LAST Class Agenda 6.4

1. Video

2. Survey!!! One last Survey!!

3. Final Reflection

Grading Grid Research Paper

ENG 101 Assignment Three Grading Grid: Eight-page Research Paper

Name:

1-10 scale

10 –exceptional; 9 – above average; 8 –slightly above average; 7 – slightly below average; 6 – below average; 5 – significant development needed; 1 – minimal or no response 

1. Thesis: Contains a central assertion that places a central idea at the forefront of the essay; thesis statements is 2-3 sentences; thesis statement answers the main question posed by the assignment  (20%)

1          5          6          7          8          9          10

2. Structure: Essay organized around topic sentences; topic sentence are supporting claims for thesis; each paragraph provides "they say" context; essay uses summary and paraphrase to explain main ideas from reading (10%)

1          5          6          7          8          9          10

3. Evidence and Research: Essay successfully places direct quotes into each body paragraph; essay cites those quotes correctly according to MLA guidelines; essay explains direct quotations; essay contains a bibliography; essay cites a minimum of three sources;  (40%)

1          5          6          7          8          9          10

4. Critical Thinking: Essay interprets quotes in original ways that go beyond class discussion; essay connects main ideas to other texts or moments in text; essay utilizes keywords and defines them; essay offers original perspectives and argument; essay connects texts to other texts; essay connects multiple passages from same text together; essay contains inventive conclusion that shows reader new direction (30%)
1          5          6          7          8          9          10

ALL WRITTEN FEEDBACK FROM PEER REVIEW MUST BE STAPLED TO THE BOTTOM OF FINAL DRAFT TO RECEIVE FULL CREDIT FOR PEER REVIEW.

Peer Review:                           Grade:

Comments:

Class Agenda 5.30

ALL OUTSTANDING WORK IS DUE THIS MONDAY

1.  No LIB 110 today: EDIT videos
2. Blog Roll

Review of assignment

Denii
Jairo
Jasmine
John
Leonor
Leticia
Nadira
Nayara
Paul

3. Partner work: Peer Review

4. Discussion and clips

For Thursday

Peer Review Thursday: Bring TWO copies of current final draft for final ENG 101 paper (essay two revision for most people). This is the eight-page essay. 

There is NO reading assignment for Thursday. Concentrate on catching up and finishing work.

There is NO LIB 110 class Thursday: use the time to EDIT the video. Edited videos are DUE TOTALLY on Monday June 3.

The final blog assignment is today's in-class blog: the class exercise on the drug war. It is important that all students complete this blog.

If you haven't taken the cluster survey yet, it's important for you to do so. 

Work that hasn't turned in needs to be turned in.

Class Exercise: Drug War Facts

ENG 101: Race and Culture – Justin Rogers-Cooper

Directions: First read the following directions. Then examine the data below, making notes where useful. Finally, write a response that summarizes, interprets, and connects the information in the data.

-          Summary/summarizing: explains the information for a reader who has not seen it yet.

·         hint: be sure to address what the information says as well as how it measures and presents its data.

·         does the data communicate any pattern, trend, or story?

-           Interpret/interpreting: explains the information for a reader wondering what it means.

·         hint: interpretation requires that you explain the significance of something: why is this data important? Who should care about it?

·         Can you imagine reasons that would explain any pattern, trend, or story in the data?

-          Connect/connecting: explains the data’s links to an idea, issue, or claim from class or course text.

·         hint: return to your class notes or class text, and explain the significance of the data for the idea, issue, or claim you choose. 

(if you have time…)

-          Critique/critiquing: explains the data for what’s missing, unclear, or inaccurate.

·         hint: is there a problem in the way this data presents its information, methods, or sources?

DRUG WAR FACTS

a. For more than 4 in 10 convicted murderers being held either in jail or in state prison, alcohol use is reported to have been a factor in the crime. Nearly half of those convicted of assault and sentenced to probation had been drinking when the offense occurred.
Alcohol and Crime: An Analysis of National Data

b. Overall, we estimate that illicit drug use resulted in approximately 17,000 deaths in 2000.
"Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association.

Approximately 32,000 hospitalized patients (and possibly as many as 106,000) in the USA die each year because of adverse reactions to their prescribed medications.
"Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients," JAMA.

c. Most illicit drug users are white. There were an estimated 9.9 million whites (72% of all users), 2.0 million blacks (15%), and 1.4 million Hispanics (10%) who were illicit drug users in 1998.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

In 2001, the chances of going to prison were highest among black males (32.2%) and Hispanic males (17.2%) and lowest among white males (5.9%).
"Prevalence of Imprisonment in the US Population, 1974-2001).

All of these facts come from Drug War Facts, 6th edition. www.drugwarfacts.org

Class Agenda 5.28

1. Discussion of reading:

a. What were the major rhetorical strategies that successfully led to America's mass incarceration?
b. What information from this chapter would you use in a talk-show with Ying Ma?

2. In-class response: deconstructing the data. This exercise is your final written preparation for the Final Exam next week.

See directions here.

3. If you haven't taken it, please take the cluster survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TB9BVGZ

LIB 110 Video Project: Self-Reflection and Group-Reflection Report

Congratulations! Your team has filmed their LIB 110 video reports! Nice job.

In order to tabulate your grade from this course, we will need:

1) a finished video product by June 1. This will require editing. Will your group edit your film or do you need Professor Jrc to do this? He needs to know...right now!

2) you to complete this reflection report. Please take out a piece of paper and answer the following questions.

Report Questions

1. Please take a moment to note all the things you've done to produce your video: communications, planning, drafting, writing, reading, traveling, reporting to professor, playing a large role in the filming, and playing a large role in the editing (also consider if you helped other people produce their videos, and how). Now please rank which of these activities you did the most, in a ranked scale of 1-10 (1 being the thing you did the most, 10 being the thing you did least or not at all).

2. Please reflect on how much work you did in your group compared to your classmates. Honestly speaking, do you think you did more work on average, less work on average, or the same amount work on average? Without necessarily identifying other group members (though you're allowed to, and these reports are confidential), please rate yourself as more, same, or less and explain why.

3. Please consider how the filming went last week (or this week, or the week before last: in general!). Are you satisfied with how you believe your filming process went? Why or why not? Is there anything you would do differently? If so, what and why?

4. What grade do you think you personally deserve for this project (not the entire class)? Provide two reasons why you believe you deserve this grade. The reasons should relate to the work you did on the project.

5. What grade do you think you personally deserve for LIB 110, which includes your participation and work over the entire course of the semester? Provide two reasons why you deserve this grade. The reasons should relate to the work you did on the project.

6. Are there any issues that you'd like to bring to our attention as we assign grades? For example, did you have group members drop out of the project? Please let us know about anything you feel we need to know at this time. Remember, we won't share your writing with anyone else.