Upload & Share College Essay

Greetings!
Today in the lab you will

1. First, log in to your CPS email (google.cps.edu).
Then send a blank email to Mr. Strom.

2. Next, upload your college essay to the "google drive":

• Change the name of your MS Word document to "3_perez_antonio_college_essay" (The student's name is Antonio Perez and he is in 3rd period Jr Seminar.)
• After you log in to google.cps.edu, click "Drive" and upload your Microsoft Word document. (The upload button is orange and has an arrow pointing up... next to the "create" button.)
• Select the document by clicking the box next to the document, click on the "more" button, and choose "open with Google Docs." Some computers in 106 will not allow you to do this step; if that is the case, skip this step.
• Share the Google Doc version of the document (or the original uploaded MS Word doc, if your computer didn't let you convert it) with Mr. Strom: select the document by clicking the box to the left of the document; then click on the picture of the person with the + to share; finally type in Mr. Strom's email address and click the green button.
• You may also share it with classmates, but do not give them editing privileges - if you do, they will be able to change your document.
• Experiment with the comment feature - you can share your essay with someone and they can respond using comments.

3. Contact one of your teachers. From your CPS mail account, you may send an email message to a teacher following up on an assignment, requesting an appointment to discuss a grade, or asking some other class-related question and "cc" (carbon copy) Mr. Strom on the note.

4. Grammar Exercises!
Finally, complete the grammar exercises from last time in the lab (if you didn't already complete them). Be sure you have entered Mr. Strom's email address.

Go to Diana Hacker's Grammar Exercises - Grammatical Sentences (at the same Bedford Re:writing website we've used in the past) and complete the following exercises. These are similar topics as last time, but different exercises.

Exercise 19-4 Sentence fragments

Exercise 20-6 Run-on sentences

Exercise 21-4 Subject-verb agreement

Exercise 22-4 Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Remember to choose the option "save your quiz results in your instructor's gradebook" so that I can see which exercises you complete. My email address is dastrom (at) cps (dot) edu.

Assignment- Monday, Jan. 7, 2013

Greetings!

Today in the lab you will

1. Log in to CIM (we did this a few weeks ago... do you remember how?) to check test scores. Use the IMPACT icon on your computer's desktop; choose CIM; go to Westside Network; choose "Student" for the domain; use your ID# as the username with no password.
2. Go to "Benchmark Scores" and write down your Interim Exam Scores -- for each subject, write down the percent correct and the score group ("meets," "exceeds," etc.). You will use this info Wednesday when we look at ACT scorecards and set goals.
3. Log in to check your current grades.
4. Log in to your CPS email (google.cps.edu).
5. From your CPS mail account, compose at least one email message to a teacher following up on an assignment, requesting an appointment to discuss a grade, or asking some other class-related question and "cc" (carbon copy) Mr. Strom on the note.
6. After you finish #1-5, complete the grammar exercises listed below (be sure you have entered Mr. Strom's email address).

Grammar Exercises!
Go to Diana Hacker's Grammar Exercises - Grammatical Sentences (at the same Bedford Re:writing website we've used in the past) and complete the following exercises. These are similar topics as last time, but different exercises.

• Exercise 19-4 Sentence fragments
• Exercise 20-6 Run-on sentences
• Exercise 21-4 Subject-verb agreement
• Exercise 22-4 Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Remember to choose the option "save your quiz results in your instructor's gradebook" so that I can see which exercises you complete. My email address is dastrom (at) cps (dot) edu.

  

Assignment- computer lab 106- Monday, 12/10/2012

Today you'll be completing some more grammar exercises at Bedford's "Re:Writing" website.

Be sure to choose the option "save your quiz results in your instructor's gradebook" so that I can see which exercises you complete. My email address is dastrom (at) cps (dot) edu.

Remember, these aren't quizzes! You are encouraged to work together to discuss each question and figure out the answers (and the reasons behind the answers).

We'll be looking at the "Grammatical sentences" exercises. Please complete the following exercises under the heading "Grammatical sentences":
E-ex 19-3 Sentence fragments
E-ex 20-4 Run-on sentences
E-ex 20-5 Run-on sentences
E-ex 21-3 Subject-verb agreement
E-ex 22-3 Pronoun-antecedent agreement
E-ex 23-3 Pronoun reference
E-ex 24-3 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me)
E-ex 25-2 who and whom

It looks like a lot, but they go quickly. In fact, you should have time at the end to check grades, email, etc. Remember to read each explanation after you submit each answer--regardless of whether you are correct or incorrect.

When you finish, feel free to do extra exercises or look at some of the grammar tutorials. ;)

Finally, if you don't complete the exercises, I will note your lack of participation... so be good and be sure to participate!


Note to AP English Lang students:

If you finish early:

• Compose/type news article (final due Friday, 12/14)
• Research/read model news articles (Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune, Washington Post, etc.)
• Research/read Onion articles with an eye toward writing your own (proposal due Wed., 12/12)
• Read J.C., study bold words (Act 2 due 12/10; Act 3 due 12/13; Act 4 due 12/17; Act 5 due 12/20)

Citing sources using MLA format

What is MLA format?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

How do I cite sources?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/03/

How do I format quotes?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/04/

List of topics (OWL-Purdue)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/06/#resourcenav

Diana Hacker's website
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html

How to write an intro

Step 1: Think of an intro
Step 2: Trash that intro, because it's probably a cliche, something that's been done a million times before. Have you ever read an essay that started with a question like "Have you ever...?"
Step 3: Look at professional examples. (Yes, I know, if you follow a professional example, then you are being unoriginal again. But you've got to start somewhere.)

Some examples.

Idea #1: narrative (a brief story)
Author: Steve Chapman's
Title of article: "Smile, you're on cop-car camera"
Publication: Chicago Tribune
Publication date: March 15, 2009
What makes this a narrative opening? Chapman begins by telling a story about a police officer who falsely accused a man of drunk driving.


Idea #2: description
Author: Barbara Brotman
Title of article: "Student Financial Aid"
Publication: Chicago Tribune
Publication date: March 17, 2009
What makes this a descriptive opening? Brotman begins by showing a series of related images that appeal to the five senses: shaking hands (sight and touch), a messy desk (sight), bitten fingernails (sight and touch), and profanities (sound).


Idea #3: connection to current events
Authors: Alice Waters and Katrina Heron
Title of article: "No Lunch Left Behind"
Publication: New York Times
Publication date: February 19, 2009
What makes this a "connection to current events" opening? Waters and Heron begin by linking their proposal to items in the news: government bailouts and "concern over wasteful spending."


Idea #4: attention-getting fact or statistic
Author: Paul Levi
Title of paper: "Cell Phones in the Hands of Drivers: A Risk or a Benefit?"
Publication: Diana Hacker website
Publication date: 2006