monday’s class

In today’s class we started off with the students choosing a painting, then we went into groups of 5 with other students we picked the same painting. In the groups we discussed the painting and put together our ideas and thoughts about the paints. The essay about the painting is due on Wednesday. We then got back our in class writing exam, and Prof. Rosen explained the instructions for the revision essay that is due on the 4 th of november. As a class we went analyzed the poem “Ode on a Grecian”, we realized that the poem is written in old english and that is talking about a cow getting sacrificed by a priest to release the frozen villagers. Prof. Rosen then told the class to read the poem that were due for todays class and next class for Wednesday.

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Class Recap 10/21/09

Yesterday in class we went over the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes. We went over the way it’s written and how that affects the meaning of the poem. We also went over the similes and questions in the poem. We also went over how we could connect the poem Harlem to history and how we be able to do a research project. Last we went over our seven part research project. The first part we must complete by next class is we have to pick a painting and poem to use for the research project. Prof. Rosen has posted up six paintings and a poem that goes with that painting that we must choose from. Only five students per painting.  She also has posted up the outline for the research paper.

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Wednesday Class 9/30/09

today in class, professor rosen reminded some of students to create a wordpress and dropbox account.  And then we talk about the author, narrator, setting, characters, polt purpose/point and conclusion of the story “hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and Professor Rosen told us that the man and the woman were talking about abortion in the story. The man doesnt want the baby, because he thinks they cant go to any places and do anything they want to if they have a baby.

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Wednesday Class 9/23/09

In class, we took a quiz on the play “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and then we had to hand in our draft of our essay.  We had to write a cover letter of our draft, the cover letter was answers of the questions that were provided by Professor Rosen and we had to write it as a letter. Professor Rosen gave us few minutes to make last small changes on our essay.  After that she told us that we have to hand in our essays electronically by using the site Dropbox. She told us that now we have to hand in a copy of our essay and also the file of our essay in order for it to be graded. We also started reading the play “Story of an Hour” and used different types of notes to enhance our understanding of the play.

Homework: Read “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (Link provided on blog) then post a reading response on the blog.

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Class on September 20th, 2009

Class for September 20, 2009

Today in class we spent a significant amount reflecting on our own pieces of writing and how we can improve on our pieces of writing for our final draft due Wednesday. We began the class        analyzing our own essays and writing an outline for our essay. This helped us to determine the structure that our essay was to take. We then used this outline to determine whether or not our essay followed the trail that our thesis statement laid out. Two students’ thesis statements were put on the projector in order to help them to revise the statement. My thesis statement was one of the two we talked about. I found the class to be engaged and honest about my thesis statement. It did need work and with the help of the class I was able to structure a good statement. After structuring and analyzing the statements we made an outline of the two essays based on the thesis statement. We learned that a person should be able to determine the roadmap for the essay based simply on the thesis statement. That thus requires that the statement be specific.

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Class summary september 16

On wednesday class, we started with the professor teaching us some  things about the using the blog.  we learned how to write a post.  we also learned we can go to our account and change our nickname (preferably our first and last name.   our introduction paragraphs were due today.  we answered a few questions about first our paragraph.  we then answered the questions about someone elses paragraph so we can help and make suggestions on how to improve their paragraph.  Our homework is to finish a full draft of the essay.

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Thesis statements

Thesis Statements:

• Main idea of your essay
• Your argument, opinion, position
• Not a fact, a question, or a generalization
• Lays the groundwork for your essay:  a roadmap to the rest of the essay
• Specific:  to the assigned texts; to the scope/length of the essay; to the assignment questions
• Supportable with evidence from the texts
• Last sentence (or two) of your introduction
• The so what of your essay

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