College Knowledge

Week 4: January 26 – 30

DUE MONDAY:

• Revision of essay #1; in your peechee, include 1) the draft we read; 2) the evaluation form with grade, 3) an improved essay with every change highlighted, and 4) the blue Composition Goals sheet completed.
• Quotable, notable quotes: by this week, you should have at least 6 from the reading you’ve completed thus far in our course.
• ??On loose-leaf paper in ink, topic, main idea and major details of hooks’ essay “Keeping Close to Home”??
• On an index card with your name, rank order (1st, 2nd, 3rd) your top three picks for book club, basing your selection on the book reviews you’ve read

Monday, 26 January

Tie up loose ends, In My Hands

More work on major details (using hooks’ essay) and You’re Not Listening video

Vocab workshop: Parts of speech

ASSIGNED:

· Print out from Online Syllabus Documents M. Adler’s Essay “Marking Books” and preview it by writing down the topic and the main idea; then read it and divide it into sections, which you draw on your copy of the essay.

· Typed—double-spaced—reflection (at least one beefy paragraph—that’s 100+ words) about Opdyke’s memoir: answer either a) who would you recommend read this book and why? OR b) what most impressed you about the memoir—explain in detail.

· Prepare ahead: Wed. vocab quiz and Thursday: Set #3 vocab cards--4 from reading + 1 from listening.

Tuesday, 27 January

Discussion of Adler’s essay about marking books

Paragraph quality and clarity: scrambled and better

Evaluating each other’s paragraphs about Opdyke’s memoir

ASSIGNED: Study for vocab quiz and find a website about Ancient Greece

Wednesday, 28 January

Quiz on vocab cards, sets 1 & 2

11-11:30 attend Club Day fair in SUB

Book clubs meet and divide the book into 5 chunks

ASSIGNED: Bring to class Thursday, Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

Work on Learning Journal #2, due Friday

Thursday, 29 January

Vocabulary set #3 due. Previewing a different kind of text, an OLD dialogue.

Guest lecturer Richard Baldasty (SFCC History Instructor), Going Ancient: Athens in the 5^th century B.C.E. , the world of Socrates and Plato

ASSIGNED: Read Euthyphro 1-9

Do Learning Journal #2

Friday, 30 January

Discuss Euthyphro—what’s clear and what’s difficult about it.

Learning Journals collected

ASSIGNED: Finish Euthyphro 9-19. In the margins, mark every definition of piety that Euthyphro proposes and every time Socrates finds fault with that definition.