Reminder: The "steps" of the Research Paper can ONLY be turned in during class, on the respective due dates, and must fully comply with the guidelines in order for you to receive any credit at all. This was a MAJOR problem with today's deadline.
For Wednesday:
1) Bring the first five pages of your Research Paper (just write two more after your Monday work); do NOT include the Explanation.
2) (OPTIONAL): A typed list of RN errors. AT LEAST 10. Include: the original error, a label for the kind of error it is (i.e. fragment, misspelling, etc.), and a correction. If you do not have a complete list that follows these directions, you will get ZERO credit. It's all or nothing.
Please note that Presentations of Social Justice Documentation Projects are next Monday and Wednesday. Presentations should simply SHOW US the document you made (play the recording, pass out a excerpt, read aloud, etc.). You need not turn anything in. You need only a one-sentence introduction. You should NOT be using Power Point or any media you did not create. Do not exceed five minutes.
Here is the schedule:
MONDAY
Brittany
Bojan
Orlando
Jerry
Jawhar
Shahil
Megan
Liz
WEDNESDAY
Amanda
Asad
Teodora
David
Zehra
Ilona
Oscar
Jessica
Nancy
Laura
Jasmin
Monday, November 30, 2009
From Olivia: Social Justice Statement Guidelines
This is due with your Final Product: Explanation, Research Paper, Works Cited, Social Justice Statement (and journal pages).
This follows your Works Cited page. It is a synthesis of and reflection on your experiences and thinking-processes in this class.
In 1-2 double-spaced pages, answer these questions:
Without repeating yourself, how do you feel, as a critically thinking and informed student (and, now, with the completion of your SJ Doc Proj, as a historian!), about your topic?
How does it mesh with your other ideas, experiences, beliefs?
How is your topic, in your opinion, connected to other social justice issues we have addressed in class?
How are both your SJ Doc Proj and Research Paper contributions to history?
How are your ideas about the relationship between writing and social justice different after completing all this work?
What is your final, personal definition of Social Justice?
This follows your Works Cited page. It is a synthesis of and reflection on your experiences and thinking-processes in this class.
In 1-2 double-spaced pages, answer these questions:
Without repeating yourself, how do you feel, as a critically thinking and informed student (and, now, with the completion of your SJ Doc Proj, as a historian!), about your topic?
How does it mesh with your other ideas, experiences, beliefs?
How is your topic, in your opinion, connected to other social justice issues we have addressed in class?
How are both your SJ Doc Proj and Research Paper contributions to history?
How are your ideas about the relationship between writing and social justice different after completing all this work?
What is your final, personal definition of Social Justice?
Monday, November 23, 2009
From Olivia: What is next?
This Wednesday: Annotated Bibliography
Next Monday:
1) The Explanation of your Social Justice Documentation Project (1-2 pages, no more no less). It must: explain the document you created, thoroughly "defend" the document against our class criteria, and introduce your Research Paper topic/thesis. Feel free to use your Proposal as the basis for this Explanation.
2) The first three pages of your Research Paper (intro, working thesis statement, first piece of evidence/support).
3) (OPTIONAL): Revision of your Bridge Essay
4) (OPTIONAL): Any single RN that you missed during the RN schedule.
Next Wednesday:
1) The first five pages of your Research Paper (just write two more after your Monday work); do NOT include the Explanation.
2) (OPTIONAL): A typed list of RN errors. AT LEAST 10. Include: the original error, a label for the kind of error it is (i.e. fragment, misspelling, etc.), and a correction. If you do not have a complete list that follows these directions, you will get ZERO credit. It's all or nothing.
Next Monday:
1) The Explanation of your Social Justice Documentation Project (1-2 pages, no more no less). It must: explain the document you created, thoroughly "defend" the document against our class criteria, and introduce your Research Paper topic/thesis. Feel free to use your Proposal as the basis for this Explanation.
2) The first three pages of your Research Paper (intro, working thesis statement, first piece of evidence/support).
3) (OPTIONAL): Revision of your Bridge Essay
4) (OPTIONAL): Any single RN that you missed during the RN schedule.
Next Wednesday:
1) The first five pages of your Research Paper (just write two more after your Monday work); do NOT include the Explanation.
2) (OPTIONAL): A typed list of RN errors. AT LEAST 10. Include: the original error, a label for the kind of error it is (i.e. fragment, misspelling, etc.), and a correction. If you do not have a complete list that follows these directions, you will get ZERO credit. It's all or nothing.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
From Olivia: What's next?
1. The Bridge Essay is due tomorrow in class.
2. Tomorrow, we'll discuss again the details of the Social Justice Documentation Project. We'll also talk about comma issues and do some editing practice.
3. On Monday, your Proposal is due. This is a typed plan of what you will do for your Social Justice Documentation Project. Remember that the SJ Doc Proj is NOT your Research Paper; it is the creation of a record. Below are the guidelines for typing your proposal:
The proposal must be typed, single-spaced, a 1/2 page long. You need to address the following:
a) What is your project? Who will you interview or what will you photograph or what kind of survey will you conduct, etc.?
b) What social group/s is/are present? Faces of oppression?
c) What form will your project take? A transcription of an interview? A series of drawings? A video? An audio recording? Will you make a website? Will you post your material on the blog?
d) How will it fit our class criteria for judging texts as SJ Doc?
e) After you have a plan for your project, you'll begin researching topics related to this for your Research Paper. What topics will you look up?
This is worth 10 points. You lose 2 points per missed question and points for excessive, repeated grammatical errors. Proofread carefully.
2. Tomorrow, we'll discuss again the details of the Social Justice Documentation Project. We'll also talk about comma issues and do some editing practice.
3. On Monday, your Proposal is due. This is a typed plan of what you will do for your Social Justice Documentation Project. Remember that the SJ Doc Proj is NOT your Research Paper; it is the creation of a record. Below are the guidelines for typing your proposal:
The proposal must be typed, single-spaced, a 1/2 page long. You need to address the following:
a) What is your project? Who will you interview or what will you photograph or what kind of survey will you conduct, etc.?
b) What social group/s is/are present? Faces of oppression?
c) What form will your project take? A transcription of an interview? A series of drawings? A video? An audio recording? Will you make a website? Will you post your material on the blog?
d) How will it fit our class criteria for judging texts as SJ Doc?
e) After you have a plan for your project, you'll begin researching topics related to this for your Research Paper. What topics will you look up?
This is worth 10 points. You lose 2 points per missed question and points for excessive, repeated grammatical errors. Proofread carefully.
Monday, November 9, 2009
style wizard
sorry, but style wizard only has APA format up and running - they are working on a new MLA site and it is not available. If you google MLA format you will see other websites (including easybib) that you can go to for help and to input the information.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
From Olivia: The Bridge Essay
Our last short essay is The Bridge Essay. IT IS DUE WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.
Your job: to write a short essay in which you connect 3 different texts from class (song, poems, ST, DL, Faces of the Dead, Fifties, Miss America, storycorps.org, OHs from our blog, CR2s from your classmates, news articles, Pyongang comic strip, Baghdad Burning, etc., etc.).
The connection you make can be thematic, technical, thesis-based, social group-based, or anything you choose.
Your goal is to make an interesting connection and communicate the connection in a thesis, with clear support in the form of examples (quotes, paraphrasing). You should feel free to use this assignment as a way of thinking about your own project and upcoming research paper--and also as a way to think about your personal approach to social justice and information.
You must include MLA citations and a Works Cited page. Please use the DH list to identify proper formatting for your sources.
The Bridge Essay is worth 30 points and should be 2-3 pages, not including the Works Cited list.
Thesis: 10 points: A sentence--with style!--that communicates the connection, as you see it, between the three texts. Example: Studs Terkel's interview with Florence Scala, Brittany's performance for class (patches of color on the poster boards), and "The Lonesome Ballad of Hattie Carroll" all demonstrate the idea that an individual can shape social group relationships and can fight injustices.
Development: 10 points: Illustrate your thesis with examples from all three texts, in the form of cited quotes and paraphrases. Integrate this material with style and care. Use a thoughtful method of organizing your ideas; don't just throw things together.
MLA in-text citations and Works Cited: 5 points
Grammar and Spelling: 5 points
Your job: to write a short essay in which you connect 3 different texts from class (song, poems, ST, DL, Faces of the Dead, Fifties, Miss America, storycorps.org, OHs from our blog, CR2s from your classmates, news articles, Pyongang comic strip, Baghdad Burning, etc., etc.).
The connection you make can be thematic, technical, thesis-based, social group-based, or anything you choose.
Your goal is to make an interesting connection and communicate the connection in a thesis, with clear support in the form of examples (quotes, paraphrasing). You should feel free to use this assignment as a way of thinking about your own project and upcoming research paper--and also as a way to think about your personal approach to social justice and information.
You must include MLA citations and a Works Cited page. Please use the DH list to identify proper formatting for your sources.
The Bridge Essay is worth 30 points and should be 2-3 pages, not including the Works Cited list.
Thesis: 10 points: A sentence--with style!--that communicates the connection, as you see it, between the three texts. Example: Studs Terkel's interview with Florence Scala, Brittany's performance for class (patches of color on the poster boards), and "The Lonesome Ballad of Hattie Carroll" all demonstrate the idea that an individual can shape social group relationships and can fight injustices.
Development: 10 points: Illustrate your thesis with examples from all three texts, in the form of cited quotes and paraphrases. Integrate this material with style and care. Use a thoughtful method of organizing your ideas; don't just throw things together.
MLA in-text citations and Works Cited: 5 points
Grammar and Spelling: 5 points
From Olivia: Reminder, more info . . .
Today: NA2 is due. Also, a brainstorming list of ideas (typed) for your Social Justice Documentation Project is due.
Remember that although this project will create the topics for your Research Paper, this is NOT a paper; it's a historical record.
Your Documentation Project must make a record of something. You want to create your own Social Justice Document. Documentation might include: oral history (transcribed and edited, or recorded and turned into a sound piece), photography, video, a web-based feature, a survey, a poem, a song, a play, a series of drawings, a comic strip, or ???
The only rule is that it MUST comply with our class criteria for judging texts as SJ Doc.
You must have a clearly identifiable subject (your grandmother, an ex-convict, a rape victim, a community, a family, an event)
Your subject must somehow connect to/offer ideas about a social group that you can argue experiences one of Young’s Five Faces.
Remember to think in terms of groups, not just individuals.
You must create something that “documents” your subject. Think of yourself as a historian; you are creating a historical record of someone/something/a group of people that/who might not be a regular part of our histories; you are making a "primary source."
Eventually, you will: 1) complete your Documentation, 2) put it into a presentable form, 3) make a list of research topics related to your subject, 4) write a 1-2 page introduction to a research paper—explaining your project and what kind of context your research puts it in, 5) conduct your research (paper is 10 pages total, including intro and statement, but not Works Cited, Documentation attached, any appendices), 6) create and support a thesis, 7) present your project and turn in your paper
Please do not forget: SJ Doc Project and Res Paper are TWO different things!
Remember that although this project will create the topics for your Research Paper, this is NOT a paper; it's a historical record.
Your Documentation Project must make a record of something. You want to create your own Social Justice Document. Documentation might include: oral history (transcribed and edited, or recorded and turned into a sound piece), photography, video, a web-based feature, a survey, a poem, a song, a play, a series of drawings, a comic strip, or ???
The only rule is that it MUST comply with our class criteria for judging texts as SJ Doc.
You must have a clearly identifiable subject (your grandmother, an ex-convict, a rape victim, a community, a family, an event)
Your subject must somehow connect to/offer ideas about a social group that you can argue experiences one of Young’s Five Faces.
Remember to think in terms of groups, not just individuals.
You must create something that “documents” your subject. Think of yourself as a historian; you are creating a historical record of someone/something/a group of people that/who might not be a regular part of our histories; you are making a "primary source."
Eventually, you will: 1) complete your Documentation, 2) put it into a presentable form, 3) make a list of research topics related to your subject, 4) write a 1-2 page introduction to a research paper—explaining your project and what kind of context your research puts it in, 5) conduct your research (paper is 10 pages total, including intro and statement, but not Works Cited, Documentation attached, any appendices), 6) create and support a thesis, 7) present your project and turn in your paper
Please do not forget: SJ Doc Project and Res Paper are TWO different things!
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