Harris/English 101Lesson Plan Class 7

17 tu / Revision: word choice. Sentence combining: coordination. Comma splices and run-on sentences. Discussion of movies. T / H10-H14
  1. call roll.
  2. discuss the movie. Call on several people to read their response papers.
  3. lecture on paper 2, the web site evaluation. Go over my work on the atomic tourism site.
  4. Show them my web site: nuclear.htm
  5. Give example of what paper 2 should do using the bureau of atomic tourism site:
  6. Tell what type of site it is: list of sites (each site contains description of the site, signed articles giving details of
  7. overview
  8. what you’ll see
  9. how to get there
  10. public tour dates and times
  11. related links
  12. Describe site contents
  13. atomic museums (14)
  14. sites of atomic explosions (7)
  15. related links (3)
  16. evaluate site
  17. currency: when was site last updated—sept. 2001
  18. author: no information found
  19. testimonials (optional): several reviews and web awards listed atop first screen (reviews don’t know who authors are either)
  20. broken links or graphics
  21. titan missile museum by The Center for Land Use Interpretation
  22. catalog of nuclear explosions
  23. high energy nuclear archive has new url
  1. answer questions on topic handout
  2. what attracted you to this site? The idea of playing tourist at an atomic site.
  3. How big is the site? Estimate number of pages. Approx 21 (one page per site listed links not included in count). If you choose a large site, you’ll need to focus on one or two specific parts of the site rather than trying to write about the whole site. Remember the size of your assignment.
  4. Is the site for/against/neutral about nukes? Neutral. How can you tell? No slanted language. Presentation is straightforward and objective.
  5. What is the most interesting, unusual, or bizarre piece of information on the site? The greenbrier link since it is somewhere I could drive to in a day to take the bunker tour and bikini atoll tour, where it is assumed that all visitors are scuba divers.
  6. How up to date is the site? See above.
  7. How reliable is the information presented on the site? Very. All these places exist.
  1. you’ll need to organize the information from your site into a logical pattern that you think will interest your audience.
  2. word choice: exercise 16-1/16-3. go over words, exactness, connotations, appropriateness.
  3. collect response papers 2, 3.
  4. introduce sentence combining: subordination.
  5. fragment quiz (done last).