Office Hours Canceled

Wednesday, 9 December, 9 to 11 am

OFFICE HOURS CANCELED

Lena's students:

I am sorry to tell you that I have to cancel my office hours today because of a snow day at my daughter's preschool.

Please email me for your Paper 4 grade, or come by this office on Friday, 11 December from 9 to 10 am to pick up the paper from me personally. Final grades are not posted yet, but will be by the end of the week.

Thanks.
Lena
lena.rosenfield@sunyit.edu

101-06 and 101-08: Readings for Monday

Please read the following proposals for Monday, and then make a list of ways in which they are similar and different for discussion in class:

Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/modpropoessay.htm

Margaret Sanger's "The Case for Birth Control"
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm

As always, let me know if you have questions: lena.rosenfield@sunyit.edu.
Lena

090-01: Identifying with Hamlet

To go along with your current paper assignment, please listen to the following program and write a one-page reaction in your journal--one that includes enough details that it helps you remember it and talk about it in class on Monday, please!

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=218

your dream come true. . .

class is canceled today, monday, november 9, because my daughter is sick. but there are assignments for all classes, and here they are:

101-06 and 101-08: please write an open letter that is also a proposal for wednesday. it should be one page long, typed, double spaced, 12 pt. times new roman etc., all that standard stuff. in saying that it should be a proposal, what i mean is that it should suggest something, like, that there should be more slices of cheese per velveeta package or whatever.

please feel free to have fun, but don't be disrespectful or crazy offensive. i'm not talking political correctness here, just basic humanity, k? these will be shared in class, and i'm looking forward to having a good time with them.

here's the mcsweeneys's site for inspiration:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/openletters/
you can scroll down for all past open letters.


090-01: please write a response to the reading you had over the weekend in your journals (just one page is fine) and then read the following for wednesday:

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm

which is a very different essay on the same topic. . . sort of. i look forward to talking about it with you on wednesday!

have a good day off everyone! email me with any questions you have: lena.rosenfield@sunyit.edu.

090-01: reading for monday

please read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" at the following link: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/modpropoessay.htm for monday's class and be prepared to discuss it.

have a good weekend!

Good grief.

for some reason, when you paste the link below (or any Salon link), you go to the Salon home page instead of going to the article. So when you get there, put "retarded" in the search box, and the first article is the one i want you to read for wednesday. read both pages. thank you.

Everyone, please read this for Wednesday

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/09/18/lynn_harris/index.html

This American Life site is working again, so. . .

if you were not able to do your assignment last week, please do it this weekend and hand it in Monday. Thank you!

Week of 10/5 for 101-06 and 101-08

Today, we're doing peer review.

On Wednesday, your final drafts are due. What that means:

Staple together your first draft, peer reviewed drafts, and outline, and bring to class AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS on Wednesday. I will not be here. Someone else will be here for exactly 5 minutes to collect the essays. If you're not here with your essay, you are out of luck. (Yes, that is a cliché, and it means that your grade will suffer.)

Here are your assignments for the remainder of the week:

1. Listen to the following This American Life program online:

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=360

click on full episode at the left side to listen to it. It's an hour long.

2. Find a partner in class. Exchange email addresses. Decide right now which one of you will write 100 words (slightly less than half a page, double-spaced) about why the approach taken in the story was morally right, and which person will write 100 words about why the approach was morally wrong. Once you have listened to the story, write your 100 words to each other in your emails. Then, if you like, have an email conversation in which you agree or disagree about your points and positions.

3. Now switch positions. Whoever wrote about it being morally right, write about why it was morally wrong. Whoever wrote about it being morally wrong, write about why it was morally right. You can write more than 100 words, but not less. It doesn't really matter what you REALLY believe; what I want you to do is try to think of what the arguments are for and against, no matter what you believe. We'll talk about this story more in class.

4. Once you've both written 100 words on both positions, print out the email or compile it into a Word file and print it out so that you can hand it in to me when we have class again on Wednesday, 14 October. (12 October is a school holiday.)

5. Reading that is also due that day:
Transitions, chapter 6 (this is a good one—read carefully)
Axelrod, chapter 5 (read carefully as well)

Have a good week!

assignments due monday

all students see below--there's something here for 101s and for 90s.

101s: remember that you're to bring to class a half-page, typed definition of academic writing with which we'll be working. don't forget! i'll check, and it's important to your upcoming paper and to your day's work.

90s: the first draft of your exploration paper is due--please bring it to class.

hope you've all had a good, rainy weekend.

101-06 and 101-08: Paper 1 DUE MONDAY

YOUR FINAL DRAFTS ARE DUE MONDAY AT THE START OF CLASS. please bring in your

1. final draft
2. first draft
3. partner's handwritten notes

all stapled together to hand in. if you don't hand in the final draft during class on monday, then you will lose one letter grade on it for each day that it is late. you don't want that to happen, right?

see you tomorrow. and don't forget to do all the reading you have due:
transition, ch. 5
axelrod, 59-63, 72, 99-123
hacker, G4, G5, G6 (skim)

things i forgot to tell you about paper 1, for 101-06 and 08

i think i told one of the classes these things, but not the other.

1. it should have a title.
2. the heading should look like this:
Your Name
ENG 101-06
Lena Rosenfield
Date
Title

3. it should have page numbers.
4. staple it.
5. staple it.
6. for pete's sake, borrow your roommate's, your sister's, the registrar's stapler and staple it.
7. it should be double-spaced, 3-5 pages long, printed on the front of paper only, and typed (not handwritten!), using times new roman 12 font. do not try to fool me.
8. reference the assignment sheet for useful information about how to put together the essay, or email me if you're stumped.
9. if your conference is monday, you must email me your essay by this afternoon.
10. staple it!

see you all in class tomorrow.

the first post: what do we know?

hey students: here we go. we get a blog. i get a blog. i've never had one of these before, so i'll be learning how to do this along the way, and you'll be learning things about me, too. for example, what have you learned so far?

waiting. . .

that's right. i don't like using caps in casual written correspondence, like emails and blog posts. wow. that's interesting, right? (or, as my 2-year old would say, maybe not.)

so here's how this blog will work: one blog for my three comp classes. when i have something to say to all three classes, i will just write a post, and you will read it. when i have something specific to say to one class only, i will be specific about which class i'm writing to in the title of the post, so you will know from the title whether or not you need to read the post.

please bookmark this page and check it every day--i may post important information, assignments, reminders, links, and readings here. i will occasionally require you to comment, and you are always welcome to comment on any post.

in fact, let's do this: let's everyone post a comment in which we share one thing that we think no one else at sunyit knows about us. remember to include your name in your comment. here's my thing: i have acted in many plays (10 maybe?), but i have forgotten my lines once every time.