Week 2 / Day 2 (F2F Eng110)

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Class started with me sending around a sign-in sheet and covering a few odds & ends:
  • Did everyone get my Friday Reminder Email?
  • I deleted the Syllabus Quiz. Whoopsie.
  • First Day Survey observations: most of the songs given to me for the student playlist were country or hip hop with a sprinkle of Prince and the Beatles; 74% said they'd use class time to work since we meet in a computer lab, 87% wanted to use class time to work on homework and projects; 16% didn't know how to back up work, and 74% are downloading the textbook to their device(s).
  • If at any point we meet virtually, or students need to attend class virtually, I will not ask for them to turn on their cameras.
  • Note: The printer in the classroom is not wireless; you need to log onto the computers to print.

Journal prompt - respond to each question in a few sentences; we devoted 3 minutes to each:

  • Is spelling “everything correctly” a sign of intelligence?
  • What do students mean when they say: “I can’t write well”?
  • What do you think you should learn in a first year (of college) writing course?

After journaling, I asked students to share what they wrote about last week's prompts (and asked about this week's prompts, too):

  • Do you agree with Peter Elbow that “everyone can write”? Why or why not?
  • Do you believe you are a writer? Why or why not?
{We had some INTERESTING discussions on those questions in each class!}

From there, we'll recap the exercises that should've been completed for today and the ones to complete for this week in order to stay on track with Group Zero's activities. All of the exercises are in Chapter 1 of The Anti-Textbook of Writing. Feel free to use the computer lab printers to print the exercises and the beginning of semester reflection. 

Note: When you post your exercises on Blackboard, click Create Thread as many times as you want. You don't have to post all the exercises in one post!

Lastly, we watched an older (2006) TED Talk called "Do schools kill creativity?" by Sir Ken Robinson. Some students grabbed my ten copies of the Beginning of the Semester Reflection, and some handed their reflections on paper already.


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