Category Archives: Dual Credit

1/19/23

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Happy Friday! I know that it was a struggle to read the article about Rebellion and Punishment yesterday, so I wanted to make Friday be a little more active.

In your table groups, create five flashcards explaining quotations from The Metamorphosis. We chose our quotes from playing Jenga, but if you are working on your own, use this wheel to find your five quotes. For each quote, you will make a flash card on the index cards. On the front of the index card, write the quotation down. If it is a super long passage, just quote the most important part. There is a reason that I want you to write the quote down and it’s NOT just to waste your time. I promise.

Then, on the back, create a bubble map discussing the quote. You do not need to include ALL of the bubbles – aim for about 3 bubbles per quote. When you are done, make sure you turn them in to me for credit!

 

 

1/18/23

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Ugh. Today’s activity ISN’T working out the way that I had hoped, so we are just going to switch to Plan B: reading and annotating.

You can find the article in Schoology or right here. You can see that I have started to annotate. I want you to add to this. The idea was that we were creating a collaborative document with notes, but it’s not working out that way. I’m frustrated, but what can you do?

You can share with other people, but make sure that you share the document with me, as well.

Tomorrow will be better, I promise! Tomorrow we play Jenga!

1/17/2023

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I was so scared that it was going to be chilly at school today, but it’s nice and warm! Maybe it’s because the building had time to warm up all day on Monday? At least you had one more extra day to read The Metamorphosis!

We have two things on the calendar today: The Sesame Street Quiz and I Read the Book, Now What?

The Sesame Street Quiz needs some explanation, so if you aren’t here today, you still might need to come into a KOnnect for me to explain it.

First of all, take a look at this slide. Which character doesn’t belong? There really isn’t a wrong answers – it all depends on how you justify it. This is my answer: In this quartet, Mulan is the character who does not belong. She is a warrior who fights to protect her country against the Huns, breaking gender norms for her family, her country, and her culture. Ariel, Pocahontas, and Jasmine are heroines of their own story and battle their own fights, but they are not trained warriors. Mulan disguised herself a man to learn how to to fight both physically and with strategy.

But, today a student had an answer that I was jealous of: Jasmine doesn’t belong because she is not the main character of her movie

On this quiz, you will do two things: One slide one, you will exaplain which one of your words doesn’t belong and why, making sure that you connect it back to the novella. One slide two, create a Sesame Street Quiz over The Metamorphosis using four words of your own choosing – you do not need to explain them. Just write them down. 🙂

Then, start to work on I Read The Book, Now What assignment that is due on Sunday. My goal is that this will help you with the essay over The Metamorphosis next week.

January 11th

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If I were a sea creature, I’d be the noble sea manatee. Don’t ask why.

We are starting The Metamorphosis today! I have paper copies in class and the pdf (and other resources) can be found in Schoology. Make sure that when you are reading that if you use a source like Shmoop (my favorite) or SparkNotes that you still read the story. We are not focusing on plot and character recall – we are going to working with language and ideas, so if you only read the summary, this is not going to help you with textual evidence and the language.

If people do not use this time to read, then that tells me that there is no need to give class time to read. If everyone is going to read outside of class, I will use the time in class for something else.

We read the first few pages today and you have tomorrow to read silently in class. That means you’ll be responsible for reading the rest before class on Tuesday. You can either read it all in one go or read about ten pages a day. Just don’t put it all off until the last minute – give yourself time to appreciate Kafka!

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January 10th

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Quiz day! Don’t worry – you’ll be fine. There are four things involved in this grade:

  1. Marxist Video Transcript
  2. Jigsaw Question
  3. Anticipation Guide (on paper as a table today in class)
  4. Complete the Gimkit!This forces you to really understand the concepts of Marxist Criticism and existentialism (rather than just rote memorization or copy/pasting answers).

If you manage to make it to Summit 6, take a screen shot and send it to me for 25 Live School Points!

January 9th

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I am so happy to back at school. No, really. I love having a routine!

We previously talked about existentialism when we read Rhinosceros in 1301, but we are going to look at it a bit more with The Metamorphosis.

We are creating a collaborative group document where each person will answer one question so that we can use this document on the quiz tomorrow.

When you are done, you may finish yesterday’s activity if you still need to do that.

 

1/8/24

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I am not here today, but I have left legitimate work for you to do. I want you watch this lecture over Marxist Criticism and revise/edit the transcript into fully accessible sentences and paragraphs (you can find this file in Schoology). You can either listen to the lecture or just simply read the lecture to find the the pauses and breaks.

Why are we doing this? Because just taking notes or answering questions is passive. I want you to actively manipulate the text and words because it forces you to read in a different way.

1/4/24

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LSC payment is due on Saturday the 6th! Remember, this is a college class. You paid for your first semester clas (1301), but now you need to pay for 1302. Make sure you log in my.lonestar.edu to make your payment.

The assignment today is Wheel, Poem, Dice in Schoology. Using the poems that we read yesterday as a model, we are going to write a poem to celebrate the new year!  However, I am going to give you a few parameters. Thw two poems yesterday were centered around rain and fire. You will center your poem about a random nature element that you can get here. Write your nature element in the gray field.

See the red, white, and blue section? That’s where you are going to roll my dice and encorporate those words into your poem.

 

 

1/3/24

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Happy New Year, Panthers! 🐾

Welcome to 1302, Comp and Rhetoric II.

Today, the BDTH involved creating a New Year’s Intention.

We talked a little about New Year’s tradition (grapes, cabbage, black eyed peas, jumping, fireworks, and money in cakes are some of the interesting things that I can remember at the end of the day).

We used those traditions to talk about the catharsis of purging, cleaning, and getting ready for the new year by reading two poems: “Rain, New Year’s Eve” by Maggie Smith and “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shahib Nye.

Then, for each of the two poems, we did four squares over them on a sheet of paper.

And lastly, we listed out what we want to TAKE into the new year and what we want to LEAVE. I collected all of the leave it baggage and plan on burning them this weekend in my firepit.

I am not going to be here on Monday because I have a podiatrist appointment, so I’ll be leaving some kind of Gimkit as an assignment for you background on Kafka’s Metamorphosis.