EPortfolio Deposit

The college needs you to deposit one of your assignments in ePortfolio to collect data about the courses. this is meant to evaluate the courses (not you or me). Please deposit  essay 4 as soon as possible by following the directions at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lWHePkj1tmBcZgZ_47AJjAtPjXam7rti/view?usp=sharing

Final Grade Conferences TODAY 12/14 @2:15 in room B203

Reminder :

Final Grade Conferences TODAY 12/14 @2:15 in room B203

Essay 5 in-class revision tomorrow @2:15 in room B203

Reminder :

Essay 5 in-class revision tomorrow @2:15 in room B203

Also, if you did not revise Essay 2, bring in your first drafts, which I marked. I need them for records.
I already have Essay 2 revisions from:
Inderjit
Eric
Amber
Zuriel
Oladayo
Hilbert
Samantha
Jahzeel
Md
Angie
Imani

IF YOUR NAME IS NOT ON THIS LIST AND YOU WROTE ESSAY 2 AND GOT IT BACK FROM ME, IT MEANS YOU DID NOT SUBMT A REVISION, SO I NEED YOU TO BRING IN DRAFT 1 OF ESSAY 2 IN FOR RECORDS.

See you all tomorrow

- Miguel

ESSAY 5

2 hours in-class
Must be emailed to mmoli636@gmail.com by NO LATER than 4:15pm

Choose from one of the two options below.

Regardless of which option you pick, YOUR FINAL ESSAY MUST:  

Be at least 600 words in length and include an intro with a clear thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion.

Be well-organized and developed with supporting details and evidence to back up your claims.

Be proofread for grammar, sentence and other language errors.

Include references to the Caotes article OR Food, Inc. If you use any other sources, then you must include a works cited page. If you only use the article or the film, a works cited page is NOT required, but you still need signal phrases and in-text citations.

Include signal Phrases for quotes and paraphrases (FOR EXAMPLE: According to ….. or So-and-so writes, …..) and in-text citations for ANY information you got from the article and/or films that is NOT yours!

NOT be a summary of the article and/or the films, but rather, a presentation of YOUR ARGUMENT and YOUR THINKING. Do not use any sources excessively.

Be in the Proper MLA Format as well as  Double spaced with 1 inch margins and in Times New Roman 12 point font

Be original and not plagiarized.

OPTION 1
In his documentary film Food, Inc. Robert Kenner exposes the many hazards the corporate food industry does not want us to be aware of. Many of these issues can be resolved with more regulations. Write an argumentative essay of at least 600 words (shoot for more), arguing for more regulation of the food industry. 

You may choose to focus the entire essay on one food industry problem, its causes, its consequences and how to solve it through regulation OR each paragraph can discuss a different food industry problem, its causes, its consequences and how to solve it through regulation. 

OPTION 2
In his essay "The First White President," Ta-Nahesi Coates writes,

Trump truly is something new—the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.

Write a argumentative essay of at least 600 words responding to the claims Coates makes in his essay.  Is the election and presidency of Donald Trump evidence of a white supremacist backlash against the Obama legacy?

CLASS TODAY 12-7-17 MEETS IN B203

CLASS TODAY 12-7-17 MEETS IN B203

12-5-17 room change

CLASS TODAY MEETS IN B202 (classroom next to the computer lab)

READ AND PRINT THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FOR CLASS ON TUESDAY 12/5

READ AND PRINT THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FOR CLASS ON TUESDAY 12/5

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wGYnBKXKscwsxLQWbyNwKHVdOnIWTIuL/view?usp=sharing

Class today 11-30 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

Class today 11-30 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

Class today 11-28 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

Class today 11-28 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

B-203 CLASSWORK 11-21

Open up your emails; I have sent you back Essay 3 with Comments. You probably have to open up the document on Word to view the comments (unless I sent you  a PDF scan of my handwritten comments, which I did for 2 of you). During class today work on either revising Essay 3 or keep working on Essay 4.

Both Essay 3 revision and Essay 4 are due in class on Tuesday 11-30

Class meets in B203 today 11-21-17

Class meets in B203 today 11-21-17

ESSAY 4 DUE DATE CHANGE

ESSAY 4 now due in class TUESDAY 11-28

CLASSWORK 11-16

BRAINSTORMING FOR ESSAY 4

Take 30 minutes and give us your THESIS and at least 3 TOPIC SENTENCES for Essay 4 and post them below as a comment for us all to review. You may have to sign in to a Google account to post a comment. Make sure you write down your name in the comment so we know who you are. Post at least 4 full sentences (your thesis statement and at least 3 reasons/ points to support your thesis statement). Type your work on WORD first then paste it to the comment section on the blog post.

1. THESIS (What is YOUR position on charter schools?)  WRITE A CLEAR THESIS STATEMENT

 2. State TOPIC SENTENCE 1:

3. State TOPIC SENTENCE 2:

  4.  State TOPIC SENTENCE 3:

5. State TOPIC SENTENCE 4 (if you plan on having 4 body paragraphs)

Class meets in B203 today 11-16-17

Class meets in B203 today 11-16-17

ANTI-CHARTER PAMPHLET

https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/2012truthaboutcharters.pdf

Class today 11-9 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

Class today 11-9 Meets in our regular E-150 classroom

Essay 4 Assignment ENG 101 

Instructor: Miguel Molina

We have spent a considerable amount of time discussing texts that grapple with problems in our public education system, particularly the achievement gap between low income students of color and middle class white students. In the article, “Profoundly Multicultural Questions” Sonia Nieto argues that this gap is the product of funding inequities along racial and class lines, resulting in the children who need the most resources actually getting the fewest. The documentary Waiting for "Superman" presents charter schools as a solution to these problems while many other public school educators and reformers argue against what they perceive as the corporotization of public schools through charters.

Where do you stand in all this? Write an argumentative essay in response to the following prompt:

Should our federal, state and local governments fund the creation of more charter schools? Are they an effective and equitable way to narrow the achievement gap?

Feel free to use our class blog articles, the films, books and reference sources for background info (including Wikipedia) and do include them in your Works Cited, but these sources will not count towards the 4 minimum, which should be from databases like Lexis-Nexis, Academic Search and Opposing Viewpoints.

YOUR ESSAY MUST:

Be submitted in class on Tuesday November 21st.

Be at least 1000 words in length.

Include an intro with a clear thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. More than 3 body paragraphs is perfectly OK.

Be well-organized and developed with supporting details, using the techniques and types of evidence we have discussed in class.

Be proofread for grammar, sentence and other language errors.

Include references (quotes and/or paraphrases) to at least 4 sources obtained via the library’s databases. The blog articles, the films, books and/ or reference articles are allowed but DO NOT count towards the 4 minimum. 

NOT be a summary of your sources, but rather, a presentation of YOUR ARGUMENT and YOUR THINKING with support from the sources. Do not use any sources excessively.

Be in the Proper Format (consult the syllabus) --- DOUBLE SPACED!

Include a proper heading and title. NO COVER PAGES or IMAGES.

Be in correct MLA format, including in-text citations and a Works Cited Page.

Be ORIGINAL and NOT plagiarized.

Class meets in B202 today 11-7-17

ACHIEVEMENT GAP READINGS

1. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec02/vol60/num04/Profoundly-Multicultural-Questions.aspx

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/economy/education-gap-between-rich-and-poor-is-growing-wider.html

ROOM CHANGE 11/2

CLASS MEETS IN B-203 TODAY 11/2

(Sorry. I know I said not to come to B203, but I didn't think the room would be available) 

ROOM CHANGE 10/31

CLASS ON 10/31 MEETS IN ROOM B-203 to write ESSAY 3.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We will not write Essay 3 in class on 10/26. Instead, we will meet at 2;15 in room B203 and use the computers to find sources using the library databases. We will write Essay 3 the following week on either 10/31 or 11/2.

ESSAY 3 assignment

WE WILL WRITE THIS ESSAY IN CLASS ON 10/26. DO NOT START WRITING THE ESSAY AT HOME. You may, however, start brainstorming and outlining for it and you should ABSOLUTELY BEGIN DOING RESEARCH for it at home. On Tuesday 10/24, a librarian will introduce you to the library databases. 

In the documentary film The Central Park Five we are told the story of the arrest, trial and conviction of five black and Hispanic teenagers in New York City in the late 80s for crimes they did not commit. Do more independent research on the Central Park jogger case and write an argumentative essay in response to one of these three prompts :

1. How is the Central Park jogger case exemplary of systemic oppression of people of color? How does it fit the patterns of social control described by Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow? Make sure that your discussion is not just limited to the NYPD, but to the role of prosecutors and defense lawyers as well.

2. Examine media coverage of the Central Park jogger case. What role did sensationalist media coverage play in the fate of the Central Park Five? Make sure that your discussion is not just limited to their arrest, trial and conviction, but to coverage of their exoneration as well.

3.At the end of the film, historian Craig Steven Wilder says, "I want us to remember what happened that day and be horrified by ourselves because it really is a mirror on our society. And rather than tying it up in a bow and thinking that there was something that we can take away from it, and we’ll be better people, I think what we really need to realize is that we’re not very good people. And we’re often not." How is the story of the Central Park Five a mirror on our society? What does it say about us, the public at large? To what extent are we responsible for what happened to The Five?

YOUR ESSAY MUST

Be at least 700 words in length.

Include an intro with a clear thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. More than 3 body paragraphs is perfectly OK.

Be well-organized and developed with supporting details, using the techniques and types of evidence we have discussed in class.

Be proofread for grammar, sentence and other language errors.

Include references (quotes and/or paraphrases) to the film and at least 4 sources obtained on your own using the library databeses. The New Jim Crow, 13th, Central Park Five and articles on the FREE WEB are allowed and encouraged but DO NOT count towards the 4 minimum, which must be obtained via the library databases.

NOT be a summary of your sources , but rather, a presentation of YOUR ARGUMENT and YOUR THINKING with support from the sources. Do not use any sources excessively.

Be in the Proper Format  --- DOUBLE SPACED!

Include a proper heading and title. NO COVER PAGES or IMAGES.

Be in correct MLA format, including in-text citations  and a Works Cited Page.

Be ORIGINAL and NOT plagiarized.

NOTE: I WILL NOT BE PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON GRAMMAR IN ORDER TO

FOCUS ON YOUR CONTENT. HOWEVER, LANGUAGE CLARITY IS PART OF YOUR

GRADE, SO MAKE SURE YOU PROOFREAD CAREFULLY FOR GRAMMAR AND

LANGUAGE ERRORS BEFORE SUBMITTING THIS ESSAY.

ROOM CHANGES FOR 10/24 and 10/26

On Tuesday 10/24, class will meet at 2:15 for the LIBRARY ORIENTATION in room E-101B (the computer lab to the left when you walk into the library). At 3:15 we will return to our regular classroom (E150)

On Thursday 10/26, class will meet at 2:15 in room B-203 to write Essay 3 in class using computers.

CENTRAL PARK FIVE DISCUSSION GUIDE

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/media/pdf/central-park-five-discussion-guide.pdf

Paraphrasing Worksheet

Bring to class on 10/5/17

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7iVDBu8ayDKcXphOHlhdTFJc3c/view?usp=sharing

ESSAY 2

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, and Ava DuVernay, director of 13^th, both argue that there is a systemic, designed link between America’s legacy and history of slavery and the modern American system of mass incarceration. The way slavery shifted to convict leasing, to Jim Crow segregation, to the war on drugs illustrates how “systems of oppression are durable and they often reinvent themselves.”

What factor(s) allowed this system of social control to reincarnate and evolve throughout American history? (You may choose to focus on 1 or multiple factors) 

YOUR ESSAY MUST:

 Be submitted in class by Tuesday October 10th. Late papers will not be returned with everyone else's, and ONLY students who submit the essay on time and in  class will be given an opportunity to revise.

Be at least 700 words in length.

Include an intro with a clear thesis statement, at least 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion. More than 3 body paragraphs is perfectly OK.

Be well-organized and developed with supporting details and evidence.

Be proofread for grammar, sentence and other language errors.

Include evidence (examples, testimonials, anecdotes, quotes and/or paraphrases) from BOTH Chapter 1 of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay’s film 13^th.  

You do not need to do research, but if you choose to use additional sources, cite them correctly and include them in your Works Cited page.

Be in the Proper Format --- Stapled, DOUBLE SPACED, 12pt Times New Roman Font with 1 inch margins all around!

Include a proper heading and title. NO COVER PAGES or IMAGES.

Be in correct MLA format, including in-text citations and a Works Cited Page.

Be ORIGINAL and NOT plagiarized.