What We've Done So Far

I'm having my students keep a record of what they do each day, hour by hour, and I think the story of any hour is one of quite a few deviations.  Take this one of mine.  I'm trying to get things organized from the squalor in my study (and extended to the kitchen nook) to provide a good example instead of a bad example for my students, who have trouble keeping together all their lessons, which they discard physically and mentally.  I gave them and me the assignment of getting it all together with a list of all that we've done so far this semester. A prize student devoted four hours to this and finished her homework assignment in advance and sent it to me.  See below.  But this is not the point I came in here, this room called blog, to make.  I deviated from my homework assignment as I went through piles and came across something by Connie Schultz, who isn't a dumbed-down Parade writer.  That was going to be my subject instead of "What We've Done So Far."  I originally had "Connie Schultz Is Not a Dumbed Down Writer," but then I deviated from that. 

Date	Check List of Handouts and Other Papers	Comment
1/14/14	1.       ESL 140 Syllabus 2.       How to fill in the beginning dates for Spring 2014 3.       Ms. Tina Martin’s Bio	Chart
1/16/14	1.       Manuscript Rules 2.       Write Your Title Here (Example for how to write with Manuscript Rules) 3.       SLO Quiz 4.       Explanations for ESL Department Correction Symbols 5.       About Me	Quiz Writing
1/21/14	1.       Test on Noun Clauses 2.       An Annotation Exercise 3.       CLAD Attendance Record	Quiz CLAD Orientation
1/23/14	·         Put these active sentences in the passive
1/28/14	1.       In Answer to Your Questions 2.       Exercise on the Passive Voice	On-line
1/30/14	1.       Peeping Tom Journalism 2.       Unit One Test 3.       Passive Test	Quiz Test Test
2/4/14	1.       The Impossible Dream / An Inspirational Grammar Song 2.       Vindicated Olympic Park Bombing Suspect Richard Jewell Dies 3.       Write: Summarizing and Answering Essay Test Questions	Annotation Annotation Test
2/11/14	·         The Education of Frank McCourt	Quiz
2/13/14	1.       Rewrite: Summarizing and Answering Essay Test Questions 2.       The Miracle: She altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense. – By Diane Schuur (from Time Magazine) 3.       Gerunds and Infinitives 4.       Listening Is An Act Of Love i)        Joyce Kim Lee, interviews her mother ii)       Blanca Alvarez, interviewed by her daughter	Quiz Annotation Annotation
2/18/14	1.       Using gerunds, finishing the following sentences 2.       Correct the following sentences by using an infinitive or gerund 3.       Summary of the Talk Given by Our Guest Speaker 4.       The Obstacle That John Overcomes 5.       Unit 2 articles Test 6.       Former Students Essay i)        FME and I ii)       The Obstacle I Overcame to Be Jane instead of Jan	John is my partner Test Annotation Annotation
2/25/14	1.       New recording site dedicated for Story Corps at Main Library 2.       Unit 2 Test 3.       One sentence about a person you will interview	Annotation Test
2/27/14	1.       Test – New recording site dedicated for Story Corps at Main Library 2.       Mother and Son dialogue 3.       Students tell how City College of S.F. has given them hope	Test Annotation Annotation
3/4/14	1.       Error Correction – Correct the errors in gerunds and infinitives (from homework assignment) 2.       CCSF article Test	Test
3/6/14	1.       Grammar Chart 2.       Tiny Sparrow 3.       Models of the First Sentence of a Summary 4.       Surveying an Article	Annotation