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BY FRIDAY, DEC. 12 Department Portfolio is due before you leave. Here is the handout:. Please follow the instructions carefully. Paper clip the two papers and your letter together and put them in the box outside my office.

FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 5 Read this:. When you are done reading, in the bottom LEFT corner, put a letter grade on it (A,AB,B,BC, etc). Bring this to class and be prepared to write.

FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 I will be in my office Tuesday afternoon if you need additional help or have concerns. And don't forget about using the writing center as an excellent resource. Portfolios due. Here's the list: In the syllabus, I mentioned several course goals we would be working toward this semester. Please discuss how well you feel you have met these course goals, what you struggled with, and what you have learned. Remember to GIVE EXAMPLES from your writing to support your claims. ||
 * 1. || At least four drafts, with comments from me and your peers, that demonstrate effort towards what we worked on in class. Please LABEL your drafts. (Draft one, draft two, etc.) ||
 * || The first draft is the typed version of journal one. ||
 * || The second draft was the one you wrote after your group conference and should show evidence of responding to that. ||
 * || The third draft was the one I read for our individual conference and should show evidence of all the grammar work we did. ||
 * || The fourth is the final draft. ||
 * 2. || Process work: There are six pieces to this: ||
 * || 1. your midterm in-class exam as a response to "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment" ||
 * || 2. the non-stop in-class writing exercise about "America the Multinational Society" and the "N" word ||
 * || 3. TWO summaries of "Something About the Subject Makes it Hard to Name," both the original and the revised ||
 * || 4. a response to "Teach Diversity With a Smile" ||
 * || 5. a response to "Cultural Baggage" ||
 * || 6. your annotations of "All American Girl" ||
 * 3. || Four Journal Entries ||
 * || 1. long one, connecting all six. the handwritten version (or a copy of the typed, which is also draft one) ||
 * || 2. response to prompt: how's the paper going? Problems, concerns, joys, ect ||
 * || 3. (at least) five difficult sentences rewritten without error ||
 * || 4. last journal - cover letter for the department that responds to the the following prompt:
 * Here are the course goals: || - to help you learn to read carefully, think critically, and write coherently ||
 * || - to help you focus your writing for a specific audience and purpose and to have a clear thesis with all ideas connecting to that thesis ||
 * || - to help you learn to support your ideas with examples, experiences, anecdotes, quotations from readings, and reasons ||
 * || - to help you learn to organize your ideas in a reader-friendly way, transition smoothly between ideas, and craft and solid introduction and conclusion ||
 * || - to help you learn to edit your work carefully for error in spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, repetition, word choice, and more. ||

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 27 Please bring your completed draft. We have much to accomplish. Your portfolio is due Wednesday, so be sure to plan time to get that well organized.

FOR MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 25, 26 Conferences: All in my SAC 334 office. No regular class. A no-show equals two zeros and two absences. I must have your paper 24 hours before your conference or you get a zero for not being prepared.

Monday 10:00 - Becky 10:15 - Eric Jobe 10:30 - Kendall Jackson 10:45 - Forrest Duvendeck 11:00 - JJ Randall 11:15 - Jose Jiminez 11:30 - DeAndre Crenshaw 11:45 - Joe Boahbedason 12:00 - Austin Montgomery 12:15 - Colton Little 12:30 - Meredith McNair 12:45 - Ben Ward

Tuesday 3:00 - Yan Liang 3:15 - 3:30 - Steve Mack 3: 45 - 4:00 - Cramer Gormley 4:15 - Xavier Corranza 4:30 - LinLIn Chen 4:45 - 5:00 -

Wednesday 10:00 - Kelsey Knapp 10:15 - Terry Brown 10:30 - Cory Radak 10: 45 - Jon Ross 11:00 - 11:15 - 11:30 - Tejesh Patel 11:45 -0 Jane Vallejo 12:00 - Corey Hopwood 12;15 - 12:30 - FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 21 Complete draft (number 3) for editing. We'll be conferencing one on one next week.

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 Do another Hacker Exercise: Do the "Mechanics" exercises. As you do them, write down the five you have the most trouble with, then write down the correct answer. Be able to explain why the one is wrong and the other is right.

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 17 If you didn't get a chance to complete the Hacker exercises, please do so. I will give credit all through the weekend (it was a lot...). Write a new journal. Here's your prompt: After doing these exercises, what can you notice about your patterns of difficulty? What errors do you find yourself making the most? Identify five of the categories you did the most poorly on. Find both the wrong and right answers. In your journal, write down one of the answers you got wrong. Write down both the correct answer and the wrong answer. Using your handbook, figure out what is wrong with the incorrect sentence and fix the sentence. Do this for your five worst categories, fixing your wrong answers. This may take some work, so give yourself some time. PS - IF WE WENT OVER IT IN CLASS, YOU HAVE TO DO A DIFFERENT ONE OR IT WON'T COUNT.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 14 Please go to this website [|Diana Hacker Exercises]. Sign up as a student, and be sure to put my email (wendt@alma.edu) as the instructor email. Click on "Grammar Exercises"--it will take you to a page that lists several kinds of exercises. Please do "Sentence Style" and "Punctuation". The results will be sent to me, so please do this early enough for me to get these results.

Also write a journal entry: Talk about how this paper is going--your frustrations, your concerns, your joys and woes, what's going well and not so well. Be specific and give examples from your paper, the group conference, and any work we did in class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 Please bring a completed (not polished) draft to class--all five-ish pages.

FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND MONDAY, NOV. 6,7, AND 10 NO CLASS FRIDAY OR MONDAY DUE TO CONFERENCES __BEING UNPREPARED EARNS YOU A ZERO. NOT SHOWING UP EARNS YOU A ZERO AND TWO ABSENCES. BE THERE!!!__ As before, please email a copy of your draft to the others in your group at least 24 hours in advance of your conference. Print out one for each person in your group, read their paper, and complete the worksheet. Bring the copy of their paper and the completed worksheet to the conference. All conferences will be held in the library/writing center. Here is the schedule:

THURSDAY, NOV. 6 7:00pm - Becky Marton, LinLin Chen (12lchen@alma.edu), Anthony Reedy 8:00pm - JJ Randall, Cory Radak, Austin Montgomery (12almont@alma.edu), Xavier Caranza (12xcarr@alma.edu) 9:00pm - 10:00pm - Eric Jobe (12eajobe@alma.edu), Ben Ward (12bhward@alma.edu), Tejesh Patel (12tspate@alma.edu)

FRIDAY, NOV. 7 10:30am - Kendall Jackson, Forrest Duvendeck, Julius Porter, Jon Ross (12jtross@alma.edu) 11:30am - Meredith McNair (12mcna@alma.edu), Jane Vallejo (jvallejo@alma.edu), Kelsey Knapp (12klknap@alma.edu), Joe Boahbedason (12hjboah@alma.edu) DeAndre Crenshaw (credea234@yaho.com)

MONDAY, NOV. 10 10:30am - Jose Jiminez, Steve Mack, Yan Liang, Terry Brown 11:30am - Cramer Gormley (12ctgorm@alma.edu), Corey Hopwood (galerius07@yahoo.com), DaRon Allen (12dtalle@alma.edu), Colton Little (12cjlitt@alma.edu).

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 Please have a thesis statement (or more if you are having trouble) for your paper. And consider your journal to be the first rough draft. Type it up if you haven't already and get working on this next paper. Details Wednesday and conferences Friday!

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 3 Please write a journal--a lengthy journal, two pages typed or four pages handwritten--making connections between all the readings, focusing on one theme or issue that all of these deal with such as language, identity, isms (racism, classism, sexism, etc), multicultural blending, hate and/or violence, cultural pride, what is means to be American, etc. Be sure to discuss EVERY article, how each one connects and supports your idea. Bring these journals to class, along with the entire packet of readings.

Side note: if you missed class on Friday, your mid-term portfolio is in a box outside my office, SAC 334. Pick it up whenever you'd like.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 31 (HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!) Please read the last article in the packet: "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong. You don't need to write anything at this point, but please read this--it's very short. And annotate it as well (underline good quotes, ask questions in the margins, etc.)

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29 Read the fifth article in the packet: "cultural baggage." Write a response only. Also be sure to read the summary and response you swapped with your classmate and give them feedback and even argue with their assumptions. Be sure to sign your name on their paper at the end and show your work to me for credit. Make sure the feedback is substantial for credit--a couple smiley faces won't cut it!

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 27 Revise your summary of Yamato's article, eliminating all plagiarism and quotations and using all your own language. Please have this typed/word-processed and bring to class. Also read the next article in the packet, "Teach Diversity With a Smile," and write a summary and response to this article. You may respond in any way you wish: agree or disagree, extrapolate on her ideas, relate to your own experiences--and kind of response is fine. Bring this to class as well.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 24 Write a stellar summary of "Something About the Subject Makes it Hard to Name"--keep in mind how we talked about summarizing in class. Bring your summary, typed, to class Friday, as well as the article.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22 Please read "Something about the subject makes it hard to name" by Gloria Yamato, which is the third article in you used for your mid-term exam.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 20 No homework. Please fill out the mid-term course evaluation and bring it to class if you did not complete it on Wednesday.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15 PORTFOLIOS DUE!!!! Please include when you gather things for your portfolio. You also have an in-class exam on Wednesday, for which you will need to print out and read the following article titled "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments" by Robert Holbreiner. It is the first article in the packet and the only one you will need. Bring a printed copy of the article to class with you for your exam.

FOR MONDAY (NO CLASS FRIDAY DUE TO DEATH IN THE FAMILY) Please finish your editing and retype your paper, completing it for one final edit. Also write a journal (this will be number 5). Here's the prompt: As you complete your last draft before turning it in, think back over what you have learned so far this semester about writing. What stands out to you as the most important thing you've learned? Why? How did the several drafts process work for you? Did the group conference help? A little? A lot? Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? Why? Think over your progress and the process, analyzing what has worked for you and what has not.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8 Keep editing your paper. It is time consuming, so don't put it off. You have to have it done by Friday. Please bring your handbook to class on Wednesday.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 6 We will be editing. Please bring a revised copy of your paper. This means draft number three--polished, complete for the first four criteria with nothing left to work on but grammar, punctuation, and sentencing.

NO CLASSES WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1 OR FRIDAY OCT. 3 GROUP CONFERENCES - ALL CONFERENCES WILL BE HELD IN THE WRITING CENTER, LIBRARY, FIRST FLOOR BY THE COMPUTER LAB.

Please come prepared to your conference: Email your paper to the other members of your group (below). Read the papers sent to you. Fill out the, one for each paper you read. Bring their printed paper, the completed worksheet, and a copy of your own paper to the conference. If you do not attend, you will get an absence and a zero. If you come but are unprepared, you will not get an absence but will get a zero. If you cannot make it, please email me IN ADVANCE and still get your materials to everyone for credit. Below is the schedule:

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1 10:30 - 11:30 Becky Martin 12rjmart@alma.edu Jon Ross 12jtross@alma.edu

THURSDAY, OCT 2 6:00 - 7:00 Austin Montgomery 12almont@alma.edu Xavier Carranza 12xcarr@alma.edu Colton Little 12cjlitt@alma.edu Joe Boahbedason 12hjboah@alma.edu

7:00 - 8:00 Kendall Jackson 12kejack@alma.edu Anthony Reedy 12amreed@alma.edu Cramer Gormley 12ctgorm@alma.edu LinLin Chen 12lchen@alma.edu

8:00 - 9:00 Jose Jiminez 12jhjime@alma.edu Ben Ward - 12bhward@alma.edu Eric Jobe 12eajobe@alma.edu Steve Mack Big-Mack33690@yahoo.com, or 12slmack@alma.edu

9:00 - 10:00 Forrest Duvendeck fdsoccer18@yahoo.com, or 12fwduve@alma.edu Meredith McNair mkmcnair@comcast.net, or 12mkmcna@alma.edu Jane Vallejo jvallejo@alma.edu

FRIDAY, OCT 3 10:30 - 11:30 Julius Porter 12jmport@alma.edu JJ Randall 12jjrand@alma.edu Cory Radak 12cjrada@alma.edu Terry Brown 12tdbrow@alma.edu DeAndre Crenshaw credea234@yahoo.com

11:30 - 12:30 Yan Liang liang@alma.edu Corey Hopwood 11cmhopw@alma.edu Kelsey Knapp - 12klknap@alma.edu DaRon Allen - 12dtalle@alma.edu Tejesh Patel - 12tspate@alma.edu

NO CLASS FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 29 Please work on a second draft of your essay, focusing on SHOWING and THESIS. Bring a typed and printed out new version to class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24 Journal Prompt: Take a careful and critical look at your first draft, then think about what you need to do to work on this. Re-vision this piece. If you started all over from scratch, what shape would this essay take? Talk about what you need to do to make this paper brand new.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 22 Come back safe and in one piece.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 19 Complete rough draft of literacy autobiography due (4-5 pages), typed, double spaced, 12pt font. Print out and bring to class. Also complete your timeline or webbing to include in your portfolio.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17 Go to http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/sslick/autobio/index.htm Read at least three of these and make notes on what you find interesting, helpful, something you'd like to emulate. Write down at least three things, one from each, and bring to class. Journal: What does the word "literacy" mean to you? Give what you consider a definition, and it has to be more complex than simply "reading and writing." Explain your definition and defend it.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 15 No homework. You're welcome.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 12 Please write in your journal, responding to the following prompt: How do you see yourself as a reader and writer? Do you like to read? To write? Do you hate it? Why? What kinds of things do you read? What writing have you done? Write about yourself as a reader and writer.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10 Please write in your journal, responding to the following prompt: What was your high school English program like? What courses did you take? How much writing have you done? Be specific, give details, and remember you are graded on content and on support (only).

Also read the article on the "Handouts and Readings" page, print it out, and bring it to class.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 8 Please complete your wiki page if you were unable to do so in class. Remember to include the following: At least one photo of yourself At least one paragraph describing yourself At least four links to outside pages At least one video clip (forget this) At least one other image that represents something significant about you. And remember, this page represents you. Be sure that you edit your writing and present yourself in a way that Alma College would find tasteful.