Final Week

12/13

• Mandatory Meeting
• Turn in portfolio for final grade
• Work on departmental final exam (for dept. purposes only)
• Bring scantron/pencil

12/15

• Last day to submit any revised essay
• If you turn in any revised essay, grade will be posted the following Monday on jagnet
• Will check portfolio
• We will watch a film and say our goodbyes

Note: Luis Peralez, Tristan Echavarria, Luis Garza I need you to email me ASAP. 

It was a pleasure having you in class. Good luck.  Keep working hard on your drafts. This is just a step in the next chapter of your academic life.  

Organize Portfolio

Assignment: Organize your portfolio

• Print Index Page (Under Assigned Readings) with your name and class information
• Separate portfolio into sections (notes, response papers, essays, etc.) 
• Include all work submitted throughout semester 

Write: Short Reflective Essay (1-2 Pages)

• Tell me what you have learned in class, the most important thing. (Be Specific)
• How has your writing changed
• How did you view reading and writing before, how do you view it now?
• How do you plan to use what you learned in the future?

No Class 12/1

No class today
Will post assignment on blog

11/29

Research Paper Due

• 4 pages
• 2-3 sources (JSTOR, EBSCOhost, Books, Journals)
• One source can be from the following (The New Yorker, NPR, The Atlantic)
• Include parenthetical citations
• Works Cited page
• Provide heading / Double Spaced / 12 pt font / New Times Roman
• Must have thesis, must have argument, topic sentences
• Must provide academic research

If you have not completed your research abstract (summary), click on the comments section below. Tell me your topic, some information related to your sources. I want to be able to guide your research but I can't do that unless I know what you are going to write about.

More TSI Dates

I am extremely proud of everyone, regardless if you passed or not!!  For those that want another crack at it. Here you go.  Lets get to work, review, study, lets hustle this test!!

Set up  your testing date:

TSTC Harlingen: Click Here 

UTRGV: Click Here


Note: It looks like it's easier to sign up for it at TSTC

11/22

Assignment:  Write one page abstract of subject you want to discuss for your research paper

• ·         Include topics that you want to discuss
• ·         Bring me 3 ACADEMIC sources that are related to your topic
• ·         Use the library
• ·         2 source must come from JSTOR/EBSCOhost/Books/Journal Articles
• 
  
• Read your sources, print them out, and have them ready for next class period

• ·         Do not use Wikipedia, or general internet sources
• ·         I will allow you to use NPR, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vice as 1 of your sources
• ·         I will check sources and collect abstract next class period

Los TSI Passers!!! Congrats!!

Wooooo!!!! The following students have passed their writing TSI:

Esteban Taffola
Shanise Alanis
Berenice Ramirez
Samantha Rosales
Rose Perez

Lets also hear it for the following people!!!! :

Krystal Alegria
Marco Gonzales
Gissel Reyes

So far so good!!!    Lets get some more on this list!!!


NOTE: Please check with your advisors for Spring classes since your passing the TSI writing affects some of your upcoming course work.  We are going to miss ya'll.  Planning an end of semester fiesta, stay tuned for that.

11/17

Assignment: Organize Portfolio

• Include all of your assignments, papers, notes, articles
• Organize them in sections
• Bring your folder
• I will provide Index page (under assigned readings). Print it out.

I will be conferencing with each one of you and let you know where you stand on your grades

• Several of you didn't turn in your Gender Studies assignment/ and or haven't completed it. I will be discussing your options.
• Take the time that I give you in class to workshop your essay! It's your grade on the line.

Student Evaluations

CLICK HERE for STUDENT EVALUATIONS

This will require students to login using their Jagnet username and password

• Your evaluation period has begun.
• Please provide feedback.  This helps me do my job better.  I want to know what worked for you, and what didn't.  I use your evaluations to modify my own curriculum so your feedback is important.
• Your responses are completely anonymous.
• I will not see the results until after grades are posted.

11/10

Watch: Gasland
click here for film (if you have Netflix, there's a better version on there)

Write: 1 pg response

Note: Start thinking about a topic you want to discuss in your final research paper

11/8

Gender Studies Paper Due

•  3 page paper
• Parenthetical Citations (APA)
• Works Cited Page
• 1 Source (NPR, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, JSTOR, EBSCOHost)

Your topic can be anything related to Gender Studies.

Use the definitions (patriarchy, matriarchy, feminist theory, Marxist theory, double standards, biases, etc...) we discussed in class if it applies to your topic including a way to theorize (bigger idea) about your topic (critical theory).   

If you have any questions post below under comments!

I will be grading paper based on the following:

• Proper intro (Thesis/topics)
• Proper citations (APA)
• Proper Works Cited Page
• Most importantly, Content and Critical Thinking

Additional Topics May Include:

Sex Tourism in Thailand 

Sex Trafficking 

Women and The Qur’an

Women of Juarez (murders)

11/3

Define the following:

Literary Theory

Literary Criticism

Feminist Theory

Queer Theory

Marxist Theory

Double Standards

Patriarch

Assignment:

·         Based the above definitions on Literary Theory / Criticism / Feminist Theory etc..

·         Look for news worthy article discussing gender in any kind of way 

·         Post link to the article along with a short response on Google+

Note: Think about a subject you want to discuss in your gender studies essay. Write a short       abstract/summary about what you're thinking about writing.

Read: "Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan" by Gloria Anzaldúa
                     Write: 1 page response on the reading
Click Here For Reading

Schedule Your TSI Exam

This is the Web link to the store for registration:

https://secure.touchnet.com/C20193_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=25&CATID=3998

Make sure they click on the Mid Valley Campus Link.

The promotional code and schedule for Mid Valley Developmental Writing will be:

Promo Code

ENGL2016MVC

Monday, November 14, 2016 - 9:00AM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Monday, November 14, 2016 - 2:00PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Monday, November 14, 2016 - 5:30PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 9:00AM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 2:00PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 5:30PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 9:00AM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 2:00PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 5:30PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

If necessary

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 9:00AM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 2:00PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 5:30PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Friday, November 18, 2016 - 9:00AM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Friday, November 18, 2016 - 2:00PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

Friday, November 18, 2016 - 5:30PM - Bldg. F-129 (Dev. Writing)

11/1

Assignment:

·         Read Kantz & take notes, be ready to discuss

·         Provide for me 6 parenthetical citations using Kantz article APA style: (Use Textual Lesson Plan)

Ø  3 direct quotations

Ø  3 paraphrased quotations

Provide Work Cited page for the article (use EasyBib under Research Resources Tab)

10/27

Attendance is MANDATORY

• Discussion on RESEARCH METHODS
• Discussion on Parenthetical Citations
• Discussion on Works Cited

DO NOT MISS THIS CLASS!!

Note: Those of you that are missing response papers/essays, you have until Friday to submit late work.  After next week I will start penalizing late essays one letter grade each day it's late.

Sommers Discussion

Sommers Discussion

Group 1: Intro

·         Research on revision is absent

·         Linear models direct attention away from revision

·         Produce a parody in writing / satire

·         What is impossible in speech is revision

·         Absence of revision makes revision unnecessary

·         Revision in speech is an afterthought

Group 2: Revision Students

·         Understand as rewording activity

·         Most of the changes à Lexical changes : relating to words or vocab

·         Used inspirational words to revise

·         Think they’re doing it wrong because of books/teachers/old fashion

·         Lexical repetition vs Conceptual repetition à idea is more important than the speech on the page

Group 3: Revision Experienced Writers

·         Finding form and shape to the argument

·         Finding the argument / change the language to make it more effective

·         Never fall in love with your first and second draft à eventually you will fall in love with a draft

·         Observing patterns / What we want and what we don’t want

·         FORM / SHAPE / FRAMEWORK / DESIGN

·         Writing develops likes a seed not a line à Like roots sprouting!!

·         Exploit the meaning / interrogating the meaning

·         CLARITY

10/25

Assignment:

• Revise your group paper according to the notes that I provided
• Work with your group to work on SECOND DRAFT 
• Under heading, please indicate "Second Draft" 

Discussion:

• Make sure you have read Nancy Sommer's "Revision Strategies..."
• Be ready to discuss article 
• 1 page response

10/20

Read:

• "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" by Nancy Sommers

Write:

• 1 page response

FYI:  THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK ARE MANDATORY MEETINGS

Wolk Discussion

Group 1: Into/ Wondering about the world

·         They can’t remember what they learned

·         Only if they were interested

·         Not everyone is going to be Einstein but we can be just as curious and creative

·         Not learning because of the same pedagogy

·         “sit and be quite and listen to the teacher”

·         No curiosity, no voting, no passion, no knowledge of the real world

·         We do like to watch TV, work, surf the net, and shop

·         Schools have not succeeded

Group 2: Transmission Teaching and the Illusion of Learning

·         Interested in stuff they like

·         Remember bits and pieces

·         Get involved with each student

·         Transmission teaching: students sitting at the desk/ being quiet / quizzes / tests

·         Pedagogy hasn’t changed at all

·         Make learning experience purposeful

Group 3: What is Inquiry Based Teaching?

·         Opposite of transmission teaching

·         Active environment

·         Questions are answered

·         Understand what’s being taught

·         Come back home with answers

·         Real topics , real ideas

·         Engage students with experience

·         Planning a purposeful lesson à engaging students

Group 4: What Inquiry is not?

·         It’s not hands on

·         It’s not the same

·         It doesn’t answer the inquiry question, or has nothing to do with questions

·         Working together and thinking

Group 5: The Commonalities

·         How to improve your skills

·         Asking questions

·         Instead of textbooks, interact, collaborate

·         Be creative, think outside the box

10/18

Read: Steven Wolk "School As Inquiry"
Write: 1 page response

Social Media:  On Facebook /Twitter / Tumblr like the following social media sites:  NPR / The New Yorker /  The Atlantic/ AJ +

If you don't have any of these look for stories on the official sites of:  NPR / The New Yorker / The Atlantic / AJ+

• Copy and paste link to an article that you read
• Post on Google+
• Tell me a little bit of the article and why you decided to write on it

Any questions? Post on blog....

10/13

Answer the following and turn in as "Haberman Response"


What’s the first thing you thought about when you read the title "Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching?


Define: SOCIOECONOMIC & SOCIOCULTURAL


What is Pedagogy of Poverty according to Haberman?



Elaborate on: Authoritarian and directive nature of the pedagogy of poverty is deceptive about who really is in charge READ 3^rd Column on page 292

- Interpret reading and provide analysis



Elaborate on: Good TEACHING with a focus on Sociocultural/Socioeconomic conditions
- How does this apply to you?

- How does this apply everyone else?

Group Names

Please post your group number and members below in the comments section of the blog.  

If you are not in a group, please let me know below.  

FYI: I have posted some updated information on the essay, please make sure to check that out.

10/11

We will not be meeting next week.  I will be available if needed, schedule appointment. If YOU are not in a group, you need to email me ASAP!!


Group Assignment:  Read "Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching" - Martin Haberman

Presentation: 5-8 min 

Begin to critically analyze the text (construct/build meaning). 

You are not summarizing the essay to present. 

Pick something specific within the article that you wish to discuss as a group.  

You have the autonomy of presenting anyway you want

Medium:

• If you are using multi-media, please bring device to use in class that can be used with projector(ex. laptop computer)
• If using power point, save in USB drive
• If using YouTube, keep to minimal 
• If handing out material, please make sufficient copies

Rubric:

• Everyone must participate
• I will be providing FEEDBACK for each individual group
• ORIGINALITY of presentation will be taken into account
• Looking for thoughtful ANALYSIS and interpretations of the TEXT (Article)   

ESSAY:

• Due Next Class meeting
• 3 pages /  You can split this up between group members
• I don't want three seperate response papers
• I want a unified paper / cohesive / organized essay
• Construct meaning, use your writing experience, use discussions in class to guide your paper
• Use academic related information that we have used in class if you want (Pedagogy/Metacognition//Standardized Testing/Rhetorical Reading) 

9/29

Read:

• "Indian Camp" by Earnest Hemingway
• "Never Marry A Mexican" by Sandra Cisneros (You need to download the file so that you can rotate it) 

Write:

• 1 page response
• 1/2 page on each reading
• Be ready to discuss

NOTES:  

• Use the reading strategies discussed by Haas & Flowers.  
• ANALYSIS / CRITICISM 
• Really think about the text
• Search for BIGGER MEANING  

Assignment Extended

I've extended the group assignment until next week. Get with your groups and be ready to discuss next week.

9/22

Assignment:

• Discuss subtopics assigned for each group
• Create worksheet with summary of most important points / outline form and turn in (with everyone's names)
• READ MATERIAL and CONSTRUCT MEANING 
• Tell me what you think the meaning is for each subsection
• FYI: If you are not in a group, you were not assigned a section, therefor analyze the introduction in order to receive credit

9/20

Read:

• Haas & Flowers "Rhetorical Readings Strategies and the Construction of Meaning"

Write:

• Take notes, break down the text like we did on the board.  Read carefully and pick the main points.

*No response paper due

9/15

Read: Downs & Wardle "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions.."

• Read first half (pgs. 552 - 563)
• Write one page response

9/13

Read:

• Kelsey Diaz "Seven Ways High School Prepares You For Failure"
• Anne Lamott "Shitty First Drafts"

Write:

• 1 page response on either or both articles
• Do not summarize
• Respond on something specific within the article/something that you can relate to or question

Class Cancelled Tomorrow 9/8

Assignment for next week:  Read Diaz/Lamott article
Write: 1 page response on either article or both

• Do not summarize
• Make sure that you address specific information within the articles

FEIPOL EVENTS SATURDAY

I will be attending the Feipol event at the STC Cooper Center (McAllen) from 11 - 3 PM on Saturday. Here is the program for the events going on.  Hope to see ya'll there!!

Click Here For Program

Welcome

I want to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to our class forum. I will be integrating our readings, announcements, workshops, assignments, and discussions on here, so it would be wise if you begin to familiarize yourselves with the page. I look forward to meeting everyone. Look for more updates soon!