Extra credit: blog your observations on the hurricane

All students that write an extra blog about the hurricane will get extra credit: what do you see? How does it connect with our class? What would you be doing if you were mayor? How does this fit with your first assignment? How does it feel to read Zeitoun during the storm (and if you haven't, you should!)?

Update: Storm

Due to the weather emergency, LaGuardia Community College, including all buildings and offices, will be closed Monday, October 29 and Tuesday, October 30, 2012 and all scheduled classes and events are canceled. A decision to close for Wednesday, October 31, 2012 will be made based on storm conditions. 

Hurricane Update: Work

1. Blog is still due by 11 pm. If power gets cut off before 6 pm, the blog due date will be rescheduled. Otherwise it is due.

2. The reading for Zeitoun is still on, and Tweets will be expected this week (assuming the power stays on).

3. If the power goes off for more than one day, spend some time reading Zeitoun (to at least page 200).

Isn't it crazy we're studying climate change and reading about hurricanes and this happens?

CUNY NY-Alert - Hurricane Sandy Update - Campus Closings for Monday October 29, 2012

 This is a message from the CUNY Alert System to advise you that due to severe wind, rain, and flooding conditions expected from Hurricane Sandy - ALL scheduled Day and Evening classes and all other functions/activities at ALL CUNY campuses have been canceled for Monday October 29, 2012.  A decision to close for Tuesday October 30, 2012 will be made based on storm conditions.

 All emergency personnel are expected to contact their immediate supervisor for instructions on work assignments and hours to report.

 All Shelters located on CUNY Campuses will remain open and operating to support the City's Coastal Storm Plan and evacuation orders.

Superquiz (to discuss Monday)

ENG 101 Super-Quiz: Citations

Name:

1. Write down two signal phrases that could begin or end this direct quotation:

(_______________)“New York City is not prepared for climate change”(______________)

2. What do you call it when someone writes a direct quotation without a signal phrase? (two possible answers)

3. Below you have a source and a direct quote. Take a phrase from the quote and put it correctly into a sentence, citing correctly.

Source: BOOK by ADAM JONES.

Quote “New York City will have to lead America into a new future if we want to avoid the worst of climate change. New York will have to show America a new path.” Taken from page 45.

4. What goes into the quote sandwich?

Extra Credit (5 points)

If you are citing a web source that has a title but no author, what goes in the citation?

Assignment Two Thesis TEMPLATE: Blogging the Peer Review

Thesis Statements

Think of it like this, perhaps:

Your job is to consider three things, or groups, or groups of people:

people with some money in New Orleans (EX: Zeitouns)
people without some money in NO (Lower 9th Ward)
people with money called the GOVERNMENT (Bush, FEMA, etc)

and figure out:

what role did money play for these groups? how did it affect the decisions people made in the storm?

Templates

Money played a complex role in how people reacted to Hurricane Katrina. For some in the Lower Ninth Ward, lack of access to cash created a situation where____________________. Meanwhile, some middle-class people in NO like the Zeitouns had to face difficult choices, such as ______________________________________. All the while people faced these difficult choices and situations, the US government, who had money, chose to_______________________. In light of all these examples, I feel that money _______________________ during Hurricane Katrina and ______________________________. In this essay, I will show how each of these groups faced a different kind of Hurricane due to the power money had in their ability to make certain kinds of decisions.


Paragraph Two

The Zeitouns in Dave Eggers book Zeitoun had an interesting experience of Hurricane Katrina because _______________________ [relate to thesis]. For example, Kathy ____________afjadklfjasdfkljadfkljadfkljasd

Paragraph Three

People in the Lower Ninth Ward faced difficult circumstances because, generally, many did not have access to money. For them, their choices were based around_________________________. This means that ___________________________. For example, dfdafdfasdklsd;fkljasd;

ETC

Assignment Two Peer Review and Grading Grid

Peer Review Guidelines

1. Move into your PR groups.
2. Determine who will read in what order.
3. Budget 10-15 minutes per person and no more.
4. The reader reads their paper aloud.
5. Give written feedback that offers specific criticism according to criteria below.
6. Put your name on this feedback and give it to the writer.
7. Keep your written feedback and staple it to your final draft.

Writing Feedback Directions (from the text Tutoring Writing)

1. Open with a general statement of assessment about the essay's relationship to the assignment. Be clear about which parts fulfill the assignment and which parts need improvement.
2. Present comments so the writer knows which problems with text are most important and which are of lesser importance.
3. Use comments primarily to call attention to strengths and weaknesses in the piece, and be clear about the precise points where they occur.
4. Don't feel obligated to do all the 'fixing.' Refrain from focusing on grammar unless it impedes your ability to understand the piece.
5. Write comments that are text-specific, and uniquely aimed at the blog and the writer.

1. Thesis: Contains a central assertion that places a central idea at the forefront of the essay; thesis statements is 2-3 sentences; thesis statement answers the main question posed by the assignment  (30%)

2. Structure: Essay organized around topic sentences; each paragraph provides "they say" context; essay uses summary and paraphrase to explain main ideas from reading (30%)

3. Evidence: Essay successfully places direct quotes into each body paragraph; essay cites those quotes correctly according to MLA guidelines; essay explains direct quotations; essay contains a bibliography (20%)

4. Critical Thinking: Essay interprets quotes in original ways that go beyond class discussion; essay connects main ideas to other texts or moments in text; essay utilizes keywords and defines them; essay offers original perspectives and argument (20%)

5. Polish

Food and Climate: A New Warning

By JUSTIN GILLIS

 

 

Justin Mott for The New York Times- Terraced rice paddies in Dong Van in northeastern Vietnam. 

“Our results show that rice agriculture becomes less climate-friendly as our atmosphere continues to change,” Dr. van Groenigen said in a statement. “This is important because rice paddies are one of the largest human sources of methane and rice is the world’s second-most produced staple crop.”

The study emphasized, however, that these outcomes are not inevitable; they are merely possible if sufficient effort isn’t put into countering the problems. The study cited the critical importance of adjusting farmer practices to lower methane emissions (draining paddies mid-season can have a big effect, for instance) and of finding new rice varieties that can stand up to rising temperatures in the important growing regions.

Read the rest HERE.

The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name

By JUSTIN GILLIS

 

 

Agence France-Presse — Getty Images - No mention of climate change: people gathered at the Ehsan Center in Los Angeles to watch the final presidential campaign debate.

 

A mountain of scientific evidence points to climate change as a serious risk for the human future. The Pentagon sees it as a threat to national security. Arctic sea ice hit a record low this summer. In some low-lying countries threatened by sea level rise, evacuation planning has already begun.

Yet the presidential debates are now over, and not once did climate change surface explicitly as an issue. This campaign is the first time that has happened since 1988, and environmental groups – and environmentally minded voters – are aghast.

“By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement. “Their silence prepares a future for our children and grandchildren in which we will face deeper droughts, fiercer forest fires and killer storms, messier spills and dirtier air. America deserves better.”


Read the rest here.

Blogging the Library Visit

Keywords

Let's talk about these words next week. We can use keywords to search, but we can also use them in our essays to help our critical thinking.

Boolean Machine

This can be a really helpful machine for finding the search results you want. Let's try this in class Monday when we have access to our lab.

The LaGuardia Library Homepage

HERE

Email a librarian!?!?!?!

Take advantage

Search tools

Go to "Research and Find" on the library homepage.

We really do need to go beyond Wikipedia and basic Google searches. This is why the library is so important - we must get to know "academic sources."

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Plug in Katrina into the search box.

Ok - a zillion searches. Now what? Under "Subjects" on the left-hand side of the page, click on "view more."

Now click on climate change. Whoa! Look at this:

Article , Work overview

"Global Warming: The Culprit? Evidence mounts that human activity is helping fuel these monster hurricanes",  page(s): 139-142. Word Count: 887.

Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources Ed. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner .  Detroit: Gale, 2006. 

Magazine article By: Jeffery Kluger Date: October 3, 2005 Source: Kluger, Jeffery. "Global Warming: The Culprit? Evidence mounts that human activity is helping fuel these monster hurricanes." Time 166, no. 14 (October 3,... 

This might make a great source for a blog or paper...

Ok, starting over: 

 

CQ Reseacher

Domain Names

Yup: .org is a lot different than .gov -- or .com!

Lexis Nexis

I love Lexis Nexis!

Newspapers v Academic Scholarship

Newspapers sell ads: they're corporate! Their point is to use the news to sell their readers on other things. This is why newspaper have a hard time being critical of corporations -- especially those that advertise in their papers!

Scholarship goes through "Peer Review." It means that other scholars have to approve it...and the information isn't designed to sell anything!

Academic Search Complete

Here. 

Recommended to go to advanced search option. 

Abstract

A short summary. Helps you make sure you're finding something relevant. 

MLA Citations

Wow - you can add the citation directly to your bibliography? Well, when you copy and paste the format often changes. 

  

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Reminder: Library tomorrow!

Zeitoun Reading

Catch up if you're behind. Be to page 144 or so by Thursday.

Exploring Transfer

“{Exploring Transfer] gave me a sense of, don’t stick with what you know, but open your eyes to bigger horizons.”
- from a student who participated in the Exploring Transfer progam

A special Exploring Transfer panel will be on Wednesday, October 24, 3:00-4:30 (E501). Students who participated in Summer 2012 will be on hand to share their experiences, and describe what it was like to live and learn at Vassar College. This program is for any student you know curious about taking on an intellectual and academic challenge. 

Exploring Transfer is a 5-week summer program (room and board paid) in which students take two team-taught  interdisciplinary courses at Vassar College. 

CLASS THURSDAY 10/25: IMPORTANT

We begin class Thursday in the library. Go to E-101b.

We will be meeting in the library on October 25th from 10.30 to 11.30am. You will go straight there on that morning. 

We will come back to our regular class after and take the quiz. 

We will then have our peer review (with partners, bring only two copies).  

Also: note the extra credit assignment if you're interested.

Blogging the in-class quotation exercise @ Zeitoun

What are we doing?

You're writing a paragraph on Zeitoun, and you're using a direct quotation.

Can I just get up and leave class while I write?

I guess so? But if you're unable to finish the in-class assignment on-time, or you come in late, then you will lose participation points.

What do I do if I finish before everyone else?

Sign in to Twitter, and Tweet some of your thoughts about Zeitoun. Then, go back to the blog and hit the "T" at the bottom of your post and Tweet your recent post.

Can I write about either Zeitoun or Kathy?

Either one.

Blog Title

Consider: "In-class Zeitoun blog."

First Few Sentences

At the end of your draft, go back and re-read your writing from the perspective of someone who isn't in this class. What do they need to know about Zeitoun? What do they need to know about you and why you're writing?

 

Class Agenda 10-22

1. "Framing the Quotation"

Last week we worked on direct quotations and on moving between sources when writing paragraphs. Today, you will begin class by practicing the art of quotation with Zeitoun.

First, refresh yourself on quotations in They Say I Say pages 44-47. You will be quizzed on "framing" quotations in the next class.

Next, return to the Zeitoun reading from this past weekend (to page 144). Focus on a section of the text that offers new evidence about the personalities of either Zeitoun or Kathy. We're trying to consider how and why they made the decisions they did during and after Hurricane Katrina. Summarize the scene for readers of your blog: explain what's happening in the text and why you're focusing on the passage you chose.

Finally, offer readers a special "direct quote" that you believe offers interesting language for analysis. Using variations on the templates on 46-47 from They Say I Say, explain the importance of the language you used for evidence.

After re-reading, post this to your blog. 

2. "Doing research"

Your second assignment asks you to find evidence about the role money played for different groups during Hurricane Katrina. Today we're going to focus on the neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward. First, read up on the storm through the following links. Then, you will try and find some sources on your own for the essay. BE SURE TO TAKE NOTES!

Katrina aftermath

Drive through the Lower 9th

 Images of the storm

6 years after

Now conduct your own search. Reflect on what information you need. How will you find it? What terms will you search? Where will you search for it?

Also: see fourth blog assignment. 

Blog Four

NEW Due Date: 10/29

Assignment: This assignment asks students to summarize their findings on the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

Students must provide summaries from at least three different sources, including a book source. They must incorporate one direct quote from these sources. The quote should provide evidence for what they believe is a key argument for their second essay assignment about the role that money played in this neighborhood during the experience of the storm.

Students must add a working bibliography at the end of their blog.

EXTRA CREDIT: When the Levees Broke

Students who want extra credit should not the following event. To receive extra credit, students must attend the event, take notes, and write a 500-word blog about the event and the film. The blog will be worth 1.5 points of the students end of semester grade. The blog must be written before December 1.

Spike Lee’s Emmy award-winning documentary
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A Requiem in 4 Acts

Tomorrow - Parts 1 & 2 will be presented on October 23, 2012 @ 12:15 in E-501
A discussion will be led by Dr. Jacqueline Jones after the screening

Next week - Parts 3 & 4 will be presented on October 30, 2012 @ 2:15 in E-242
A discussion will be led by Dr. Janet Michello after the screening

If you have any further questions, please contact either Dr. Demetrios Kapetanakos (dkapetanakos@lagcc.cuny.edu) or Dr. Elizabeth McCormick (emccormick@lagcc.cuny.edu).

Zeitoun Reading for Monday

READ TO 146

Blog 4 Delayed

Blog for will be posted today or tomorrow, and due on or by Friday of next week, not Monday.

Quiz #4

Open Note

Summarize the "Statement of Dr. James Hansen" by emphasizing his main points (remember, use your own words: paraphrase). Then select one idea for "direct quotation" and correctly quote and cite it. After the quote, explain the importance or meaning of the idea you quoted.


NOTE: Remember that direct quotations use "special language" and generally do not contain facts, statistics, or information. We select language for direct quotation because we believe we must "interpret" it in a special way. To interpret it to explain it - to say more about it, to connect new ideas to it, to go deeper than the statement itself. In other words, the language of direct quotation is the most important language of a text, and we need to say why.

Greenmarket on Campus!

The Food & Nutrition Programs are sponsoring Food Day on Wednesday October 24th. Among the many activities throughout the day, we will be hosting a Greenmarket in the Atrium from 2:00 - 4:00pm. W. Rogowski Farm will be selling local, seasonal produce.  The Rogoski Farm sells at the Union Square and Sunnyside GreenMarkets.  We are proud to be the First CUNY campus to have a GreenMarket on campus!

Class Agenda 10-18

1. Quiz

2. Discussion of "The Keeling Curve," "Statement of Dr. James Hansen," and "Causes of the Russian Heat Waves and the Pakistani Floods."

3. In-class writing: First, let's review some of the material They Say I Say. Through a description of the "The Keeling Curve," support the main argument of Dr. James Hansen.

Before you begin writing, consider what your reader needs to know. Consider the best way to order the information they need to know. Take notes first. Plan, then write. 

4. In-class film clip: The 11th Hour

5. In-class writing: return to the paragraph you began on "The Keeling Curve" and Hansen. Bring an idea from the film into your paragraph in order to show one example of the "meaning" of climate change.

Oct 24th is Food Day

On Wednesday, October 24 the Food & Nutrition Programs will be sponsoring an on-campus event to celebrate National Food Day.  Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.  Food Day takes place annually on October 24 to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice. The ultimate goal of Food Day is to strengthen and unify the food movement in order to improve our nation’s food policies.  Food Day is important to our Program because it reflects our philosophy--No gimmicks, no miracles, just REAL facts:REAL FOOD keeps us healthy and tastes great.

Activities will be held throughout the day, culminating with our "Get Real Event" in the afternoon in the Atrium.  During the morning Food and Nutrition students will be popping in and out of classrooms to give students (and faculty) the important message to EAT REAL.  These REAL blasts will just be minutes long so we hope you will welcome the students in your classrooms.

Transfer Fair TODAY (Tuesday)

The Daytime Transfer Fair is from 1:00-4:00pm. We will have 33 schools, including Queens College, Polytechnic Institute of NYU (NYU-Poly) and Swarthmore College (which are not listed on posters). It's a great opportunity to learn more about schools and the transfer process.

Rules for In-text citations

This is a web version of the hand-out from class today.

In-text citations

Author is quoted or paraphrased but not named in the text. (MLA Handbook, 6.2)

It may be true that "in the appreciation of medieval art the attitude of the observer is of primary importance . . ." (Robertson 136).

Author is quoted or paraphrased and is named in the text. (MLA Handbook, 6.3)

Sigmund Freud states that a "dream is a fulfillment of a wish" (154).

Smith developed the argument in his 1997 book (185-91).

According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).

Is it possible that dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184)?

In-Text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

Citing a Work by Multiple Authors

The authors state "Tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights" (Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).

Citing Indirect Sources

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).

Citing Non-Print or Sources from the Internet

With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.

Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

• Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
• You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.
• Unless you must list the website name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo is "...a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism" (Garcia, “Herzog: a Life”).

Page number unknown

As a 2005 study by Salary.com and America Online indicates, the Internet ranked as the top choice among employees for ways of wasting time on the job; it beat talking with co-workers—the second most popular method—by a margin of nearly two to one (Frauenheim).

Selection in an anthology

In “Love Is a Fallacy,” the narrator’s logical teachings disintegrate when Polly declares that she should date Petey because “[h]e’s got a raccoon coat” (Shulman 379).

Web site or other electronic source

Your in-text citation for an electronic source should follow the same guidelines as for other sources. If the source lacks page numbers but has numbered paragraphs, sections, or divisions, use those numbers with the appropriate abbreviation in your in-text citation: “par.,” “sec.,” “ch.,” “pt.,” and so on. Do not add such numbers if the source itself does not use them. In that case, simply give the author or title in your in-text citation.

Julian Hawthorne points out profound differences between his father and Ralph Waldo Emerson but concludes that, in their lives and their writing, “together they met the needs of nearly all that is worthy in human nature” (ch. 4).

When citing more than four lines of prose, use the following examples:

Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him throughout her narration:

They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)