Brooks Education

NO CLASS MONDAY!
Final class will be held at the teacher’s home on WEDNESDAY May 23rd
Directions are below.
Bring food from your country to share. Poultry (chicken/duck) and fish are allowed, but no red meat (beef/pork/lamb).

Deborah Brooks
2890 Morgan Ave, Oakland 94602
if lost, call 510-541-2811

DIRECTIONS PART ONE (to Coolidge)

From 580 E/S  Fruitvale Exit, straight ahead to Coolidge
From 580 W/N  Coolidge Exit, rt onto Coolidge
From 13 Lincoln exit, down to Carmel
From bus 46, 57, N get off Coolidge/MacArthur
From Fruitvale BART, bus 54, get off Wisconsin

DIRECTIONS – LAST BLOCK

From Coolidge, jog left after one block of Morgan (left on Barner and immediately right on Morgan again).  Don’t go in culdesac. I’m in the second house on second block of Morgan.  My neighbor has an ugly orange truck in front of my house.  Call if you get lost.  See Google Maps:  http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=cl

Wednesday May 23^th, 6pm
Bring food to share.  Poultry (chicken/duck) and fish are allowed, but no red meat (beef/pork/lamb).

I made the link un-editable, but you should be able to still view it.  Your homework for Monday is to finish the SVO and nouns worksheet (marking my report), and create your 4 quote cards for the final exam.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJ82wi8KscntoN5Y5oZYuepQ4M5e1AYwWk6y7qmDkWo/edit

The Homework for May 7th will be Journals 12 & 13 together:  One essay about two articles.  We’ll call it Journal 12.

Your homework for May 9th is to choose your favorite quote from each of the three articles we read for Journals 11-12-13.  We will work on creating the quote cards for your final exam.

The third draft of your essay is due on Wednesday.  You should have 5 paragraphs, at least two quotes (one from Joseph Campbell from our textbook, and one from an outside source).  You should have a cover page, page numbers, your name and title in the top right corner.  Bring it to class and I will give you a chance to work on the grammar before I collect it.

I need to see your first draft by Saturday or it will be counted as not having been done.
Your second draft needs introductions and conclusions on all the paragraphs and should be brought on paper to class on Monday.

The first draft can be a new essay or just the introduction and conclusion since you’ve already written the center part.

Your homework for Monday 4/16 depends on whether you already did an outside article as part of the three essays.  If you did, you’ve already done the task of Journal #10.  Just work on your thesis.  If you didn’t, if you only wrote from your ideas for the three essays, then please look up an article about your hero from literature or history and write one paragraph about that article.

Your homework for Wednesday 4/11 was to make those three freewrites into 3-5 paragraph essays.  Just 2/3-3/4 of a page is good.  Three short essays, less than a page each.

Thesis:  What do your heroes/role models/respected people have in common? or Why is it important to have a hero/role model?  or What are important values to share with others/our children?  or Is it possible to save the world?  Find the umbrella idea that holds your three hero stories together.

1.  Your hero from history.  A non-living or very old person who actually lived.  This can be from your country or from anywhere in the world.

2. Your hero from fiction.  This person never really lived.  They are a character in a book, in cultural mythology, in a TV show, etc.

3.  Your hero from your life.  This is a person you have known and learned from in your life.  They can be alive or dead now.

There are no classes this week at Laney, Merritt, Alameda or BCC (all of the Peralta Colleges).  Come back to class next Monday, April 9th.

Your homework is Journal #9 on heroes.
I am starting to grade your midterms and hope to get those posted by midweek.  The link to the grades is:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsnTjEWshxbSdHBuTHY4d1dZdUgzLU90UWg1Z3hkYWc

If you haven’t gotten all your poetry to me, please do so.

To prepare for your midterm exam:

You will have a question.
Your thesis will probably be the answer to that question
You will write an outline and then a 5 paragraph essay THAT MATCHES THE OUTLINE

I will give you two quotes.
one will be from a book and one will be from the internet.  You will need to cite them correctly in text and at the end.

You will encorporate the two quotes into your essay.
One is a definition, which will probably go into the introduction paragraph.
The other is a quote about the topic which you can work into your subtopics however you like.

On the back of the test is a grammar test.  It will cover singular-plural, parts of speech, passive voice, and fragments/runons.

You will have from 6-8pm to finish this exam.

You may use a book dictionary, an electronic dictionary without internet, a phone/ipad in airplane mode.  You may not use the internet.  You may write on paper or on a computer, but if you use a computer, I will disable spellcheck and the internet.

You will not be able to share a dictionary.  Bring your own.

The handouts Whatif and Haiku are now under Writing 6 class documents above.

Your homework for Monday 3/16 was to rewrite the central 10 rhyming couplets from the Shel Silverstein poem.  Copy the first four lines and the last two lines, but replace all the rhyming couplets with your worries – what do you fret about in the night?  I will read some of them out loud, but I don’t have to read yours out loud if it’s very private.  I will collect them.  Let me know if it’s all right to publish yours on this website.

Your homework for Wednesday is to write 2 Haiku (they can be about nature, about the place where you grew up, or about Writing 6 class).  Each Haiku poem has 3 lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 syllables in the third.  (5-7-5)

You will also write one “open verse” based on the metaphor “Life is a Road.”  It should be 4-6 lines long, written in separate lines.  If your life is a road, what does that road look like?  smooth? bumpy?  up steep hills?  around scary curves?  wide and easy driving?  are you in the fast lane?  the slow lane?  stuck on the shoulder with a flat tire?  at an intersection?  what direction did you choose at the last intersection you came to?

Your grades are now posted at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsnTjEWshxbSdEdHMXh0OWpMWFZiLVBhT0tTRVpPUEE
I did not finish all of them, as you will see, but I finished all of those on paper so I can return them.  The ones online I will try to get back to you with comments by Thursday.

Essay # 2′s structure is now under Writing 6 Class Documents above.  The first draft is due on Wednesday 3/14.

Your homework for Monday 3/12 was two more readings:  pg 94-100  “A Bank for the Down and Out,” and pg 101-109 “Developing Countries.”  Please write ONE journal response relating to the issues in those two articles.  Remember to CITE sources in text and at the end.

On Monday I collected Journal #6 on Poverty.  For Wednesday, you DO NOT HAVE A JOURNAL.  Your homework for Wednesday is to write the outline for your next essay.

The Essay Question for Essay #2 is:  Are weathier/more developed/”first world” countries RESPONSIBLE for poverty in other countries?

Your Thesis is the ANSWER to that question.  Or your main idea.
You only need two subtopics (2 examples, 2 parts, or 2 reasons)

The basic grades for the Essay are posted.  I’ve also posted a detail sheet on how I arrived at those grades called Essay 1 Rubric (see down the right side by “Grades”).