Thurs, 4/10

Discussion of the reading and the summary projects

Topic Assignment
Read "Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million" by Bill McKibben (online only)
Read "Back to Nature" by Gary Snyder in The Mercury Reader

• Round Two: Midterm Corrections (see Corrections Round Two Instructions)
• Revision Plan
• Read "The Place Where I Was Born" by Alice Walker in The Mercury Reader
• Read "The Monkey Garden" by Sandra Cisneros in The Mercury Reader
• Make sure you can access your midterm essay by email or disk in Cyberia

• Read "Touching the Earth" by bell hooks (If you weren't in class, stop by my office and take one of these handouts out of the envelope taped to my office door.)
  There are two lines on page 105 of the handout that are obscured. They should read as follows: "buy them? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect..."
• Read the prologue (xi-xv) and pages 1-35 of The Legacy of Luna
• Come prepared for a quiz that includes questions on the readings from the last three classes.

• Choose the article or articles (maximum of two) you are going to summarize. The article must be at least 4,000 words or--if a photocopy--8 full printed pages long. Alternately, you can choose two articles that total at least 4,000 words or 8 full printed pages. Submit a printed copy of your article or articles for homework credit.
• Visit the webpage that describes the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Do some reading to acquaint yourself with the organization's goals and methods. Write down two questions for our guest speaker related to environmentalism or global warming.
• Read pages 36-115 of The Legacy of Luna

Legacy of Luna Discussion

• Summary Outline (Use the Outline Worksheet if you like)
• Read pages 116-184 of The Legacy of Luna

Read pages 185-258 of The Legacy of Luna

Round One: Revision Corrections (if needed--see email)

Final Draft of Summary Paper. Must include the following in a folder:
--A blank grade sheet
--Final draft
--Rough draft with peer comments and peer grade sheets (or aWriting Lab stamp, if you didn't have a draft for review day)
--Outline
--A works cited page
--A copy of the article or articles summarized.

1) Complete any corrections needed to bring your total up to three.

2) Optional: A "grammar version" of your final draft of the summary. This is your chance to spend enough time on the grammar as well as the content. Proofread for all grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. I will grade the original final draft you turned in on Thursday, 5/8 for content. I will grade the grammar version for grammar. If you do not turn a grammar version in, I will simply grade your original final draft for grammar.

3) Required: A summary essay cover letter which discusses the strategies you used to find and fix your grammar errors. How successful were the strategies? What do you want to try in order to improve your grammar in the future? (You must turn this cover letter in for your summary essay to be graded).

4) At least one full page of notes on the final exam topic. If you have a particular approach to the first steps in the writing process, use that.  Otherwise, here is my suggestion: Make a brainstorm list of elements of logos, pathos, and ethos in The Legacy of Luna.  See how many you can come up with in each category.  For each element, write some notes about the effect Julia Butterfly Hill wanted to have and whether or not you responded as she would have wanted.  Choose whether you will focus on logos, pathos, ethos, or all three.  Then find and type up at least four quotations or paraphrases you can use in your essay.

• Outline
• Fill out the feedback form (This is anonymous, but I will ask you to fold it and put it in my feedback envelope for homework credit)
• All extra credit for the semester

Bring your outline and notes (no drafts and no notes with more than one sentence in a row that you use in the paper).

If you would like detailed feedback on either your research paper or your final exam, bring a self-addressed envelope with at least two stamps on it. Otherwise, I will have the graded essays available for you to pick up in August.