Day 42

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 42

1. Bonus points
a. Latino Film Fest” March 3rd
b. Science Lecture (march 9th)
c. Play

2. More time for rough drafts.

a. 3 pages due by End of Period.
b. I’ll try to have these back to you by Monday, but it’s going to be a quick read.
c. Use the writing center, your family and friends as readers, too.
d. Final draft due a week from today.

i. Remember, according to CM and Friedman, much of the slowing of mobility is the result of globalization putting a premium on certain skills and knowledge. That’s the real big picture: those at the bottom of the economic ladder are competing against people making $2 a day who appear to work harder than they do in countries with lax standards and safeguards for people and the planet.

ii. Definitions from the books of the obstacles are highly encouraged.

iii. Examples of the problems from the books are highly encouraged.

iv. Examples/Definitions of the solutions from the book are highly encouraged.

1. These keep your paper narrow and specific and help you avoid the axe to grind, biased, unsubstantiated claims.

v. Examples of solutions from the Yakima Valley are GOOOOLDENNNNNNN.

3. Essays nearly graded. Bring your Business essay to class tomorrow (regular classroom).

4. We’ll talk about the other obstacles and solutions and the sad reality of the chance any of this comes to pass if it costs money to do.

Portfolio Review

Portfolio Revision Worksheet Due Tuesday—Answer on a separate piece of paper
11 prewriting points

1. Which essay do you think is strongest? Explain your answer in detail, including a quote or paraphrase from the essay.

2. Did your peer readers agree with your assessment? What did I have to say about the essay? Paraphrase or quote from a peer and from something I wrote to support your answer.

3. What is your weakest essay? Explain why you think it’s weak, using quotes or paraphrase.

4. Did your peer readers agree that it was your weakest? What did I have to say? Paraphrase or quote from a peer and from something I wrote to support your answer.

5. What revision would you need to make to the Education assignment? List all the tasks you would need to complete.

6. What revision would you need to make to Business assignment?


7. What revision would you need to make to the Angela Whitiker assignment?


8. What’s the most frustrating part of writing for you? What’s the hardest part about writing?


9. What do you still need to work on?


10. What are your strengths as a writer?


11. What do you like about writing? What’s the most satisfying part of writing for you?

Made in America

Maybe not the cure . Friedman would love these stats.

Outline suggestions

Here’s the process we’re walking (or running) through.

1) What are the obstacles that you think are the most important/fixable

a. Find 2-4. (For rough drafts)
i. Put in your own words
b. Find page numbers and quotes to help define these obstacles.
i. Explain the quotes

2) What are the solutions to those obstacles as presented in the books

a. Find 1-2 solutions
i. Put in your own words (for rough drafts)
b. Find page numbers and quotes to help define the solutions
i. Explain the quotes (For final drafts)

3) What are the solutions you or your classmates have come up with?

a. Put 1-2 in your own words
b. Find evidence outside the books to support your ideas.


One Way to Organize This Essay

Paragraph 1: Intro (hook, background, thesis)

Paragraph 2: Obstacle 1 (define using texts)

Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Option for each body paragraph—add an example of the obstacle and solution from the texts or from other source.

For ex: (obstacle) Angela Whitiker struggled to complete her degree because she lacked reliable childcare. –find quote that explains family structure from CM and/or childcare dilemma in N&D’d
(solution) She would have been able to complete her degree more quickly if she didn’t have that concern and instead could have put her children in a clean, safe, predictable environment, like the ones proposed by Ready By Five.—quote Ready by Five website.

Paragraph 3: Obstacle 2 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 4: Obstacle 3 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 5: Obstacle 4 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 6: C-A: Some might say, others might say, I say. (Right before end or right after intro is a good place for this) Acknowledging the other ideas is a good start. Conceding/Defeating them as top priorities will be more credible and convincing, thus putting you on the fast track to better score for C-A.

Paragraph 7: Conclusion

Obstacles and Solutions

Obstacles and Solutions

Meet in Labs Thursday (C230)

Now, for some help with the rough draft:
Pick your top three from the list
How do we help Angela Whitiker overcome these sources of economic friction?
What are the solutions offered by the books?
Research for some of these is in your books.
What are our original solutions?
Research for these topics is encouraged.

Education

1. Parenting
2. Collect at state level and spread equally
3. Emphasize:
• CQ+PQ
• Math/Science
• Right Brain
• Learn to Learn
• Collaborators
4. Tougher tests
5. Longer school days
6. Longer school years
7. Universal Preschool
a. Head Start/RB5
8. College Aid
9. Increase vocational/trade programs
10. Classes through work

Health Care

1. Expand congressional health care to 30 million w/o coverage
2. Portable coverage

Isolation

1. Protest
2. Social Activism
3. Change Housing rules/styles
a. We've tried large projects
b. We've tried easier loans
4. Credit Crisis-is there an ironic benefit to it?
5. Required class in teacher prep.
6. Immigration reform
7. Language classes
8. News catching up with this?

Family Structure

1. Shift focus of sex ed
2. Leadership

Transportation

1. Mass transit

Information

1. Expand broadband
2. 211

Child care

1. Universal pre-school
2. Expand government care
3. Be more generous with paid leave

Social Capital

1. Parenting
2. End "marriage penalty"
3. Promote marriages in PSA's etc
4. Require classes for license
5. Allow gay marriage
6. Leadership/Bully Pulpit

Human Capital

1. Parenting
2. Word of the Month
3. Gear Up
4. Attendance rewards
5. Grade rewards
6. Big Brothers
7. Peer Mentors
8. DARE
9. Parenting classes
10. Tough love
11. "Stable, predictable environment, good behavior is rewarded +practice"
12. Universal Preschool
13. Personal finance classes
14. Public Speaking classes
15. Leadership/bully pulpit

Other

1. Race
2. Increase minimum wage to living wage?
3. Wage Insurance?
4. Faith Based programs?
5. Volunteering
6. Reaching out/Mission work
7. Prohibitions?
a. Make divorce harder, for ex
b. Smoking/Drinking
c. Number of children
d. Censorship? tv/video games
e. What about drugs/alcohol?

But how will we pay for it?

Here's one place.

Here's another.

That's assuming you favor the idea of the government doing something about it in the first place.

GPS and Hooky

Here's a scary idea that's being tried to fill the ambition gap.

Maybe it's race, cont.

Facebook

The world is obsessed with Facebook

Here's the first in a popular "Shift Happens" series.

Day 40

Lesson Plan Day 4

1. 15 Years Slide Show
   
2. Homework: Prepare for In Class Essay, Day 1
   
3. In Class Essay Question
   
   
1. How to prepare for and take an in class essay: Short Link, Longer Link
   
2. How to prepare for THIS in class essay
   
1. Notes
   
2. List of quotations/page numbers
   
3. Outline
   
4. Open book
   
5. Typed or not, double spaced
6. Not written before class.

C206, 50 minutes

Bonus points-Blog comments due tomorrow.
a. Latino Film Fest” March 3rd
b. Science Lecture
c. Play

3. Done with 1030 class, starting on 1130. Save everything.
4. Angela Whitiker’s Climb slideshow part two
5. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter, continued
6. Obstacles or “Friction” in class mobility—on the board?
7. Solutions?
9. David Brooks articles.
a. For Brooks—your favorite and “annotate it”

Day 39

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 39
1. Bonus points-Last Night
a. Latino Film Fest
b. Science Lecture
c. Play
2. Almost done with 1030 class. Save everything.
3. Friday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Discussion of Questions
b. Slideshow
c. More questions
4. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter
5. Obstacles or “Friction” in class mobility—on the board?
6. Weekend: 15 years + David Brooks articles.
a. For Brooks—print out your favorite and “annotate it” for Monday’s discussion

David Brooks Articles for Weekend

Here's Psst! Human Capital

Marshmellows and Public Policy

Of Love and Money

Investing in Human Futures

Human Capital Agenda

A Critique of Pure Reason (deals with Education reform)

America's Admissions System (deals with immigration)

And another on Education Reform

Eval Chapter Questions

EVALUATION CHAPTER

a. How did she do as a worker?


b. How did she do at “life in general”?


c. Why are the official poverty rates misleading?


d. If productivity is increasing, why aren’t wages?


e. What keeps the workers from finding better jobs? Where is the friction?


f. Explain the “vicious cycle” of labor costs described by the book.


g. What makes the working poor invisible?


h. List some of the complaints the middle and upper class have about the
working poor.


i. Summarize the problems facing the working poor.


j. What are the solutions to these problems?


k. What are the objections to these solutions?


l. Why does Ehrenreich call the working poor the most philanthropic of all
social classes?

Day 38

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 38
1. Bonus points-Tonight
2. 22 so far. Save everything.
3. Assignment for third essay.
4. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Discussion of Questions
b. Slideshow
c. More questions
d. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter and answer questions
5. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + Nickel and Dimed
6. Weekend: 15 years + David Brooks articles.

The Human Cost of Budget Cutting

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20herbert.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp

more to make you feel like crap:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/opinion/19blow.html?src=me&ref=general

Here's the link I had up yesterday:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gRTwz1tzSQFqc06bHyjpLjKd6sjQ?docId=a65fe0577eb8481cb48a5b59351d3a12

Friedman's latest post

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/opinion/23friedman.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Middle east and oil.

Two Graphs

Day 37

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 37

1. Bonus points

2. 10 so far. Save everything.

3. A note on late essays.

4. Schedule for rest of quarter.

5. Assignment for third essay.

6. Shadowy Lines as a class.

a. On the surface
b. In reality
c. Likely to continue/change?
d. What has changed, would you guess, since this poll?
7. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Read 15 Years
8. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + 15 Years on Bottom Rung
9. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

Educational Needs Index

Here's a site that tracks Educational Needs.
Yakima Country ranks 59th (from the bottom) out of 2071 overall and 32nd in Education in particular. (And last year we were 100th. That's right, we've gotten worse. Jeez.) The next county in Washington is 291, then 423.

My first reaction: I've got to get out of this place. My second reaction: Well, if I want to make a difference, this is the place to be.

In any case, it definitely shows us why it's critical to understand Angela Whitiker's situation. We're living in one of the poorest, least educated places in the country and it's up to us to figure out a way to change this.

The three factors drive the ENI model and the variables that make up each factor are:
Educational Factor – Indicators assess the educational capacity of a region’s adult population. Indicators measure the percent of the population with a high school degree, associate’s degree, and bachelor’s degree, and a measure of the educational attainment gap between younger and older members of the workforce.

Economic Factor - Indicators in this category assess the degree of economic challenges facing counties. Indicators measure the percent of population in poverty, unemployment rates, the existing earnings capacity of residents, and dependence upon manufacturing and extraction jobs.
Population Factor – Indicators assess the present population growth issues facing the county and potential need for increased emphasis on human capital development to address changing demographics. Indicators measure recent and project population growth, population aged 19 and younger as a percent of the total population, population aged 20-44, and the relative size of an area’s at-risk minority population (African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans).

Day 35

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 35
1. Bonus points this week.
2. Wednesday: Shadowy Lines + Worksheet
3. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
4. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + 15 Years on Bottom Rung
5. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.