Friday, April 15, 2016

What's happening?

FAQ:

What's the portfolio?

What should be in the portfolio?

What's my meeting date for?

When do I have to have all my work done?

How am I assigned a grade?

What happens if I miss my meeting?

What happens if I come to the meeting but I'm not prepared?

What will an A look like?

What are the essays I should have completed?

What random questions do you have?



Reminder:  Turn final essay in through canvas-  It's research essay 2, I think.



Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Drafting- Finishing up and earning stars

Reminder:  For your second research based essay, please submit through canvas for turnitin.com check.

Thank you!

Monday, April 11, 2016

Essay Time- Planning the end.

Work on your essays!  Get them started/finished.

Final Meeting Dates and Times:  This is when you've earned stars on all your essays, and you show me all your work to earn a grade.

FINAL MEETING DATES AND TIMES


April 27

10.00-  Cheyanne
10.10-Katia
10.20  Cheyenne N
10.30-kyanna
10.40-Aggrey

April 29

10.00  Wendy
10.10   John
10.20  Omar
10.30  Esmeralda
10.40  Jamesha

May 2

10.00 Jose
10.10 Hellen
10.20  Yesenia
10.30  Jillian
10.40  Yukiko


May 4

10.00 Karyanna
10.10 Vickie
10.20 Eduardo
10.30 Dinah
10.40 kaveon




Final Project Assigned:  Due at your meeting day.

Final Project:  Write a 7 paragraph essay that proves to me you've improved in 5 areas of writing. To prove it,  provide me examples from your essays/drafts that show the area you needed improvement in and show me examples from your essays that demonstrate how you've improved.

Simple Example:

I've improved in writing complete sentences.  In one of my first essays, the narrative, I wrote using comma splices like this: "...................,"  and like this, "............................'" but after learning what a comma splice is, now I am able to avoid that.  In a later essay, my descriptive essay, I wrote this sentence:  "..............................." and in my problem solution essay I wrote this, "........................................"  Thanks to my hard work, I am able to notice when I make that mistake and correct it and that is just one of the areas I've improved in.



Special Note:  5 ALP Students at the 4/25 11-11:50 meeting in the Student Union.

HW-  Getting stars on essays-  Finishing the last essay.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Next essay....

Journal-  What degree are you interested in?  What career are you interested in?  Why so?

Groups- Just to check MLA format, especially in the works cited.  If your essay looks good, turn it in to our canvas site, please.


Next Essay assigned.

1.  Present the issue.
2.  Present both sides of the issue through research.
3.  Convince us that one side is right or find a solution not found  yet or offered yet.
4.  Conclude.
5.  3-5 pages.
6.  At least 5 sources from THE LIBRARY DATABASES.
7.  Only 10-15 % can be paraphrased, quoted or summarized from sources.
8.  Run it through SMART THINKING.
9.  Plagiarism  Check-  How?  Turn it in .com?  IDK.

HW-   What's your future degree going to be in?  What's a point of contention between experts in that field ?

HW-  Draft is due Friday, April 15.