Today you will receive your first essay back along with
your cassette tape. You need to do these things with the cassette tape:
- Split a piece of paper into two columns. On the left
side, write a summary of each point I made to you on the tape; on the right
side, write some kind of response to each of the comments. At the end,
free-write for 5 minutes or so about the whole experience of the tape
feedback.
- Everyone has some mechanical boo-boos. To work on
them, I want you to write down the boo-boo, write down the rule for it
(found in any grammar book), and then write a sample sentence with the
boo-boo corrected. Now, this isn’t possible with every boo-boo, so you make
the judgment of what to do.
- When finished with your tape, cue it up to where
I have finished talking. I don’t want to talk over my golden words.
- When your next paper is due in a few weeks, I want you
to have a two-pocket portfolio that will contain this first essay, the
boo-boo page, the transcript, and the tape (cued-up)—plus the new essay. I
will also want you to insert another “Dear Jimbo” letter, which is just your
way of letting me know how everything is going in the class for you.
Do that for next week. Also…
- Read chapter 5 and prepare for a quiz. (As usual, part
of the quiz will contain questions from chapters 1-4.)
- Write a response paper to Psycho and/or the
student movies. Specifically, how did the making and viewing of these student
movies help you to further appreciate Psycho?
Finally, despite what I wrote in the syllabus, you won’t be
writing a second essay on the making of these movies. I have something else in
mind for a few weeks down the line.