College Knowledge

Week 7: February 16 - 20

DUE TUESDAY:

• Read Socrates’ death scene from Phaedo, Trial and Death 55-58; bring Opdike’s In My Hands to class

• Finish writing a beautiful summary of “Falling through the Cracks”
• Start working on set #6 vocab cards; prepare for vocab test on set #5 Thursday

• Organize your notebook; it’ll be graded again on Wednesday.

Monday, 16 February Presidents’ Day Holiday—OK to skip school

Tuesday, 17 February

Discuss death scene from Pheado, brainstorm essay #3, compare and contrast

Self-assessment of your summary-writing skills (early & now). Summary-Response for final portfolio.

ASSIGNED:

• Bring an OUTLINE of Essay #3 that contains the thesis, the topic sentences for 3 body paragraphs, and the relevant page numbers from both books with the appropriate paragraph. Bring both books to class Tuesday.

• Prepare the third chunk of your book club selection

• Essay 2 rewrite: Summary and response of Shorris’ essay in CK

Wednesday, 18 February

Essay #2 rewrites collected.

Discuss outlines and paragraph development. In class, write one body paragraph of at least 100 words; meanwhile, notebooks are graded.

Book Clubs meet.

ASSIGNED:

• Complete another body paragraph; read Chapter 2 TPH, 11-15 and review the openings of the CK essays you’ve read.

• Read and annotate “Pulling Train” CK 103-111 and come to class with Sanday’s topic and main idea
• Finish vocab set #6 set; prepare for vocab test on set #5 Thursday

Thursday, 19 February

Check-in on topic and main idea of Sanday’s essay; seminar on “Pulling Train”

Seminar on Sanday’s “Pulling Train”

10 minutes only: vocab test on set #5; collect set #6

Writing introductions and conclusions—“make me care” and “so what?”

ASSIGNED:

• Learning Journal #5 due Friday
• Have an entire essay #3 typed: Intro, body in 3 paragraphs, conclusion.

Friday, 20 February

Peer edit Essay #3; learning Journal #5 collected.

Individual advising about next quarter’s registration.

ASSIGNED: 1. Revise to perfection Essay #3

2. CK reading to be assigned