Vocabulary Quiz: abyss, idiosyncrasy, lieu, loiter, atypical, lexicon
Public Relations PowerPoint: Review "Assertion-Evidence" slides. Practice recognizing "assertions" by playing Fact or Crap. Show you understand assertions by creating your own "assertion-evidence" slides.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
January 21
PowerPoint Analysis: PowerPoint presentations have been around long enough for professionals to tart criticizing them. Read two news articles to find out some of the drawbacks of PowerPoints and list them. Handout. The two readings can be found online by googling their titles.
Before and After PowerPoint slides: The best slides use an "Assertion-Evidence" pattern.
Writing Lab to start making your own PowerPoint.
Before and After PowerPoint slides: The best slides use an "Assertion-Evidence" pattern.
Writing Lab to start making your own PowerPoint.
January 19
Vocabulary Cartoons: abyss, idiosyncrasy
Public Relations: choose a company/celebrity to analyze
Writing Lab: start research on your company/celebrity
Public Relations: choose a company/celebrity to analyze
Writing Lab: start research on your company/celebrity
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
January 14
Conjunctions
1. Writers Inc.
2. printed exercises (fill in the blank)
3. thought reversers and thought continuers (from GRE)
1. Writers Inc.
2. printed exercises (fill in the blank)
3. thought reversers and thought continuers (from GRE)
January 12
1. Combine sentences: combine these 7 sentences into 1 sentence.
2. Decombine sentences: take apart this sentence and see how many short sentences you can make.
3. Grammar Girl--"Complex-Compound Sentences." Fill in the blanks.
4. Create complex and compound sentences--put these words strips in two piles (one for independent clauses and one for dependent clauses). Then try making up sentences by combining them. If you were absent, invent your own 5 sentences.
2. Decombine sentences: take apart this sentence and see how many short sentences you can make.
3. Grammar Girl--"Complex-Compound Sentences." Fill in the blanks.
4. Create complex and compound sentences--put these words strips in two piles (one for independent clauses and one for dependent clauses). Then try making up sentences by combining them. If you were absent, invent your own 5 sentences.
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 4
Ethics Unit
A Format for Ethical Decision Making: Analyzing "Shadow Scholar"
Entreprenuership--Taylor Turnbull, BYU Student Entrepreneur of the Year, is tentatively scheduled to speak to us this Thursday. Please do the following activity to prepare for his presentation.
Go to this site and read "How to Decide if Entrepreneurship is Right for You." Then write a COMMENT on this post that tells the class what parts of entrepreneurship would be personally "right for you" or "not right for you."
A Format for Ethical Decision Making: Analyzing "Shadow Scholar"
Entreprenuership--Taylor Turnbull, BYU Student Entrepreneur of the Year, is tentatively scheduled to speak to us this Thursday. Please do the following activity to prepare for his presentation.
Go to this site and read "How to Decide if Entrepreneurship is Right for You." Then write a COMMENT on this post that tells the class what parts of entrepreneurship would be personally "right for you" or "not right for you."
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