Class 12

Good morning, folks. Hope you were able to enjoy the long weekend.

We have peer editing for Essay 2 today. These experimental essays should be fun, but do bring to the editing process the same attention to detail in terms of main idea, evidence, and especially organization that you brought to Essay 1’s peer editing sessions. Something we’ll do between now and Thursday as an optional assignment is look at model lists from the open internet. Share what you find to this Class Notes post as a reply. (Again, this is optional but might be helpful for us to talk about). What formal features might we borrow for our lists? (An introduction? Bold text or italics? Sentences phrased in a certain way? Images or GIFs? An imagined audience addressed in a particular tone?)

Looking forward a little: Essay 2 is due in a week, on October 19. I’ll have you turn it in in two places. One place is to a Google Form, so I can give you feedback on it. The other place is to a page on your CUNY Academic Commons site. I’d like you to also post your final revision of Essay 1 there; these two formal pieces of writing will be key parts of your end-of-semester portfolio. Essays 3 and 4 will also end up there. You’ll share the first two pieces (Essay 1 and Essay 2) with your group on Oct 21, the day we officially start book clubs.

Yes! Oct 21, a week from Thursday, is the launch of book clubs. The whole schedule is on our neglected syllabus, and reprinted below:

See you in a few!

Module 3: Reading Alone and with Others (Oct 21-Nov 30) 

  • H, Oct 21:  Book groups start | We will meet in NAC 5/108
  • T, Oct 26: Posts for Session 1 (Laymon p 1-62 / Diaz p. 1-62 / Talusan 1-82)
  • H, Oct 28: Replies due; discussion We will meet in NAC 5/108
  • T, Nov 2: Posts for Session 2 (Laymon 63-116 / Diaz 63-142 / Talusan 83-149)
  • H, Nov 4: Replies due; discussion We will meet in NAC 5/108
  • T, Nov 9: Posts for Session 3 (Laymon 117-162 / Diaz 142-247 / Talusan 150-229)
  • H, Nov 11: Replies due; discussion We will meet in NAC 5/108
  • T, Nov 16: Posts for Session 4 (Laymon 142-end / Diaz 248-end / Talusan 230-end)
  • H, Nov 18: Replies due; discussion We will meet in NAC 5/108
  • T, Nov 23: Essay 3 Peer Editing [Google Docs]
  • H, Nov 25: NO CLASS — Thanksgiving
  • T, Nov 30: Essay 3 due by 9:30am to Forms