Assigned: August 28, 2017

NAME: ______

English 1B– Fall 2017- Douglass

Track It Packet #1

Activities for Weekly Attendance Weeks 1-3

Turn in completed packet at beginning of week 4:

Monday, September 18

(This packet is worth the equivalent of three weeks of attendance participation in the lab)

The Purpose

To illustrate your use of the Writing and Reading Center as well as your ability to self-assess some of your grammar and writing needs and make use of the resources available to you.

Most of these activities will use all or a fairly sizable portion, but will not always use ALL of your weekly hour. Any remaining time in the WRC should be used working on coursework using resources in the lab, in particular THE PEOPLE. Whenever possible, use remaining time to meet with an instructor or tutor to go over an aspect of your writing that you think some advice could benefit – or plan ahead and make a tutoring appointment.

For weeks 1-3 in particular, it is important that you attend weekly, but it is okay on this first track-it packet if you need to combine and overlap some of the assignments across the first three weeks because you are a student who added in the first week, or you have a Monday WRC hour that was affected by the holiday, or you have a lab time before our first class session and you didn’t go.

DLAs, worksheets, confirmation slips, etc. should be stapled to the back of this sheet in the order they are assigned.

Date / Activity / Inst./Tutor signature required when there is a line to sign on; otherwise, only if you have questions and then just have the instructor sign in the box or on DLA.
Week 1:
DLA: Orientation activity
Week 2: There is a Monday holiday this week; Monday students will be excused from attendance, but not the DLA – please complete the DLA during week 1 or 3 along with the other DLAs – plan ahead your workload.
All students enrolled from the first day of the semester should have at least one hour (minimum of .84 in WebAdvisor) by Wednesday, September 6. If you do not, I will be contacting you via email (or in class during attendance) to make arrangements to complete your census requirement or let you know that I will be dropping you.
Week 2 activity / DLA: Critical Thinking: B. Figurative Language, Sound, and Sentence section: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, & Stanza
Week 3:
Guided Research for Your Author Presentation:
Note: Take careful notes and remember that you must source all non-common knowledge info or quotes or your presentation will have plagiarized elements.
  1. Use google.com or some other reliable search engine and do a search on your author. (YOU MAY NOT USE WIKIPEDIA.)
  1. You might also try the website poets.org.
  1. Who is your author?
  1. Find three reputable websites that provide biographical info on your author. List the website names here.
  1. Take notes and summarize here (and on another attached sheet if necessary) what you learned about your author that you might want to remember when you consider your literary piece and put together your presentation.

Do Saturday or Sunday or 24 hours after your last lab visit:
Go into WebAdvisor and look up your lab attendance for WRC-LAB.
Print out and attach the sheet showing your lab hours attendance to date.