Halloween and Registration Readiness event is moved to CAFETERIA.-- (102 classes, 1A classes, and passion classes)

HEY ALL,  (102 classes, 1A classes, and passion classes)

the Halloween and Registration Readiness event is moved to CAFETERIA.

The time remains the same, 11-2 pm.... today, thursday the 27th...


stop by and we can help you check if you are ready to register for spring classes....

then stick around and have some Halloween fun! ...

Home work for 102 and 1A classes for the new Essay #3…(this is due next Monday, the 24th…)

So in the post below you will see the new essay assignment…


here is your HW that you need to have done for MOnday if you are in 102 class or in the Monday nite 1A. (If you are in the Wed nite 1A, then of course this HW will be due on the 26th)



1. Do a good deal of research about the Sustainability, and Sustainabilty Center, as well as other ideas related to this assignment (many of which we have talked about in class)… and be prepared to share what you found out in your Research in class. …

2. Do a detailed outline of what you think you will be writing about in your proposal… be sure to do Rule of 3 whenever possible… bring the outline to class.

3. Write 3 paras from your proposal and bring to class (in other words, start writing the paper… )


see you

Paper #3 essay assignment… for 102 and for 1A...

Hey there, here is the new essay assignment for paper #3.

The Sustainability Center

For this 3rd essay assignment, you have a Design Challenge. The broad challenge is that you are being asked to design the Chabot Sustainability Center.

We are organizing this design effort around 3 major questions. (For sure you can raise other questions and areas of discussion, in addition to these 3 questions.)

1.    How would you design it?

2.    How do you imagine the Center being used?

3.    How would you imagine the Sustainability Center interacting with the Knowledge Garden and the nature around the Center?

You should write this essay as if it is a proposal. Your audience for the proposal is Chabot administration.  Actual business proposals have a number of different features. You should do some research and see what these features are. You should include some of these business proposal features in this proposal, in addition to answering the questions.

·      You should devote some time to talking about the environmental problems that students face that the Sustainability Center will help address.

·      Really nail why it is that the Sustainability Center is crucial for students and teachers.

·      You should for sure do Rule of 3 (or 4 or 5 , lol)  in answering the questions.

·      You should integrate how other disciplines fit into the Center, so that it is not just a place where Environmental Studies students go.

·      You should include pictures, and building design layouts.

Even though you might not use quotes in a real proposal, for this essay you will be using quotes in your body paragraphs. (They actually will probably help the persuasiveness of the proposal.) You will want to incorporate Design concepts into the proposal. We will be talking about Design principals….

Make the project be WOW!

In other words, surprise yourself. Surprise your audience. NO idea is too weird. Your goal is to make this the coolest building on campus, truly world class.

The Page minimum is 7 pages writing. (The pics, etc. are in addition to the 7 pages of writing.)

The paper is due _______________.....the Draft day is_________________

HW for English 102 classes--due On Monday, Oct 10

Hey there,

You have 2 things to do before Monday...

1. Pls watch this 20 minute movie "The Story of Stuff"
it will give you great concepts to use for questions 2, 3, and 4.... (and 6 as well)

2. on Monday we will be doing a draft day for paper #2 ...

so, you need to do questions 1, 2, 3, and 4....Do Rule of 3 for each...that means 12 body paras
pls bring 2 copies typed of your draft...


Keep reading in your BOOK! ----remember you want 2 quotes per paragraph, and the book will offer you lots of possible quotes...

Essay #2 for English 1A and 102

hey there, if you can't find your hard copy, here is the essay #2…..

English —2^nd   Formal Essay —McFarland--Fall—2016

For this essay we will be investigating issues related to our book, Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, and to the movie, Crude Awakening. One of the intriguing arguments that gets built in both the book and the movie is that this contemporary life that many of us take for granted, is actually the result of specific events in history, especially including the discovery and rise of Oil.

For this paper you will be examining this claim and taking a stand about whether or not you think this is true.  The following questions are intended to offer some guidance to you as you build your paper. It is OK to argue more than one side of a question if that is how you feel. There are a lot of questions here. You can skip one or two of them if you like.  And you can explore other questions that you come up with yourself, but be sure to run them by me first.

1.     How do you explain the amazing population growth from 1860 up to today? that we see in the chart in the book on page 15 ?

2.     What are some consequences of adding this additional 5 billion people to the planet, from 1860 up to today?

3.     Why do we allow these consequences _to happen?

4.     What is your own relationship to energy use?

5.     Hartmann argues that we are modern day Slaves; what is your opinion of this metaphor as a way to explain our situation?

6.     How do we gain freedom from this slavery?

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

You should try to include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible, two is good! 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…) Be sure you do Rule of 3 for each question that you pick. That will help you reach the page minimum.

Be careful that you don’t simply retell the history of the how humans have used energy over the years. Use these moments in history to SUPPORT the analytic points you want to make. Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the essay assignments tasks.

The paper is due_________________First draft is due_________________

Best of Luck!!

HW for Monday nite English 1A class

hey there,

So next week is draft day... so here is what we need to do for that:

You need to bring 12 body paras to class. (Bring 2 typed copies). To get the 12 paras you should do Q's 1,2, 3, and 4---and do Rule of 3 for each question.

If you did the HW that was due on Oct 3, but didn't bring it to class, you should email it, so I can look at it. This would be question 1 and 4.

Meanwhile, you should also keep reading. You should read up thru Part 2 of the book. That will take you to page 226.