Class Recap and Homework--3/25/21

Class 26

Objectives:

to go over some takeaways of The Communist Manifesto

to discuss returned CATW 1s and go over the process of revising them also looking at some grammar issues common in CATW 1 and how to fix them

to go over how to summarize a CATW article, paraphrasing the main idea of each paragraph

to go over how to formulate a main idea statement for the whole article

Class Notes: March 25

Homework:

Due Monday, April 5: your second draft (revision) of your "What Are Friends For?" CATW is due. Please copy and paste your first draft into a new document, make the revisions that were suggested, and then turn this new draft in. 

Due Tuesday, April 6: read The New Jim Crow p.1-5 for Tuesday. We will discuss it in class on Tuesday. This is in the Literature folder. It's called "The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander - excerpt." Read up to "The Death of Slavery" on page 5. 

Due Thursday, April 8: your first draft of your "How to Do One Thing at a Time" CATW is due. This should be a full, 4-paragraph essay (Intro, Body, Body, Conclusion). You can use the summary that we wrote tonight in class, but you need to write your own thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion.