Esl 21a FINALS    |   Wednesday, 12/12   |   3:30 - 6:30 pm   |  BUS 101

The Finals will be divided into  two sections: an exam and an essay.

Exam Section   3:30-5:00

Essay Section   5:00-6:30

During Exam section, you may use a dictionary but not your textbook or any notes.  You will not need a scantron for this section.

During Essay section, you may use a dictionary, your textbook, and notes.  You will need a large bluebook for this section.

Things to bring:

Large bluebook

dictionary

textbook (Quest3 RW)

notes

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When will Final grades be available?:

I have a deadline of January 2 to turn in the grades.  I'll try to get them in before, but I can't promise that I will.

 

You can always check Student Self Services to see if your grades have been posted.  But remember, SSS doesn't show you your grades until all of your professors have submitted your grades.  

You can look up your current grades according to your SMC ID number here.

You should also have received an email from me returning your essays 2.2 via a weblink.  You should find that I have highlighted problem areas in yellow and made some comments or corrections in blue.  I, of course, did not point out all the problems so be sure to revise and edit carefully.  I expect a polished essay.

Homework:  Write a final draft of your second essay (ie, Essay 2.3) and bring in a paper copy of it on Monday.

Homework:

In eCompanion, write a paragraph responding to the following prompt:

Based on the reading "International Trade," pp. 136-141, and on your own understanding of the concepts, what is the difference between the economic concepts of "absolute advantage" and "comparative advantage"?  Please explain clearly, as if to a friend.  Make sure the reader understands.  Use examples.

Homework:

Read "Lost in Translation," p. 124 (listen)

Do Exercise A, "Comprehension Check," p. 125

Do Exercise B, "Vocabulary Check," p. 125

 

Read "Skills for the Global Marketplace," pp. 127-129 (listen1/listen2)

Do Exercise A, "Comprehension Check," p. 130

Do Exercise B, "Vocabulary Check," p. 130

Do Exercise C, "Words with Multiple Definitions," p. 131

 

Read "International Trade," pp. 136-141 (listen1/listen2/listen3/listen4/listen5)

Do Exercise B, "Vocabulary Check," p. 142

Do Exercise C, "Providing Definitions and Examples," p. 143

Do Exercise G, "Phrases with Prepositions," p. 145

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Class Canceled

Common Essay today

Today I handed out a copy of the article that you'll be reading and studying for the Common Essay.  It's called "Crisis on Campus" and was written by Shari Roan in the Los Angeles Times.

You can download a copy of the article here.

You can download the grading rubric here.

In order to help you prepare for the Common Essay, I have set up a number of discussions on eCompanion.  

It would be particularly useful if you are able to effectively and concisely summarize the article.  

Therefore, I set up two discussions: one in which you write a short summary of a couple lines and the other a long summary in which you write a full paragraph.  You do not have to do this by Wednesday, rather by next Monday.

I also set up a discussion where you can discuss possible prompts or questions for the article.  What issues does the article raise that you might be asked to write on?

I also set up a discussion open for any questions you might have.  Take advantage of it.

For homework, you will write the second draft of the essay you wrote in class today, in response to the following prompt:

Taking into consideration the readings and listenings from Chater 3 of Quest, would you agree that there are effective actions that can be taken to help eliminate world poverty, or is poverty inevitable?

900 word minimum.

Email me your essay as an attachment before Wednesday's class.

Name the Microsoft word file using your first name--the last four digits of your SMC ID #--then "Essay 2.2--ESL21a"  For example:   John--1464--Essay 2.2--ESL 21a

In the subject line of your email, do the same.

Here are the answers for the in-class exercises:

QRW: 

F.  Choosing the right reporting verb, p. 113:

1. d   2. b   3. g   4. e   5. c   6. f   7. a

G.  Choosing the right reporting verb, p. 114:

1. b, c, d   2. c   3. c, d   4. b, d   5. a, b, d

Homework:

• Read: Test-taking strategy, p. 116

• Do Summarizing exercise, p. 117

• Rather than write the summaries on a piece of paper, please write them in eCompanion.

QLS

• Part 5: Amartya Sen and Development economics

• Do Exercise C: Guessing the meaning from context, p. 87-88

• Do Exercise A: Taking notes, p.89 [section 1] [section 2] [section 3]

• Do Exercise C: Taking notes, pp. 90-91 [section 4] [section 5]

On Monday, there'll be an in-class essay based on the readings of Chapter 3 (QRW) and the listening activities above from QLS.  Please re-read and study them.  It will not be an open-book essay, but you can prepare and bring 1 page of notes (front and back).

Homework

QRW Chapter 3: Developing Nations

Part 1 

Read "The War on Poverty," pp. 89-90 [listen part1, part2]

Read "Reading Strategy," p. 92

Part 2

Read "A Bank for the Down and Out," pp. 95-96 [listen]

Do Exercise A: Comprehension Check, p. 96

Do Exercise B: Vocabulary Check, p. 97

Part 3

Read "Developing Countries," pp. 101-04 [listen section1, section2]

Do Exercise A: Vocabulary Check, p. 105

Do Exercise E: Phrases with prepositions, p. 108

Please read carefully for understanding, as we will probably do some in-class writing about them on Wednesday.

You can now view your grade for essay 1.2 online.  Choose the last four digits of your SMC ID number and scroll to bottom of page.  To view my full comments, click on underlined and colored text.  Also click the superscript numbers if there are any.

1344  1718  1720  2152  2286  2419  2506  2517  2533  2597  2601  2660  

2719  2834  3022  4133  4943  5277  5326  8031  8387  8826  9286

Homework

Essay 1.3:  Write the third and final draft of our first essay. 

Send to me as an email attachment. 

 

Deadline is Sunday 12:00 noon.

 

Name the Microsoft word file using the last four digits of your SMC ID # and then "Essay 1.3--21a"  For example:   1464--Essay 1.3--ESL 21a

 

In the subject line of your email, do the same but include your name (first name only).  For example:  John--1464--Essay 1.3--ESL 21a

• In addition to the comments I made on your drafts, remember to take into consideration the topics we discussed in class to revising your final draft.

• Incorporate definition of symbol into introduction paragraph, not as a separate first paragraph.

• Respond directly to prompt in the development of your thesis statement.

  • The prompt was:  Please write a well developed essay in which you discuss some of the different functions that symbols may serve in various arenas of everyday life.

• Use the keyword "function" of symbol in your topic sentences of the body paragraphs.

• Watch out for plagiarism and following the content of the readings to closely. 

 

No new homework

But there's plenty of vocabulary for you to work on.

Vocabulary for Chapter 2

*Just because I won't be checking the vocabulary notebook anymore doesn't mean that I you can forget about doing vocabulary homework.  On the contrary, it places more responsibility on you to organize your studying.  It is my suggestion that vocabulary should be studied a little every day, rather than for long periods of time.

Please note that for the following listening exercises you can either download the audio files to your hard drive or just play them in your browser.  If you're at a school computer lab, you will need to bring your headphones.

QLS: Chapter 2, Part 4: Broadcast English: What happened to the Neanderthals?

Before Listening

Do Exercises A, B, C, pp. 44-46

Listening

Do Exercises A [track 12 .5mb], B [track 13 3.8mb], C [track 13 3.8mb], D [track 14 .4mb], pp. 47-48

QLA: Chapter 2, Part 5: Academic English: Human and nonhuman primate behavior

Before Listening

Do Exercises B, C, D, pp. 50-52

Listening

Do Exercises 

A [track 15 1.8mb], C [track 16 1.2mb], D [track 16], 53-54

E & F: section 1 [track 17 4.8mb], section 2 [track 18 4.6], section 3 [track 19 2.4mb], section 4 [track 20 1mb]

QLS: Chapter 1, Part 5, Listening (This homework is OPTIONAL but RECOMMENDED)

Read "listening strategy," p. 25

 

Do the following listening exercises  

section 1   section 2   section 3

A. Taking notes: sections 1&2, pp.25-26

B. Taking notes: section 3, p. 27

C. Checking your notes, p. 27

Do the following after-listening exercises:

A. Using your notes, pp. 27-28

B. Listening for specific information, p. 28

Class Cancelled

Today in class we reviewed and returned the vocabulary quizzes.

We also read the 2nd drafts of two of our partners.  In addition to giving feedback to your partners, you also need to reflect on what you learned from reading them.  You'll do this in eCompanion "Discussion 3: Learning from peer reading."

QRW

Chapter 2, Part 2

Before Reading: Do Exercise B, pp. 51-52

Reading: Read "Comparing humans with other primates," pp. 53-57

After Reading:  Do Exercises B and C, pp. 59-60.

Chapter 2, Part 3

Before Reading:  Do Exercise B, pp. 62-63

Read "Modern Stone Age," pp. 64-68

After Reading: Do Exercises C and D, p. 71

Here are your and your classmates papers organized by the last four digits of your SMC ID number.  I have not yet posted my comments, but please read over them so can get a feel for how your peers are doing and maybe learn something from their writing.

1344  1718  1720  2152  2286  2419  2506  2517  2533  2597  2601  2660  

2719  2834  3022  4133  4943  5277  5326  8031  8387  8826  9286

Homework:

No homework, 

except for the handful of you who didn't submit your essay to me by email.  Please write your second draft following the rules in the notes for 9/26 below.  Deadline for credit (-10 pts) is at 2:00pm on Wednesday, 10/3.

Everyone should bring a paper copy of their essay to class on Wednesday.

Today in class we wrote the first draft of an essay responding to the following prompt:

Please write a well developed essay in which you discuss some of the different functions that symbols may serve in various arenas of everyday life.

 

Your essay should consist of an introduction, two or more body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.

 

In your introduction, you should try to define what is meant by "symbol" and to develop a thesis statement that serves as a controlling idea for the whole of the essay.

 

Please include a minimum of 2 references to the texts we read in QRW.

Homework:

• Catch up in your vocabulary notebook and bring it to class on Monday.

• You will also be writing a second draft to the essay we wrote in class.

Try not to rewrite the in-class essay but rather start afresh. 

I’ll be checking to see that it meets the following criteria:

 

·   Minimum 800 words

·   Typed, 12 pt font, double-spaced

·   minimum of 3 examples from book;

·   additional text or personal examples okay

·   incorporate appropriate vocabulary

 

 

I will be accepting this assignment only via email.  I will not accept excuses of "my computer or internet wasn’t working."  There are computer labs available on campus for your use at the library and the Clayton center.

 

You must attach your essay to an email and send it to me before 12:00 noon on Sunday.  I won’t accept emails received at 12:01pm or later. 

 

Your attachment should have a file type of either .doc or .rtf so that I can easily open it.   If I can’t open your file, you do not get credit.  I have difficulty opening .docx, .odt, and .wps files; don’t use them.

 

Name the file of your attachment as follows:

 

yourname – essay 1.2 – esl 21a

 

Also put the same info in the subject line of your email message.

 

***Please bring 1 hardcopy (i.e., paper copy) to class on Monday, as we will be working on it in class.

• There will be a vocabulary quiz on Monday!

There will be an in-class essay on Wednesday.  Bring a large "blue book."  Review the readings from QRW and associated homework to prepare.   You will be able to use a dictionary of your choice during the essay.  You may not, however, use the textbook.  Instead, you will be allowed to bring 3 pages of notes.   Think about the relationship between power and symbols in human culture.

Last day to get credit for eCompanion "Definition Paragraph" will be Wednesday before class.

Homework:

Participate in the eCompanion "Discussion 2: Definition Paragraph"

Here are more vocabulary words.  When adding them to your vocabulary notebook, remember to include related words from the same word family.  For example, for the word "symbol," you should include such related words as "symbolic," "symbolize," and "symbolism." 

symbol 1

metaphor 5

metonym 17

nuclear family 25

taboo 55

prohibition 61

rank 61

communal 86

array 97

trivial 133

supernatural 4

forager 12

shaman 13

polytheistic 15

anthropomorphic 22

monotheism 22

trance 66

hallucinogenic 67

rite of passage 75

vision quest 81

Homework:

QRW: Chapter 1, Part 3

Read "Anthropological view of religion," pp.23-25

 

Do the following After Reading exercises

A. Main Idea, p. 25

C. Comprehension check, p. 27

D. Collocations with prepositions, p. 27

E. Vocabulary check, p. 28

Read "Alone on a Hilltop," p. 29

Class Cancelled

We then reviewed the guidelines to summary writing.

Revise and type out the summary you did for the quiz, taking into account the guidelines discussed for summary writing.  Staple your in-class quiz behind the typed revision and turn in on Wednesday.

Check out a couple model summaries: here and here

Homework: QRW

• Read "Reading Strategy," p.10

• Do Exercise B, p.11

• Read "Reading Strategy," p. 12

• Read "Symbolic Systems and Meanings," pp. 12-16

• Do Exercise E, p. 18

• Go to eCompanion / click on Cultural Anthropology unit / respond to discussion prompt.

Labor Day Holiday:  CAMPUS CLOSED

Today in class we reviewed the diagnostic reading test and discussed the significance of scores received.  We also took the diagnostic essay-writing exam today.

Homework:

• Log onto eCompanion, open the link to our class, and then click on "Introductions" in left hand column.  Please write a brief paragraph introducing yourself to the class.  Feel free to respond to what others have written too.

• Take time to review the parts of speech, word forms, and sentence structures.

• Reread the article on Feng Shui from QRW in Chapter 1.

• Begin your vocabulary notebook.  Keep a 3-ring binder and use one page per vocabulary word.

• For each vocabulary word:

  • write the word

  • write the sentence it's in from the QRW reading

  • write the definition. Sometimes definitions of words have more than one 'sense,' i.e., they have multiple definitions.  I only want you to write the definition/sense that is being used in the QRW sentence.

  • Find three naturally occurring sentences that use the vocabulary word/phrase in the same way.  You can do this using a search engine (e.g., Google).  Write the sentences in your notebook.

  • Write 3 of your own original sentences using the vocabulary word and provide enough context in the sentence so it's clear that you understand the meaning of the word.  For example, if the vocabulary word were lawyer, you wouldn't write a simple sentence like My brother is a lawyer, but rather something like My brother just got a job as a lawyer with the District Attorney's Office and has his first court case on Monday.

Vocabulary Words:

Paragraph 1

adopt

standards

principles

to put forth

Paragraph 2

to affect

to influence

to determine

Paragraph 3

intended

to manipulate

Paragraph 4

common sense

to deflect

Paragraph 5

corporation

to win-over

deal breaker

Paragraph 6

spokesperson

resolution