Roots in the City on Thursday

Don't forget that we will be meeting at the Roots in the City garden to bring our semester to an end.  Please bring your service-learning forms, your pigeon peas (gandules), and a one-page reflection of your service activities this semester.  Here's a map to the garden:

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Almost Done

There were lots of absences today.  I know that many of you are under tremendous pressure.  Don't forget that we are almost done.  Here are some things to keep in mind for the next couple of days:

Saturday, April 17--Shanty Event
Monday, April 19--Grades for lab will be entered in grade book by my trained space monkeys.
Tuesday, April 20--Three Cups of Tea Test (Bring a scantron)
Thursday, April 22--We will meet in the Roots in the City garden to plant the pigeon peas, celebrate Earth Day, and reflect on the semester's work.  Bring your service-learning forms so that I can give you credit.

Map to the Roots in the City Garden


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Writing about Osama

We will finish the film today. Here's your assignment: Have your paragraph completed by the end of our next class. Please drop it off electronically instead of coming to class this Thursday. Here's the link to the drop box.

More on Sentence Types

Here are some resources to help you add to your own toolkit to increase sentence variety:

• Conjunctions
• Sentence Punctuation Patterns

Agreements

Class Activities

• Share photographs and essays.
• Go over subject-verb agreement rules.
• Take a short quiz.
• Book discussion.

Homework

• Go to Paragraph Development in MyWritingLab and complete Illustrating.  Choose one of the five paragraph topics and have a draft by next class.
• For those of you who are not caught up with the lab, today is your chance.  Have all lab assignments completed by our next class.  
• Read through Chapter 14 of Three Cups of Tea.

Important Links for the Photo Contest

Here are the two links we went over in class.  Remember that you will need to print the form and also mat your photographs.

• Rules
• Form
• Pearls Art Supplies

Images and Stories

Today we looked at some Clyde Butcher photographs and created a one page brainstorm.  The idea is to help us warm up to the photographs we will be taking this weekend.  Pay close attention to the light and the way water, sky, and land relate to one another in the images.

Homework
--Complete the following in MyWritingLab

• Subjects and Verbs
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Combining Sentences
• Consistent Verb Tenses and Active Voice
• ESL Concerns--Nouns  

--Take your South Florida photograph.

--Bring at least two pages of brainstorming to class on Thursday.

--Read through Chapter 12 of Three Cups of Tea.


There is no class on Tuesday.  Use the time to catch up with your work!