CollegeNow Spring 2012 "Finding Your Voice: Writing for Success in College"
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Calendar for Spring 2011 Baruch College-Now Program
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February 2012
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Session 1: syllabus review, Envision what your life will be like 8 years from now. Identify / find a person who is very successful in your field. In addition, students will find out 3 things about this person's career process. Career Role Model |
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Session 2 Describe your ideal college setting, environment, types of students, falculties and classroom. Use your prewriting to compose-"My Typical College Day" or "My First Day in College"
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7 Individual Conference |
14 Session 3 Who am I? What do you need to know about me? How would I like other people to perceive me? reading applications for personal statement topics Step 1: Come up with 5 topics associated with Family,Place and Identity Step 2:Pick two topics from each category that you would like to discover further Step 3: For each of the choices, list 4 details about the situation / experience Step 4: Share your responses with the class. Step 5: Classmates will answer the following questions for each topic: 1. Is the choice about the student or someone in the student’s life? 2. In which topic, does the student seem most interested? Conclusion: How did it feel to discuss these personal experiences? These questions will help you to begin having an inner dialogue about your comfort level with writing
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21 Winter Break |
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28 Session 5 Personal writing #3 How does Race ...Other redefine Puerto Ricannese
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March 2012 |
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1 Session 6 Agenda- 1.Share and Discuss the uniqueness and strengths of your peer's personal essay (peer review) 2. Revise your essay by -
Visit the museum sites and choose a paiting to describe.( http://litstudies.org/CollegeNowfall2011/WriteNow.pdf) page 5 Activity
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8 Session 8 Understanding Art #3 Developing a Short Story#1
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13 Session 9
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14 Individual |
15 Session 10
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19 Individual |
20 Session 11
Creative Writing Rubric & Presentation
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April 2012 |
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5 Session 16 Next James Joyce? Newspaper Headlines to Jumpstart a piece writing ( page 11 Write Now ) Found poem : Select words or phrases from the poems provided. Drop the selected words in a Word Bank.Use the words or phrases from the Word Bank to create a found poem about yourself-speaking your thoughts, feelings and dreams etc. Make a list of words to describe how you feel right now. Pick one word and write extensively without stopping. Paragraph or poem Use streams of consciousness- cluster of imagery, no time sequence , no logic, no punctuations , past, present and future all meshed in one. Publishing Your creative work on Identity Rumble |
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10 Spring Break |
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17 Session 17 Monologue
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26 Session 19 Write a short scene page 23 WriteNow ( AB's Activity) Review Portfolio Contents for the 2nd Marking Period Introduction to the Identity Research paper Identity Research Paper ( need three works of literature -fiction or non-fiction)-Research the general path or pattern it takes to discover one's self.
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May 2011 |
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1 Session 20 Write a monologue ( page 27 WriteNow ) Agenda- 1. Share in class the Identity Rumble project
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3 Session 21. Introduction to the Independent Reserach Paper #1 - On Identity Use the four strategies to cite information- 1. Summarize
1. Ebscohost.com (username/password: bergtraumhs) 2.Gale Critical Thinking Resource Center (username: new65658 password new_log) -from school 3. From Home: Gale Resource ( username: new65658rpa / password: new_log) 4. Gale_Novel (login: nysl_me_71_mbhs, pw: empirelink ) 5. Grolier-Novel ( username: novel547 pw: novel) 6. Britannica (user name: bergtraum password: library) 7. Novel-ProQuest
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10 Session 23 Independent Reserach Paper#3 Outline workshop Research paper Checklist
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15 Session 24 1st draft due Research Paper Revision Workshop Manual for Using MLA StyleResearch Unit
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Session #25 Revise Research Paper
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24 Session 26 Research Paper #6 Reserach Paper Due Portfolio Contents Portfolio Contents 1. Cover page |
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5 Session 27 (Last Class) Final Portfolio Due |
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