Enriched 10-07-2012

The minutes are ticking down.  The end is near.  In less than 24 hours (48 for period one) the C.A.P. paper will be out of your hands and in mine awaiting the assessment.  I'll tell you here so you don't have to ask.  Each paper takes about 15-20 minutes to assess and I assess about ten papers a day.  There are 86 of you, so you can be certain you will not be seeing these papers again until sometime next week.  It will be fair to ask about your papers starting next Monday.  Regardless, I am looking forward to seeing what you were able to produce in the last few weeks, over several peer edits and myriad discussions and questions.  Remember, when you turn it in, you need the following:

All rough drafts
The peer edited rough draft and the peer edit sheet all together
The final copy: typed; double spaced; with proper heading; works cited page

That looks to be about right.  Lots of questions on the works cited page this weekend.  Be sure to look on the OWL.  Everything you need is on that page.  Two most important pages are

MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format
and
MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

You will be receiving a separate ten point score on the works cited over and above the 100 points for the paper.  Remember, ABC order and proper indentation.  Double check it!

So once the paper comes in, where will we go next?  Great question, Elizabeth!  We are going to take a journey to a completely different kind of place.  A nasty place.  A pleasing place.  A grimy place.  A pristine place.  A vicious, choleric place.  A peaceful, serene place.   Ah, it all depends on one's perspective, doesn't it.  That perspective is something we will explore with a reading we'll start tomorrow from Ursala K. LeGuin called "The Ones Who Walk Away".  We'll read it in class together for basic comprehension and then I'll ask that you check it out again tomorrow night, text-coding as you go, for a deeper, more insightful reading.  We'll talk more about that tomorrow.

Let's see should we or shouldn't we?  Why not?  Let's have a notebook quiz tomorrow over point-of view.  I'll ask you to define first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient, and then you'll need to offer a line or two from your book group text that proves to me which way your book is written.  I'd be looking tonight for my examples and have them marked clearly in my book so I don't have to be looking tomorrow.  As always, this notebook quiz will have a reasonable time constraint.

So let's see, tomorrow we'll have a Tool Time (appositives sound good), I'll collect papers, we'll have a notebook quiz, I'll pass back a couple old things,  share some parallel structure examples and do a reading in class.  Full day again.  See you soon.