Week 3 in FCWR101

 

Syllabus objectives for Week 3 PROCESS - Tuesday, Sept 27, 2011 Class activities for Tuesday Sept 27 Homework assigned Tuesday Sept 27 (due Sun Oct 2)  DESCRIPTION - Sunday, Sept 25, 2011 Class activities for Sunday Sept 25 Cypberspaces used Sunday Sept 25 Homework assigned Sunday Sept 25 (due Tue Sept 27)

 

Syllabus objectives for Week 3

 

• Descriptive & Process Paragraphs 25-32 

 

PROCESS - Tuesday, Sept 27, 2011

 

Class activities for Tuesday Sept 27

 

• http://tinyurl.com/p30sep27fab1 
• http://tinyurl.com/p30sep27fab2 

 

Homework assigned Tuesday Sept 27 (due Sun Oct 2) 

Absolute deadline for revision was Sunday Oct 9

 

• Please put your best writing so far in this class in our Posterous blog entry for Sunday Oct 2
• Complete the exercises on p.29-32 in your book 
• Please write a process paper according to instructions for Ex 13, p.31, and share it with your teacher

1. In the title description write PROCESS Your name Oct 2 
2. Write your name in the document as well 
3. Have a friend look at the paper and give you feedback
4. Write the name of your peer reviewer at the end of the document  

 

 

DESCRIPTION - Sunday, Sept 25, 2011

 

Class activities for Sunday Sept 25

 

Pages 19-20: Topic sentences, supporting details / explanations / examples, concluding sentences

Pages 21-24: Peer Editing

Chapter 4: Descriptive paragraphs

End the class with Freewriting in preparation for your homework due Tue Sept 27

 

If we have time, let's talk about Creative Commons Images

• About Creative Commons licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
• Use http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en to find CC images
• http://screencast.com/t/gRQqAZAlD  

 

 

Cypberspaces used Sunday Sept 25

• http://tinyurl.com/sept25chap3fab1
• http://tinyurl.com/sept25chap3fab2

 

Homework assigned Sunday Sept 25 (due Tue Sept 27)

Absolute deadline for revision was Thursday Oct 6

 

1. Complete pages 25-28 in your book
2. Write a descriptive paragraph in Google Docs and share it with your teacher
1. In the title description write DESCRIPTION Your name Sept 27
2. Write your name in the document as well 
3. Have a friend look at the paper and give you feedback
4. Write the name of your peer reviewer at the end of the document 

 

Topic suggestions:

• Use the paragraph model on p.28 and what you wrote from ex 13 p.24 to describe the person you started writing about.
• Use the model paragraphs on p.26 and something from your freewrite to describe the place where you are now OR any place where you would like to be right now

 

Extra credit: Illustrate your writing with a Creative Commons image

be sure you attribute the source!