HW for M/W classes--due this Wed (Oct 2), posted to your blog site

For this post assignment, you are asked to first watch this video that was made by 2 students here at Chabot. The movie profiles 6 kinds of community college students. After watching it, please create a post on your own blog that is a response to the movie. Questions you can consider: Which kind of student do you consider yourself to be? How do you feel about being a ___________ kind of student? Do you want to change categories? How might you do so? How can we talk about where students are in their college experience without turning it into a kind of "blamegame?" What role or relationship does Passion play here?

For the second assignment you are asked to read chapters 9 and 10 in our text, Why School? (pages 117-137) One of the things Rose writes about is that there seems to be an impulse in Higher Education to "kick remediation off campus." Write a post in which you discuss whether or not you agree with this idea. (Remember to Rule of 3 this, bc it is a complex argument and you will want to look at it in some depth.)

Jeff Andrade Duncan on Education "I teach my neighbors' kids"

Homework for Mon and Wed night 1A classes AND for M/W classes

Chabot wants to adapt and changes its policies and practices to focus more on you, the student. A huge part of that process revolves around understanding who our students are and where they come from. It is important to hear your story. Use the following questions to tell it. You will be soon creating your own blog, and this will be your first post on it. SO, you should be sure to save your writing in a word doc so you can easily post it into your blog (after you create the blog.)

(All the HW below is due by the next class: For the Monday night and for the M/W classes that means Mon, Sept 30. For the Wed. night class that mean, Wed, Oct 2nd.) 

1. Create your blog. Here is how: Google "blogger" and go to that page. Either sign in (if you have gmail account) or sign up to Gmail. After you are in Blogger, you will find a screen that says "create a new blog." Follow the guidelines on this screen to create your own blog!
After you have your blog, you will want to start creating  posts. There are 4 homework assignments below; they should each be their own posts.
ALSO, once you create your blog,  please email to me your blog address. It should look something like this: http://seanchabot.blogspot.com       email it to smcfarland (at) chabotcollege.edu

Good luck with all this!!

2. How do you define success? (Try Rule of 3.) (post this to your blog!)

3. What helps you succeed in your community? What prevents your success?
You can use the following list to get started, but if an important part of your life is not represented here please incorporate it into your response.
1. Family
2. Religion/Culture
3. Crime
4. Hunger
5. Transportation
6. Personal
7. Money
(post this to your blog!)

4. Please Watch: "Surfacing With a Dream" ----Please address this question: Should community colleges support ESL students to reach their goals IF the goals dont seem to align with the mission of the community college. (For example: some students in the movie want to learn English to be able to talk to their child's school teacher. That is not really part of the mission of the typical college.)
(post this to your blog!)

5. After watching "The Passion Project," please write a response. Please "go deep" with your response. Here are 2 questions to consider: How does this movie speak to you? What role do you think passion should play in education, especially in the classroom?  Try to Rule of 3 these questions...and for sure you should quote from the movie as you write your post. The full transcript will help you do that.
(post this to your blog!)

Education and Success

Chabot wants to adapt and changes its policies and practices to focus more on you, the student. A huge part of that process revolves around understanding who our students are and where they come from. It is important to hear your story. Use the following questions to tell it. You will be soon creating your own blog, and this will be your first post on it. SO, you should be sure to save your writing in a word doc so you can easily post it into your blog (after you create the blog.)


1. How do you define success? (Try Rule of 3.)

2. What helps you succeed in your community? What prevents your success?
You can use the following list to get started, but if an important part of your life is not represented here please incorporate it into your response.
1. Family
2. Religion/Culture
3. Crime
4. Hunger
5. Transportation
6. Personal
7. Money

3. Please Watch: "Surfacing With a Dream" ----Please address this question: Should community colleges support ESL students to reach their goals IF the goals dont seem to align with the mission of the community college. (For example: some students in the movie want to learn English to be able to talk to their child's school teacher. That is not really part of the mission of the typical college.)


This will be due on Wed, for the M/W classes.
For the once a week classes, this will be due next week.

HW due on Monday Sept 9 (this is for the M/W classes and WED night class

Hey there,


This HW is due Monday for the M/W classes
and of course for the Wed night class you'll turn it in Wed...

1. A lot of you decided to revisit your interviews and see if you can push them a bit....making them longer, asking more questions, and trying to generate more specific concepts....I think doing this is a good idea, and I hope you try it again if you are not quite satisfied with your first attempts. You can also go talk with brand new people if you want as you work to go deeper with your interviews.

2. You should bring 6 typed paras to class--these should be hard copy or on a computer that you bring...these are body paras, and you are answering the questions on the essay assignment. You should for sure try following the template that we went over last week. You can answer any of the 5 questions that you want as you create your 6 paras.

(3. Just a heads up, you should have the entire Bread Givers book done being read by Wednesday of this week.)