EWRT1A-62: agreement exercise

Here is the agreement exercise due Monday.

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet who gained national recognition before the turn of the last century. He inspired many African-American artists who came after him, such as Maya Angelou. "Sympathy" was first published in 1899.
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Sympathy

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899)

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opens,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--
I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats its wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting--
I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--
I know why the caged bird sings.

EWRT1A-62: syllabus change

So essay 1 is now due Monday, February 1st. So hand in both drafts then.

Because of this, we will be doing reading response 4 in class on Monday. So come to class having read "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" and ready to write about it. The agreement exercise will be due then as listed on the syllabus. Also, reading response 5 will now not be in class on the 3rd, but will instead be an out-of-class assignment.

EWRT1A-62: pronoun exercise

Here is the pronoun exercise, due Monday.

EWRT1A62: reading response 3

About 300 words, typed, Due Monday, January 25.
Choose one:

• What does Rodriguez gain from his education? At what cost? Does he think that the cost is worth the gain? Do you? Explain.
• Compare Rodriguez and Fan Shen. Choose a specific point of comparison (this can be either similarity or difference) and argue it with specific evidence from the texts.
• Choose you own topic of analysis regarding Rodriguez's essay.

EWRT1A-62: MLA citation overhead

Here's the information from the overhead that was hard to see…

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In-text citation walkthrough
using page 46-7, ¶10
How do I incorporate this sentence into my paper?

Direct quotation.
Start with a signal phrase:

• Fan Shen states that…

Put borrowed words into quotation marks:

• Fan Shen states that “creating an English Self is a way of reconciling [his] old cultural values with the new values required by English writing”

Double check to make sure you quoted correctly. Put brackets around changed words.

Put page number in parentheses after the quotation:

• Fan Shen states that “creating an English Self is a way of reconciling [his] old cultural values with the new values required by English writing” (47).

Notice that you don’t need a “p.” before the number and the period comes after the parentheses.

The same applies for partial quotations:

• Just as Fan Shen experienced, I had to reconcile “my old cultural values with the new values required by English writing” (47).

If you don’t use a signal phrase, put author (if no author, put title) before page number:

• “Creating an English Self is a way of reconciling [his] old cultural values with the new values required by English writing” (Shen 47).

Paraphrases work the same way. Again, start with a signal phrase:

• Fan Shen observes…

Then put the idea into your own words:

• Fan Shen observes that students from different cultural backgrounds have to make a new identity to succeed in writing classes in the U.S. (47).

Make sure that when putting the idea into your own words that you do so completely and don’t misinterpret the author’s idea. Also, don’t forget the page number.

Works cited.
Obviously, providing page numbers only makes sense if the reader is told what books the pages are from. This is what the works cited page does. Since you provided a signal phrase that contains the author’s name, the works cited page is organized alphabetically by the name of the author.

Shen, Fan. “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English.”
Readings for Writers. Ed. Nick Mullins. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.
42-52. Print.

Indent lines after first.

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And here is the above info as a pdf.
And here's the other handout about the new MLA rules.

Malcolm X

There are many Malcolm X videos out there. This one is nice, because it gets to a lot of his beliefs and a bit of his biography. The interviewer, Hurlbut (an unfortunate name), asks questions that many people had at the time. At times Hurlbut is a bit patronizing, but his attitude only serves to clarify Malcolm X's points. And notice how Malcolm X doesn't get angry or flustered when Hurlbut keeps interrupting him.

EWRT1A-62: run-ons exercise

Here's the run-ons exercise. Print it out or put your sentences on another piece of paper and bring it to class next Wednesday.

EWRT1A-62: essay 1 prompt

In case you didn't get it or you lost it, here's the prompt for essay 1.

EWRT1A-62: fragments exercise

Here is the fragments exercise. It's in .pdf format. If you have trouble viewing it, let me know.

EWRT1A-62: reading response 1

Here is the link to the Freire reading.

And here's some background info about Freire.

The reading response prompt is in the syllabus along with a description of what I'm looking for with the reading responses.

EWRT1A-62: syllabus

Here is the syllabus for the class (.pdf format).

And here is the class in the De Anza schedule of classes (this link will probably be wrong in a week or two)