Café for Odd-Day Classes on Wednesday

As I mentioned in class, on Wednesday, the odd-day classes will have a café, where you will bring in a favorite reading (a poem, song lyrics, an excerpt from a short story or novel) and share it with the class. If you wish, you can even bring in a guitar to sing a song, and I'll even let you play a song (preferably of unplugged acoustic music) from your iPod or mp3 player for background music while you read aloud. (The speakers in my classroom can plug into the headphone jack.)

Your reading should not take up more than two or three minutes, and you should be prepared to say (briefly) something about what the reading means to you and how you came upon it.

Of course, you shouldn't let this "assignment" distract you from the more important task for Wednesday, which is to complete the revision of the second essay.

Changes to the Odd-Day Assignment Schedule

Not all of the odd-day students received their essays on Thursday and Friday, so the new due date for all of the odd-day sections is Wednesday, October 28. As a result, you do not have anything else to prepare for class on Monday, October 26.

I have deliberately not posted the guidelines for revising the essay that I mentioned in class so that all of the odd-day students, whether you have the draft or not, may enjoy the reprieve. We will go through that phase of the revision process in class on Monday so, even if I have given you your draft, bring it to class on Monday.

The even-day students still have their revisions due on Tuesday, October 27, as scheduled.

Clarification for Eudora Welty assignment due Oct. 20 (Day 3) and Oct. 21 (Day 4)

For the Guided Writing exercise, do as much of the ten steps as you can within two paragraphs. I realize that you probably won't be able to do all ten, but I would like you to work in as many of those writing strategies as you can.

Assignment for Wednesday, Oct. 7 (Day 3), and Thursday, Oct. 8 (Day 4)

According to the assignment schedule, you have an essay due on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Be advised that this is a draft (albeit a complete draft), and you should bring two copies of this draft to class. The final version will be due Tuesday, October 20 (Day 1), and Wednesday, October 21 (Day 2). Give yourself up to ninety minutes (definitely not more than two hours) to complete the draft.

Click on the link to the right for this essay's directions.