Class Agenda 5.23

1. Announcements
Post-conference attendance issues will likely result in lower grade
Students with more than four hours missed must email paragraph of explanation by end of term; this will help me figure out your ability to pass and assign grades, and to defend those grades to you, the department, and myself
June 1 deadline approaching- time management this weekend necessary
Video editing responsibilities must be claimed by end of day today


2. Review of blogs
Diana
Eddie
John
Jonathan
Nadira

3. Chinese Girl - discussion

a. Who published this novel?
b. Closing thoughts?

4. The New Jim Crow
 Jarvious Cotton
labeled a felon (2)
The Drug War (3)
House I Live In

CIA (6)
drug use (7)
social control (7) (8)
choose punishment (7)
create crime (8)
Sentencing Project (8)
mass incarceration (11)
racial caste (12)
class (13) / mobility
undercaste (13)

black exceptionalism (14)
racial indifference (14)
racialized systems (14)

5. The Panama Deception

Board Notes

Chinese Girl and midterm review.

Work Update

Hello 101s!

1. Tonight's blog is RAINCHECKED.
2. I need second essays ASAP.
3. For the 8-page research paper, you may use Chinese Girl as a source. I am also looking for one other academic source IF you: a) already used one, and b) used Omi and Winant's Racial Formation text. To get an A the paper must integrate 3 academic sources (Racial Formation) counts. Using Chinese Girl might be easier to give you something to write about. You might have to revise your thesis statement if you do choose to write about both novels.

Raincheck on Tonight's Blog

I will discuss the new due date for this blog Thursday. Students need to concentrate on turning in the work they currently owe for class.

Class Agenda 5.21

1. Announcements:

Any outstanding Essay Two's Due ASAP. Students who haven't turned this in need to make it a number one priority. They are jeopardizing the success of their semester. Students who haven't turned it in need to see me today without exception.

The reading for Thursday should be posted shortly.

Students who attended the Student Literary Forum need to blog about it for extra credit (min 200 words).

Students that have unexplained absences need to put their reasons in writing to the professor and show all relevant documents (notes, etc).

2. Student Cluster Survey - Please take this survey and leave thoughtful answers.

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

3.  Revise yesterday's paragraph. Yesterday we broke into pairs that looked at various passages from Chinese Girl. We practiced connecting two different passages of the text together. Please create a blog for LaGuardia students that provides them with your reading of these two different scenes.

4. Open Lab.

Ying Ma on poverty

Here.

Class Agenda 5.20

1. What was one memorable aspect of the video project from Thursday?


2. Announcements
Essay 1 revisions due June 1
Make-up blogs and Twitter for partial credit due June 1
Essay 2 essays due ASAP for those that requested extension
New Jim Crow reading will appear on course blog
Students that plan to edit need to confirm with me

3. Pair work: Racial projects and class psychology in Chinese Girl

welfare (74) community center (94) --

theft and ownership (81) / hatred of thieves (82) / immigrant conflict (127)

subhuman (93) racism (106)

hard work (104) / no Chinese (108)

defend ourselves/shame (107) / Maria (111)

ethnic pride (116) / privileged life (119) / war zone (140)

4. In-class writing

Goal
In today's hour we are going to discuss a specific strategies for the “critical thinking” section of our writing. We can use this strategy for our class blogs and our essay assignments. 

For the purposes of critical thinking, let's add this new strategies to the ones we learned in our previous class.[Note: what did we learn in the last class?]

·         Close-reading of language. How can we go beyond paraphrase and “interpret” the meaning of the passage by focusing on specific words?

·         Connecting the idea to a relevant passage in the same text. How can we connect this passage with another to deepen its meaning?

·         Connecting the main idea to another text. How can we connect a main idea we’ve discovered in the passage and relate it to a relevant idea that we’ve found elsewhere?

  
For this exercise, focus on the second strategy.