Norming and PC Eval

Today we discussed our scoring of those essays from the Crossing prompt, started Tuesday. Students wrapped up the period by looking at their own writing and doing the following highlighting activity:

A Little Bit o' Lear

Today we took a short quiz on King Lear and then talked about the play for the remainder of our short period.

More PC work tomorrow. Bring your Crossing essays from the final.

Deconstructing the McCarthy Prompt

After a few random comments at the beginning of class, we got down to the work of reexamining the McCarthy prompt from the semester one final. After rereading the excerpt and discussing it a bit, we spent the rest of the period scoring sample essays. We will go over these scores in the second half of the period tomorrow.

Warm-Up and...

Well, by the time we finished the warm up today, there was little time to do much more, but we did manage a brief discussion of the MC questions from the final exam.

Back to the Blog

So it's been a few days. Basically we've been splitting our time between looking at the multiple choice questions from the final, talking about King Lear, and paper topics.

Today we had our second Lear-based warm up and talked a bit about the play. We ran out the clock with an essay topic read-around. The topics/theses looked much better this time around!

Next week, we will continue our examination of the final, wrapping up our look at the multiple choice and spending at least a day on the Crossing essay prompt.

New Assignments:
As usual, there is a discussion board assignment for King Lear. Check it out at GC.

Welcome to the New Semester!

We began the new semester with a brief introduction to King Lear and a whole heap of due dates:

King Lear

• Act 1~1/24
• Acts 2-3~1/30
• Acts 4-5~2/4

Essay #2

• Topic/Thesis: In Class on 1/25
• Complete, Typed, Preliminary Draft: In Class on 2/1
• Revised Drafts w/ Preliminary Draft Cover Sheet Posted to Workshop: 2/5 (evening)
• Workshop Responses Complete: 2/8 (evening)
• Optional Drafts to Staiano (posted, emailed, or hardcopy) w/ cover sheet by: 2/9 (evening)
• Final Drafts with Cover Sheet: In Class on 2/15

Candide PC

Lots of quiet writing today.

Remember, bring a pencil, a pen, and some paper to the final!

Wrapping Up Voltaire

Final conversation on Candide. PC and SG tomorrow.

Candid Conversation Concerning Candide

Today we talked about the Candide CRA passages, nearly finishing them. We will wrap up our look at Candide on Monday. Remember, PCs and SGs Tuesday.

Candide CRA

Today we spent most of the period on the Candide CRA assignment. Annotations and paragraphs are due tomorrow!

Thesis Revsion Part II & Candide

Today students revised their own thesis statements from the AILD PC and we shared a few. Following that, we finished the Candide discussion and began work on the Candide CRA assignment (available at the handouts page). Groups should have passages picked by tomorrow (and bring copies if possible).

Thesis Revision & Candide

Today we started a week-long look at the AILD PCs with a short thesis revision. We will revise your theses tomorrow, so make sure you bring those essays.

Following the thesis revision, we began our discussion of Candide with comment circle.

Welcome Back

Today after a brief "old school"-type quiz on Candide, we went over some pressing issues regarding returned work, semester grades, and the final exam.

New Due Date:

• Candide PC and SG 1/15