Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we first worked on a fluency writing prompt that will also help me know how to help you on your Process Analysis essay. We then went through a student sample of a detailed outline and an annotated bibliography, and followed this up with an activity where we looked at references and information from sources and compiled an annotated bibliography entry in groups. We finished up the class with a vocabulary review game. The PowerPoint for today can be found here.

Homework:

• Detailed Outline and Annotated Bibliography (Draft 1) due on Monday, July 28th, by 5 pm on turnitin.com
• Have a fantastic weekend! Yes, this is homework. I expect you to have a good weekend. :)

Classwork and Homework Helps

Today in class we briefly talked about the importance of creating our own personal study space. We watched a BYU Library advertisement that was a parody of this advertisement. The main thing that we talked about today was how to complete the detailed outline and annotated bibliography, and we practiced paraphrasing and note taking to help us with those tasks. Here is the PowerPoint that was used today.

Homework:

• Draft your detailed outline for 20 minutes
• Create an annotated bibliography entry for a paraphrase summary you have done for this essay (use the information below to help you : 
• Author: Roger Sipher. 
• Title: So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To 
• Title of Print Source: The New York Times. 
• Date: December 19, 1977 
• Page: 31 
• Type: Print 
• You can use citationmachine.net or Google Scholar to create the citation, but I want it to look like the example in your pink packet when it is finished.

Example:
Lewis, M., & Coates, D. L. (1980). Mother-infant interaction and cognitive development in twelve-week-old infants. Infant behavior and development, 3, 95-105.

• Mother response to a baby is more important than stimulation from the mother. 
• Mother and child correspondence helps baby cognitively. 
• Stimulation was not shown to be a significant portion of cognitive development

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we talked about selecting a topic, conducting background information, and narrowing a topic of research. I also introduced the outline and annotated bibliography that you will need to do for your first draft (due July 28th), and the requirements for them as well. In addition, we also talked about how to create a good thesis statement for Integrated Essay prompts. The PowerPoint for today can be found here. (9:30 class, it is a little different than what was presented in your class, I had to revise it so it was more coherent. See, even teachers need to revise!!!)

Homework:

• Come up with at least 2 solid ideas for your process analysis essay (you might want to review the information in your book for help.)
• Determine if the ideas are directional or informational. 
• Study for your Vocabulary List 8 Quiz

Classwork and Homework

First today, we went over your homework assignment from yesterday, and reviewed the types of the Process Analysis Essay, particularly going over the two types of essays: directional and informational. The PowerPoint used today in in class can be found here. After reviewing the essay, watched a video about procrastination and how how to combat it while you are working on big projects. The worksheet mentioned in the video can be found here. Lastly, we talked about the homework and finished up with a review of definitions and words on Academic A Vocabulary Word List 8.

Homework: 

• Assignment #1 – Bookwork
• Read the example essay on pg. 212-213.
• Answer questions 1-7 (we’ll do 8-9 in class tomorrow). Write your answers. Miss Lutz will check that you did it.
• Spend 20 minutes on this assignment. Make sure you understand it well.

• Assignment #2 – Writing fluency
• Write 1 of the 2 following prompts for 20 minutes (time yourself).

• Prompt 1: Describe yourself as you hope to be in five years. Will you be attending an American university? How good will you be at English? Who will your family and friends be? Be as descriptive (detailed) as possible.

• Prompt 2 (TOEFL prompt): Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Integrated Writing Additional Practice and Homework

This Friday (7/18), you will be taking your second Integrated Writing test in the lab. This is your first integrated writing test that you will be graded on proficiency for. In order to prepare you, we are doing an additional integrated writing practice today.

Integrated Writing Additional Practice
Please follow these instructions:

• Please open this link in another tab/window--Online Timer. Set the timer for 20 minutes, but DO NOT START IT. Shrink the window so you will be able to see the timer while you are typing.

• Open the document in the IW Additional Practice folder (located in your student folder) called “IW Additonal Practice - Writing.” Please write your name and class time in the upper left hand corner.

• Open the document called “IW Notes and Planning Template” if you want to take notes electronically (optional).

• Open the document called "IW Additional Practice - Reading." DO NOT START READING UNTIL YOUR TEACHER TELLS YOU TO START.

• After reading, go back to the IW Additional Practice folder.  You will see a sound file titled  "IW Additional Practice - Listening." Please listen to it in the preview window OR Open with Quicktime. DON'T DOUBLE CLICK IT, it will open iTunes and will cause problems.

• After listening, go back to the document "IW Additional Practice - Writing." You may now start the Online Timer. YOU MUST START THE TIMER AS SOON AS YOU FINISHED THE LISTENING.  You have 20 minutes to plan and write your essay.

• When you are finished writing your essay, please select your text and write down the word count in the indicated space in the top left hand corner of the "IW Addtional Practice" document.

For the rest of the time, you may look at your feedback on the IW 2 that is available to you in your student folder, and should do this Integrated Writing Review (download it and save it in your student folder). Here is a link to the TOEFL rubric so you can understand the feedback given to you, as well as complete the exercise.

HOMEWORK: 

• Read pp. 206—209 
• Answer the following questions (type or write it and bring to class): 
• What are the two types of process-analysis essays? How are they similar? How are they different? 
• Which of the 7 steps do you think will be the hardest for you? Why? 
• Complete exercise 6, number 1 on page 210.

Classwork and Homework

Today in class we learned about strategies for responding to TOEFL prompts (30-minute essays and integrated writing). Specifically, we learned about the ABCDE pattern to follow, and then did group work to apply what we had just learned. The PowerPoint I used in class can be found here. In addition, the requirements for the final draft and the papers you will need to turn in on Friday are listed below:

• Essay Requirements:
• Full essay turned in to turnitin.com by 5pm on July 11th 
• Title Page (1 page)
• Main essay (at least 2 pages)
• References page (1 page)
• % AWL (highlighted) after the essay paragraphs (http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/)
• Correctly APA formatted 
• Free of plagiarism
• Required Papers to turn in:
• Tutor form (green paper)
• Essay Rubric (green paper)
• Peer Review (green paper)

Homework:

• Review the comments I gave you for Draft 2 
• Spend no more than 30 minutes revising/editing your paper

Today in class

Welcome to class, today we will be doing 3 things:

• Taking a quiz on Vocabulary List 6.
• Filling out our "Excellence Is" cards.
• Drafting and revising Draft 2.

1.  Please open http://m.socrative.com in another tab. Once you are there, it will ask you to put in a room number. The room number is: 978947. Wait until the teacher starts the assignment and you can begin. When you are finished, you can exit out of the window.

2.  I will give you back your "Excellence Is" draft and the final draft card. Please fill it out and give it back to me by the end of class today.

3.  You may now work on your essays. The second draft is due at 5 pm tomorrow (Friday) on turnitin.com.

Draft 2 Requirements (Homework for tomorrow):

• Length: 
• Must be at least 1 ½ pages long
• Introduction with thesis statement
• 3 organized and developed body paragraphs
• Conclusion
• APA: 
• Properly formatted (title page, font, reference page, etc.) Follow this EXACT format: APA ELC Paper Template
• In-text and Reference page citations, (mostly) properly formatted. 

Other Helps:

Example References (paragraphs):
Example paragraph July 4 with citations

Introducing references (signal phrases):
This is a GREAT worksheet that gives examples for signal phrases (e.g. “According to _____”, or “_____ explains…”): http://www.davidglensmith.com/wcjc/PDFs/signal-phrases.pdf

Citation Creator (reference page):
Here is a link to a website that can help you create citations: http://citationmachine.net/index2.php, but BE CAREFUL, they are not always correct, so you have to check them.

Classwork and Homework

Today in class we did a peer review, and reviewed writing good paragraphs as well as in-text citations. The PowerPoint for today can be found here. I am also posting the requirements for the 2nd draft of your classification essays, so you can access them:

• Must be at least 1 ½ pages long
• Introduction with thesis statement
• 3 organized and developed body paragraphs
• Conclusion
• APA
• Properly formatted (title page, font, reference page, etc.)
• In-text and Reference page citations, (mostly) properly formatted. 
• Submitted to Turnitin.com by 5pm on Friday

Homework:

• Study for your quiz on Vocabulary List 6 tomorrow
• Continue drafting and revising your essay 
• Use the feedback from our conferences and the peer review

Homework for today

I apologize for posting this so late, I just got done with writing conferences. But here is the homework anyways. 

Homework:

• Bring a printed copy of your essay  because we will be doing a peer review.
• Bring a draft of your “Excellence Is” quote 
• Spend time drafting and revising your essay

Classwork and Homework

Today we learned about the "Excellence Is" competition and we started brainstorming for our own "Excellence Is" quotes that we will turn in on Thursday in class. The examples are in the PowerPoint for today, if you need a reminder/refresher. The next part of class we reviewed APA References, In-text citations, and signal phrases, and played a game to keep the energy high with some competition. :) Lastly, we reviewed the importance of the revising stage of an essay, which is what we will be doing this week.

Homework:

• Spend at least 40 minutes total working on: 
• Your reference page (If you need help, here is an APA handout)
• Developing other body paragraphs in your essay 
• Your conclusion 
• Drafting your “Excellence Is” quote 
• Go to a tutor and get feedback on your essay (You can do it this week or next week, just go!).
• Bring a printed copy of your essay on Wednesday, because we will be doing a peer review.

THERE IS NO JOURNAL THIS WEEK! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Classwork & Homework

Today we finished our presentations and took our Vocabulary List 5 quiz. For the remainder of the class, you can work on revising your essays.

The requirements for Draft 1 are:

• Be at least 1 page in length.
• Have an introduction
• Have at least 1 developed body paragraph
• Have all topic sentences (in short, less developed paragraphs [2-3 sentences])
• APA Requirements
• A reference page (you don't need to have the references perfect yet)
• At least 1 paragraph with in-text citations

Homework:

• Sign up for Writing Conferences next week!
• "The Real Thing" body paragraph breakdown (purple worksheet) DUE TODAY by 5 pm.
• Draft 1 DUE TOMORROW by 5 pm
• Journal DUE TOMORROW by noon

Classwork and Homework

For class today, we first talked about the different types of feedback that you can expect at the ELC. The feedback that I give you on your drafts is formative. We also reviewed citing sources in APA, and talked about both in-text citations and reference page citations. Next we talked about the differences between details/examples and commentary. Lastly, we broke into groups so that we could prepare brief presentations on good paragraph writing that will be presented tomorrow (make sure you know what you're doing!). The PowerPoint we used in class can be found here.

Homework:

• Complete your last page in your purple packet, “The Real Thing.” This is due by 5 pm tomorrow.
• You must have it all filled out, if you’re missing some commentary, write some more commentary, if you’re missing a detail, add a detail.
• Draft 1 is due by 5 pm on Friday.
• Journal is due by noon on Friday.

Classwork and Homework

Today we reviewed introductions and peer reviewed each other's papers using the principles that we learned yesterday. In addition to that, we reviewed how integrated writing is scored on the TOEFL (I will be giving you a score and feedback for the second integrated writing practice [the in-class one] by the end of this week). Lastly, we talked about how to improve our thesis statements and write topic sentences (the PowerPoint from class can be found here), and had some time in the lab to work on the thesis statements and topic sentences.

Homework: 

• Spend at least 40 minutes working on drafting your essay. You should have the following completed by tomorrow:
• A revised thesis statement 
• All of your topic sentences 
• 1 full body paragraph for your essay 
• This can be handwritten or typed. 
• You can print it out OR email it to me before class time.

Reminder! Please bring your Commentary in Main Paragraphs Packet with you tomorrow (purple)! If you have lost your packet, you can download and print one here.

Classwork and Homework

For class today, we  first looked at styles of learning and took an quick inventory on what learning style we have: visual, auditory, or kinetic. For the rest of class, we went through two types of common introductions used in academic papers, the "funnel" and the "turnabout." The PowerPoint we used in class can be found here.

Homework:

• Check the feedback that I will have for you on your outline on turnitin.com
• Read it, and start thinking about how you will write your 1st draft
• Bring a “working” introduction to class (3-5 sentences long)
• It can be handwritten or typed, just bring it to class tomorrow so it can be used in an activity.

Classwork and Homework

Today in class we took a review quiz on Academic Word List 4. We also reviewed our topics and went through how to create our thesis statements and outlines for our classification essays. We went through the green packet and identified or brainstormed about the principle of classification as well as the categories for each of our essays. Here is the PowerPoint from today. Below are links to help you with your outline writing.

• Classification Essay Outline Requirements - This is the green handout from class today that you used to brainstorm for the final outline that you will turn in tomorrow
• Student Outline Example - This is an old student's outline I showed you in class today. Her essay was on different types of technology. 
• Classification Outline Template - This is the document that you can use for your own outline. Remember to fill it out all of the way, and put your reference links at the end!

Homework:

• Classification Outline is due tomorrow (Friday) by 5 pm on turnitin.com

QuID Survey & Classwork & Homework

Hello! For the first part of class, you need to click on the link below to take the QuID survey. This survey is designed for you to give me feedback about my class and teaching. It is completely anonymous, so you may feel comfortable giving as much or as little feedback as you wish.

QuID Survey: https://byu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eaqDysIaF5Xtsup

For the remainder of the class period, you will be working on finding information for your classification essay topic. Please download the document below and save it to the desktop as "classification-essay-planning-day-1-Your Name." You can then move it to your student folder or save it to your email after it is saved on the desktop. You will need to bring this to class tomorrow completed!

Classification Essay Planning - Day 1

If you have time, you can review Academic Vocabulary List 4. For the quiz tomorrow, you should review definitions, collocates, and synonyms of the words. I will be giving you questions like you will see on your midterm.

Academic Word List 4 Definitions

Academic Word List 4 Word Associations (synonyms)

Homework:

• If you need to, finish your Essay Planning (Due tomorrow in class)
• Bring your essay topic to tell me at the beginning of class tomorrow.
• Study Academic Vocabulary List 4 for the quiz tomorrow 
• Journal Week 5 (Due Friday at noon)

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we reviewed how to classify and distinguish the principle of classification as we went over our homework from yesterday. We also applied these principles to our own ideas for our essays by filling out a chart in our green packets. For the remainder of the class, we wrote paragraphs in groups using words from Academic A Vocabulary List 4. The PowerPoint for today can be found here. Please meet in the lab (Rows 3-4) for class tomorrow.

Homework:

• Read essay on pg. 187-189, “Kinds of Consumers”
• Answer questions 1-6
• Finish the chart on the back of the "Classification Planning and Information" section in your green packet (pg. 6).

Classwork and Homework

In class today, we talked about motivation and demotivation and how they can affect your language learning (If you want to look at more funny Demotivators like we saw in class, you can go here). Remember that you are in charge of your motivation and how you deal with it. You are the masters of what is important to you, and how you prioritize your life. Here is the PowerPoint that we looked at today in class.

Homework:

• Read p. 183-185, and do Exercise 3 & 4 (Due tomorrow)
• Start thinking about your topic
• What do you want to write about?
• Look at your brainstorming
• Journal Week 5

Lab Day

Here are documents for class today:

• Compare Constrast Final Instructions

Extra help:

• Example APA format: APA Paper Template
• Sample A+ paper: The Most Effective Economic System
• References Sheet (green paper from class): APA Quick Reference

If you finish your revisions early, you may work on your journal, or study academic words on Quizlet for Academic A Vocabulary List 4.

Homework:

• Journal (due Friday by noon)
• Turn in rubric, Peer Review (for your paper), and tutor form to by box in 103 on FRIDAY by 5 pm
• FINAL DRAFT due Friday by 5pm on turnitin.com

Class Today and Homework

For class today, we reviewed conclusions and specifically talked about what makes a conclusion weak or logical. Remember that a conclusion must:

• Restate the main points (subtopics) discussed in the essay. The restatement must be brief (short) because you have already discussed them.
• Restate (or rephrase) the thesis statement in different words. When you restate the thesis shows how important it is to the essay.
• NOT introduce a new topic.

(Smalley, Ruetten, & Kozyrev, 2012, p. 115, adapted)

Then we worked in groups developing paragraphs with the Academic A Vocabulary list. We also learned how to check the academic words in our essays using the LexTutor website.

Homework:
For tonight: Take the text of your latest draft (Draft 2) and put it into the AWL checker

1. Go to http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng. 
2. Copy the title and text of your essay (not your title page or reference page).
3. Paste the text into the box, and click submit.
4. The academic words are in the yellow.
5. Write down the percentage, and bring it to class tomorrow.

Other Homework:

• Writing Conference! (Come and see me and get feedback and a lollipop!)
• Go see a tutor to help you with your paper
• Journal (due Friday by noon)
• Turn in rubric, Peer Review (for your paper), and tutor form to by box in 103 on FRIDAY by 5 pm
• FINAL DRAFT due Friday by 5pm on turnitin.com