ENG 98 Blog/Workspace

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

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. 

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.

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

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