Vertical Farm Pictures

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/vertical-farms-photos-the_n_499924.html

Last Day

Last Day

Bonus Points.

H/I Cover Letter

H/I "Second Chance" Draft?

Essays must include my comments

Paper clips/staples

Complete Feedback.

Return of Essays, etc

First week of Spring Quarter—ask Kelley in English Department.

Grades mostly.

For more feedback from me, bring your essay in and we'll go over it.

Grades due Next Friday, posted online under schedule that day

My schedule

Spring 70 x2 and Creative Writing

Fall 101 x2 and Creative Writing

Winter 102 x3

Also, you can ask about anything anytime.

You can say hi to me on campus. Say your name and I'll say mine.

You can say hi to each other.

Andy Blevins' story.

One in there Americans in their mid-twenties attended but did not finish college.

Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four year college managed to graduate within five years. (66% of high income did).

75 percent of students enrolling in community colleges said they hoped to transfer to a four year institution. But only 17 percent of those made the switch within five year. The rest were out working or still studying toward the two year degree.

This is not the path you are on.

This is the path you are on:

"As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow." --Nikos Kanzantzakis

Now, you can do this:

Day 48

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 48

1. Hand in AW essay.
   
2. BP Due tomorrow.
   
3. Cover Letter due tomorrow.
   
4. Final revised essay due tomorrow.
   
   1. Must include draft with my comments.
      
5. Absolutely no late work accepted. Ten minutes is late.
   
6. Learn from Leon.
   
7. MLADM2K10, Round Two, The Reckoning.
   
   1. El Dorado
      
   2. Steak Knives
      
   3. You're Fired
      
8. One team eliminated each round.
   
9. Third round of the day is double points.
   
10. Lightning round followed by tie breaker, sudden death rounds.
    

 

Or these?

1) http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/quiz.cfm

4) http://anywhere.tennessee.edu/iei/laap/eng1010/mla/practice.htm

2) http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/quiz.php?type=pre

3) http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page8.html http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072873469/student_view0/avoiding_plagiarism_tutorial/citing_sources/works_cited_quiz.html

Maybe these?

http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/tablesversion/quizzes/quiz6.htm

http://writingtutorial.niu.edu/writingtutorial/style/quizzes/MLA.htm

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/quiz.cfm http://anywhere.tennessee.edu/iei/laap/eng1010/mla/practice.htm http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/quiz.php?type=pre http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page8.html http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072873469/student_view0/avoiding_plagiarism_tutorial/citing_sources/works_cited_quiz.html http://collegewriting.us/1101/MLAQuiz.aspx

Learn from Leon and Lindsay and the Tour de Dumb

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Research for First Two Essays

Essay 1 on Education

Essay 2 on Business

Education Pays

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

The Unflat World

Here's part of the counter argument to globalization.

And here's Friedman's warnings:

Too Sick

a. HIV-AIDS, malaria, TB, polio (and Gates)
b. Pandemic (have you seen 28 days later? You get the picture)

Too Disempowered

a. Half-flat world—in India high tech is .2 percent of employment.
b. Rural voters

Too Frustrated

a. Cultures feel threatened, frustrated, humiliated
b. Differences coming into contact, including online.
c. Threat of openness
d. Abandon religion to join advances or retreat to fundamentalism

Too Many Toyotas

a. natural resources, oil, timber, etc
b. environmental destruction

Business Letter Format

Here's one.
Here's another.

Coffee's for Closers

H/I Portfolio Revision Worksheet on Tuesday.

1. MLA DeathMatch 2010.
   
   
   1. Five teams enter, one team leaves
      
   2. First Prize: 5 BP
      
   3. Second Prize: Steak Knives
      
   4. Third Prize: You're fired
      
   5. It's on…
      
2. The Final Week—Special Guest Leon Lett will be here Wednesday
   
   
1. Tuesday: Business Letter format, sample letters
2. Wednesday: Peer Editing, Bring two copies of Final, Final Rough Draft or Cover letter
   

Crops coming in? There's an ap for that

IFarm, globalization on the farm in the Yakima Valley. No end to knowledge work jobs that can be created.

Education Articles

UW has a program started by a former student of mine that fits in this conversation well. It's called the "Dream Project"--she started it as her senior project and it's now her doctoral work. It matches UW students as mentors to low income high school students. And it's really working.

Central raising tuition again. The president says those hurt the most are in the middle class.

Day 42

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 42

 

1. Hand in essay.
   
2. Plate of Peas
   
3. O/R Y/N?
   
4. Portfolio Review Assignment
   
5. Cover Letter Assignment
   
6. Monday: Essays returned
   
   1. MLA DeathMatch 2010, Round One—The Thunderdome
      
   2. PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN! You call yourself a salesman?
      
   3. You can bring your Hacker books, (quick reference guide a good idea)
      
   4. Four Teams Enter, One Team Leaves
      
7. Tuesday: Portfolio Review Due; Business Letters; Sample Essays.
   
8. Wednesday: One final peer editing day
   
9. Thursday: MLA DM2K10: Round Two--The Reckoning
   
10. Friday: Cover Letter Due; Revised Essay for Improved Score Due (Must include essay with my comments on it to be considered).
    
11. Revision Notes

Flat World in Education

Debated in the NYTimes

Meanwhile, watch the video with this long article and think about how this works in Distance Ed classes.

More student protests

In California.

School Reform U-Turn

The woman who helped write the No Child Left Behind laws says they aren't working.
The main idea was that all schools, rich or poor, be held to the same standards.
This process was left up to the states, but if they didn't make adequate yearly progress (AYP) they'd lose money from the federal govt.

The result is that the standards were lowered so all schools, rich and poor, made it over the standards.

Day 41

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 41

1. Scoring this essay
   
2. By Friday: 3-5 pages (could include first in-class essay as lead in to solutions). This draft is a final draft and should include direct quotes from the books defining not only the obstacles but the solutions as well. In text and works cited are required. A counter argument is required.
   

 

"How Can We Duplicate" revision is due
this
Friday
ONLY IF you are interested in using this essay as your final, final essay. This gives me time to respond and you time to revise it.

 

If you KNOW you are revising a different essay,(Education or Business in TWIF), then the revised "How Can We Duplicate" Essay is not due until THURSDAY, March 11th.

 

1. Peer edit "How Can We Duplicate" in class
   
   1. We're looking for clear topics in each paragraph
      
   2. We're looking for support from Class Matters, Nickel and Dimed, The World is Flat, Brooks, other.
      
   3. We're looking for an awareness of Counter-Arguments from the above books as well.
      
      1. Here's how we'll do it
         
         1. Write a question or two you need answered. The more specific the better.
            
         2. Number paragraphs
            
         3. Hand to partner at your table.
            
         4. Peer edit without reading aloud.
            
            1. Stay focused.
               
            2. Give it your complete attention.
               

They are counting on you.

Collaboration in Online Music

Here's the site for Indaba and here's a report on it from Colbert

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Dan Zaccagnino
http://www.colbertnation.com/
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Skate Expectations

Colbert on Copyright

Here's a guy named Lawrence Lessig that wants to do away with copyright laws.
It's all part of what Friedman calls "The Great Sorting Out"
And here's the remix.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Lawrence Lessig

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor

Rap Battle
Joke of the Day

And here's a debate about Obama's campaign poster on Colbert.
The AP took the photo, but did the artist steal it for his poster?
Or is he "sampling" it?

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Obama Poster Debate - David Ross and Ed Colbert

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Political Humor

Rap Battle
Joke of the Day