Not Good-bye, Just Smell Ya Later

Way to Go....ya'll, I mean youse, I mean...um....impetus! Welcome to college!



Last Class:

1. Questions about finals / collect portfolios
2. Finish movie / last discussion of OU
3. Costal finishes Six Flags story...a bit about writing
3A. the pledge
4. tearful good-byes from the class
5. class presents gifts for Costal and ballad they wrote about him
6. Class begs Costal not to go
7. Costal leaves anyway

The Pledge:

List three goals for the Fall (one academic, one social and one leadership/extracurricular)

For each goal, provide three steps for achieving each.

Provide one "reach goal." A reach goal is a goal that will take considerable risk and significant time and effort to achieve. It should be something that comes with great reward though the likliness of achieving it may be slight. This reach goal should be attained by you taking a risk.

How to Write a Goal Statement


Step 1: I will . . . .

Step 2: Clearly state your goal.

Step 3: List objectives and activities to reach goal.

Step 4: Specify date and timeliness to complete goals

Goal Statement:

I will lose weight.

New and improved goal statement:

I will lose 15 pounds by the end of the Fall semester.

Objectives and timeliness:

Begin a program of exercise by September 1, 2010.

* Walk/Jog 30 minutes a day @ 5 AM.

* Play tennis with Jordan every other Saturday.

* Go to the gym after class on Mondays and Wednesdays.

* Get back on the diet I had before EOF started (no more N Wing)

* Record food intake every day.
 
Now, make a promise to our class, something that you or others may worry about succumbing to. It can be simple (I promise that I will only play Xbox for an hour a day during the semester) or it can be complex and deep (I promise not to listen to the negative friends back at home).
 
After initial submissions...the last step, hold our Costal Class family to some promises. Don't call anyone out! These should not contain ANY negative aspect of the person, just something that holds them to something you know they want.
 
i.e.: DO NOT SAY: I will hold Costal to his promise to lose a few pounds, jeez.
 
SAY: I will call Costal this semester when I have time and see if he wants to go to the gym together.

Sums up Our Relationship

Some Peppy Inspiration

I listened to this song as I walked around campus this morning...eased my crabbiness (a bit)!

Finals! Finals! Finals!

Man, I am too soft...Portfolio assignment cut to 5!

HAVE NO FEAR, FRIENDS...the end is near!

Your Final:

-- OU...duh! Short answer questions about plot, character and theme
-- African nations we discussed placed on a map
-- Hacker disciplines (especially parallelism & sentence structure)

Portfolio:

You will complete two journals as we watch the film this week. That will make a grand total of 10. You must type, edit and hand in all your journals before the end of class. They should reflect your NEW writing abilities. Each one is a maximum of one page.

EOF Class #11, July 20, 2010

Lost Boys Journal #9: Chose one of the following

1. What did you learn about the boys’ culture, experiences, and values from the kinds of things they knew about life in the U.S. and the kinds of things they had to learn? Imagine that you had been sitting next to the boys on the flight to the U.S. and had an opportunity to get to know them a little bit. What kinds of things would you have had in common and what would have been the most significant differences?

2. How did it feel to hear elders admonish the boys before they left not to “act like those people who wear baggy jeans who do all the bad things in America”? Who do you think they meant and why might they have singled out that group?

3. At one point, Santino answers the question, “What stories will you tell the white people?” by saying, “I will tell them that I have left many friends here, friends I love very much, who have always stood by me.” Do you think Santino will have an opportunity to tell these stories? Why or why not?

ASSIGNMENTS:

MODULE: Rewrite of Essay #3 due to Ana by end of module.

READ: 1. OU to Chapter 21.

2. ASSIGNMENTS: Read Research Sections of Hacker, 383 - 405 & 476 - 511

Take a Breath...Get Lost in this for a few minutes

Puts what you have to do in perspective doesn't it?

EOF 10th Anniversary Class!!!!! Hoooray! July 19, 2010

WEEK 4: welcome to the WALL

MODULE: Peer edit, editting MUST be to the writer by end of module (done to the specifications we discussed)

WRITE: Revision of Essays #2 (optional for higher than a C+)

READ: OU Chapters 16 & 17

Horrifying

post from the NAACP...not to mention this Iowa billboard below.

EOF Class #9: July, July 15, 2010

You know what to do! Oh, and while you're at it, read OU through Chapter 15!

EOF Class #9, July 15, 2010

"When two elephants fight, it is the grass that will suffer most."