Looking ahead to Thanksgiving
Hi, everybody —
Here’s a tentative schedule that will take us through Thanksgiving.
Thursday of this week, Nov. 12, we’ll finish the writing mechanics review lecture, focusing on commas. Then there will be another ungraded quiz on all the writing mechanics material we covered. Both lectures are posted, so please review them. After you’ve taken the quiz we’ll go over it in class on the overhead.
Also, we’ll spend some time talking about how to formulate a good thesis statement for your final paper.
In addition, I’ll pass around a signup sheet for a 20-minute individual conference with me on your final paper topic and the exploration of the topic you’ve done so far. I plan to be on campus all day on Thursday, Nov. 19, for those conferences, which will be in a conference room that I’ll reserve.
Tuesday, Nov. 17: I’ll post a model argument paper on The Writing Life in advance of the class. We’ll spend the class period discussing it. I plan to have your book reviews graded and back to you for revision on this day as well.
Thursday, Nov. 19. I’ll be on campus all day for our conferences. We also will meet as a class at 2 p.m., and I’ll give a lecture on some basics of MLA style. We’ll excuse class a bit early so I can squeeze in a conference in the last 20 minutes.
Tuesday, Nov. 24. The draft of your final paper is due. Bring sufficient extra copies of your draft to share them with your discussion group. We’ll have group discussions of your draft on Tuesday, Dec. 1, the day we get back from Thanksgiving break.
Remember that I won’t accept a final paper unless I get a complete draft from you by this date. The draft and final product together count 70 percent of your grade. For class activity, we’ll talk about how you would like to structure the final three weeks of the class, and I’ll ask you to fill out another course evaluation sheet so I can check how I’m doing.
Incidentally: If any of you had a chance to look through the Midland Issues copy I handed out Tuesday, I’d be interested in your feedback and any suggestions about how it could be more useful to readers. Email me or comment to this post. Thanks.
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