Notes/English 189

Angela Morales

October 31-Nov 4

This week we continued working on Run-On Sentences, mainly focusing on how to correct run-ons. Students are working on the corresponding quizzes (About 25 in all, with 2 weeks to complete them) and I am assigning editing exercises from the book. Overall, the week went well. I think I’m getting better at coordinating the various forms of lecture materials.

Monday October 31

Today we viewed the second half of the slide show on correcting run-ons. Students seemed to look pretty blank when I asked them to recount Friday’s lecture, so I quickly reviewed the first half of the slides, and they seemed to pick it up pretty quickly. This makes me see yet another benefit of having lectures on slides—that is you can review quickly and efficiently without taking too much time from the present day’s lecture. I introduced students to the corresponding quizzes and let them work on them for the last few minutes of class.

Wednesday Nov 2:

I really wanted to introduce a new paragraph topic today, but then I thought it better that we should continue working on editing for run-ons. It seemed a crime to spend any less than two full weeks discussing run-ons. The book provides some meaty paragraphs for editing, and students seemed to be able to correct them fairly well. The students were able to see the complexity of editing, and that with run-ons, they have stylistic choices.

Friday Nov 4:

Students took their weekly vocabulary quiz, and then we finished discussing the Chapter from their books on editing run-ons. Honestly, I was getting a little bored going over the corrections, but students, surprisingly, did not seem to mind the amount of time we were spending on the homework, so I stuck it out. We managed to get through an entire chapter this week, and I’m very glad because it did seem to work well with Chris’s slides.