End of Term Information

Dear all,

Thanks for being patient. Here you have the required information:

Parallel A: No class on Monday; Parallel B: No compulsory class on Wednesday.
Everybody is invited to this Wednesday's class in Lab LC-7 at 10:30. It's not obligatory. Read some lines below for details.

1- First Exam solution: An assignment.

As all of you know, we're going to fill in the space corresponding to the first exam with the grade of an assignment that you're going to write. Here are the instructions:

Write a 100-word narrative paragraph about your first day of class as a university student. I need it to come with two drafts and its prewriting.
- Prewriting (it can be brainstorming, outlining, freewriting, journalists questions, clustering, etc.) It can be handwritten of typed.
- First draft (to organize the ideas, the topic sentence, the supportive sentences and the concluding one) typed.
- Second draft (to check everything related to grammar, spelling and punctuation) typed.
- Final work. Typed.
Due date: Monday 6th of December, 23:58.

2- Portfolio: Due date: Wednesday 8th of December, 23:58.

As explained in class, you'll have to create an e-portfolio. The idea of the portfolio is that you present evidence, through the works of them term, that you have learned about the writing process and improve your writing skills (grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, etc.) It's a selection of the texts you have written; you don't have to include everything you have written in the subject. The contents your portfolio should have are:

- Brief Introduction
- Two different prewriting activities, with their corresponding reflections.
- One random paragraph from the first part of the term, with its reflection.
- One explanatory paragraph, with its reflection.
- One journal entry, with its reflection.
- One descriptive paragraph, with its draft and its reflection.
- One general reflection, as a conclusion.

Due date: Wednesday 8th of December, 23:58.
I am going to add some videos here. Next post.


Related information:
I am going to be in LAB LC-1 at 10:30 this Wednesday 1st of December, making up a class. It's not compulsory to go. I am going to explain how to use winrar to compress, how to create the hyperlinks with Power Point, and I'll clarify any doubts that may be (I'll give feedback about texts, too). Later, at 12:00 (or earlier, depending how thew activity goes) I'll be handing back your previous texts and drafts that are pending, so you can include them in your portfolios, if you don't have copies of them.

3- Last Exam Contents:
- Weekly readings: Charles Chaplin, How the Paper fish Learned to Swim, Martin Luther King, the articles about heroes (the little boy).
- Writing paragraphs (topic sentence, support, and conclusion)
- Kinds of paragraphs (explanatory, and descriptive, mainly)
- The writing process

Some details about the exam: The exam will consist of three parts: I - You'll be asked to write sentences with vocabulary words from the texts you read (for example "fins," from the paper fish that learned to swim ); II - You'll be asked questions about the texts we read; finally III - You'll be asked to write a paragraph about a topic (surprise)

4- The last paragraphs, about your favourite month and the one about your hero, are due this Friday 3rd. I need them to come WITH their corresponding drafts and prewriting. (BUT, If, by any reason, I still have your draft, write a note at the end of the paragraph, explaining that you have already handed in your draft)

Well, guys, I think I've covered all the topics pending.
Please, feel free to comment and ask questions.

Thanks for a nice semester!

Juan Chamorro A.
Reading and Composition Class.