Continuing Research

1.  Quiz-

2.  Research and grading conferences.

3.  Essay drafts due Thursday, right?

Vocab for Tuesday-

coalesce

fuse or cause to grow together

coffer

a chest especially for storing valuables

cogent

powerfully persuasive

collusion

secret agreement

condone

excuse, overlook, or make allowances for

connoisseur

an expert able to appreciate a field

contrite

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

contumacious

willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient

convoluted

rolled longitudinally upon itself

corroborate

give evidence for

cosset

treat with excessive indulgence

coterie

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

craven

lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful

credulous

showing a lack of judgment or experience

crescendo

a gradual increase in loudness, in music

cupidity

extreme greed for material wealth

curmudgeon

an irascible, cantankerous person full of stubborn ideas

debutante

a young woman making her debut into society

declivity

a downward slope or bend

decorous

characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste

Essay work.

Vocab Test-

Mini Conferences, cont.

You, researching and drafting.

Read THIS article instead., lol.

Essay Drafts due Next Thursday.

Mini-Conferences.

1.  Meet in class.  Notice the vocab list is on the blog for next Tuesday.

2.  Mini-conferences.  We will meet and read essays together.

3.  HW-  Reading.  This essay. 

Vocab for NEXT TUESDAY, F-23.

1.bonhomie

2.boor

3.burgeon

4.burnish

5.cabal

6.cacophony

7.calumny

8.canard

9.candid

10.capricious

11.cartography

12.castigate

13.catalyst

14.catholic

15.caustic

16.chaos

17.chauvinist

18.chicanery

19.circumspect

20.cloying

1.       Journal-    When you read another’s essay, what did you think?  Compare your work to theirs-  What can you or they do better?  This is private, just for you.

2.       Me, grading chat.

3.       Groups and one last reading.

4.       Essays due Thursday-

5.       Next topic, coming up--  4-5 pages, works cited, a local social problem, library resources only-databases, blended genres.
 

vocab test.

1.  Vocab test.

2.  Journal- 

3.  Works Cited practice in groups and as individuals.

4.  Noodlebib, fyi

5.  Library databases, fyi

6.  Next Essay...  Next big thing.

7.  HW-  Essays due in class.

First essay.

1.  Please put your drafts on your desk for me to check.

2.  TPS, check each other's MLA format-- correct any mistakes.

3.  Journal-

Are you proud of your essay?  Why or why not?  What could you do better?  What did you do well?  If you were giving yourself a grade for Voice, what would it be?  If you gave yourself a grade for Word choice, what would it be?


4.  Groups and reading.  Model.

On the back of the papers you read, answer the following questions:

Is the essay in MLA format?
Does the essay have what it needs to have?
Is it interesting?
Are there so many grammar mistakes that it is distracting?
Circle any mistakes you see.
Offer one suggestion for improvement.
Offer one compliment.
Does it have a primer?
Does it have research?
Is there a works cited?
What's missing?
What does the essay not need.


5.  HW-  Revising and editing the essay for class on Thursday.

Reading Quiz-


There's a certain pressure in the beginning of the essay that bothers the author.  Everyone has one and he feels like he should have one, too.  What should he have?

How does he solve the problem?  

How does the author find out about the attacks?

What does he do?

Why does he do that?

Where is the author at the time of his writing?

What do people do a "staggering amount" of in their spare time?

On the day of 9/11, who did the terrorist want to attack, according to the author?



Vocab, quick-  Just to chat.

Journal-  Summarize what your plan is for your topic.

TPS-   Tell your plan to two people near you.


Plans on boards and comments.

Practice Works Cited Entry.

Noodlebib

HW-  Finish a draft.

Vocab-

1.     ardor

2.     arrogate

3.     articulate

4.     assail

5.     assuage

6.     attenuate

7.     audacious

8.     augury

9.     august

10.  austere

11.  axiom

12.  banal

13.  belfry

14.   bevy

15.   bifurcate

16.   bilk

17.  blight

18.  blithe

19.  bolster

20. bombastic

Moving along-- drafts Due next Tuesday...?

Names, attendance.

Journal-  What did you learn from "CTL?"  If you didn't read it, explain why you're a slacker.



Quiz over reading-


 What's the topic of Consider the Lobster?

What's the purpose of Consider the Lobster?

Who is the audience for CTL?

Provide one detail you recall as humorous.

Provide one detail you remember as sad.

Give me one fact about a lobster you remember.

Name one fact about the MLF that you remember.

What is the message of the article?

What does the author feel about the ethics of lobster?



Vocab Test.

New words?



MLA format update.

Works Cited update.

Drafts due on Next Thursday.   Plans due this thursday....

Read:  More DFW