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Calendar for Spring 2011 Baruch College-Now Program
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February 2011
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3 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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8 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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10 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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17 Session 5#3 Personal writing- |
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22 Winter Break |
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24 Winter Break |
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March 2011 |
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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.
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10 Session 9 Developing a Short Story#1
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15 Session 10
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17 Session 11
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22 Session 12
Creative Writing Rubric & Presentation
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7 Session 17 Next James Joyce? 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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12 Session 18 Picture This #1 Activity 1: Self-Knowledge 1.Reciprocal Interviews 2. Create a symbolic portrait of your partner in writing based on the information from your interview. 3. Reflect: Did you learn anything new about yourself? Activity 2- 1. Group read photos. Imagine the story of this picture and tell it in writing. Pick a setting. Narrate the image from the outside, as the photographer, or a person in the photo or onlooker. 2. Share stories and reactions evoked by the image.
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14 Session 19 Picture This#2 Activity 1- Describe a future image in writing. Imagine your future and tell about it by framing a visual scene and describing it in writing. Describe yourself as a sophomore or junior in college; give the reader insight into the character and everyday reality of who that person will be. Activity 2: Taking symbolic photos
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19 Spring break |
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21 Spring Break |
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28 Session 20 (End of the 2nd Marking Period) Picture This#3 1.Publication of Identity Rumle is due. 2. Symbolic portrait ( photo) and written descriptions are due. 3. Share our work- gallery walk and reflection Introduction to the Identity Research paper
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3 Session 21 Agenda- 1. Share in class the Identity Rumble project
2. 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 Research paper Checklist
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12 Session 24 Research Paper Revision Workshop |
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Session #26 Independent Reserach Paper#6 Research Paper Due Portfolio Contents |
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2 Session 27 (Last Class) Final Portfolio Due Portfolio Contents 1. Cover page |
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