Lessons for 30 September - 4 October and 7-11 October. TEST.

Week of 30 September – 4 October 2013

 

Work on your persuasive mini-essays.  The rough drafts are due 7 / 8 October.

 

Return descriptive essays and last week’s quiz.  The detailed debriefing was to help you develop your ability to write effectively.  You took good notes, right?

 

Week of 7 – 11 October 2013

 

Monday and Tuesday – rough drafts of your persuasive mini-essays are due for a participation grade.  Everybody reads everybody.  Read, think, critique, learn.  This will be the last time for a session with rough drafts; however, we will take some time in future classes for helping each other.

 

The final drafts of your persuasive mini-essays are due on Monday and Tuesday of next week.

 

Wednesday and Thursday – a test.  We will take all period for this test, which features approximately thirty questions dating back to the first day.  You may use your book and your notes, but there will be no other assistance and no use of Orwellian Telescreens.  Those of you in the habit of checking the time on your OT are advised that this will result in a zero for the test; I recommend that you hide that betrayer deep in your purse or perhaps remove the battery.

One question is clearly a list; write all other responses in complete sentences in the objective, detached third-person.  No credit will be awarded for incomplete sentences, badly punctuated sentences, misspellings, prompt-dependence, sentences beginning with pronouns, sentences containing unreferenced pronouns, and sentences with any use of the first- or second-person.

This is an announced test and quite a long and demanding one.  You may take it on Wednesday or Thursday.  If you miss, you must schedule a make-up on your time in the testing room in the administration area; you will not be permitted to use a later class period for this.  The make-up exam will consist of  a prompt requiring a ten-page written essay.

 

Tardiness demonstrates a lack of respect for self and for colleagues.  The schedule is not a surprise, and failure to be on time and prepared is a clear indicator of a lack of serious intent.  No one conscripted you into college.  If you want to be taken seriously, take yourself seriously and do the job you set for yourself.