Wed nite English 4 class class update

hey there
So the paper is due wed nite march 1st

If I haven't sent your outline and draft or if you need to send me a revision you should do so ASAP

On wed you should bring a paper hard copy of your final essay

You should also bring the book BREAD GIVERS

see you wed

SEND YOUR OUTLINE AND DRAFTS ASAP

HW for English 102 ... we have a draft day for paper #1 this Wed...

hey there , on this Wednesday, Feb 22 you need to bring 2 COPIES of your essay #1... 

You should try to bring 12 paragraphs... (you should be doing Q 1, 2,3, 4--with rule of 3...so that makes 12)

If you like, you can email to me what you have been doing--do it by tonight, monday... (some of you have already done that...)
and I will email back my thoughts and advice...

see you on wed with your DRAFT for paper #1......

HI Monday class... here is what we are doing

HI Monday class... here is what we are doing... you will hand me your HW tonight in class, with your email address written on the top of the HW...(BTW, The HW was generate an outline, and write 2-3 paras--none of which you did...yo)

here is the new stuff....emale ---by Wed night ---the FIRST HW...(outline and 2-3 paras)

then i will email back advice...

then here is the new HW....

--You will revise the outline based the awesome advice i give freely and with respect--and you will resend the new outline, back to me by next monday night....

ONce we have done this...you need to do your rough draft based on the outline... the rough draft will be due on the 27th....
the outline itself should be really specfic...basically we should know every para that you are going to do... (that means 9-12 paras....)

English 102 —1st Formal Essay —McFarland--SPRING—2017--

English 102 —1st  Formal Essay —McFarland--SPRING—2017--

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.  You will be answering the following questions 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 6 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 that we see in the chart in the book on page 15 (In other words, what are some specific things that caused population to explode after 1860) ?

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 must average a minimum of 1-2 short quotes per paragraph. You need to have at least one quote in all your body paragraphs. 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 Feb 27. First draft is due Feb 22, but you will be bringing in paragraphs that will end up in your paper before that time. (In Fact, probably every class you will be doing this between now and the time of the draft day.)

Best of Luck!!

Some ways to get started doing the first paper for English 4

Some ways to get started doing first paper for English 4

In a different post, you will see the assignment for Paper #1 in English 4. (I will also be giving you a hard copy of the assignment.)

As you are getting started on paper 1 for Eng 4, you should ask yourself: What am I trying to argue, what am I  trying to explore?

The goal is to build a paper that has a number of moving parts. How many moving parts is not always certain, but you should consider working with 5-7 concepts to build your paper. (3 concepts isn’t enough, for example).

We will talk  in class about a number of different ways to go about shaping the paper.

Below is a list that we will go over next week:

1.     Problem/Solution is a classic approach to building a paper. You can set it up by discussing 3-4 types of problems, and 2-3 possible solutions.

2.     Theory and Application: with this approach, you select a theory (often you can take it from it another discipline, like Psych, or Econ, etc.), then you apply the theory to the stories we are working with.

3.     Explore a metaphor: in this approach you take a metaphor (relationship as Dance, for example) and you apply it to the stories we are working with.

4.     Explode a concept: in this approach you take one (maybe 2) concept and look at it from a LOT of different angles to help build your paper.

5.     Stringing Concepts: in this approach you take 5-7 different concepts and you string them together to develop an argument.

6.     Who, What, Where, etc.: in this approach you develop questions that are based on the classic WWWWHW set of questions.

As you develop your paper, it is probably a good idea to know which of these approaches you are using. What you don’t want to do is to combine a little of each of these without knowing that is the case. It will mess up your logic. It is OK to perhaps combine a couple of these as you develop the paper.

Good luck  with the paper.

A last trick to keep in mind. As you are using any of these approaching, what you are really doing is trying to demonstrate the WAY things relate. How does this lead to that? What causes this? What happens if I do this, and also do that? Etc.

So you want to keep in mind logic transitions: they are actually pretty simple transition words like: BUT, IF, ON THE OTHER HAND, THUS, HOWEVER, THEREFORE, WHEN, -------etc. (there are a lot more)

The point here is that you should keep an eye out in your paper for these kinds of words. You WANT them in the paper, bc it tells you that you are finding and demonstrating relationships among and between concepts.

ENGLISH 4 WED NITE CLASS —SPRING 2017—ESSAY #1—Sudden Fiction

ENGLISH 4—SPRING 2017—ESSAY #1—Sudden Fiction

Many of the stories in Sudden Fiction feature relationships between men and women as a central topic. We have at least 13 that we can consider:

The Stories: Popular Mechanics, Say Yes, Tent Worms, Dinner Time, The Anatomy of Desire, The Signing, The Fable, Can-Can, Pygmalion, No One’s a Mystery, Song on Royal Street, The Sock, A Very Short Story….

For this essay assignment you will want to read through each of these stories. It will probably be necessary to read them more than once. You will no doubt begin to see interesting similarities/differences between the stories; the stories may even begin to “speak” to each other. Your next step is to begin to ask yourself what kind of themes emerge in the stories; there is a wide variety of possible themes to consider, including: youth, age, intimacy, estrangement, communication, violence, boredom, sickness and health, power, children, lies, truth….and much more.

For this paper your central question to consider is: What are these authors trying to tell us about relationships?

But the question as asked is no doubt too big. You will need to narrow it down by focusing on 2-3 themes of your choice. You may want to pick themes that relate to each other so that you can build a more developed argument.  In developing your arguments, you might also consider taking an approach that looks at: How do we stay on the time line of love? What can lead to us falling off? How do we climb back on?

One valuable tip in writing a paper like this is to NOT start off paragraph topic sentences with plot/names of characters/title of story. This is crucial! Instead, consider starting off the paragraph with 3-5 sentences that establish in some detail the CONCEPT you want to discuss. THEN, you can bring in a moment from one of the stories to support your concept. Another good approach is to bring in support from DIFFERERNT stories to support a concept. In other words, it works very well to have 2 even 3 stories being quoted in one paragraph. For sure every paragraph will need to have at least one piece of support.

You don’t need to bring every story into your paper. But you should bring in at least 6-8 of the  stories through the course of the paper.

Page minimum is 6 pages.

The paper is due Feb 22 for the Wednesday class

First draft is due Feb 15 for the Wed class

Goooood luck!