CLASS UPDATES ENGL101 Writing Rhetorically
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Fall 2021 Open Hours for students (office hours):
MW (in-person or Zoom) 1:30 to 2:30 T (Zoom only) 10:00 to 11:00 R 1:45 to 2:45 (in-person or Zoom) And by appointment Make an appointment, either face to face or on zoom, during office hours or at another time: Let me know you want to meet by adding yourself to my google.doc appointment calendar here: https://goo.gl/3CqLf. If you are meeting me on zoom, I will send you a zoom link for the time you sign up for. |
CLASS UPDATE 6 DECEMBER 2021
ENGL 101E End of Semester Checklist/Timeline
NOTE:this will be posted on the Class Updates page for our class as well as on the Portfolio page for our class.
TURNING IN YOUR PORTFOLIO ELECTRONICALLY:
Turn in your portfolio in whatever way is the easiest for you
Option 1) One google doc with each section labeled as follows:
Option 2) Send one MSWord document or .PDF as an attachment in an email. Label each section as above.
Option 3) Create a shareable link in MSWord to one document, again, labeled as above, to me in an email.
CLASS UPDATE 20 SEPTEMBER 2021
Check out this 7 minute video I made to help folks to understand 1) the late work policy for class; 2) how to understand the "WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH, OR LISTEN TO" column on the website; and 3) formatting on Reading Journals or Reader's Notes. I don't mean it to be like a scold. I mean it to be helpful. Also, it's me without a mask! Click here to watch the video.
CLASS UPDATE 14 SEPTEMBER 2021
ENGL 101E End of Semester Checklist/Timeline
NOTE:this will be posted on the Class Updates page for our class as well as on the Portfolio page for our class.
- Monday and Wednesday of this week:Work continues on your We Are Bridgewater Pecha Kucha. Bring your computer to class to work on your project.
- Wednesday 8 December 2021: you’ll get your Alumni Interview paper back in class. At that point, you will have a week to decide which of your first two papers you want to revise and to complete the revisions. We will do evaluations. You will sign up for dropbox.
- Try to make time to see Courtney this weekbefore Friday during one of her open office hour time slots. Alternatively, you can sign up for a meeting with me using the google sign up that is located on any of our class web pages or in the signature block in my email.
- Friday, 10 December 2021: By Class Time, be sure to have uploaded your We Are Bridgewater presentation to the Dropbox folder for our class. On Wednesday, you’ll get an invitation to join Dropbox. This will allow you access to the folder where you’ll save your finished presentation.
- Thursday, 16 December 2021: By 5:00 on Thursday, 16 December 2021, you must turn in to me the rest of your portfolio materials. What you need to include in that portfolio is outlined on the Portfolio page for our class.
TURNING IN YOUR PORTFOLIO ELECTRONICALLY:
Turn in your portfolio in whatever way is the easiest for you
Option 1) One google doc with each section labeled as follows:
- Best Reading Journal Reflection
- Revision of first or Second Paper with Reflection
- Pecha Kucha reflection
- Book Club reflection
- Portfolio Cover Letter
Option 2) Send one MSWord document or .PDF as an attachment in an email. Label each section as above.
Option 3) Create a shareable link in MSWord to one document, again, labeled as above, to me in an email.
CLASS UPDATE 20 SEPTEMBER 2021
Check out this 7 minute video I made to help folks to understand 1) the late work policy for class; 2) how to understand the "WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH, OR LISTEN TO" column on the website; and 3) formatting on Reading Journals or Reader's Notes. I don't mean it to be like a scold. I mean it to be helpful. Also, it's me without a mask! Click here to watch the video.
CLASS UPDATE 14 SEPTEMBER 2021
A few things about tomorrow, Wednesday, 15 September 2021
1) We are going to spend half of the class going over how book club will work. That is because your first book club is tomorrow during the 12:20-1:10 time class period. Your book club facilitators or I will take you over to where your book club is taking place. You don't have to do anything to prepare for this. We were going to do this in-class work on Monday, but because I had to cancel Friday, we worked on the Ed Brush article. I'm just letting you know.
2)BUT THE OTHER THING WE ARE DOING IN CLASS: is workshopping your partner profile. If you have not gotten in touch with your partner and/or don't have enough information to try to write a 250 word profile of them, you need to get on that ASAP. My expectation, as it says on the syllabus, is that you will come to class with a hard copy draft of your 250 word profile. We will workshop these in class and they are due on Friday. If you don't understand what you are supposed to do--either because you weren't in class or weren't paying attention or just didn't understand--please read the assignment page, available on our class website or by clicking here.
3) YOU SHOULD BE KEEPING YOUR APPOINTMENTS WITH COURTNEY. As you all know, because I said it every class period we've met, ENGL 144 starts this week. That means that if you signed up for a slot with Courtney, I expect that you are going to it. Meeting with Courtney this week is a great way to get help with your partner profile if you don't understand what I'm asking you to do. She can go over the assignment with you and even help you to formulate questions if you don't have them already.
4) ATTENDANCE. I am very serious about attendance. There are a few of you who have already used two of your three free absence days. As I said on the first day of class, I don't do excused on unexcused absences. You are either in class or you are absent. I'm not enforcing an attendance policy just for fun. I'm doing it because when you miss class you miss a lot and then you are confused. Further, you can't expect me to re-teach class and catch you. That's not how college works. So save yourself some trouble and show for class when you are required too.
I've created a page on our website where I will house information like this. It's called the "class update page" and you can access it in the drop down menu for our class or you can click here. This way, should you need to refer back to one of these emails, you won't need to search through your emails to find it.
See you all tomorrow. And I'm super serious about the "all" part.
LT
1) We are going to spend half of the class going over how book club will work. That is because your first book club is tomorrow during the 12:20-1:10 time class period. Your book club facilitators or I will take you over to where your book club is taking place. You don't have to do anything to prepare for this. We were going to do this in-class work on Monday, but because I had to cancel Friday, we worked on the Ed Brush article. I'm just letting you know.
2)BUT THE OTHER THING WE ARE DOING IN CLASS: is workshopping your partner profile. If you have not gotten in touch with your partner and/or don't have enough information to try to write a 250 word profile of them, you need to get on that ASAP. My expectation, as it says on the syllabus, is that you will come to class with a hard copy draft of your 250 word profile. We will workshop these in class and they are due on Friday. If you don't understand what you are supposed to do--either because you weren't in class or weren't paying attention or just didn't understand--please read the assignment page, available on our class website or by clicking here.
3) YOU SHOULD BE KEEPING YOUR APPOINTMENTS WITH COURTNEY. As you all know, because I said it every class period we've met, ENGL 144 starts this week. That means that if you signed up for a slot with Courtney, I expect that you are going to it. Meeting with Courtney this week is a great way to get help with your partner profile if you don't understand what I'm asking you to do. She can go over the assignment with you and even help you to formulate questions if you don't have them already.
4) ATTENDANCE. I am very serious about attendance. There are a few of you who have already used two of your three free absence days. As I said on the first day of class, I don't do excused on unexcused absences. You are either in class or you are absent. I'm not enforcing an attendance policy just for fun. I'm doing it because when you miss class you miss a lot and then you are confused. Further, you can't expect me to re-teach class and catch you. That's not how college works. So save yourself some trouble and show for class when you are required too.
I've created a page on our website where I will house information like this. It's called the "class update page" and you can access it in the drop down menu for our class or you can click here. This way, should you need to refer back to one of these emails, you won't need to search through your emails to find it.
See you all tomorrow. And I'm super serious about the "all" part.
LT