Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Day 42

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 42 Spring 2011


Hand in one copy of your final draft.

1. Count by Fours

2. Section 1: How did this start?

3. Section 2: What makes a good story good?

4. Section 3: What lessons did you learn?

5. Section 4: Who are we and where are we going?

6. Apostrophes (486)

Revised essays due Thursday at the beginning of the period.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Leon Lett

Day 41

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 41 Spring 2011


Learn from Leon and the last 5 days.

1. Hand in one copy of your rough draft.

2. In groups of four—pass your essay to the person across from you.

3. Read silently and mark your peer's essay as you read.

4. Complete peer editing form.

5. Discuss with your partner.

6. Trade with a second person in your group.

Final Draft due: Tuesday

Thursday, May 26, 2011

In the Lab

1.  Section 2: Work to be done--read all of the class essays (you can scan the ones you've read as a peer editor or that have been read completely in class) and write a main idea statement that captures all of them.

2.  Section 3:  What are two lessons you've learned from the stories?  Use excerpts from 1-2 stories to show how you learned these lessons.

3.  Section 4:  Write a list of "brief flashes" from 6-10 stories that you remember well after reading them.

All of these can be seen in Auster's intro, as well as Thomas Mott's and Robert Peal's examples.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

1130 Class Anthology

Here's the first link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/1130%20Anthology%20Spring%2011.pdf

Here's the second link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/1130%20Anthology%20Part%202.pdf

Day 39

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 39 Spring 2011


Learn from Leon W. and the last seven days.

1. Section four in Auster.

2. Section four—demographics—copy these down.

1. Gender

2. Age

3. Where are you from originally?

4. Where are you from now?

5. What are your former jobs?

6. What is your current job?

7. What are your career goals?

3. Section four examples from past classes.

4. Homework: Rough Draft Section Four—the breakdown of the people and the stories—including “brief flashes” from as many stories as you can fit in.

Rough Draft due: Friday

Final Draft due: Tuesday

930 Class Anthology

Here's the first link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/930%20Anthology%20Spring%2011.pdf

Here's the second:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/930%20Part%20Two.pdf

830 Class Anthology

Here's the first link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/830%20Anthology%20Spring%202011.pdf

Here's the second one:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30278644/830%20Part%20Two.pdf

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Day 38

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 38 Spring 2011


Learn from Lindsey and the last eight days.

1. Samples, Section 1

2. Outline Section 2 from Auster

3. Prewriting, Section 2:

• What do you look for in a good story?

• What kind of papers were we looking for in English 70?

• What is your mission in English 70? What is the mission of the whole class?

4. Rubrics—please leave for next class.

1. What are the most important traits, according to you?

1. Ideas and content

2. Organization

3. Voice

4. Word Choice

5. Sentence Fluency

6. Conventions

2. Write down several key definitions from the rubrics that you find the most important.

5. Samples, Section 2

6. Section four—demographics—copy these down.

1. Gender

2. Age

3. Where are you from originally?

4. Where are you from now?

5. What are your former jobs?

6. What is your current job?

7. What are your career goals?

7. Homework: Rough Draft Section Two: What do you look for in a good story?

Rough Draft due: Friday

Final Draft due: Tuesday

Monday, May 23, 2011

Day 37

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 37 Spring 2011


Essay 4, Section 1: How did this begin?

Outline Auster’s intro.

Prewriting time for your section one.

Sample Intro 1.

Rough Draft due:

Final Draft due:

Homework: Email me your favorite essay /10 points.

The Tour De Dumb and the last nine days.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Day 34

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 34 Spring 2011


Complete peer editing.

Volunteer for whole class grading tomorrow?

Fragments (147) Practice 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12—what we don’t get to in class is homework.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Day 31

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 31 Spring 2011


Due dates for Essay 3

1. Rough Draft: Due Monday. Bring 4 copies.

2. Final Draft: May 20st

Commas (469): Practice 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

What we don’t get done in class is homework.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Day 29

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 29 Spring 2011


Due dates for Essay 3

1. Rough Draft: May 16th

2. Final Draft: May 20st

Death: Sample Essay

How to Get the Most from Your Interviews.

Tips for Eulogies.

Now: Time for writing questions/Freewriting on Eulogies looking for a theme.

Homework: Run ons—review answers.

Chapter 12: Practice 6, 7, 8, 10.

Sample Love Essay

November 29, 2006

English 70

Love or Death

A Distance Love Affair

A long distance relationship can be difficult, but I know a couple of which distance wasn’t the only problem. That couple is my parents, Steve and Rosario Gurule. They met on January 4, 1984 at my mother’s cousin’s wedding, she was the maid of honor, despite having to travel from Mexico to Yakima. My dad was a guest. When my mom first laid eyes on my dad she saw a slender and handsome man but didn’t really think much about him. My dad on the other hand saw her as the most beautiful woman at the wedding. Right away he knew he was going to ask her to dance at the reception. After a couple of drinks of the “magic punch” as my dad calls it and after the reception, my dad decided to give her a kiss. He told me, “She was a struggle; I had to pull her into me with my hand and kiss her in front of everybody. But it was sure worth it.” This was a beginning of a year’s relationship.

Two days after the wedding it is now time for my mom to leave to Mexico. But before she left she wanted to say bye to the man she had met at the wedding. She didn’t know when she was going to see him again. She asked one of her friends to call my dad and tell him to come over to the place she was staying at. She didn’t speak any English and he didn’t speak any Spanish. How was she going to say goodbye? By hand signals? Well that is exactly what happened. My dad came over and they gave their goodbyes. They some how managed to tell each other that they where going to stay in contact and they exchanged addresses.

My mom sent my dad the first letter in Spanish, of course. “If he was truly interested in me, he had to learn Spanish,” she tells me. And he did. He would write to her once a month because that’s how long it would take to get her letters back. It would take him a couple of hours to write her back. He would sit in his dining room table with the Spanish/ English dictionary right next to him. In every letter that my mom sent she would invite my dad to come to Mexico thinking that he would never go. Little did she know, he was on his way to Mexico. Throwing caution to the wind he took off to Mexico on February 1985. He went to Mexico without letting her know that he was coming, without knowing Spanish and without knowing exactly where she lived.

He arrived on a Thursday evening and he didn’t know where he was exactly. He only knew the name of the person with whom he was going to stay. Fortunately, when he knocked on the first door it was the person he was looking for. The next day he went to look for Mom, only knowing a description of her house. He was on the road and saw her walking with a friend. When he saw her he yelled out her name, “Chayo, Chayo, Chayo. Estoy aqui”. She wasn’t looking that great. She had just come back from washing her cloths at the creek. “I looked like a mess. I had messy hair and I was soaked in water. He didn’t seem to mind, that was the best part.” She told me.

After feeling embarrassed for a few moments, she went to him and gave him a hug. She then took him to her house to meet the family. My grandparents were happy to see my dad there. They knew that he was going to ask her for her hand in marriage. My grandparents thought it was about time for her to get married. It was well over due. In Mexico girls get married by the age of sixteen and my mom was already twenty-two. They thought she was never going to get married at the rate things were going. Seeing my dad there changed that opinion.

My mom then showed him her ranch, the place where she grew up. She showed him the restroom which was the outdoors. She showed him where he would be taking his showers for the next three weeks, the creek. And she showed him the house.

It was now time to talk the parents, my mom’s parents. He sat to talk to them in the living room and tried asking for permission to marry my mom. He tried really hard to say it in Spanish; he had rehearsed a couple of times before going over there. He told them, “Yo querer casarme con tu hija.” It wasn’t perfect Spanish but it got the message through. My mom over heard the conversation. She says it sounded so funny but it was nice to see his effort. My grandparents right away said yes. They were excited about the upcoming wedding. All my mom had to say now was yes to his proposal.

Later that day, my dad took my mom to the creek to talk. He asked her, “Tu quererte casar conmigo?” “Immediately I said no. I wanted him to suffer for a few minutes and to see how he would react.” My dad reacted by telling her that he was going to leave now since there was no point in staying. My mom reacted by telling him, “I do want to marry you. I was just joking. I wanted to see the reaction in your face if I said no.” He was so happy to hear that she did want to marry him. He didn’t bring the ring with him to Mexico but improvised a ring by getting a thin rose stem and rapping it around her finger to make it look like a ring.

Suddenly, Dad realized that the three weeks were coming to an end. It was now time for my dad to leave back to Washington. Two months after he left, my mom went to Yakima to prepare the wedding. Their engagement only lasted six months. They got married on July 13, 1985. My parents both agree that it was the greatest day of there lives. They had only met each other once before my dad had gone to Mexico. They only wrote each other letters and never spoke on the phone. They didn’t know each others language. Yet through all of these obstacles they didn’t let them break their love. This love has lasted twenty ones years and it is going to last forever.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Day 28

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 28 Spring 2011


1. Nearly done with essays. We’ll discuss these tomorrow in class. Please bring them with you. Questions on handwriting?

Due dates for Essay 3

2. Rough Draft: May 16th

3. Final Draft: May 20st

Love: Sample Essay

Death: Sample Essay

Chapter 10: The Complete Sentence (page 129)

Chapter 10 continued: Page 136

Practice 11(1-8 on boards)

12 in book

13 (on boards)

14 and 15 in book

17 (1-5 on boards)

and chapter review

Homework: Run ons

Chapter 12: Practice 1, 2, 3, 4

Monday, May 09, 2011

Day 27

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 27 Spring 2011


1. Due dates for Essay 3

2. Rough Draft: May 16th

3. Final Draft: May 20st

Love: Sample Essay

Death: Sample Essay

Chapter 10: The Complete Sentence (page 129)

Practice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10--Review

Chapter 10 continued: Page 136

Practice 12, (13?) 14, 15, and chapter review

Homework: Whatever we don’t get to in class from the above list (12, 13, 14, 15 and chapter review).

Friday, May 06, 2011

Day 26

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 26 Spring 2011


1. Quiz Love/Death

2. Due dates for Essay 3

3. Rough Draft: May 16th

4. Final Draft: May 20st

5. Types of love

Passionate Love (eros)

Who do you know who could tell a good girlfriend/boyfriend story?

Friends, family, country, job, community (philia)

Who do you know who could tell a good story of love between friends, family. Or of their love for their jobs, country or community.

God’s love for “man”, or our love for all humanity (agape)

Who do you know who could tell a good story of God’s love or of a love for their neighbor?

Types of Death

Actual deaths.

Those still with us who we might want to say something to now.

Objects that have died.

Pets that have died.

Ideas that have died.

Chapter 10: The Complete Sentence (page 129)

Practice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10

Homework: Whatever we don’t get to in class from the above list

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Day 25

English 70 Lesson Plan Day 25 Spring 2010


I’ll have essays back in about a week and be able to recommend 70/75 for those interested Summer classes. If you’re interested in knowing earlier, come by my office.

Sentence Fluency and Conventions

Love Stories: Brief Summaries

Favorite?

The assignment choices: Love or Death.

Homework: Death stories in reading pkt.

Types of love

Passionate Love (eros)

Who do you know who could tell a good girlfriend/boyfriend story?

Friends, family, country, job, community (philia)

Who do you know who could tell a good story of love between friends, family. Or of their love for their jobs, country or community.

God’s love for “man”, or our love for all humanity (agape)

Who do you know who could tell a good story of God’s love or of a love for their neighbor?

Types of Death

Actual deaths.

Those still with us who we might want to say something to now.

Objects that have died.

Pets that have died.

Ideas that have died.

Due dates for Essay 3

Rough Draft: May 16th

Final Draft: May 20st

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Day 24

English 70 Lesson Plan 24


1. Hand back verb work with a note.

2. Hand in final drafts of essay 2.

3. O/R: Y /N?

a. Y= +.25

b. N= +/-0

4. Homework: Read stories from “Love” section in I Thought My Father packet

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Day 23

English 70 Lesson Plan 23


1. Bonus Points

a. Last library workshops this week.

2. Word choice and voice sample essay.

3. If time, review verb homework.

4. Hand in Verb Homework.

5. Final Drafts due Wednesday. Bring two copies to get your essays back sooner.