Online task 10

Online task 10  – Due Nov. 4^th - Public Education Essay


Last class I handed over 2 Dvd’s , which contain the  clips we’ll be using for our Tasks (those who didn’t come can acess see the videos in YouTube.)
Take Dvd  number  1 and look for  clips 4 and 5 (not the “first” clips 4 and 5. You have to go to the second row of clips, clicking on  ≥  at the bottom of the menu). Just keep watching and take note of what he says about Thesis and Assertion ( = Afirmativa) 1,2 and 3. 


The thesis here is “Public education is a positive thing in any community”
The Amplification: “because of 1) ,2)  and 3)


Your task: Write an essay with the following Thesis: “Public education deserves more attention in Brazil”


You’ll need  to find Assertions 1, 2) and 3) for your Essay. 
How? Watch clip 5 in your Dvd, from the documentary “Pro Dia Nascer Feliz” (2005)  ( also found in youtube as below):


Por que os professores faltam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdFb22MKUA&feature=related
Don’t forget to read comments on this documentary at:
http://www.contracampo.com.br/82/festprodianascerfeliz.htm

Online Task 9

Dear students,

       As I have briefly mentioned in class, I coordinate a project on learner English called CABRI (Corpus de Aprendizes Brasileiros de Inglês).  This project is part of an international project called International Corpus of Learner English whose coordinator works at the University of Louvain in Belgium. The Brazilian part of it Br-ICLE.  We do collect student essays and analyze them in order to better understand their necessities.  This means that the more essays we have the more we can prepare suitable materials to our learners (including you and your UFMG mates). 

I would like to ask you to read the power point presentation attached and if you have no questions (and if you have time too) you can turn in the essay on Oct. 21st.  The deadline, though, is Oct. 28th.  Therefore, I´ll be able to answer your questions about the essay writing and the form you need to fill in during our face-to-face class on Oct. 21st.

This essay is a class activity (our Task 9) and if you give me your permission it will be part of my research data. Please take into consideration that  we will contribute to  linguistic studies in Brazil and abroad.

Please check your e-mail to get three files: the guidelines for the essay you are supposed to write, the model of a filled out Learner Profile, and a Learner Profile which should be filled out, printed and turned in together with the essay. 

The essay should be written on your own, though you can check dictionaries, grammar books, sites etc. as long as you put that information on the Learner Profile. 

Best regards,

Deise Dutra

Produção de Texto

CABrI Research Group

Online Task 8

Task 8:  “A very short story” – Due Oct. 21st, 2010


a)      Watch this 8-minute video on the structure of a fictional piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3my_Wepo8
As you watch the video, take notes of Kyle´s categories.  You will use them to analyze the story.


b) Read “A very short story” by Ernest Hemingway. It may be found here:
  http://records.viu.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/vershort.htm
Your task is to analyze the short story by Hemingway taking into account Kyle’s categories (such as (“inciting incidents”, complications , climax, and others) presented in the video above.

Write your analysis as a short essay, with an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion.  Print it and turn it in on Oct. 21^st.

Online Task 7

Task 7 – Due Oct. 7^th, 2010

ATTENTION: This task refers to our Oct. 5^th online class. Since there is no class on Oct. 7th, please put your reports in my pigeon hole in the teachers’ office on that date.

Part A

Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “being aware of comma splices”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Rl9ZwlF5s

Part B

Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “plagiarizing from the internet” (Internet plagiarism out of ignorance and not because of intent of cheating):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jemg2dytNjE

Part C

Do the following online exercises and write a small report about your score. You do not have to give me the actual sentences from the exercise, just your report.

- 8 fragments of a paragraph to be cheked for plagiarism:

http://www2.gsu.edu/~geotel/plagiarism.html

- 4 small texts to be checked. The first one admits more than one answer. You can mark them all:

https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/plagiarism/exercise/index.html

Online Task 6

Task 6 – Due Sept. 23^rd, 2010
 
I –Parallelism

A) Watch the video: Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise Parallelism & Word Forms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ys999ncMVM
The examples shown in the video are given below, for you to work with them.

MAKE CHANGES AS SUGGESTED IN THE VIDEO:
Lisa is beautiful, bright and she has a charming personality.
Miami has a lot of entertainment, it’s warm here, and we have good restaurants, too.
Three benefits of living in a big city are a lot of job opportunities, exciting shows, and shopping.

We studied at the same junior high school, and same senior high school, and we also went to the same university.
It may sound too funny or scare, but it’s true.

There are many reasons people do not eat healthy. Some of these reasons are that they do not know how to cook, they do not have time to cook, and because of the cost.

Quotes by B. Franklin (UNDERLINE THE PARALLEL STRUCTURES) :

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, and at 40 the judgment.

  

B) Online Exercises On Parallelism
1.Enter  
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/niu/niu10.htm

a) Go through the 10 items and check your answers online (the site tells you whether you got it right or not) 

It starts with “I have worked in Spain and in Ireland” 
YOUR TASK: Take note of any of the 10 items you did not get right. Copy the item for me, not just the number of it! You should provide an appropriate alternative on your own.  We´ll check it in class. 

b)Then take the second Quiz available at the address below: 

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm 
After you write your suggestion, check with the GRAMMAR’S VERSION given by the website 
YOUR TASK: Try to solve your problem and bring your questions to class.


II – Exercise on Capitalization
Acess the site below and do the exercise on capitalization.  In case you still have questions after you get the answer, takes notes and bring them to class.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/caps_quiz.htm?cgi_quiz_form=1


III. Exercise on connectives
Acess the site below and do the exercise on connectives.  In case you still have questions after you get the answer, takes notes and bring them to class.
http://www.foothill.edu/bss/people/peterson-david/CT/tutorial/repub2.htm


IV. Use of conjunctions and commas
Take que quizz
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova1.htm
You might want to read .... http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Commentary guidelines

After you watch the video, take que quizzes and visit the sites, answer the following questions and turn them in on Sept. 23rd, 2010.

1. What did you learn by doing the above? Give specific examples and take notes of your problems to discuss in class.

2. If you were to suggest these videos or site to a college mate, what would you emphasize? This should be a commentary about the task and not a summary or a description of what you did. You should identify important aspects of the task, discuss each of those in turn, illustrating with examples from the sites or video.

3. Make any other comments about the task if necessary.  

******When you present your commentary, please make use of the course heading.

Online Task 5

Online task 5 – “One-Three-One Essay” + Thesis statement

Due Sept. 16^th

I. Watch Prof Stacy on a video about “Constructing a One-Three-One Essay”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sy07JWeGA

As you watch the video, have the Essay “The Hazards of Going-to-movies” by your side. You need a print-out from the site below. It is the last essay in the website and it starts with the words “I am a movie fanatic”:

http://www.lattc.edu/dept/tsos/stevenTA/movies.htm

In the print-out of the essay, identify the:

a) introduction,

b) 3 supporting paragraphs and

c) concluding aragraph.

 
The thesis statement does not come explicit in the first paragraph. However, Professor Stacy says it in the video, calling it “a seed, a germ”. What is the thesis statement (the basic idea) for this essay?

d) Identify the plan of Development in the Introductory Paragraph;
e) Identify the Topic Sentences in the Supporting Paragraphs;
f) Identify the Examples that support each of these Topic Sentences;
g) Identify, in the Concluding Paragraph, the Restatement of the Thesis, the Summary and the Pointing out to the future.

II.  Thesis statements

Are the following thesis statements good?  Identify their parts. Circle the topic and underline the controllling ideas.

1. Mom´s Country Kitchen offers tasty food, entertainment for children, and quick service.
2. Helping a son or a daughter plan a wedding can create family unity, leave pleasant memories, yet create unexpected expenses.
3. Attending college allows students to learn new information, make lifetime friends, and prepare for a carrer.
4. Smoking is detrimental because it costs money, creates pollution, and results in medical problems.
5. Women who enter politics are usually socially conscious, extraordinarily bright, and self-directed.
6. Small businesses usually succeed when the owners are adventuresome, creative, and well organized.
7. Heavy flooding can drive people from their homes, destroy crops, and interrupt  business activities.

Commentary guidelines

After you watched the video and did the exercise on thesis statements suggested above, answer the following questions and turn them in on Sept. 16^th, 2010.

1. What did you learn by doing tasks I and II? Give specific examples.

2. If you were to suggest this video to a college mate, what would you emphasize? This should be a commentary about the task and not a summary or a description of what you did. You should identify important aspects of the task, discuss each of those in turn, illustrating with the video.

3. Make any other comments about the tasks if necessary.  

******When you present your commentary, please make use of the course heading.

Online Task 4

Online task 4 – Reading a poem and reacting to it

Due Sept. 2nd

1) Read the poem below, by Robert  Frost, and notice the differences (for rhyming reasons) with the translation which has been  provided

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening    (by Robert Frost)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Tradução (de Carlos Gohn:)

Parado no bosque numa tarde de inverno

De quem é este bosque penso saber.

Ele cá não está para eu ver;

não há testemunhas de meu olhar

fixo no bosque, a neve a crescer.

Meu cavalinho deve estranhar

a parada no bosque, sem casa, sem lar.

À tarde, o inverno  é rigoroso

entre  bosque e  lago a congelar

Ele sacode os arreios, cioso

do feno a vir, saboroso.

O soprar do vento a ressoar

se mistura à neve a cair

Do bosque não quero sair

mas  tenho promessas a cumprir.

Há muito que andar antes de poder dormir

Há muito que andar antes de poder dormir

Watch the videos:
1. Stacy, the professor from California :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5nGcmUWWmIY

(hint: read the comments people who watched the video have posted in the youtube site)

Then, listen to the poem:

2. reading of the poem (wind blows)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ex4gAlCs2og

 
3. text of the poem (All-male American choir as a background):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqoXItqfpdE

Listen to some facts about Robert Frost´s life :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJa5gCuxx0


Your task is to write an Explication of the poem in 3 parts, as detailed by Stacy:

1. re-telling the “story of the poem”;

2. explanation of difficult parts or exploration of ambiguous parts;

3. your own impressions about the poem

***Add some quotation to your Explication. To make it easier for you, here you find some criticism to quote from (quote at least 03 of these people) , available from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/woods.htm

For quoting procedures, see
“how to quote from electronic sources”:
http://www.senecac.on.ca/library/Research_Help/Citing_Sources/apa_guide.html