We didn't get to the freewrite posted below. Most students turned in their revised Wise essays. I need the essays by tomorrow. I do not want to go into the weekend with two essays to read and reread. We had a productive library orientation. Many students had not read chapter 5.
If a student does not have a text, it is his or her responsibility to make arrangements to copy the chapters. Students are responsible for the material and we will have a quiz next week, maybe tomorrow on terms.
There are just three weeks left--my how time flies when one is having fun (smile). Tomorrow we will write an essay in class. Students are to bring their notes from From the Bottom of the Heap, as well as a scholarly article that supports the thesis or argument. We are completing Writing 8 (WLTC).
Tutors are available and students who need such support need to take advantage of such before it is too late. Presentations the final week: Tuesday-Wednesday will look at fallacies. Students will work in teams and present a visual examples of the fallacies assigned. These teams will also create Venn diagrams, and put the arguments into standard form and indicate whether the argument is inductive or deductive.
Students will also write an original skit to be preformed the next week and perhaps during the final week of class as well. I am thinking about reenactment of scenes from the text: Black Like Me and/or a conversation between Tim Wise, John Howard Griffin, Robert King, and/or perhaps a character in The Known World?
The final essay taken from a theme from The Known World will be turned in with the portfolio.
Next week we will continue to write and analyze arguments.
I am thinking out loud since students are behind. This musing is subject to change pending a conversation with students.
Reading Logs
Oh, I am expecting students to include reading logs with their essay tomorrow for the King book and all subsequent books: vocabulary logs, questions, notes, etc. If you have notes for Wise, great.
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During the library orientation, I learned how easily one can most information on the world wide web. What shocked me the most was the Martinlutherking.com site created by neo-nazis. If the information was taken in "passively", as the librarian said, one could've unknowingly cited false and racist information on a highly important historical figure. To prevent this from happening, one must actively question the source of the information. Questions to ask are: who the author is, why was it written, who paid the author, who owns the website, how long ago was it written, what is the point of view, who is the audience, and is the information complete.
ReplyDeleteI've learnd how to find or gather informations I want to know through the internet. I've never joined the AC Transit website, and I also didn't know how to access to the most useful imformation I need. Through this orientation, I realized how to use internet to get information.
ReplyDeletethe presentation we listen to in the library had lots of good points. The librarian explained to us how to legitimise sources on the internet. He said to always look at the author, the person who payed the author and the date the information written. these are all very important because there is no way to legitimise what people say on their own website,as they can say whatever they want.for example he showed us the frist site that shows up on google for M.L.K. Jr. It explained that there should be no day to celebrate M.L.K. The site was funded by a white suprmesis group. The date is also important because facts from the past can be proven wrong so a older site can have information that is not recent.
ReplyDeleteThe library presentation informed us on how to filter through the vast choices of websites to be used as informational sources for our papers. I learned that it is important to ask myself questions regarding the validity and credentials of the authors. Questions involving their stance on the issue, whether the information are biased or not, as well as the audience they are presenting their views and information to. The website’s sponsor, whether they are paid or not, and if they are being paid then who is paying them, should all be taken into account. It is substantial to separate objective and subjective views, facts and opinions. The librarian informed us about periodicals in which are divided into scholarly and popular. Scholarly are journals, whereas popular periodicals are magazines and newspapers. He gave us a sheet of paper for evaluating websites that included the relevant questions to be asked to find out the legitimacy of the website. I definitely know that sheet of paper will come handy soon enough.
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