English 102: Week 4

Journal 3 entries were due Friday at 3:30 pm. Remember to include word counts below the date in future journals.

I have poached a few phrases from folks’ journals to use as discussion prompts when we get back into seminar. I will ask if I can use them (anonymously) this week.

Finish the novel by Monday 01/27. You’ll have a quiz over the end on Monday. Bring books and all materials to class.

Tuesday 01/28:  Limbo day – Borg will be doing Accuplacer testing in the morning; some of you will be testing. One pager? Annotated bib work?

Wednesday 01/29-Friday 01/31: Watch the film version of 1984.

You can and should be drafting in the background. As you finalize whatever version of an annotated bib you’re using, start highlighting which quotes will be the center of your essay. If you pull from outside sources, make citations for those to add to your works cited page. Essays must include multiple sources. 

You can conference with Borger before / after school about papers. Papers will still be due Feb 07. Send drafts / ideas via email and engage each other in discussion on the D2L discussion board.

English 102: Week 3

REMINDER: DISCUSSION POSTS WHICH COUNT TOWARD PARTICIPATION POINTS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MADE BY NOON ON SUNDAY, 01/19/2020. DISCUSSION POSTS WILL BE LOCKED AFTER THAT TIME.

Monday: No school – Martin Luther King Day. Read about him if you don’t know much. His philosophies apply to those in 1984.

Tuesday: Quiz: Part 2 of 1984 & discussion. Read & annotate the Foucault Panopticon article / website by now too.

Some of you are sort-of-reading and stitching together a Frankensteined-collage of what the book is about; you won’t get the whole picture that way. You might have to go back and re-read parts that don’t make sense. Don’t rely exclusively on summaries to get you through (though use those as supplements to your understanding).

Wednesday: 1/2 day -PTC. Sign up for an extra-credit conference with Jennifer West in the office. Conferences are 10-15 minutes, they prep you for office hours with professors in college, and we’ll talk about the novel, the texts, how you’re doing, potential paper topics, etc. If you have less than an “A” – come to a conference for extra credit to discuss grades among other things.

Thursday & Friday: Continued discussion over the novel & texts. Continue working on annotated bibliographies in the background – I’ll check them Thurs or Fri before discussion. Add outside texts as you make your own connections – news stories in your own time, texts / movies you think connect to 1984, etc.

Friday: Journal #3 – check that the file name is correct, add word count under the date info on page 1, upload to D2L.

Grades

A quick reminder as I post grades in TeacherEase for English 102 in case you or your parental units have questions. Currently, there are only 40 total points in the books right now.
15 people = A’s
5 people   = B’s
4 people   = C’s
2 people   = D’s

• THERE ARE NO MINUS GRADES IN MY DUAL-CREDIT COURSES. While you might “show” an A- currently in TeacherEase, I manually override that at the end of the semester.
• The master gradebook is in D2L through JALC. I have a note in TeacherEase for parents should they want to know why you might have less than 100% at this point. Show them your grades in D2L if they have questions (check them yourself since I can see a LOT of you have not done so recently).
• If you earned 1/2 credit on something – it was because you submitted the work late. For example, the assignment to check D2L was graded by the end of the first day – you should’ve checked that by the end of 01/06 – not by the middle of the week at your convenience.  I grade as soon as work is due on activities like that.
• If you earned a “0,” the dropbox folder or discussion post closed in D2L and you were unable to submit work late.

Again, we only have 40/850 points right now which is less than 5% of the overall total for the course. No one should panic! But someone probably will.

• You know you can come to me too – some of you haven’t signed into D2L in over a week despite that being a constant requirement for the course. Also, I make mistakes.
• Start using Enrichment as time to log on to D2L if you’re not doing it regularly elsewhere.  Remember, I can see when you’ve logged in, what you’ve accessed, how long you’ve been in our virtual classroom, etc.
• College courses are more difficult for a reason.  Please have email me directly or have parental units email me if they have questions: lborger@jcindians.org

There’s no principal in college and college professors CANNOT talk to parents due to FERPA. 

English 102: Week 2

On Friday 01/10, Chelsea Qualls was here from JALC to help people one-on-one with scholarships at JALC. Start banking contacts and making them your friends. Borger won’t always be around to help: Chelsea.Qualls@jalc.edu

Meta-reflective journals for week 1 were due in D2L on Friday by 3:30 pm.

Here are the citations to use for your Annotated Bibliographies for 1984. Annotated bib drafts (over the novel) are due with your quiz on Monday over Part 1 and are part of your quiz grade. You can use annotated bibs on your quiz. 

Felluga, Dino. “Modules on Foucault: On Panoptic and Carceral Society.” Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. 01/31/2011. Purdue U. http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/newhistoricism/modules/foucaultcarceral.html. Accessed: 01/03/2020.

Orwell, George. 1984. Penguin, New York, 1961.

—. “The Principles of Newspeak.”  1949, pp. 1–7., Borger: Dual Credit, borgpubspeak.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/principles-of-newspeak.pdf. Accessed: 01/03/2020.

We’ll be engaging in graded seminar next week. Be prepared to discuss the book and “The Principles of Newspeak.”

• Monday: Quiz over Part 1″& drafts of annotated bibs on 1984 are due. You can use bibs on your quiz.
  • Complete the 5 Essentials Survey if you have not done so already
  • Student ID number is on the bottom of your Student ID & can be found in TeacherEase (or ask Borger for it)
• Tuesday – Wednesday: Work on annotated bibs and discussion posts in D2L
• Thursday – Friday: Discuss “The Principles of Newspeak”
• Friday – Sunday: Journal Entry 2– add to your previous text & include page numbers. Your prompt is to make a discussion post in D2L, comment on 1-2 peers’ posts, copy and paste that discussion into your journal and reflect on what folks wrote about in the discussion thread.
• Tuesday 01/21 – Quiz Part 2 1984

 

Welcome to English 102: Week 1

Week 1: English 102

LOGIN TO D2L TO SEE AN ALL-SEMESTER CALENDAR WITH DUE DATES FOR ASSIGNMENTS.

Read through your English 102 Syllabus: this is the contract by which you agree to operate & remain in this class.  An inability to upload an assignment over the weekend when you don’t have access to wifi will garner late deductions. Missing class means missing points. You won’t always be given time in class to complete your work – papers will have to be drafted and completed outside of class. As a college-level course, we will move at a college-level pace.

If you have not done so already, you should add a photo to your D2L profile. Click on the shadow-image icon at the top right of the page. Click on “Profile” and go from there.

If you did not already email Borger prior to the course beginning, do so from an email you check regularly – even if that is not an official ‘school’ email address. That was your first assignment for the course – she gave it at the end of last semester and only about 8 people followed through prior to or during break.  Put “English 102” in the subject line and follow the rules of sending email.

College courses are easier when you’re actually in college and only attending 3-4 classes a day vs. 8 classes a day. Taking a college-level course with a high school schedule is too difficult for some – I actually advise against it. There’s no shame in articulating your limits and adjusting accordingly.

If you want a more “high school” oriented English 4 class during the height of “Senioritis Season,” speak to the school counselor and get your schedule changed before the first week ends.

We will be reading through Part One of 1984 the first week of school. Quiz Monday 01/13.
Part Two of 1984 will be read by the second week of school. Quiz Tuesday 01/21.
Part Three of 1984 will be read by the third week, when you will start drafting your first multi-text analysis essay. Quiz Monday 01/27.

In addition, you’ll be expected to read, annotate, and summarize the following articles:

“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell

“The Principles of Newspeak” by George Orwell

“Modules on Foucault: On Panoptic and Carceral Society” by Dino Felluga

You will also be creating a type of annotated bibliography with these texts and composing entries for your meta-reflective final exam.

If you are not intrinsically self-motivated, organized, and able to multitask without the teacher constantly reminding you of due dates, do not take this course (no matter how much “fun” you perceive the teacher to be).