September 25, 2017 - September 29, 2017 Weekly Agenda for EWRC

Monday, September 25th: 
8:00 - 8:15
Breakfast in the Classroom
Tedtalks
8:15 - 9:13
Clean up
Go to library
Continue research
Find at least three more sources for your research paper
Please format the sources in correct bibliography format
Submit to schoology

Tuesday, September 26th: 
Field Trip
For those who are not attending the ballet, please work on your research paper

Wednesday, September 27th: 
8:00 - 8:15
Breakfast in the Classroom
Clean-up
8:15 - 9:13
Go over the grammar assignment:

Pages 4, 5, and 6, “What Makes a Sentence Complete?”, write out the sentences and write why it is incomplete.

Activity 5, “Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences”, write out sentences and mark them either “C” for complete or “I” for incomplete.

Grammar due period has been extended to Friday, September 29^th.

Vocabulary Unit 2, #11 – 20 is due today:

Word, part of speech, definition, etymology, three synonyms, two antonyms, two original sentences, one sentence from literary source.

By tomorrow, you need to have submitted a minimum of eight bibliography sources, one of which must be a book.

Stay in 503
Submit two more sources for your research paper
Please format the sources in correct bibliography format
Submit to schoology
Be sure to bring your sources with you tomorrow!

How to Do Notes:

Upper Left Hand Corner

Write title of book and page number

Upper Middle – Write the specific area of your topic that the quotation refers to in the center of your note card

Copy verbatim (exactly how it’s written) the important information from your source. You are going to quote from your source.

On the “back of your index card” you are going to paraphrase – put in your own words – the quotation. In other words, you are going to explain your quotation and how it relates to your argument or topic. 

Thursday, September 28th: 
8:00 - 8:15
Breakfast in the Classroom
8:15 - 9:13
Went over due dates for vocabulary, grammar, and research bibliography notes.
Reviewed how to do bibliography cards
Showed Purdue On-line Writing Lab (OWL) as a resource for MLA formatting.
Be sure to bring your sources with you to class
Work on your bibliography cards.  You should have submitted eight bibliography cards by now.
Your Vocabulary Unit 2, #11 - 20 was due yesterday, Wednesday, September 27th.

Grammar Homework:
Pages 4, 5, and 6, “What Makes a Sentence Complete?”, write out the sentences and write why it is incomplete.

Activity 5, “Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences”, write out sentences and mark them either “C” for complete or “I” for incomplete.

Grammar due date has been extended to Friday, September 29^th.

Friday, September 29th: 
8:00 - 8:15
Breakfast in the Classroom
8:15 - 9:13
Be sure to bring your sources with you to class
Go over how to do note cards
Work on your note cards
Your grammar homework, pages 4, 5, and 6 exercises 4 and 5 will be due today.

How to Do Note Cards:

Note Cards:

Name of author/Title/Page                                    Topic                                     1.                                                           

Quotation

Below the Note Card: 

Paraphrase the quotation (put in your own words) or explain how this quotation supports your argument or proves your point. 

Example:

Nadine Burke Harris “Hardwired” Ted Talks            Long Term Effects of Abuse: Asthma

“One of the unseen long term effects of having an abusive or chaotic childhood are the increased health issues. In a longitudinal study that was conducted, adults who had suffered abuse as children were tracked over their lifetime. Those adults had  a 50% increase of asthma over that population that had not suffered abuse.”

Paraphrase/Explanation:

According to pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris, those people who have suffered abuse have long term serious health issues, such as asthma, which can continue all throughout their lives.  There is a 50% increase in these health issues in the population of abused children over the rest of the population which have not suffered abuse.  The long term effects of child abuse can last a life time and in unexpected ways.

Minimum of thirty-five note cards.

Please submit them in “batches of five”.  There will be seven assignment boxes in schoology. Please submit five note cards per assignment box. 

If your research paper is an argument, then included in the thirty-five note cards should be evidence supporting the counter claim to your thesis.