Weekend + April 25-May 2nd

Vocabulary QUIZ on Tuesday, April 30th

Assignments:

1. Read "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan--Do Discussion ?s #1-#4--DUE on Mon. 4-28
   
2. Continue work on Personal Narrative--Paper #1
3. Sentence Combining--pp. 38-52--Complete 3 exercises
4. Sentence Combining--pp. 56-68--Complete 3 exercises
   

Weekend Notes--April 18-21

Concentrate this weekend on reading pages 289-300 of Guidelines, so you can do the sentence coding/identification work for Monday. See the Assignment Link at the right.

Read "A Book Writing Venture" by Kim Yong Ik and write your summary. Review the handout on Composing a Summary--also listed at the right.

Assignments for April 14-18

Read "Education and the Human Heart" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Tuesday. 4-15

NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY--GO to the LOFT for ENG. 080 students--others go to the Computer Lab, 3304 or another place to do your work.

Assignments DUE for Thursday. We will be in IB 3307--the Computer Lab:

1. Read "College" by Yezierska for Wed, Question #1 & #2--typed out (Discuss After You Read) & Reading Strategy (Annotation or Cluster or Double Entry notes or Reading Notes)--DUE Thursday 4-17
2. Type your Summary from "My English" by Alvarez also for Thursday, 4-17
   
3. Do Sentence Combining( 3 for this week) from pp. 26-37-- Turn one in on Thursday and the Sentence Combining folder is DUE on Friday, 4-18, with 6 Exercises (2 paragraphs each)
4. Read "A Book Writing Venture" for Monday, April 21st. DO Summary for 4-21.
   
   
   

Compassion and Struggle

Since I had the opportunity to go to an event with the Dalai Lama, religious leader of the Tibetan people, I would like all of us to think about compassion and how we can practice that in our own life. We have just read a story that shows the difficult struggle of Native American people when children were taken from their homes to be educated and changed away from their culture and family. In these one hundred years since Zitkala-sa wrote her story, we have changed, but the passage of time has shown us many other places where we can learn about and practice compassion for each other in our class and others in the world.

I hope you all have a good weekend. Remember to read "My English" by Alvarez and bring your Reading Journal on Monday.

Welcome to Spring Quarter--Eng. 097-8

We have just started class and Spring has started also.

I look forward to getting to know you and helping each of you have a great learning experience.