Essay Grades

Content/organization (10)
Diction/style (5)
Conventions (5)
Total (20)

20-18 = A range
17-15 = B range
14-12 = C range
11-9 = D range
8-below = F

Good article on being a teacher in Newsweek

I Am Not A Baby Sitter, Heather Robinson

Dinner November 10, 6 pm, Chicora Alley, Downtown Greenville

Make sure you don't forget our FYW dinner!

Chicora Alley

November 10 @ 6 PM.

Academic Expectations, continued. . .

Look at this carefully:

Logical Fallacies

And if you have further questions about academic writing, go to the OWL at Purdue, and then click on the link to the right, "General Academic Writing."

And for even more information, especially about writing in an academic setting, see the Temple University Writing Center handouts. The first link on college writing has several additional links that cover the discussion we had in class about writing in college. Also, there are more links on the main page, including help with documentation, Citation Guides.

Revised Schedule! Revised Schedule! Revised Schedule!

M 10/20: APA documentation, citing sources, evaluating sources

W 10/22: Academic and Scholarly Writing—Expectations Traditional (the classroom) and Authentic (the real world); Word Choice (Diction); Avoiding "Vague"

F 10/24: NCLB, legislation and education!

M 10/27: Religion and public education; the evolution controversy; prayer, the pledge. . .

Consider this excellent Op-Ed in The Greenville News by Dr. Henderson:

School vouchers endanger religious freedom


W 10/29: Monday topics, continued. . .; E.3 drafting DUE

F 10/31: School Choice, vouchers, public and private. . .

M 11/3: Race, Gender, Affluence/Poverty and Education

W 11/5: E.3 First full sub DUE

F 11/7:

M 11/10:

W 11/12:

F 11/14:

M 11/17:

W 11/19: E.4 drafting DUE

F 11/21: [* No class Nov 21]

M 11/24: [* No class Nov 24]; E.4 First full sub DUE

W 11/26: Thanksgiving Holiday

F 11/28: Thanksgiving Holiday

M 12/1: Autobiographical Collage drafting

W 12/3: Autobiographical Collage drafting

F 12/5: Autobiographical Collage drafting

M 12/8: Autobiographical Collage drafting

Exam: Final Portfolio/ Autobiographical Collage DUE (20 pp. min.)

Who is to blame. . .?

Consider the influence of wealth/poverty when we consider health:

Family Income Impacts Children's Health

Child-health report shows wide gaps according to wealth, education

Note the study itself:

America's Health Starts With Healthy Children

A snapshot of each state is also available if you scroll down on the link above.

How market forces hurt the education of the poor

Poorest schools tend to have novice teachers, state reports

Good source for IDEAS for your writing. . .

Try reading the blogs at this Paulo Freire Project.

What is failure?

Great Op-Ed in The State.

To consider. . .

Paulo Freire (1998), Pedagogy of Freedom

“If I consider myself superior to what is different, no matter what it is, I am refusing to listen. The different becomes not an ‘other’ worthy of any respect, but a ‘this’ or ‘that’ to be despised and detested. This is oppression” (p. 108)

“It is this: If education cannot do everything, there is something fundamental that it can do. In other words, if education is not the key to social transformation, neither is it simply meant to reproduce the dominant ideology” (p. 110)

So should everyone take Latin?

A Dead Language That Is Very Much Alive