Week of 9-13
September 2013
English
1301
You
and Mr. Hall
Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday:
1.
Find
a seat and begin writing in your journal, ten syllables per line. There is no
down-time in this class. Don’t wait to
be told to begin; passivity is your enemy.
2.
Open
your Orwellian telescreen to angryverbs.blogspot.com for your syllabus and
lessons. Begin reading. There is no down-time
in this class. Don’t wait to be told to begin; passivity is your enemy.
3.
Roll
call
4.
Administrivia
A. Unfinished
business
B. Know that you
are subject to a quiz at any time
5.
Descriptive
essay
A. Finish reading
and discussing George Orwell’s “Confessions of a Book Reviewer.”
B. Consider the
five senses and how, in our time, we rely mostly on sight and sound because of
our Telescreens.
C. Discuss template
/ MLA format for essay writing.
D. Discuss scoring
matrix.
E. Discuss the
descriptive essay you propose to write.
F. A rough draft
of your essay is due at roll call on your first class of next week. “Rough draft” means that your essay is typed
in the MLA format and is complete, and that it also features lots of
corrections, emendations, and comments by others whom you ask to look at your
work. I command you to work together and
learn together; when I don’t want you to work together, such as on a test, I’ll
tell you.
Grade – you will earn 100 if your
rough draft is both complete and messy (which shows you re-read it and re-worked
it). Your grade will be 0 if your paper
reflects inadequate work or if you do the “my printer broke last night” thing.
Your final draft will be due the week
of 23 – 27 September. This pace is
somewhat leisurely; due-dates will be closer as the term progresses.
6.
Questionnaire
(handout) – write in complete sentences
7.
Work
on questionnaires and / or descriptive essays while the instructor, a poor role
model indeed, at lasts reads your journals.
8.
Door
prize!
9.
11:14
A.M. Go away.
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