Action List for Tuesday, November 11

Are we really just about done with the last reading for the course?

• Finish Persepolis (different than the pages listed on the schedule); prepare for Reading Quiz #14.
• Prepare to discuss with the class how your team's discussion topic is at work in the text (Team One has Topic D, Team Two has Topic A, Team Three has Topic B, and Team Four has Topic C).
• Create a blog post responding to Persepolis that focuses not just on your response but on how you see your team's discussion topic working in the text.

Action List for Thursday, November 6

We're starting the last book!

• Read up to page 110 of Persepolis (different than the pages listed on the schedule); prepare for Reading Quiz #13.
• Prepare to discuss with the class how your team's discussion topic is at work in the text (Team One has Topic D, Team Two has Topic A, Team Three has Topic B, and Team Four has Topic C).
• Create a blog post responding to Persepolis that focuses not just on your response but on how you see your team's discussion topic working in the text.

Action List for Tuesday, November 4

Same old story:

• Read the rest of book two of Maus; prepare for Reading Quiz #12B.
• Prepare to discuss with the class how your team's discussion topic is at work in the text (Team One has Topic C, Team Two has Topic D, Team Three has Topic A, and Team Four has Topic B).
• Create a blog post responding to Maus that focuses not just on your response but on how you see your team's discussion topic working in the text.

Action List for Thursday, October 30

According the schedule, you have all of volume two to read of Maus, but I'm going to give you a bit of a break on that.

• Read chapters one and two of book two of Maus; prepare for Reading Quiz #12A.
• Prepare to discuss with the class how your team's discussion topic is at work in the text (Team One has Topic C, Team Two has Topic D, Team Three has Topic A, and Team Four has Topic B).
• Create a blog post responding to Maus that focuses not just on your response but on how you see your team's discussion topic working in the text.

Revisions

It's now about 3:30 on Sunday, and the second essays were due at noon. I've received essays from five of you and have graded them all. The lateness of the other ten essays disturbs me. I can speculate about why, but I need you all to tell me what I can do to make the writing process easier for you. I want you to write strong essays for these class and learn the skills that will make your writing stronger in all of your current and future courses (as well as internship, volunteer, and work settings). We'll talk more about this in class on Tuesday.

My late policy now kicks in for the ten of you who have not turned in work yet. You have until next Sunday at noon to get essays to me. You will not receive a grade penalty but you will also not receive comments. I am going to allow everyone to revise the second essays as well as the first, but you have to turn in an essay if you want to have the options to revise. You can't revise something you have not written, so I have to have received an essay from you to be eligible for revision.

Revisions of both essay one and essay two are due by noon on Wednesday, December 3 (in .doc or .rtf); I will not accept late revisions. You can send them anytime before, of course, but you only have one opportunity to revise. If you send it to me next week, you cannot revise it again after I grade that revision. But you do have the chance to revise for an entirely new grade, so take advantage of this opportunity. We can have a meeting in my office to go over your work, and you can also meet with Lauren to talk about it. You can also visit the Center for Reading and Writing. Use all of the resources available to you to write the best essay and earn the highest grade possible.

You will NOT be able to revise the third essay or the final graphic memoir. So take the opportunity to revise what you can while you have the chance.

Action List for Tuesday, October 28

We're moving on to the next unit.

• Email your second essay to me in the correct format by noon on Sunday.
• Read book one of Maus; prepare for Reading Quiz #11.
• Prepare to discuss with the class how your team's discussion topic is at work in the text (Team One has Topic C, Team Two has Topic D, Team Three has Topic A, and Team Four has Topic B).
• Create a blog post responding to Maus that focuses not just on your response but on how you see your team's discussion topic working in the text.

Action List for Thursday, October 23

The main thing, of course, is to get the essay done.

• Read (or re-read) the following sections in A Writer's Resource: (sections 6c [pgs. 70-5] and 10a-c [pgs. 121-30]).
• Bring A Writer's Resource to class.
• Bring at least two pages of a draft of this essay to class.
• Start reading Maus because we will be discussing the entire thing next week.