Home work for next week. for all the classes.....

Hey there, now that your papers are done, we are going to give you a chance to do some more reading.

In "Why School"  I would like you to read chapters 1 through 5. For each chapter, write up one/two paras of discussion response to what he is saying. You can pretend you are talking to Rose. What do you want to tell him after reading each chapter.

Please bring the book to class next week.

We will assign paper 3 next week, but you should check back on my blog on Friday. I will assign some more work at that time....

until then.....

Class cancelled tonight, Wed Oct 30th....!

Hey all, I have to cancel class for all the classes for today Wednesday, oct 30.

For the Monday/Wed classes, please bring your essays next Monday.

For the Wed night class, please bring it next week.

I will be posting the next Home work, etc, tonight....look for it tonight..thx

and sorry for the inconvenience....

No class Monday! (Oct 28th)--------

Hey all, sadly I have to cancel class for all the classes on Monday.

For the Monday/Wed classes, please bring your essays on Wednesday.


For the Monday night class, please bring it next week.

For the Monday night, I will post your HW for this week on Wednesday.....

(For the M/W classes, i will give you the HW on Wed, in class....)

HW for the Monday Night 1A class--due on Oct 21

Hey there! here is what is due for Mon Oct 21st.

1. So, please bring  2 typed copies of your first draft attempt at turning your posts into an essay type format. Please look at earlier posts I posted where I offered advice about how to go about creating this essay...there is a lot of good advice. If you like, you can email me your first draft BEFORE next Monday if you want me to check it out.

2. Please bring the Why School book to class.

3. Please finish watching the Darrick Smith video, and then write a post in response. (That will bring you up to 10 posts!)

For those of you doing rewrites on the Bread Givers essay, you can bring your rewrite next Monday the 21st if you want, and I will look it over....of course you can also email it to me to have me look at it.

HW for Wed Oct 16 for the M/W classes

Hey there! here is what is due for Wed, Oct 16.

1. So, please bring a typed copy of your first attempt at turning your posts into an essay type format.
(If you did it on Monday, and I said you were looking good, please bring it again anyway, so you can share it with others. You are welcome to continue to fix and shape it before tomorrow of course.)

2. Please bring the Why School book to class.

3. Please finish watching the Darrick Smith video, and then write a post in response.

What to bring to class next week----

Hey there, so I had originally said that this last Monday I was going to assign 3-4 more posts for you to do, bringing it up to 12. Let's hold off on that for a bit.  Instead what I would like you to do is to go through the posts you do have, (its 8 or 9 depending on which class you are), and begin to take your first attempt at creating your essay #2.

The first thing you should do is  to go back and read through and think about your posts—you may also want to re-look at the video prompts—and see if you can begin to shape a coherent discussion that links these different posts into a single essay that situates you inside of Education—what value does it have for you, what challenges do you face, what strategies do you employ. The paper as well will be exploring your POV about Education itself—its value, its challenges, its role in our society.

Part of your job is to begin to decide which writing should go first, which writing should follow after, etc.

As you begin to build this essay you will be drawing from 3 sources of writing: 1) the blog posts you have already created (of course you may well want to expand them and add to them)…2) any new writing you do to flesh out your ideas…3) transitional phrases and paragraphs you create to stitch together your paper’s flow/argument.



For your first day of class next week I would like you print out and bring your first attempt at doing the paper. Dont worry to much if it feels a bit choppy. Try to write and bring as much as you can!

For the M/W and Mon nite class, pls bring the draft on MONDAY, OCT 14

For the Wed nite class, pls bring it on WED, Oct 16.

Water Polo

No class on Monday or Wednesday--meanwhile enjoy this vid that shows some cool goals in  waterpolo.

On Monday the 7th, be looking for your next set of blog post assignments. Also, we will be very likely asking you to bring your first version of your paper the following week to class. SOOOO, its important you keep creating good rich posts so you can draw from them to start to build your essay...

Stay dry!

Monday night 1A--! please read this post... this is the #2 essay assignment

Hello Monday night 1A class. Below is the #2 paper essay assignment guidelines. You will see that all of the posts  you are being asked to do will be integrated into your paper. So it is really important that you do the blog assignments that I have been posting and will be posting. 

EDUCATION and SUCCESS ESSAY

For this paper, you will be asked to build an argument/discussion in which you consider your attitudes/philosophy in light of the concept of Education. You have been--and will be--exploring your point of view about Education in series of blog posts. Most of the posts have been in response to a written prompt or video, though some posts may be responses to a prompt that you came up with.

Now you will be asked to go back and read through and think about your posts—you may also want to re-look at the video prompts—and see if you can begin to shape a coherent discussion that links these different posts into a single essay that situates you inside of Education—what value does it have for you, what challenges do you face, what strategies do you employ. The paper as well will be exploring your POV about Education itself—its value, its challenges, its role in our society.

As you build this essay you will be drawing from 3 sources of writing: 1) the blog posts you have already created…2) new writing you do to flesh out your ideas…3) transitional phrases and paragraphs you create to stitch together your paper’s flow/argument.

You will want to really think about how you want to organize the paper. You will have a LOT of material to draw from if you have been doing all the posts and writing a lot inside each post.

You must integrate Mike Rose’s Why School? into this paper; quotes from the book need to be included in your paper, as well as a consideration of concepts that are found in the book.

You must average a minimum of 1-2 short quotes per paragraph. You should include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible. Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. Remember that the video prompts you have watched are a great source of quote support.

The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages…(BNDJTM…)

Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the questions/prompts that you have been exploring.

For the Monday night 1A class, The paper is due October 28th. First draft is due Oct 21st.

(Of course, before the "first draft" date, you will very likely be bringing in and sharing paragraphs from your paper. That would happen on the 14th. Keep looking at my blog for news about that. )

Best of Luck!!

HW for M/W classes and for Monday night 1A class

Here are your next 3 assignments. (This will bring you up to 9 posts total. You will get 3 more next Monday.) 

a

1. For this assignment, please watch this video interview with Jeff Duncan Andrade. Please write a post in response to this interview. Here are some questions to consider (you don't need to do them all): 

What seems to be his philosophy of education? What do you think about his philosophy? Why is he such a badass lol? In what ways does this interview speak to or reflect your own experiences with education?

2. For this assignment you are asked to see if you can find your own video to embed and write a post about. The video should have some relationship to education. It can be explicitly about education, like the two videos above, or it can be a video that perhaps talks about education in a more symbolic or metaphorical way. (For example, one student picked a video of a person bungee jumping whose cord broke. The student wrote about how that could be a metaphor for education.) What ever video you pick, you should write a post that explains why you picked it and how it relates to education.

3. For this assignment you are asked to pick any two chapters from Why School? to read and write about. (Of course, don't pick 9 and 10--we already did those.) Once you read the chapters, you are asked to write a post that explores these questions: What seems to be the main ideas of each chapter? How does your personal educational experience relate to the content of the chapter? What is your opinion of the main ideas of each chapter? 

HW for the Wednesday night 1A class

Hey there, below are 4 assignments for you to do, and then to post to your blog. (I had said I would give you 3 assignments, but this way we can do 4 and then 4 more on Monday--to kind of balance out the work.)

1. 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?

2. 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 issue and you will want to dig into it.)

a

3. For your third assignment, please watch this video interview with Jeff Duncan Andrade. Please write a post in response to this interview. Here are some questions to consider (you don't need to do them all): 

What seems to be his philosophy of education? What do you think about his philosophy? Why is he such a badass lol? In what ways does this interview speak to or reflect your own experiences with education?

4. For this assignment you are asked to see if you can find your own video to embed and write a post about. The video should have some relationship to education. It can be explicitly about education, like the two videos above, or it can be a video that perhaps talks about education in a more symbolic or metaphorical way. (For example, one student picked a video of a person bungee jumping whose cord broke. The student wrote about how that could be a metaphor for education.) What ever video you pick, you should write a post that explains why you picked it and how it relates to education.

Paper #2—“Education and You”—McFarland—Chabot—Fall 2013

For this paper, you will be asked to build an argument/discussion in which you consider your attitudes/philosophy in light of the concept of Education. You have been--and will be--exploring your point of view about Education in series of blog posts. Most of the posts have been in response to a written prompt or video, though some posts may be responses to a prompt that you came up with.

Now you will be asked to go back and read through and think about your posts—you may also want to re-look at the video prompts—and see if you can begin to shape a coherent discussion that links these different posts into a single essay that situates you inside of Education—what value does it have for you, what challenges do you face, what strategies do you employ. The paper as well will be exploring your POV about Education itself—its value, its challenges, its role in our society.

As you build this essay you will be drawing from 3 sources of writing: 1) the blog posts you have already created…2) new writing you do to flesh out your ideas…3) transitional phrases and paragraphs you create to stitch together your paper’s flow/argument.

You will want to really think about how you want to organize the paper. You will have a LOT of material to draw from if you have been doing all the posts and writing a lot inside each post.

You must integrate Mike Rose’s Why School? into this paper; quotes from the book need to be included in your paper, as well as a consideration of concepts that are found in the book.

You must average a minimum of 1-2 short quotes per paragraph. You should include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible. Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. Remember that the video prompts you have watched are a great source of quote support.

The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages…(BNDJTM…)

Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the questions/prompts that you have been exploring.

The paper is due _________. First draft is due _______ 
(Of course, before the "first draft" date, you will be bringing in and sharing paragraphs from your paper....)

Best of Luck!!