Home work that is due on Wednesday, July 1st

Hey there, so I will not be in class on Tuesday.

of course that gives you an extra day to finish the paper #1.
Please bring the paper, a hard copy, on Wed.

alsooooooo, you need to start getting into our next book,
 Design, When Everybody Designs, by Manzini.

I would like you to start with chapter 2. Pls read it, it goes from 29-54.

you have a couple questions to do in response to the reading:

1. What is the difference between "Conventional Mode" and "Design Mode?"

2. What is the difference between "Problem Solving" and "Sense Making?"

3. What is meant by "Design as activism?"


Please type a para or two for each question, and bring them on Wed.


meanwhile , here is a water polo vid....

HW for Thursday, June 25----it is Draft Day

so tomorrow is  Peer Review Draft Day for the Essay 1.

you should bring 2 copies of your paper.


you should try to bring 10-12 paras.

dont worry about intro just now....we will get into that tomorrow..


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HW for Wed June 24

hey there, a lot of you have finished reading the book, Bread Givers! That is awesome. Many others of you are deep into the book, keep rolling and see if you can finish it by Thursday.

Today (tuesday) we went over your first 6 paras for the essay.
They looked pretty good!

so, the HW due on Wed:

If you didn't bring all 6 paras that were due today, be sure to do that mañana.
If you DID bring all 6 today, but were given some advice about them, pls do a Revision, and bring it mañana.

IN ADDITION,

pls answer Q 3--about positive benefits....see if you can come up with 2 paras for this question...


so, all together you want to try to bring 8 paras mañana.

cu

This is the Essay #1 assignment...for summer 1 A

hey there, a few students asked if I could post the Essay #1 online..here it is below:

CHABOT COLLEGE—Summer 2015—1st PAPER—Eng 1A

One of the central claims that James Gilligan makes in his book Violence, and that Mary Pipher makes in her book, Reviving Ophelia, is that girls and women in the United States today are being terribly harmed by something  called the “Girl Code.”  (This code can be thought of as the socially expected gender rules for women.) Pipher argues that this Code is everywhere and that girls and women have a hard time not changing their behavior to meet the Code’s guidelines. He goes so far as to say that any girl who resists the code should be called a Hero. And yet, anthropologists have argued that the job of any society is to keep itself growing and prospering. And if this means that some individual members of the society suffer—as long as the society itself is improved--well then perhaps the tradeoff is worth it.

For this paper you will be investigating these ideas and coming to your own conclusions about whether you think this trade-off (between the needs of women and the needs of a greater society) is worth it.  Here are the questions for you to consider:

What do you think are Gender Code Rules for women in the book or movie?

What are the negative consequences for women when they follow the code in the book or movie?

Could the Code offer any Positive benefits for women? For society?

Is Sara a Hero? Why or why not?

Is Sara a Feminist? Why or why not?

Of course you will want to start paragraph topic sentences off with concepts and keywords, while trying to keep people—Reb/Sara—out of that part of the paragraph. They are brought in later to support your concept.

And of course you must integrate quotes from Bread Givers, Hester Street and from any other helpful sources you may have in order to support your points. You need to average 1-2 quotes per body paragraph of the paper.  -2 quotes per body paragraph of the paper.

The page minimum is 6 full pages….

—BNDJTM (But Never Do Just The Minimum.)

The first draft is due on Thursday, June 25.

The final draft is due on Tuesday, June 30^th.

HW for the weekend that is due next Tues

ok, so you have received the essay assignment, and as you know, it has questions that you will be answering that will end up being your essay.


for the weekend, I would like you to answer the first two questions.
"What do you think are some of the elements of the Gender Code for women in the book and/or movie?
(For this question, by "element", I really just mean : Gender Rule. What is a Gender Rule you see?


the second question you will be doing:
"What are the negative consequences for women when they follow the code in the movie and/or book?


For EACH of these questions you should do 3 paragraphs. Each paragraph should focus on one concept. You will be writing 6 paragraphs total then.


For each paragraph, you will want to follow the paragraph template that we went over in class. Here is a link to that post that goes over Typical Body Paragraph.
For the Reading, you should really try to finish the book over the weekend. At the very least, try to get up to Chapter 16 by Tues.

2nd HW for summer 1A

Hey there, by now you should have your books--
we of course are starting with Bread Givers.
You should try to be up through Chapter 6 by Thurs, the 18th.

there is a writing component to this HW. You have 2 questions, and you will want to come up with 3 paras for each question, making 6 total. You should fold in quotes to the paras:

What kind of person does Sara seem to be?
What kind of person does Reb seem to be?

Wecome to 1A---summer

hey there, so for our first day's HW, you have two things to do:


1. get the books....
2. Start reading in Bread Givers, Chapters 1 2 3.............you don't need to write anything (usually we have writing that goes along with the reading, but not this time...)


see you tomorrow!