10/13/11 - Thursday

Class Work
1. Your technology paper is due.

• Place the final copy on top
• Attach the draft
• Attach the peer editing sheet

If you are willing, we will take some time to share what you discovered. Read your conclusion to the folks at your table. Table members, elect one to read to the class. If time permits, more may read. (We have four hours, time will probably permit!)

How was MyCompLab? Question?

2. Peter and the Wolf

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/peterandwolf/ (Read and discuss)
• Watch the video
• Outline what you would say in a critique of the movie. Did you like it? Why? Did you dislike it? Explain. Should others watch the show? Explain.
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/peterandwolf/essay1.html (Read and discuss this essay. Is it a critique? Is it more than a critique?

3. For HOMEWORK:

• Select an animated film based on a fairy tale or legend that has been made for children.
• Watch it.
• Look up the history of the original story.
• Determine what your criteria will be for writing a review of the show.
• Write a draft. It can be no longer than one page - double spaced.

4. Rock activity - you have to be here for this one!
5. Fences/Walls
6. Read "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html (Activities to follow the reading. . .)
7. Field Trip - take your camera - yes, your phone camera is fine. Go outside. Take pictures of barriers, fences, or other blockades. Be creative. Find three items. (15 minutes outside - GO!)

• What caused this barrier/wall/fence to be created? What was the need?
• What is it made of?
• Who or what needs it?
• What are the effects of this barrier? What does it help? What does it hurt? Would the world be a better place without it?
• If it was man-made, does it look like it was difficult to build? Of what is it made?

5. Brainstorm:  What holds folks back. Is it always a physical barrier?
6. Causes and effects: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/cause_effect.htm (How to write a comparative analysis . . .)
7. Pick a wall, fence, or barrier and use it as the focus of a cause/effect essay. This can be a physical structure or it can be an emotional block that can be generalized to the population at large. Your HOMEWORK is to do some research. What is the history of your wall? What caused it to exist? How long has it existed? What are the effects of the wall? Did it do what it was created to do?Bring your notes to class. Begin a works cited page.