English 101 Fall 2010 Day 5
1. Names Quiz
2. Scene from “Little Buddha”
3. The Legend of the Buddha questions.
4. Essay One
a. Rough Draft Due—October 5th
b. Final Draft Due— October 11th
5. The Writing Process—C1
a. Planning
i. Assess the situation.
ii. Exploring ideas
iii. Formulating a tentative thesis
iv. Sketching a plan
b. Drafting
i. Introductions and thesis
ii. Body
iii. Conclusion
c. Revising
i. Global
ii. Revising and editing sentences
iii. Proofreading
d. Presenting
i. Layout and format.
ii. Headings.
iii. Lists
iv. Visuals
v. Academic formatting
6. Assessing the writing situation
a. Subject
b. Sources
c. Purpose and Audience
d. Length and format
e. Reviewers and deadlines
7. Warming Up: Exploring Ideas
a. Talking and Listening
b. Annotating Texts
c. Listing
d. Clustering
e. Freewriting
f. Asking Journalist's Questions
g. Read/Research
8. Homework: Read “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix Arizona”
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Day 4
English 101 Fall 2010 Day 4
1. Log-in to computers.
2. Bonus Points/Absences
a. www.yvccenglish101.blogspot.com
b. comments must be 12 words or more (at least a sentence or two), and must be related to the post.
c. One point for each comment. Limit of one point per post—but you can continue to comment.
d. If it gets ugly, somebody tell me.
e. You will collect them at the end of weeks 3, 5, and 7.
f. You need a google account to sign in.
3. Review of The Hero's Journey--with notes.
a. A pattern of all human experience—reflected in all literature and film.
b. Like the Rite of Passage, the Hero's Journey involves a separation, initiation and a return.
c. The stages of the Hero's Journey usually—but not always—follow a standard sequence.
d. We all go through many Journeys in our lives as we grow and learn.
4. Key Concepts from Gawain and the Green Knight
a. We may not know our real goal when we start our Journey, or our goal may change along the way.
b. The challenges we face in our Journey always reflect our own needs, fears and weaknesses.
c. We will face our greatest fear or weakness in the Abyss.
d. Objects can become symbols of concepts.
5. Demeter and Persephone—food for thought in class.
6. Read “The Legend of the Buddha” and complete the Questions and log the journey on page 103. (Homework?)
7. Scene from “Little Buddha”
8. Essay One
a. Rough Draft Due—October 5th
b. Final Draft Due— October 11th
9. The Writing Process—C1
a. Planning
i. Assess the situation.
ii. Exploring ideas
iii. Formulating a tentative thesis
iv. Sketching a plan
b. Drafting
i. Introductions and thesis
ii. Body
iii. Conclusion
c. Revising
i. Global
ii. Revising and editing sentences
iii. Proofreading
d. Presenting
i. Layout and format.
ii. Headings.
iii. Lists
iv. Visuals
v. Academic formatting
10. Warming Up: Exploring Ideas
a. Talking and Listening
b. Annotating Texts
c. Listing
d. Clustering
e. Freewriting
f. Asking Journalist's Questions
g. Read/Research
Try some research--Sherman Alexie using bing, youtube, google and wikipedia.
1. Log-in to computers.
2. Bonus Points/Absences
a. www.yvccenglish101.blogspot.com
b. comments must be 12 words or more (at least a sentence or two), and must be related to the post.
c. One point for each comment. Limit of one point per post—but you can continue to comment.
d. If it gets ugly, somebody tell me.
e. You will collect them at the end of weeks 3, 5, and 7.
f. You need a google account to sign in.
3. Review of The Hero's Journey--with notes.
a. A pattern of all human experience—reflected in all literature and film.
b. Like the Rite of Passage, the Hero's Journey involves a separation, initiation and a return.
c. The stages of the Hero's Journey usually—but not always—follow a standard sequence.
d. We all go through many Journeys in our lives as we grow and learn.
4. Key Concepts from Gawain and the Green Knight
a. We may not know our real goal when we start our Journey, or our goal may change along the way.
b. The challenges we face in our Journey always reflect our own needs, fears and weaknesses.
c. We will face our greatest fear or weakness in the Abyss.
d. Objects can become symbols of concepts.
5. Demeter and Persephone—food for thought in class.
6. Read “The Legend of the Buddha” and complete the Questions and log the journey on page 103. (Homework?)
7. Scene from “Little Buddha”
8. Essay One
a. Rough Draft Due—October 5th
b. Final Draft Due— October 11th
9. The Writing Process—C1
a. Planning
i. Assess the situation.
ii. Exploring ideas
iii. Formulating a tentative thesis
iv. Sketching a plan
b. Drafting
i. Introductions and thesis
ii. Body
iii. Conclusion
c. Revising
i. Global
ii. Revising and editing sentences
iii. Proofreading
d. Presenting
i. Layout and format.
ii. Headings.
iii. Lists
iv. Visuals
v. Academic formatting
10. Warming Up: Exploring Ideas
a. Talking and Listening
b. Annotating Texts
c. Listing
d. Clustering
e. Freewriting
f. Asking Journalist's Questions
g. Read/Research
Try some research--Sherman Alexie using bing, youtube, google and wikipedia.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Day 3
English 101 Fall 2010 Day 3
1. Food for Thought—Hand in w/names. (10pts)
2. Create Your Own Ritual? Hand in. (10 pts)
3. Hero’s Journey Overview, cont.
4. Read aloud 71 to end.
5. Understanding Gawain’s Journey in class.
6. Homework, read 77-86 in HJ packet.
1. Food for Thought—Hand in w/names. (10pts)
2. Create Your Own Ritual? Hand in. (10 pts)
3. Hero’s Journey Overview, cont.
4. Read aloud 71 to end.
5. Understanding Gawain’s Journey in class.
6. Homework, read 77-86 in HJ packet.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Day 2
English 101 Fall 2010 Day 2
1. Photographs, part two.
a. Quiz Friday
2. Food for Thought—Review and hand in w/names. (10pts)
3. Rituals and Rites of Passage
a. What is a ritual?
i. Any regular activity done in a set pattern can be ritualistic.
2. How do rituals help?
Tell us how to relate to and give meaning to experience.
Aid or guide life’s transitions.
4. Homework: Create Your Own Rite of Passage. Due Tomorrow. Some of the five steps can use same language. Must be “do-able” at YVCC. Bring props if you’d like us to try your rite of passage.
5. What makes a hero?
6. Star Wars or Avatar or Lion King or Harold and Kumar?
7. Hero’s Journey Overview.
8. Homework, read 49-72 in packet.
1. Photographs, part two.
a. Quiz Friday
2. Food for Thought—Review and hand in w/names. (10pts)
3. Rituals and Rites of Passage
a. What is a ritual?
i. Any regular activity done in a set pattern can be ritualistic.
2. How do rituals help?
Tell us how to relate to and give meaning to experience.
Aid or guide life’s transitions.
4. Homework: Create Your Own Rite of Passage. Due Tomorrow. Some of the five steps can use same language. Must be “do-able” at YVCC. Bring props if you’d like us to try your rite of passage.
5. What makes a hero?
6. Star Wars or Avatar or Lion King or Harold and Kumar?
7. Hero’s Journey Overview.
8. Homework, read 49-72 in packet.
Path to Adulthood Longer
Here's an article from NYTimes on the subject of prolonging the rites of passage.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Day 1
English 101 Fall 2010 Day 1
1. What is your morning ritual?
a. Why do you do things this way?
2. Stonehenge at Solstice and in 3 days at Equinox.
a. Traditional/“Primitive” v. Modern rituals
b. What’s missing from modern rituals?
3. What is the meaning of an experience?
a. For example, First Day of Class or Autumnal Equinox?
i. Polysemous. (many potential meanings)
ii. How does a culture stick together this way?
4. Rituals and Rites of Passage
a. What is a ritual?
i. Any regular activity done in a set pattern can be ritualistic.
1. Other examples? Greeting friends, performance, dress, athletics, getting ready to go out.
2. How do rituals help?
b. Why do we ritualize?
i. We all ritualize, some may not recognize it.
ii. Tell us how to relate to and give meaning to experience.
iii. Aid or guide life’s transitions.
iv. Healing.
5. Rites of Passage
a. Modern? 21ers/Driver’s License/Teams/Graduations/Gangs/Religious/
6. Specifically, Rites of Passage
a. growth of individuals and communities.
b. Examples of traditional and modern rites of passage.
7. Read Rituals and Rites of Passage H/O if time.
8. Syllabus.
9. Photographs.
10. For Homework: Read Rituals and Rites of Passage, complete Food for Thought.
11. Read in class for in class tomorrow: Create Your Own Rite of Passage for the “First Day of Class”—it has to be “doable” at YVCC.
a. If you need to bring props, bring props.
Buy To Kill a Mockingbird and suggested, A Writer’s Reference.
1. What is your morning ritual?
a. Why do you do things this way?
2. Stonehenge at Solstice and in 3 days at Equinox.
a. Traditional/“Primitive” v. Modern rituals
b. What’s missing from modern rituals?
3. What is the meaning of an experience?
a. For example, First Day of Class or Autumnal Equinox?
i. Polysemous. (many potential meanings)
ii. How does a culture stick together this way?
4. Rituals and Rites of Passage
a. What is a ritual?
i. Any regular activity done in a set pattern can be ritualistic.
1. Other examples? Greeting friends, performance, dress, athletics, getting ready to go out.
2. How do rituals help?
b. Why do we ritualize?
i. We all ritualize, some may not recognize it.
ii. Tell us how to relate to and give meaning to experience.
iii. Aid or guide life’s transitions.
iv. Healing.
5. Rites of Passage
a. Modern? 21ers/Driver’s License/Teams/Graduations/Gangs/Religious/
6. Specifically, Rites of Passage
a. growth of individuals and communities.
b. Examples of traditional and modern rites of passage.
7. Read Rituals and Rites of Passage H/O if time.
8. Syllabus.
9. Photographs.
10. For Homework: Read Rituals and Rites of Passage, complete Food for Thought.
11. Read in class for in class tomorrow: Create Your Own Rite of Passage for the “First Day of Class”—it has to be “doable” at YVCC.
a. If you need to bring props, bring props.
Buy To Kill a Mockingbird and suggested, A Writer’s Reference.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Last Day
Last day
H/I “Second Chance” Draft?
Essays must include my comments
H/I bonus points.
MLADM2KX, round two, the reckoning.
Complete Feedback.
Return of Essays, etc
Starting Thursday, ask Kelley in English Department.
Grades due Thursday, posted online under schedule that day
My schedule
Fall: English 101x2 and Creative Writing.
Winter 102x3: Here's what we're reading.
Spring 70 x2 and Creative Writing, I think
Also, you can ask about anything anytime.
You can say hi to me on campus. Say your name and I'll say mine.
You can say hi to each other.
And now:
H/I “Second Chance” Draft?
Essays must include my comments
H/I bonus points.
MLADM2KX, round two, the reckoning.
Complete Feedback.
Return of Essays, etc
Starting Thursday, ask Kelley in English Department.
Grades due Thursday, posted online under schedule that day
My schedule
Fall: English 101x2 and Creative Writing.
Winter 102x3: Here's what we're reading.
Spring 70 x2 and Creative Writing, I think
Also, you can ask about anything anytime.
You can say hi to me on campus. Say your name and I'll say mine.
You can say hi to each other.
And now:
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Day 25
English 101 Summer 2010 Day 25
Peer review review?
Narrative Rubric Point Spread.
Structure—Hero's Journey Plot Log—Due Monday with Final Draft.
Monday-final draft, plot log and round one of Modern Language Association Death Match 2010 (MLADM2KX).
Tuesday: Revised essays due.
MLADM2KX: Round Two: The Reckoning.
Now, time for your hero's journey, revision work, questions, research
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Day 24
English 101 Summer 2010 Day 24
Meet in the lab tomorrow. Work on essays and stories.
Complete peer review.
Peer review review.
Structure—Hero's Journey Plot Log.
Revision tips and techniques. (powerpoint)
Sample essays
Smoke Signals—Kari, Layla
TKAM—Jim, Anna, David
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Costs of Textbooks
Here's an article about "open source" text books titled:
$200 textbook v. free. You do the math.
$200 textbook v. free. You do the math.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Tom and Barack and Harold
Here's an ad aimed at Harold Ford.
Here's this picture.
And then, this ad.
Is this the same "race baiting" as in TKAM?
And then, more recently, as in July, race became a big issue again, briefly.
What is the difference between "reverse" racism and racism?
What can Zebo really do about it?
Finally, here's the president addressing race during the campaign.
Here's this picture.
And then, this ad.
Is this the same "race baiting" as in TKAM?
And then, more recently, as in July, race became a big issue again, briefly.
What is the difference between "reverse" racism and racism?
What can Zebo really do about it?
Finally, here's the president addressing race during the campaign.
Day 22
English 101 Summer 2010 Day 22
Homework: Rough Draft of Your Journey Due Tomorrow. Bring Four copies, please.
TKAM Essays returned.
Notes:
Better job with applying HJ definitions this time.
Still working on this
Better job with topic sentences and summaries.
Still working on weaving in ample evidence.
MLA improved.
I liked the risks of Atticus and Jem as topics.
Clean copies?
On Wednesday, we'll look at successful essays for the first two assignments.
845 avg: 83.4 (Jasmin, Luis, Dora, Jim, Justin, Lisa and Jessica all improved scores)
1030 avg: 84.1 (Julio, Caroline, Sandra, Lloyd and Moya all improved their scores)
Rubric for narrative prompt.
Review from Last Wednesday:
Narrative in Creative Non-fiction
- Characters (186)
- You become a character
- Major ones should be round, have more than one attribute, change over time
- My father was a great guy v. Mosquitos would not bite him (186)
- You become a character
- Consistency, Complexity, (these first two are in tension) Individuality
Setting (187)
"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
–Anton Chekhov
- Time & Place (physical environment)
For example: Greasy Lake, Death of a Salesman, To Build a Fire, The Storm
New notes:
Dialogue (118)
Short
Vivid
Believable
Tips on Dialogue
In two's: I'm sorry but…
- The first writer pulls out a piece of paper and begins their dialogue with the words "I'm sorry, but…". They complete the sentence and pass the journal to their partner.
- The partner, after reading the sentence, writes a line (or paragraph) of dialogue which heightens the tension.
- Keep passing the journal back and forth, trying to throw curve balls at one another without delving into the absurd.
- Try not to rely on dialogue tags to reveal how the character is speaking.
- In fact, don't use dialogue tags at all. Rely on your word choice and punctuation.
Listen to how people talk to each other
- Most of it is the weather.
- He's like a bull in a china shop…
- Eating out. Bars. Waiting rooms. Cell phone jerks. At the checkout.
More notes on dialogue:
Dialogue is not real speech, but it should sound like it.
- Cut words and phrases that don't move things along
Don't use dialogue to provide exposition—keep it to three sentences or less
Break it up with action—remind us they are physical
Vary signal phrases, but keep it simple. Don't use elaborate signal phrases (she expostulated, he interjected)
Avoid stereotypes in dialect, but…
- Huck Finn
- To Kill a Mockingbird
Don't over use slang/profanity. "Slang goes sour in a short time." --EH
Read a lot. Note good/bad
Punctuate correctly
- Use quotation marks.
Start a new paragraph when changing speakers.
Point of View (131)
Tense (132)
Structure—Hero's Journey.
We'll talk about Wednesday or Thursday.
For now, ¼, ½, ¼: Separation, Initiation, Return/Arrival
Exposition: 104
And "in media res"—Great Beginnings 1 and 2; Memorable Endings
Slides on Revision
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Don't click if you are easily offended
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4xlYKAVCQ
Slacker
Waking Life--some people think this goes too far and becomes "preachy"
Glenngary Glen Ross
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction Hamburger Scene
Casablanca Ending
China Town
Aaron Sorkin Talks to Charlie Rose
Clerks Jedi
Ellen Page and Cody Diablo talk about their favorite lines from Juno
Improvised Lines from Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest, also--Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman)
Day 21
English 101 Summer 2010 Day 21
Vonnegut
Narrative in Creative Non-fiction
- Characters
- You become a character
- Major ones should be round, have more than one attribute, change over time
- My father was a great guy v. Mosquitos would not bite him (186)
- Five senses
- You become a character
Characterization
- Say
- Think
- Do
- Look like
- What others say
- Their past
- Names
- Scout, Cal, Dill
- Consistency, Complexity, (these first two are in tension) Individuality
Exercises:
- Naming exercise
- Senses/Images
- He/She was the kind of person who... (five telling details).
- How well do you know your characters.
Dialogue (187)
Short
Vivid
Believable
Tips on Dialogue
In two's: I'm sorry but…
- The first writer pulls out a piece of paper and begins their dialogue with the words "I'm sorry, but…". They complete the sentence and pass the journal to their partner.
- The partner, after reading the sentence, writes a line (or paragraph) of dialogue which heightens the tension.
- Keep passing the journal back and forth, trying to throw curve balls at one another without delving into the absurd.
- Try not to rely on dialogue tags to reveal how the character is speaking.
- In fact, don't use dialogue tags at all. Rely on your word choice and punctuation.
Movies with great dialogue: Tarantino, Juno, Linklater, Kevin Smith, Coen Brothers, David Mamet, Casablanca, China Town, Aaron Sorkin
Listen to how people talk to each other
- Most of it is the weather.
- He's like a bull in a china shop…
- Eating out. Bars. Waiting rooms. Cell phone jerks. At the checkout.
Right now: Field work
- Hub. (x8)
- Deccio. (x3)
- Lobby downstairs. (x4)
- Lobby upstairs. (x4)
- Library (x3)
- Outside. (x2)
Come back in 15 minutes with dialogue.
Find a line or two.
More notes on dialogue:
Dialogue is not real speech, but it should sound like it.
- Cut words and phrases that don't move things along
Don't use dialogue to provide exposition—keep it to three sentences or less
Break it up with action—remind us they are physical
Vary signal phrases, but keep it simple. Don't use elaborate signal phrases (she expostulated, he interjected)
Avoid stereotypes in dialect, but…
- Huck Finn
- To Kill a Mockingbird
Don't over use slang/profanity. "Slang goes sour in a short time." --EH
Read a lot. Note good/bad
Punctuate correctly
- Use quotation marks?
Start a new paragraph when changing speakers.
Setting (187)
"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
–Anton Chekhov
- Time & Place (physical environment)
- TKAM
For example: Greasy Lake, Death of a Salesman, To Build a Fire, The Storm, Grapes of Wrath
Exercise:
- Write about the time: (five minutes)
- you watched light settle on the water
- you saw the first smudge of dawn
- you woke before the others
- you watched light settle on the water
- Write about something from memory that seems lit by a particular kind of light. (from Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck)
- There was this one tree.
5 w's
Senses/Imagery
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