Harris/English 101Lesson Plan Class 8

18 w / Comma splice/run-on lecture and exercise 1. Documentation. Fragment quiz. Word choice exercises. T / Ch. 14, 32
  1. call roll.
  2. reminders for paper 2, the web site evaluation. Rough drafts are due tomorrow night (june 19). Remember that rough does not necessarily mean complete. Here is a review of the content.
  3. Tell what type of site it is: list of sites (each site contains description of the site, signed articles giving details of
  4. overview
  5. what you’ll see
  6. how to get there
  7. public tour dates and times
  8. related links
  9. Describe site contents
  10. atomic museums (14)
  11. sites of atomic explosions (7)
  12. related links (3)
  13. evaluate site
  14. currency: when was site last updated—sept. 2001
  15. author: no information found
  16. broken links or graphics
  17. answer questions on topic handout
  18. what attracted you to this site? The idea of playing tourist at an atomic site.
  19. 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.
  20. Is the site for/against/neutral about nukes? Neutral. How can you tell? No slanted language. Presentation is straightforward and objective.
  21. 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.
  22. How up to date is the site? See above.
  23. How reliable is the information presented on the site? Very. All these places exist.
  24. you’ll need to organize the information from your site into a logical pattern that you think will interest your audience.
  25. word choice: exercise 16-1/16-3. go over words, exactness, connotations, appropriateness. It’s important that your choices be consistent. For instance, if you’ve decided on a sarcastic tone, then you want to make sure that all your words fit that tone. Non sexist language.
  26. Appropriateness. Decide on what kind of attitude you have toward your topic, and choose a tone to match that attitude. If you don’t have a specific attitude, then your paper should have an objective tone; you’ll need to avoid words that have a slant to their meaning. For instance, you would refer to the cops as police. Do exercise 16-1, nos. 2 and 3.
  27. Avoid using jargon. Jargon is the specialized language within a paraticular field and is appropriate when addressing members of that field. When writing for people outside that field, however, jargon is inappropriate because your audience won’t know what the words you’re using mean. Do exercise 16-2, all.
  28. Euphemisms. These are pleasant sounding terms that we all use because more realistic terms are harsh. For example, you’re out having dinner with your parents in an expensive restaurant in the Inner Harbor like Pisces. Halfway through the meal, do you lean across the table and say to your parents, “Please excuse me; I’ve got to go take a shit.” Of course you don’t; what you do instead is produce a euphemism like go powder my nose. The three areas that probably have the largest numbers of euphemisms are sex, death, and excretion, but politics is moving up fast with its euphemisms. People are disadvantaged rather than poor and live in the inner city instead of in ghettos.
  29. fragment quiz (done last).