HEY!~ Paper 4 due date has been extended for 102 and 1A classes

hey there,

so we are making paper #4 due next Wed the 23rd of December....

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this also is the deadline for getting in any late papers....

soooo,

Pls have all your work emailed to me by Wed dec 23rd....

thx...

INFO about ENGLISH 1A FINAL-- for tues and for thurs classes

Hey there, here is the info for the THURSDAY 1A class:

Your final time is this THURSDAY Dec 17th...that doest give you a lot of time to revise your draft...soooo, 

we are giving you the option of coming to the OTHER 1A class that meets this TUESDAY dec 14th, in the same room and at the same time, 430pm

you MUST come to one of these two classes.....(if you want to come to both, that is totally fine too.)    cu !     bring your draft when you come to class.....

here is the info for the TUESDAY 1A class:

REMINDER: ENGLISH 1A FINAL is Tuesday Dec 15th at 430 ......you must be there! ​

 bring your paper 4 draft......c u! 

Reminder! English 102 Final is MONDAY Dec 14th from 10 to 12. YOU MUST BE THERE! it starts at 10 am NOT 1030......

Reminder! our English 102 Final is MONDAY Dec 14th 

from 10 to 12.....bring your draft for paper 4

YOU MUST BE THERE! 

it starts at 10 am     NOT 1030.......(like the normal class)

YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! YOU MUST BE THERE! 

HW for 102 class to prep for final next monday

To prepare for essay 4, I think we need to have an idea of what concepts we are doing for each question. SO, lets do an outline.
What I want you to do is do Rule of 3 for each question (or at least rule of 2 for all of them, and rule of 3 for a couple of them...) and email to me what you are planning to write about....you should do this by Thurs nite, dec 10.

I will get back to you about how the outline is looking and then you can start writing...

Remember, our final is from 10 to 12 on Monday , Dec 14th. PLease bring TWO copies typed of the essay.

NO english 1A class today...read post for info

hey, so sorry, i am still really pretty sick , so no class today....

so here is the plan....i need to see the HW that you would have brought today, so you have a couple options

1. you are welcome to come to this THURSDAY class....it meets in the same room as our tues class and at the same time.....bring your HW at that time...
or.........
2. you can send your HW to me by email....do so by tonight.....

you should do one of these 2 options....

meanwhile, our final for the tuesday class  is TUESDAY Dec 15, at 430pm.....I will see you at that time...

HW for Thursday 1A that is due on Dec 10

first thing is to get and bring the book!

(dont forget the HW that was due  before  (the 3 chapters to read , and the imagination exercise where you spend time thinking like an animal....)

below is the new HW

here is the Reading assignment: 

3 more chapters:

1. Man against the Universe pg 207
2. The Last Neanderthal pg139
3. and a 3rd chapter of your choosing....

(that makes 6 chapters total that you should have read so far....)

here is the Writing assignment:

Here are the first two questions from the Essay #4---

1. What did you "discover" when you attempted to get closer to nature, by spending time in nature and/or by spending time with an animal(s)?
2. What does Eiseley seem to doing with his writing?

pls answer these two questions, using Rule of 3 and pulling quotes. (For Q1 you will still want to pull in quotes, even though it is a more personal question.....)
bring 6 paras to class on monday...this is a pre draft day.....

also, check out this video.....it is lonnnnggg, but that is the point, lol....once you check it out, write about  what you were thinking as you watch it...(doing this will help you with question #1 above...)

HW for 102 class that is due next monday....

first thing is to get and bring the book!

(dont forget the HW that was due THIS week, (the 3 chapters to read , and the imagination exercise where you spend time thinking like an animal....)

here is the Reading assignment:

3 more chapters:

1. Man against the Universe pg 207
2. The Last Neanderthal pg139
3. and a 3rd chapter of your choosing....

(that makes 6 chapters total that you should have read so far....)

here is the Writing assignment:

Here are the first two questions from the Essay #4---

1. What did you "discover" when you attempted to get closer to nature, by spending time in nature and/or by spending time with an animal(s)?
2. What does Eiseley seem to doing with his writing?

pls answer these two questions, using Rule of 3 and pulling quotes. (For Q1 you will still want to pull in quotes, even though it is a more personal question.....)
bring 6 paras to class on monday...this is a pre draft day.....

also, check out this video.....it is lonnnnggg, but that is the point, lol....once you check it out, write about  what you were thinking as you watch it...(doing this will help you with question #1 above...)

HW due next week for the 1A classes

first thing is to get and bring the book!

(dont forget the HW that was due THIS week, (the 3 chapters to read , etc....



Writing assignment:

This is an imagination exercise---you will be going into the mind of your pet, to try to get into their thoughts and spirit and body. You will be imagining what they are thinking, feeling, needing, etc... ----the goal is to leave your own brain behind, and to see if you can enter the mind of the fellow creature.... use your (their) 5 senses....try to stay away from concepts, and instead explore the senses....and the details of their world....you could maybe write about "a day in thelife" of the animal you chose..you can do it in the "I" voice ...or in third person (he, she)

this is an exercise that will take some time... you should plan to sit with the creature to get closer to it, literally and figuratively. ----

you can do it as a poem, or as prose......take your time... to get into the head space needed to do this...


Reading ass. :

3 more chapters:

Man against the Universe pg 207
The Last Neanderthal pg139
and a 3rd chapter of your choosing....

Essay #4 -- due dec 18th by email....

For this essay #4, you are going to be exploring these questions:

1. What did you "discover" when you attempted to get closer to nature, by spending time in nature and/or by spending time with an animal(s)? (this question is asking you to think about what you learned about yourself in trying to get closer to nature. Thus, Q1 is a lot like Q5, SO, you only need to answer Q1 OR Q5.)
2. What does Eiseley seem to doing with his writing?
3. What is he trying to teach us?
4. What do you think of Eiseley's efforts to look for the poetic aspects of life out in the biological world? (Most trained biologists don't do this in their writing or work.) (this Q kind of answers Q2 , at least for one of your Rule of 3 paragraphs..
5. What did you learn this semester about your own relationship with nature?
6. What did you learn this semester?

The paper is due by email on Dec 18, Friday. 
We will do draft day on the day of the Final for your class....
We will also do pre-drafts next week.

this paper will have the same formatting as your other papers:

1. 3 para intro
2. 1-2 quotes per para
3. The Star Thrower needs to be quoted in your paper 
4. You may also quote from other sources too...but the bulk need to come from Eiseley's book
5.  5 page minimum
6. Rule of 3 for the questions....

HW due for this Wed ...102 class

first thing is to get and bring the book!



Writing assignment:

This is an imagination exercise---you will be going into the mind of your pet, to try to get into their thoughts and spirit and body. You will be imagining what they are thinking, feeling, needing, etc... ----the goal is to leave your own brain behind, and to see if you can enter the mind of the fellow creature.... use your (their) 5 senses....try to stay away from concepts, and instead explore the senses....and the details of their world....

this is an exercise that will take some time... you should plan to sit with the creature to get closer to it, literally and figuratively. ----

you can do it as a poem, or as prose......take your time... to get into the head space needed to do this...

HW for 102 and 1A classes....due next week

hey there, so we are starting on a new book, "The Star Thrower," by Loren Eiseley.

You have some reading to do, and some writing...all of this will lead you directly into paper 4, which will be assigned next week. the HW below is due on Monday Nov 30 for the 102 class...

First the reading...

Please read the following chapters,

1.  "the long loneliness" pg37, 
2. "the innocent fox," pg. 53,
3.  "how flowers changed the world," pg 66.

once you read these chapters, here are some questions for you to answer.

1. what does Eiseley seem to doing with his writing?
2. what is he trying to teach us?
3. what did you learn?
4. How does Eiseley relate to Thoreau? (you will need to do a little research into who Thoreau was in order to do this question....) 

you should do 1-2 paras for each question..... type up....

HW for 102 for Wed

hey.....so we are doing a draft day on wed....the 18th.
pls bring two copies typed

wht you should have be Wed:

1. at least 6 body paras typed (with quote support)--if you can get more, then pls do.
2. your outline of what your paper will be doing...this means 4 big concepts, with Rule of 3 for each of the 4 big concepts...

the outline is crucial , bc we need to know what the rest of your paper will be doing...

in order to generate your 4 big concepts, you can draw from the blog post below, and from your own notes, and from the ideas that are found in our prompts...INto the WIld, the two movies, story of stuff, circular kindergarten, Andrade video below, project based  video  below, ....you will want to pull quotes from these various sources...

HW for the TUESDAY 1A class

soooo,


we are doing big time big deal draft day next week,,, bring 2 copies typed....

the goal is to have 12 body paras, and 3 intro paras....

you should have 4 main concepts that are RULE of 3'd.......

try to get 2 quotes per paras.........


final paper is now due on Tues the 24th....

Notes from Thurs nite 1A that can help 102 class and 1A class with paper #3

 Hey there, these are some rough notes from class on thurs.... you might find them helpful;....

one way to get into the paper, is to first think about what isn’t working with education…this can be personal … this can be from memory… of course it can also be researched , academic, etc…

You can include negative thoughts about education in 3-4-5 (topic sentences)  and in commentary…to set up your POSITIVE  concepts...(think of your concepts as solutions...._)

Another way to get a foot hold into the paper  is to ask for yourself: what should be the goal of school? 

Some big concepts that can be explored (and then Rule of 3’d)

Limits of Formal Education—(opposite of that could be your concepts

• ·    Structure of the classroom
• ·    The “systems” of college
• ·    Curriculum (what is taught)
• ·    Pedagogy (how it is taught)

TRAVEL—

• Self education----
• education by the tribe
• education by family
• power of technology to shape education 
  NATURE

• Nature as a classroom..Circular kindergarten …
• Relate N to the curric
• N offers perspectives—
• Respect N , teach about N, make us aware of it…
• Understand what N offers us--
• N supplies metaphors for how to live , for how to learn…

HW for next week for 1A

ok, it is draft day on Tues Nov 10 and Thurs Nov 12----pls bring 2 copies typed of your draft...the goal is have 4 main concepts that you will do a Rule of 3 on....

NOTE: you must email me an outline of your 4 main concepts with the RULE of 3 subconcepts...for the tues class, I need it by thurs, nov 5, and for the thurs class i need it by sat Nov 7


be sure to pull quotes from our main sources, including INto the WIld....speaking of the book , you should be up through chapter 15 by next week.....

In addition, you should consider going to Tourettes without Regrets, which is on Thurs nite, Nov 5. It is a great example of community education that is self generated by the community itself.

also, you should watch HIGH TECH HIGH

and Jeff Duncan Andrade

HW that is due on Monday Nov 2 for 102

1. Continue reading Into the Wild. pls read chaps 1-9 (you don't need to write anything about the book at this time...;.) be sure to bring the book on monday

 2. watch Recycling the Gift.  Then do this question: what are 3 ideas/concepts in the movie that offer different ways to think about Education.  (Do a paragraph for each idea = 3 paras.)




3. watch  The Passion Project. Then do this question: what are 3 ideas/concepts in the movie that u can use for your paper? (Do a paragraph for each idea = 3 paras.)




Be thinking about how you might want to shape your paper...what are the 4 main concepts that you think you might want to do.....(on Monday we will be talking about this..._)


see u

1A class homerwork, due next week (27th for tues, 29th for thurs)

hey you....so you have essay number 3 assignment....
to get started on it, here is what we are going to do...

1. Start reading Into the Wild. pls read chaps 1-5
2. watch Recycling the Gift.  Then do this question: what are 3 ideas/concepts in the movie that u can use for your paper? (Do a paragraph for each idea = 3 paras.)
3. watch  The Passion Project. Then do this question: what are 3 ideas/concepts in the movie that u can use for your paper? (Do a paragraph for each idea = 3 paras.)

see u

Thursday 1A class ...

Hey all, so it turns out that I am going to San Diego after all. soooo, here is what we are going to do...

Pls email your draft for paper 2 ASAP~ ....no later than friday night.... i will read them and give feedback and email the feedback back to you ...

Then you will revise your paper and turn in a kick butt final hard copy next Thursday.... good luck with it alll.... get the draft to me sooonnn....

Hw for the 1A classes that is due next week:

Hey there, so to help us start to get into the paper #2, we have 3 things we are doing that are all due next week. (Tuesday for Tuesday , Thursday for Thursday)


1. go out to nature …. Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…
you will answer these 2 questions...

A. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
B. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)

the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...
how to do this:
dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree... you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, ---find the nature where you find it... dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with


2. Read the Afterward in LHAS (it starts on pg 357) , and then do Q2 on the essay ass. Rule of 3 it... type it...

3. Skim thru LHAS, read around in the book, and find paras and areas of the book that you can use for Q1 of the essay ass. Be prepared to share what you found with the class....

HW due on Monday Oct 5 for the 102 class....

Hey there, so to help us start to get into the paper #2, we have 3 things we are doing that are all due next Monday.

1. Watch "The Story of Solutions"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkRvc-sOKk
What ideas in this video be used for your essay? (Type this up and do a Rule of 3 on it.)

(If you weren't in class today, we watch "The Story of Stuff." It is a companion piece to "Story of Solutions." You should watch it too....if you missed it in class.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM


2. Read the Afterward in LHAS (it starts on pg 357) , and then do Q2 on the essay ass. Rule of 3 it... type it...


3. Skim thru LHAS, read around in the book, and find paras and areas of the book that you can use for Q1 of the essay ass. Be prepared to share what you found with the class....

essay #2---(due dates for each class are at the bottom of the post)

2^nd  Formal Essay —McFarland—Fall—2015

Thom Hartmann—and many other thinkers—believes that the values and beliefs of what he calls the “Younger Culture” are leading humans and our planet in a direction of great danger and calamity. So one reason that Hartmann in his book Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight seems to jump all around in human history, pulling in examples and concepts from deep in our past and from cultures that we may never have even heard of, is that he believes that one solution to this impending calamity is to draw on the wisdom of humans who may have different perspectives than us. He says we should look to the ideas of what he calls the “Older Culture.” (In our movie The Road, the term “carrying the fire” expresses the idea of passing on values and beliefs that benefit civilization.)

In the Afterward of the book, Neale Walsch writes that because you are becoming familiar with the ideas in the book that now you are one of the “Crucial Ones.”  For this paper you will be evaluating Hartmann’s and Walsh’s argument through your own life and experience by looking at some of the following questions:

1.     What do you think of Hartmann’s idea that we can learn how to live more harmoniously on the Earth by adapting ideas from what he calls the “Older Culture”?
2.     What do you think of Walsch’s idea that you are now one of the “Crucial Ones”?
3.     How do you plan to nurture or protect the future?
4.     How do you plan to nurture or protect nature?
5.     What are some beliefs or ways of acting or organizations that you see today that you think actually help other humans and/or the planet?

In order to support your points, you need to use the ideas found in the books, the movie The Road, your research, and in any other handouts, info, etc. that we have access to.

You will need to include in this paper outside sources that look at how we live today, or that suggest long-term consequences of how we live today, or that offer solutions for a better world in order to support your ideas, especially as relates to our relationship with Nature.

You should try to 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.

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 that you will be exploring.

For the Tuesday 1A Class: Paper is due Oct 20, Draft day is Oct 13.

For the Thursday 1A  Class: Paper is due Oct 22, Draft day is Oct 15.

For the M/W 102 Class: Paper is due Oct 21, Draft day is Oct 19.

           

Best of Luck!!

102 HW that is due this Wed....

HW ---due Wednesday…go out to nature …. Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…

you will answer these 2 questions...


1. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
2. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)

the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...

how to do this:

dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree... you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, ---find the nature where you find it... dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with YOU,,,,,,,,,,.................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

HW Due for the 1A classes

hey there, first of all the paper due date was moved back , and the paper is now due this week.

meanwhile, we need to keep moving ahead on the work for paper 2...sooo,
here is the HW that you need to do for this week...




so the HW that is DUE in your class this week  is:

1. Read 165-252 in Last Hours.....
2. answer this question: What do You owe the Future?  Do a Rule of 3 on this Question, and type it up....

see you

102 class HW due this Monday

hey there....

so the HW that is DUE by monday is:

1. Read 165-252 in Last Hours.....
2. answer this question: What do You owe the Future?  Do a Rule of 3 on this Question, and type it up....

see you monday

HW for 102 class (essay number 1 stuff0

hey there, so this week we will  be continuing with our essay #1 work...


by the time class meets on this Monday, here is what you should have accomplished.

1. read up through page 164 in Last Hours. 
2. read and understand the blog post about Rule of 3
3. read and understand the blog post about Typical Academic Paras
4. create a specific outline that has 4-5 Concept Areas--and do Rule of 3 for each Area
5. Write at least 6-8  paragraphs (following the approach of Typical Academic Paras

see you in class!---be sure to bring your paras and your cleaned up outline.

HW for 1A this week.....(essay number 1 stuff)

hey there, so this week we will be doing draft day in class...pls bring 2 copies of your paper....


by the time class meets, here is what you should have accomplished.

1. read up through page 164 in Last Hours. 
2. read and understand the blog post about Rule of 3
3. read and understand the blog post about Typical Academic Paras
4. create a specific outline that has 4-5 Concept Areas--and do Rule of 3 for each Area
5. Write at least 9 paragraphs (following the approach of Typical Academic Paras

see you in class!---be sure to bring your drafts...

HW for 102 class-- due this Monday... Aug 31st

Hey there, first off, you need to be sure you have caught up with ALL the Home work by this Monday. In italics below is the earlier HW:

(the first HW was read 1-59 in Last Hours, and then answer 2 questions:
1. What are 3 things you didnt know about?
2. What are 3 things you DID know about?

The second HW:

1. Pls read 60-83 in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (LHAS). After you do the reading, pls come up with a 90 second "elevator speech" that answers this question: What is Climate Change?
You should write it out, and be prepared to share it with your group.



For THIS Monday--due Aug 31st.

1. Pls read 84-115. After doing the reading, pls answer this question: Why does Hartmann tell us about all the earlier empires in human history? (pls type up 2-3 paragraphs, with each paragraph talking about a different reason.)

HW due on Wed August 26 in the 102 class...

hey there, so this is the HW that you will be doing that is due Wednesday, August 26.


1. Pls read 60-83 in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (LHAS). After you do the reading, pls come up with a 90 second "elevator speech" that answers this question: What is Climate Change?
You should write it out, and be prepared to share it with your group.

Home work for English 1A (tues nite, and thurs nite)

hey there, so this is the HW that you will be doing that is due NEXT week.
 ( Sept 1st for the Tues class, and Sept 3rd for the Thurs class)


1. Pls read 60-83 in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (LHAS). After you do the reading, pls come up with a 90 second "elevator speech"  that answers this question: What is Climate Change?
You should write it out, and be prepared to share it with your group.


2. Pls read 84-115. After doing the reading, pls answer this question: Why does Hartmann tell us about all the earlier empires in human history? (pls type up 2-3 paragraphs, with each paragraph talking about a different reason.)

Course Syllabus for English 1A and English 102---Fall, 2015

ENGLISH —Fall 2015—CHABOT—MCFARLAND

Instructor:  Sean McFarland   Office: in building 400, 453Q upstairs   Phone: 723-7427      

Email: smcfarland@chabotcollege.edu          mcsean10@hotmail.com

Office hours: Mon/Wed 2-315, and Tues/Thurs 2-315

Required Texts:

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, by Thom Hartmann

The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley

Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer

Some of the focus of this class:

1. The unexamined life is not worth living.

2. We are in a deep mess.

• What is your opinion of those 2 statements?
• What is the relationship between those 2 statements?
• How do you get outside yourself?
• Why might you want to?

Course work and class goals:

1.     Write app. 4-5 formal essays. You MUST complete—and I must accept--all the essays if you hope to pass the course. Each essay must be typed.

2.     Introduction of analysis and critical thinking, and its application to essay writing.

3.     Critical and extensive reading and discussion of essays, articles, 3 full-length works and other media.

4.     Study of Grammar and Punctuation.

5.     Study and review of the composing process.

6.     Lead and participate in class discussion.

7.     Conferencing with the instructor.

8.     In-class writing, presentations, field trips, quizzes, final exam.

9.     Frequent homework assignments—these should be typed if possible.

Requirements and Grades:

1.     Attendance is required and will count towards your final grade. If you miss more classes than what is allowed, I will very likely drop you. If you come in late, you risk being considered absent—there is no such thing as “Tardy” at Chabot.

2.     Participation is vital in this class and in most college courses. Please speak your mind. (Please turn off cell phones.)

3.     You are required to meet with me at least 2 times in conference.