WR115 An Introduction to College Writing Through Critical Reading: A Community of Scholars Examines Sports in Society Monday, July 16, 2012 Subjects & Verbs in Sentences Blueprints, First Drafts, & Unity

Order of Business 10:20-10:40Reflective Freewrite & Homework Check 10:40-11:00Review of Preposition Homework 11:00-11:30Finding Subjects & Verbs in Sentences 11:30-11:35BREAK 11:05-12:05Essay 1: Race, Ethnicity, and Gangs in Sports 12:05-12:10Homework Review

Reflective Freewrite & Homework Check Place your homework on the work area where you sit. Fold your Implicit Bias homework so it cannot be seen, but have all other items available for inspection. Reflective Freewrite 1: Inspect your preposition homework. Prepositions are potent little words that relate a noun or a pronoun to any part of a sentence. Some sentences are mostly made up of prepositions. Reflect on your experience in completing the preposition worksheet. Did you reach a point at which you “got it,” meaning that you could almost instinctively spot prepositions in a sentence?

Preposition Homework Review Homework Review: Work with one or two other people to compare your answers on the prepositional phrase homework. Discuss why you selected the phrases that you did. Come to consensus, if possible; if not, save your questions for class discussion. Class discussion: Finding verbs and their subjects in sentences once you have found and eliminated all of the prepositional phrases.

Finding Verbs & their Subjects in Sentences: The Tense Test Homework Review: Work with one or two other people and compare your answers. Discuss why you identified certain words as the verbs of a sentence and why you identified other words as the subjects of those verbs. Discussion

Visual Literacy Visual Literacy Review

Take a Break But keep it short!

Essay 1: Assignment Directions For each essay you write for this class and for most courses in college, you will receive detailed directions about how the essay is to be written, documented, and formatted. This essay will discuss your thesis (an opinion— yours!) on some aspect of race, ethnicity, and gangs in sports. You can narrow the topic down or you may write a paper that discusses your ideas in broad strokes. Let’s review the directions.

Overview of the Essay-Writing Process

Essay 1: Finding your Thesis Statement First, let’s revisit Kitam Hamm, Jr. through the eyes of Jeff Benedict, who was one of the authors who wrote “Straight Outta Compton”: gs.compton/index.html gs.compton/index.html Discussion: This story demonstrates how sports can focus young people in a way that helps them avoid gang. What else must be present in the young athlete’s life for sports to work this kind of magic?

The Blueprint (Outline) Once you have formulated your thesis statement, it’s time to complete a blueprint.blueprint The blueprint is a virtual first draft. It shows how you are going to develop your thesis statement. Your three or four topic sentences will each develop your thesis in some significant way. The topic sentences should be drawn from your linking sentences worksheet, where you wrote out sentences detailing how your different ideas are related. Once you reach to this stage, you have organized the basic framework of your essay.framework

A Word to the Wise Remember, first drafts are first drafts. They are meant to be revised, which means that you look at your ideas at least two more times, each time with “new eyes”– those of your reviewer(s). Just to drive this point home, we will read “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott.“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott.

Homework Assigned Aplia, complete by Sunday, July 22 nd, 11:45 p.m. Blueprint of Essay 1 Due Wednesday, July 18 th “Shitty First Drafts”: Read & Annotate Due Monday, July 23 rd