Portfolio & Prompts, Masks, Summary Workshop

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The deadline for signing up for dual enrollment is tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 5. If you do not sign up for dual enrollment by that time, you will not be able to sign up for the course and will not receive college credit. Those of you who have signed up for dual enrollment, will gain access to MCC's facilities throughout the course. More information for you will be forthcoming.

In either case, you will need to submit a portfolio for your marking period grade.

Please work on your portfolio. Make sure you have completed and printed your summary for The Hoober Bloob Highway. We will meet in small groups to examine our summaries during period 2.

Portfolio Assignments/Creative Drafts:
  • Complete or revise your "How it Feels to be Me" essay draft 
  • Complete or revise your "identity poem" draft 
  • Complete or revise any creative piece based on discussions, journal exercises, etc.
  • Complete or revise your story draft where you use multiple based on the structure of The Namesake. (Sept. 19, 21, 23)
  • Complete or revise your name poem. (Sept. 19, 21, 23)
  • Write about nurture versus nature; use our articles/discussions/writing exercises to create a poem, play, short story, essay, or media project for your portfolio.
  • Write about labels. See the article: "Dude Looks Like a Lady" for inspiration.
  • Write about the melting pot or the video "who am I?" (Sept. 21 post)
  • Write about what you keep in your purse or wallet or school locker. Reflect on how objects help identify you.
  • Or use your time in the lab reading and summarizing The Namesake. 
Classroom:

Reading: Article: "Masks"

Get into the following small groups (and review each other's Hoober Bloob summaries). Offer ideas based on these points:
  1. Is the summary accurate and complete?
  2. Does it include all the author’s main points?
  3. Are they in the right order?
  4. Did you remember not to include details, examples, your opinions, and information that isn’t in the original selection?
  5. Did you write the summary in your own words?
  6. Did you use transitions so that it reads smoothly?
  7. If someone else read your summary, would they see and be able to understand all of the important points the author presented in the original selection? 
  8. Did you write in complete sentences, with proper syntax, sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics for college or professional writing?
Group Z: Rosalia, Olivia, Grace, Reyenne, Amanda
Group X: Cameron, Alannah, Jasmina, Jahde, Avana 
Group Y: Frieda, Rashid, Janelys, Nandi, Aslin

HOMEWORK: Please read chapters 11 & 12 of The Namesake. Complete the novel by Thursday, Oct. 6. Please bring your book, notes, and summaries to next class.

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