HW for M/W 1A and 102 classes AND HW for Wed night 1A

So, of course there is no class next Monday, so the HW below is due on Wednesday Sept. 4.

Reading: Please read up thru Book II in Bread Givers. (thru ch. 16)

Interviewing: You should bring to class your typed up interviews that you did with 3 immigrants.
To prepare for the interviews you should go to this link and read through the advice about how to do interviews and how to prepare for interviews.       Tips for interviewing!

As we discussed in class, below is an approach for developing good interview questions:
You need to come up with concepts that you can explore in the interviews, but where will you get your concepts from? Well, one trick is to start with what you know. There are several places from which you can come up with concepts:

• Bread Givers has lots of concepts that can be inferred from the episodes in the story
• Check your class notes
• Consider your own experiences
• Look to other classes you may have had that explore these issues
• Do some research on Internet

Once you have some promising concepts, you should do a Rule of 3 on them to make sure they are not too big or general. Once you have developed these "right-sized" concepts, you are ready to start turning them into interview questions. Remember to avoid "Yes/No" style questions. Good luck with the interviews, and do not forget to check out this link!  Tips for interviewing!

Homework for M/W classes AND for the Monday night 1A

HW due Wed Aug 28: (This is for the M/W classes....)

Read: Finish up through at least Chapter 9 in Bread Givers.
Write: pls respond to this question--What are 2 struggles that women today face that are similar to what Sara faced in the book? (Type it and do a Paragraph for each.

Below are two links....one is to a discussion of Rule of 3...the other is to a discussion of how to build effective academic paragraphs...you should read them both...

Link: Rule of 3!

Link: Building academic paragraphs!

HW assignments for the Monday night 1A class:

We don't have class next week, so the assignments below are due Sept 9.

1. Finish reading Bread Givers

2. You should finish your interviews of immigrants. Here is a link to some advice for how best to prepare for and conduct an interview. You will find it VERY helpful, so you should read it!
  
      Tips for interviewing!

3. Write 6 paragraphs as your first response to the essay assignment. (You can pick any of the questions to answer; you should eventually try to come up with 3 answers--that is 3 diff paragraphs that address 3 diff concepts--for each question.

Below are two links....one is to a discussion of Rule of 3...the other is to a discussion of how to build effective academic paragraphs...you should read them both...

Link: Rule of 3!

Link: Building academic paragraphs!

http://practices.accelerationincontext.net/2011/09/17/rule-of-3-and-creating-academic-paragraphs/

HW for Breadgivers

Here is your HW due next week:

Get the Bread Givers book. (get all the books) Start reading, and pls read up through chapter 8.
Writing Prompt: Discuss 2 tensions that Sara as an individual has with her larger family unit. (type this--figure 1-2 paragraphs of discussion for each tension.)
Visit: Tenement Museum website--cruise around on it and write 2 paragraph discussion of what you think of it
Research: What was the Triangle Shirt Fire? Why is it important in US history? (2-3 paras discussion.) Use your own sentences to write these paragraphs.

Type all the HW and pls bring hard copies next week. 

SOME LAST MINUTE GUIDELINES FOR THE FINAL PAPER

Below are some guidelines we offered in class for shaping up your final papers:

• Do 3 para intro--For the "BooK": Into the Wild, but maybe also Passion project. 
Cook is crucial….For hook you could perhaps choose something that you wrote that  you like that perhaps doesn’t fit into your paper's flow. 

• Paper is due Monday august 12 by 5pm. 
Remember it should also be posted to your site, with “pretty stuff” –links etc,--built into the posted version of your paper---

• “Rule of 3 is the shit”  says Monique—it forces transitions…it pulls more ideas out of you, it works!

• As for quotes…try 2 per para as much as possible….also , remember there are LOTS of poss quotes…inside the many prompts we have---

• Don’t start paras with prompts….no names of prompts in the the 3-4-5 (Dont start a para with a reference to "Into the Wild" for ex. Instead, start off a good 3-4-5 that elaborates on some concept that is FOUND or SUGGESTED BY your prompt, (in this case "Into the Wild") and THEN bring in the prompt as a quote. 

• This idea came from Elliot in the 7 class: Read the paper, see what it is trying to tell you…(overall)---what is the paper about, what is its “feel”—(not really talking about COOK here…)…this FEEL, once you have identified it, can serve to help shape the movement of the paper…you can add aspect of this IDEA/FEEL  to your end of para commentaries for example.

• Make the transition paras big as possible so that you dont have a look of 3 big old paras (for a Rule of 3) followed by a little para. 

HW for this weekend --

1. On Tuesday, pls bring a draft of your paper. Pull your posts into a Word doc, and shape it/organize it as you see fit. Be thinking about what thesis is emerging in all of your writing. Once you see that, that will help guide you about what new writing you need to do to flesh out your paper.

2. Please do a post that addresses these two questions: should a student in the Passion class be asked to critique Education? Should a student in a passion class be asked to look into themselves?