Book Reviews

Your book reviews are due on Friday.

Read your book. Make journal entries that will culminate into a "Sparknote" style summary of the book. Journal entries will be checked as part of your process grade. Your summary will be graded. Post your summary to your blog. It will be graded on Friday afternoon.

Read two New York Times book reviews and take notes on them. Post your notes to your blog with a link and MLA citation. Blogs will be checked Thursday afternoon.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html?8qa

Write your book review and upload it to www.turnitin.com by Friday at midnight.

Writing Assignment for Monday

This is an exercise in writing and in reading/following directions.

Click here for an overview:
http://library.syr.edu/nybook/documents/LAL2008EntryGuidelines.pdf
You may write about any book (except for the one for this course) that you have read from 9-12 grade.

Follow the rules outlined here:
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/pdf/lal-2008-official-rules.pdf

Be sure to upload your letter to www. turnitin.com by 9am on Tuesday, October 30th.

YOU MUST BRING YOUR NON-FICTION BOOKS TO CLASS TOMORROW!!!

Today's Articles

Today you will respond to the following news articles. Be sure to follow the same guideline we have been using (link, citation, summary, response).

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/europe/24turkey.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-ligun1024,0,5557903.story
or
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-bzbill235428311oct23,0,3072241.story


Your first entry must be posted by the end of class time. Your second post must be completed by 9pm.

This Week's Assignment

For the next three days, you will post the following assignment to your blog:

Read two news articles each day, one from each of the following newspapers:

• www.newsday.com
• http://www.nytimes.com/

Write a summary of each article, including:

• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?
• How?

Then, write a personal reaction to the issues addressed in the article (this must be at least one paragraph in length).

Post to your blog: summary, reaction, a direct link to the article, and an MLA citation of the article.

This will be checked every day!!!

Commas and other punctuation

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghsk79h_64dqqgck

Process Analysis

Don't forget that the rough draft of your process analysis essay must be uploaded to www.turnitin.com by midnight tonight!!!

Process Anaylsis Rough Drafts

Don't forget:

Your Process Analysis rough drafts must be submitted to http://www.turnitin.com/ by midnight on October 12, 2007.

Your rough draft must be:

• Saved as a Word Document (or on http://docs.google.com/)
• In MLA format (See http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf for help. Remember, your font should be 12pt. Times New Roman)
• Three to four pages in length

Today's Writing Exercise

Write at least one paragraph decribing (in detail) a hot summer day. You may not use the following words anywhere in your description: hot, sweat, sun, heat, or temperature.

When you have finished, post it to your blog under the title "One Hot Summer Day."

You may then begin working on your descriptive observation reports. Your reports must be upload to your new turnitin account by Tuesday, October 9th at 9am.

Here is a copy of the rubric that will be used to grade your report. Don't forget to use MLA format!!!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pVU47ITubqZv-JXwiyEnFMg

Descriptive Writing

Description:
Is the act of capturing people, places, events, objects, and feelings in words so that a reader can visualize and respond to them
Suspends objects in time
In its pure form, does not contain action or time
Is a sensory experience
Is based in “showing” rather than telling
Objective description
Characterized by impartial, precise, and emotionless tone
Technical and specific
Accurate, unbiased, and easily understandable
Subjective description
Is intentionally created to produce a particular response in the reader
Focuses on feelings rather than raw data

Reading and Writing Descriptive Essays:
All good descriptions share four fundamental qualities:
An accurate sense of audience an purpose
A clear vision of the object being described
A careful selection of detail that help communicate the author’s vision
A consistent point of view or perspective from which a writer composes

NEW TURNITIN ACCOUNT

Please enroll in a new class for www.turnitin.com. I have recently added a grading function to this account so that all of your grades and comments will be saved to your portfolio. This way, you won't have to check your email for your grades--just log into turnitin to see them.

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