Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, Italics (use an underline), and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following sentences.

1. The men in question Harold Keene, Jim Peterson, and Gerald Greene deserve awards.

2. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

3. Only one course was open to us surrender, said the ex-major, and we did.

4. Judge Carswell later to be nominated for the Supreme Court had ruled against civil rights.

5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article How Not to Go Camping.

6. Yes, Jim said, I'll be home by ten.

7. There was only one thing to do study till dawn.

8. Montaigne wrote the following A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

9. The following are the primary colors red, blue, and yellow.

10. Arriving on the 8 10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate her husband and Tim, their son.

King´s Great Dream

As you may have heard today marks the 50th anniversary of King´s ¨I Have a Dream Speech¨. We´ll be analyzing another time later this semester.



If you´d like a preview read any of these op-ed articles.

What is rhetoric?

Read here.

Fredrick Douglass Boulevard

 For Writers Workshop this week be sure to bring in your completed first literacy narrative draft.

 For Friday have completed a blog entry for Chapters 3 and 4. In them be sure to discuss Douglass' use of pathos, logs and ethos. Also, don´t forget that you should include some vocabulary and definitely direct quotations.

Beginning Douglass

Over this weekend complete one blog entry for Chapters 1 and 2 of Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass: An American Slave.

What is a reading blog?

What is a reading blog?

Reading to Blog

What's more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We'll be able to answer some of those questions after we've recorded the history of our relationships with our books.

In order to preserve paper, as well as to promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we'll be keeping blogs about the books we read.

You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I hope you focus on different topics and take different approaches in each entry.

Here are some possibilities:

-Respond to the text personally: 

I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!

-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation: 

The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf "huffed and puffed and blew his house down" he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve's character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.

-Ask questions to later answer:

What might the grandmother represent? Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses? How might I write a better ending? I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs. 

-Visual Vocabulary 

Select the words you think it was important to define in the text. Match a picture to it on your blog post. 

-Hyperlink 

You might want to use the 21^st century's answer to footnotes when you're talking about something that is not common knowledge. We'll do a demo of how to insert a hyperlink in class.

You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries. We'll take a look at them next week in class and in conferences.

Writing About Reading

Complete the first draft for your literacy narrative for our next Writers Workshop.

Remember?

 After creating our blogs in class, let's put'em to use!



Over this weekend you are to find a piece of writing you like from any part of your years in school. Then in a video you will read that piece of writing.

Image Here

Click here to see our flick.

What is a blog? And how is it different from a blog post?

From the looks of it, most of you have experience with blogging, which is great. But given that our course will focus on the various genres of writing, I'd like to do some reading and thinking about exactly what a blog is.

 1. First watch this video. Which of the features of the blogs mentioned have you never used? Would you include it for a blog in our class?

2. Now go to blogger and create your own blog. Please use your real name for your blogger account. Remember this a blog to deal with the contents of our class. 

3. Please read this article in Slate. When you're finished write a blog post in which you respond to Wickman's distinction between blog v. blog post.

When you're finished responding to this entry and copy and paste your url here. This way we can see all of our blogs.

A Game Plan

If you're interested, this is more or less our schedule in the following weeks.

Welcome to the Unending Conversation

"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress." Kenneth Burke, "The Unending Conversation" 

 

 

School Supplies

Above is a political cartoon - that is, not to be taken literally. These are the kinds of texts you'll find on the test.

Now, seriously you all need:

- 1 gluestick
- three colored highlighters
- post-its
- preferibly some kind of electronic word processor for Writers Workshop.

Your first homework assignment will be to bring these to our next class.