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FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 10 Your exam. Please review all of our units and then STUDY FOR GRAMMAR! Here is a website that has many practice pages. [] First you need to register as a student. When you do, give my email (wendt@alma.edu) as your instructor. This will give you access to their exercises. "Punctuation" has lots on commas, colons, semi-colons, and apostrophes. "Grammatical Sentences" has subject/verb agreement, pronoun/antecedent agreement, run-ons, and fragments. Here [] is a really good--and tough--quiz on subject and predicate (verb).

Good luck!

FOR FRIDAY AND MONDAY, DEC. 3 AND 6 Presentations. Everyone should be ready to go.

FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1. Please read and then do one of your own that sort of mimics this one--this will be for a grade in place of your usual Monday test. Also do practice pages 17 and 18 for Wednesday and 19 and 20 for Friday.

FOR THE WEEK AFTER BREAK: MONDAY Please read your section of "Listening to the World" (on the Handouts page). Be ready to work in your group with that text.

FOR NEXT WEEK: MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY. We will not have class on Wednesday, due to many students needing to leave early. Instead, you will be required to sit in on one of my English 101 conferences that I have scheduled for Monday and Wednesday throughout the day. Each conference is only 15 minutes, and you only need to sit in on one. Be sure, however, not to sign up for one that is directly before another class of yours as we sometimes get behind. The schedule of conferences is below. Once you have chosen a time, please "Edit this page" and add your name to the list--please no more than two students per conference; one is preferable. We don't want to intimidate the freshmen!

Homework for Monday: Apostrophe homework and student evals.

FRESHMAN 101 CONFERENCES FOR MONDAY, NOV. 22 IN MY OFFICE SAC 339 ENGLISH 210 STUDENTS: PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME IN RED AFTER THE FRESHMAN'S NAME (Use the T w/ paint palette above in the toolbar to make text red) EXAMPLE: 12:30 - Bob (Judy 210)

11:00 - Chelsie 11:15 - Alex ﻿ (Mary 210) 11:30 - Gwen ﻿(Emma T 210) 11:45 - Chuck ﻿ (Emma 210) 12:00 - 12:15 - Ashley (J.J.210) (Audrey 210) 12:30 -

3:00 - LIndsey ﻿(Becca 210)(Shanna 210) 3:15 - Erin (Lauren 210) 3:30 - (Brittany 210) 3:45 - 4:00 - Maria (Kelly H. 210) 4:15 - Cait 4:30 - Amber Meyer 4:45 - Coty

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24 11:00 - Amber Johannes ﻿(Brandie 210) 11:15 - Trevor 11:30 - Anna ﻿ (Jackii 210) 11:45 - Jillian (Jessica 210) 12:00 - Doug 12:15 - Elizabeth 12:30 - Katlyn Chitwood ﻿ ﻿(Chelsea M. 210)

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 15 Do your colon/semicolon homework, evaluate Becca and Kelly (the "Students Evaluation" form is on the "Handouts" page), and do Practice pages 15 and 16 if you haven't already. That's all!

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 12 Grammar lesson Friday. I forgot to go over the handout for this unit, so you might want to check out what's coming up. Here are Friday's practice pages: Sorry I forgot to get them to you in class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10 Please evaluate the rubrics you brought to class today according to whether or not they appropriately measure the five criteria. Also go to the "readings" page and read the "papers for grade norming" there. After reading these papers, please give them a grade on each of the five criteria and then an overall grade on a letter scale (A, AB, etc). Make whatever kinds of notes you may need to make to argue for the grade you assigned. No need to print them; we'll use the computers in the classroom.

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 8 We will begin a new unit on assessment, so please bring rubrics to look at and share. If you don't have any, just google "english rubrics" or "rubrics for writing" and you'll get bazillion. Also due is your "usage" homework and your peer eval of Shanna and Lauren.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 5 Practice pages 13 and 14 due. That's it!

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3 Fishbowl evals (if not already done) Completing fishbowls in class. Written exam for Brandie and Lauren.

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 1 Jackii's homework on parallelism. Peer eval. Practice pages 11 and 12 There will also be a mini-test (to take home if there isn't time).

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 29 Nothing is due. Practice your fishbowling. We will have a grammar lesson.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27 Fishbowl exams - Wed. Oct. 27: Kelly, Shanna, Jessica, and Emma T Mon Nov. 1: Mary, Emma P, Becca, and Brittany Wed. Nov. 3: JJ, Chelsea, Jackii, and Audrey

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 25 Nothing is due. Rest. Relax. See you Monday

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20 In-class midterm exam on grammar.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 18 Practice page 10 is due. Also Fragment homework: Grammar exercises, grammatical sentences, E ex G53 Sentence fragments edit and compare. Here is the URL []

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 14 Practice page 10 is due. Also bring back your friend's paper with comments. We are behind, but not to worry--I've shuffled the schedule to accommodate.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13 Please respond to your friend's paper, both in the margins and with an endnote "nice" sandwich. Also practice pages 7 & 8 are due.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 11 Please complete the evals for Brittany and Brandie as well as the homework they gave you. If you missed class, it is YOUR responsibility to contact Brittany and/or Brandie to get the homework from them. Practice pages 7 and 8 are not due till Wednesday. FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 8 Nothing is due! Enjoy.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6 Your Assignment and Reflection are due. When you reflect, please remember to use the language from Cambourne to demonstrate to me that you understand how the assignment fits Cambourne's criteria. Because of the barrage of questions, I'm giving you a couple samples, one for fifth graders and one for college age. FOR MONDAY, OCT. 4 Complete your comma splice/run-on homework and evals for Emma. You will have a mini-test on subject and predicate; subject/verb agreement; commas; and comma splices and run-ons. Assignments and reflection due Wednesday.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 1 Practice Pages 5 & 6 are due. Keep working on your assignments for Unit 2.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT 29 Bring assignment(s) to class.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 27 Please read both Cambourne articles, print them and bring them to class. Also your comma homework and your evaluation is due.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 24 Practice pages 3 & 4 are due as well as your "Theory Paper" from Unit One (see handout for details). Remember that it is meant to be informal.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22 Since we have gotten behind, we will spend Wednesday finishing our Berlin discussion and discussing Fulkerson. Commas with JJ and Chelsea on Friday. In other words, NO HOMEWORK!!

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 20 Homework on subject/verb agreement due. Evaluation of lesson 2 (Mary and Emma T) due. Also read Fulkerson's "Composition at the Turn of the 21st Century" as follows: All: - pgs. 654-659 and 679 - End Group One: - pgs. 659-666 - Lauren, Mary Chelsea, JJ, Emma T. Group Two: - pgs. 666-670 - Shanna, Audry, Brittany, Emma, Jessica Group Three: - pgs 670-679 - Jackie, Kelly, Becca, Brandie Be prepared on Monday to lead the class in discussion of your section.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 17 Friday is always grammar lesson day, so this Friday we will have a lesson from Mary and Emma T. However, your Practice pages 1 & 2 are due Friday as well. I brought them to class, but several of you must not have picked them up since I had so many left. If you forgot to get your practice pages, I have pinned the extras to the board outside my office where you can pick them up any time. I will have a reading for you soon...

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15 Please read James Berlin's "Contemporary Theories." The PDF is on the "Readings" page. No online discussion for this one, but still bring three questions/discussion topics for Wednesday.

NOTE: I understand that the printers are down. Please do the reading online and take notes as best as you can. We'll use the computers in class if they don't get the printers working in time. FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 13 Please read Maxine Hairston's "Winds of Change," which you can find on the "Readings" page. On that same page is a "Discussions" tab at the top. Please respond to the prompt for "Hairston's 'Winds of Change'" in a discussion format. You may be brief at first and come back to add after reading others' posts. In addition, please bring three questions/topics to class Monday for discussion. Have them written/typed to turn in for credit.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 10 No "homework" per se, but please begin collecting the one assignment and three student writing samples of that assignment for Unit 2.