Lesson Plan AW1 July 3^rd, 2020 & Assignment #8

Lesson Goals

To

• understand and agree to the proposed change to the AW1 syllabus: 3 essays -> 2 essays
• review and understand the most common annotations used by the instructor in feedback to students.
  • download the Marking Key from Sheffner’s website or from Webdisk: [wpdm_package id=’2091′]
  • download the Essay 1 Draft 2 Combined Statistics overview from Sheffner’s website or Webdisk [wpdm_package id=’2089′]
• clarify the form and purpose of the conclusion in an English academic essay:
  • read the textbook p.53 “Conclusion”
  • the conclusion summarises the thesis statement and the topic sentences in each body paragraph using the same or very similar words;
  • no new information is introduced in the conclusion
  • Textbook p. 44 Practice 1 question #7 – “For each sentence in the conclusion of the sample essay on p. 43-4, find the original sentence or sentences in the introduction that it mirrors.”
• tell the instructor your preferred feedback method for future AW1 writing. Complete the form at: https://forms.gle/4Qp32bqmgpKFumEo7

Assignment #8: Essay2 Conclusion

Assignment Goals

To

• show your understanding of the form and purpose of the conclusion in an English academic essay:
  • the conclusion summarises the thesis statement and the topic sentences in each body paragraph using the same or very similar words;
  • no new information in the conclusion
• tell the instructor your preferred feedback method for future AW1 writing. Complete the form at https://forms.gle/zSSM7jHmR8uq6oTGA

Writing Topic

You should keep the same topic you chose for writing your outline. If you change topics, you will of course have to write a new outline AND the conclusion. 

Writing Requirements

• Using what you learned in today’s class, write your conclusion paragraph.
• Upload to Webdisk (or email it to your instructor) with the name “AW1 Essay2 Conclusion Name” (“Name = your family name only), by midnight Wednesday July 8th.

Homework

1. Choose a topic from the textbook “Your Turn” p. 46 (not 48) . Write an outline. Save as “Essay2 Outline Name” and upload to Webdisk by Wednesday midnight July 1st. (See sample outlines on p. 49 & 52, and the template on p. 53 “Your Turn”.)
2. Do the exercise on NoRedInk called “AW1 Possessives”. Click here to access it directly.

Today’s class

AW1 Essay1 release form. You have all written wonderful essays. I want to use your essays in class (sharing my screen) next week (June 26th) to show examples of grammatical and logical problems as well as examples of good writing. Before class, please take the Essay 1 Release form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_cEjcyOQ74RsoQytwMA19t2O3fhcS-4B_O5GJ7HsPo0/edit?usp=sharing 

Please take the other two surveys below, but there is no hurry for those

• the June 19th class survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17LG3Em7MNO0BUjQz8oA0PwZVBoMSUPVkg3niwTFbU00/edit?usp=sharing
• the Grammarly/NoRedInk survey.  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_cEjcyOQ74RsoQytwMA19t2O3fhcS-4B_O5GJ7HsPo0/edit?usp=sharing  

In today’s class, you will

1. review some sample student writing from Essay 1 Draft 2 and the instructor’s corrections. You will learn the meaning of the most common errors and comments.  You can see a detailed table of the marking key in the files section of Teams or download it from here

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You can also download the overall statistics for this class’s Essay #1 draft #2 on Teams or below:

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1. You are not required to rewrite your Essay 1 Draft3 (that was the final draft), but what you learn today will help you write good Problem-Solution and Compare-and-Contrast essays, the other two essays you are going to write this semester.
2. do some of the textbook exercises (small group discussions).
   1. Chapter 2. Today, we will focus on
      1. the structure of a Problem-Solution essay –
         1. p. 44-5,
         2. p. 48-9, 
         3. p. 50 B,
         4. p. 51 C
      2. hedging:
         1. C p. 58 Practice 10,
         2. A p. 60,
         3. Practice 11 & 12 p. 61,
         4. Practice 13 p. 62,
         5. Practice 14, 15, 16 p. 63 (We may not do all these, depending on time). c) choosing a topic pp 45-6.

Homework

(This assignment can also be downloaded from Webdisk, but there is some problem with Teams and I cannot login or post the link there, so I am uploading it here.)

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Today’s class

(This document can also be downloaded from Webdisk, but there is some problem with Teams and I cannot login or post the link there, so I am uploading it here.)

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Homework

• Keep the same topic you chose for draft #1.  
• Read the notes you took from Friday June 12^th’s class review of student writing and make any changes you wish.
• Save your document with this name: AW1_Essay1_Draft2_Name (replace “Name” with your family name ONLY). Upload it to the Webdisk folder “AW1 Upload folder to submit homework” or email it to me by the deadline of Thursday midnight, June 18th.

Today’s class

1. In today’s class, you will first visit a number of websites and watch some video.  Then you will have some time to discuss what you learned in your small groups.  Then you will come back to the main “general” group, and look at last week’s homework. Here’s the list of websites you need to visit: 1) https://youtu.be/MwekEuKSOqE?t=664 
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests (and in Japanese here: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020年ミネアポリス反人種差別デモ
3. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
4. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=237005
5. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/05/15/breonna-taylor-shooting-no-knock-searches-stand-your-ground-laws-deadly-combination-civilians-police/5193854002/

What did you learn from those websites and what is the connection with academic writing?

Finally, please take a few minutes to answer the survey. Link is on Teams.

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Homework

• Choose a topic from the list on p. 19 of the textbook (“Your Turn”). This will be draft 1 of Essay1 (Explanatory Essay)
• Save your document as AW1 Essay1 Draft1 Name and upload to webdisk by the usual deadline.

Download the assignment details below or from Webdisk.

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Classwork

• Quiz on academic writing
• Review and general comments about last week’s homework (assignment #3).
• Reading of sample essay pp. 15-16 and review of thesis statement and topic sentences.

Survey

Please take a minute to answer a short survey on today’s class on Google Forms. Thank you. (Anonymous – no names or email addresses are collected).

AW1 June 5th 2020 Online meeting survey

This week we will start using the textbook. First, we will read the introductory chapter, and discuss some questions in small groups.

The files are available on Webdisk at the links below. Please download before class. If you have the textbook, you don’t need File 1, only file 2.

• File 2 (Questions for group discussion)

From now on, please use the following folder on Webdisk to submit your homework. (If you have difficulty, you can email it to me.)

• File name – AW1 Upload folder to submit homework

Homework

The homework is explained in the file linked below and also in the file on Webdisk (file name AW1 Assignment2 Questions about WAW_Chap0.pdf )

Save your writing as a document named AW1 Hmwk2 Name (replace “Name” with your family name) and upload it to the Webdisk folder named “AW1 Upload folder to submit homework” (link was given in the chat in the Teams meeting).

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Please take a few minutes to answer the survey here. Thank you. https://forms.gle/jiRe2Sj4dPHBjbXPA

Rules for our online classes on Teams:

Today’s May 8th class

What is the meaning of “academic”? Where does this word come from and what was the original meaning? Please write your answer in a comment below. Thank you.

Update: Some students posted their comments on a different page. You can see them here: http://www.sheffnersweb.net/blogs/classblogs/kpu/about-page/

Homework

See the presentations below about Academic Writing. There are questions to answer at the end of each one. Write your answers to each presentation before looking at the next one. The 3 presentations will be posted on Webdisk and here on the blog after 4 pm today. Write your answers to the 3 presentation questions in ONE document, save your document as “AW1_Hmwk1_YourName” (replace “YourName” with your full name), and attach it to an email. The subject ( 件名) of the email should be the same as your document.

Please see this image for details of correct email format: https://www.sheffnersweb.net/blogs/classblogs/kpu/email-format/

In your email, please introduce yourself briefly and answer these questions:

1. Do you have the textbook?
2. What kind of device are you using to connect to Teams?
3. Tell me something or somethings that you are not able to do now because of the state of emergency and corona virus pandemic.
4. Tell me something new you have done recently.

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