail work.  :)

MLA Citations

Thanks to the OWL at Purdue:

MLA Main Page

The Basics of In-Text Citations

Basics of Works Cited

Works Cited Sample

For TH

For TH 1/17

1.)  Please read and be ready to discuss the rest of CH 2 "Forwarding" in Rewriting
2.)  Discussion of the forwarding projects from Tuesday
3.)  Remember Essay 1 is due to me next Wed 1/23.  Please work on it in a manner based on your writing process, and do not wait until the last minute.
4.)  Next Monday is MLK day, no classes.
 

In da lab today :)

1.)  If you haven't picked a topic for sure, PICK A TOPIC ZOMG. :)

2.)  Search Ebsco host for scholarly sources.  You need 5-6, so you probably want to find 10.
     
        2a.  Read, digest, and consider the sources.  What do you think about their ideas?

3.  Begin some writing.  Begin to move between your sources and your ideas.

See me with any questions.  :)

Tomorrow 1/16

Tomorrow:

In da lab!  M-111 :) See you there.

For Tuesday 1/15

Tomorrow:

1.               CH 2 Rewriting

Logos, Pathos, Ethos

A Cheat Sheet ;)

For Monday 1/14

For Monday:

1.)           Print, read, mark up and use the evaluation sheet for essay 1 to critique the example exploratory essays on the blog. 

2.)         Read CH 2 to the top of p. 44 in Rewriting  “Forwarding”