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9-11 Week Agenda Items

Day One. 0.  Use in-class time to finish your Focus-2* (see below) so that you do not waste time. 1.  Write a one-paragraph analysis about your Focus-2 results.  Prompt: Discuss if you agree or disagree with your Focus 2 Career Assessment. 2.  Write out your topic sentences for your PIE paragraphs  (lecture notes) now that you comprehend them better. * Focus Career 2 This is a computerized career assessment instrument that allows you to assess your interests, values, and skills; explore and analyze occupations based on your interests, values, and personality type. It also provides information on over 1200 careers and national job market information. FOCUS-2 is a self-paced career guidance tool designed to help you discover and explore career options that match your interests, personality, values and skills. https://www.focus2career.com/Portal/Login.cfm?SID=625 Instructions Log-in  and create your own account Access Code:   kamber3 Tips “ Combine Your Assessmen
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Agenda Items: Week Three

Day One: 1.  Make sure your Letter to the Counselor is polished and ready.  Before the end of September is finished, please personally spend time actively counseling with your counselor.  One of the GREATEST things you can do during this meeting is to show engagement and to actively document / record / take notes on what you learn. Later, when you get to your essay's descriptive section, you can do things like this: Gemma Williams, a counselor I met at the Maida Kamber center, indicating the following to me: "For now, you might like to A) __________; B) __________, and C) ____________ regarding your major."  Based on what my counselor stated, I would like to actively...... If your grade is hovering at a 70C- or lower, you may want to use Office Hours or Emergency Study Hall at the Study Hub.   2.  Go over salary templates https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ Establish your baseline salary. 3.  I want to see a working OUTLINE for your Career Essay first draft by the e
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Agenda items: Week Two

Day One: 1.  I want to read and conference with you about your "Letter to the Counselor." 2.  While you are waiting for your conference, I want you to partner up and work on Microsoft Word, specifically, I want you to learn how to properly format a quote for advanced practice. Here's what I want.  I want each of you to pretend that you are 25 years later in life and that you are at THE HIGHEST LEVEL of your CAREER.  I want to you to say something "supah smaht" in that career field and I want your partner to quote from it. Sample: Miguel Yanagihara, my film colleague, indicated the following: "Lynchian's dynamics of light and dark really serve or undergird an overwhelmingly Manichean scope of the universe, one that is constructed via the polemnics of light and dark" (01). I am trying to teach you some of the stylistic elements of "academese," which is like another language. 3.  I want you to finish as much as possible of Thin
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Agenda for Day 2: 8/23

Agenda Items: Thought of the day: "You are the dream of your ancestors, realized.  Many of them could not attend college.  Their dream is your dream: to succeed.  What then, is your kuleana  to your ancestors?" Go over any over-arching questions lingering from ENG 100.  (~5 minutes) Make sure students have completed "The 5-Step Personal Essay Writing Guide: "Future Career"" (~15 minutes + shareout) Students will then need to execute their one page Mini-Assignment #4 so that half of their homework is done for the weekend.   If time is available, students are encouraged to finish up or begin their Questionnaire Assignment.  Please remember, ENG 98 students.  I want you to do the "Letter to the Counselor" assignment on a mandatory basis. 
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Agenda for Day One

1.  Unpack Syllabus for ENG 98. 2.  Complete Intake Form.  http://bit.ly/2ifCFwF 3.  Start in on assignments for ENG 100. 4.  That's pretty much it for today.
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Exercise 1: Intake Sheet to Get to Know You and the Course

The following form is meant to accomplish the following: take an inventory of yourself and your contact information; allow me to get to know if you can paraphrase (put in your own words) the course competencies; allow you to post questions or concerns. http://bit.ly/2ifCFwF
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ENG 98 OVERVIEW

https://sites.google.com/site/eng197x100overview/home Home: ENG 98 Overview Updated 4 minutes ago Home: ENG 98 Overview Assignments Lessons and Notes Sitemap Home: ENG 98 Overview Lessons, Resources Assignments (Click the link above to see the major assignments for both courses) Day to Day Site As you know, I do not use Laulima.  Most planning and day-to-day handling of ENG 98 will be run off of Blogger.   Description: ENG 98 is a co-requisite course that supplements ENG 100, the foundations course which fulfills the Written Communication Foundation Requirement for degrees at UH-Manoa, UH-West O'ahu and Kapi'olani Community College.  ENG 98 is a concurrently offered ENG course that offers targeted support to help boost student comprehension and learning of the college-level course material; ENG 98 also offers students increased awareness of relevant college support and academ
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