Nico's Log
Mat began class by reading the poem “Paris, October 1936”, by Cesar Vallejo. The class then jumped right into reading Taylor and Kristen’s logs from Thursday’s class. Afterwards, Mat passed out the classes’ notecards from the 17th. Mat then explained to the class how to view his comments on our projects, if the comments did not pop up automatically. Very briefly, Mat reminded us to start making appointments for the Reading Writing Center for our second projects, because appointment spaces fill up so quickly, and the semester is ending in less than two weeks. We then had to discuss our progress on our second projects with our neighbors. After the class had finished their conversations with their neighbors, Mat proposed that we should start working on a grading rubric for Project Two. Everyone had to write down three things that we thought that we should be graded on for Project Two, and everyone had to read one of their ideas aloud. After taking opinions from each student, Mat refined the list into what he saw as most important for our second projects. Without delay, Mat discussed how several of our first projects had issues with sentence structure, which made them difficult to read. Once Mat had finished, he allowed Derek to take over the class. Derek presented a video of Jimmy Kimmel, who spoke about texting etiquette and how simple punctuation can alter a conversation. Derek further discussed the history of texting, and how texting began with antiquated beepers. Next, Austin presented on the quote “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” By Wayne Gretzky. He explained how this quote is commonly used outside of hockey, and how the quote is often discredited to Michael Jordan. After Austin finished, Kaitlyn took over class discussion and talked about which sources have been working best for everyone’s second project. Mat took control of the class once again, and quickly showed us some helpful revision checklists that can be found on Google Images. After Mat finished, Kristen led discussion about analyzing our texts and how we analyzed them using ethos, logos, and pathos. She also asked the class if anyone had an interesting technique to introducing their topics, and if anyone felt confident in their papers. Mat took over the last portion of class by introducing our third project, and informing us that Jessie will be leading class on Wednesday. We ended class by discussing our second projects with our discussing groups, and critiquing each other’s papers.
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