Assignments for 9/23 and 9/24

• Assignment for Sunday, 9/23 (due by 11:59 p.m.):
• In eCompanion, find and click on "Threaded Discussion: Gun Violence." Read the instructions; then click on your course section in "Topics." Respond to at least one of my discussion prompts and to at least one of your classmates' postings.
• Assignment for Monday, 9/24 (due by 11:59 p.m.):
• In eCompanion, post a Journal entry based on the published text that you found and brought to class. (If you didn't do that assignment, find an online text now to use for this Journal entry.) Title your post JE4: Responding to a Source.
• For this entry, introduce your source (that is, the text/article you found online). Use your summarizing skills. Next, make a claim about some aspect of the source (that is, state your thesis). Then support your claim with reasoning and evidence. Use one quote from the source. Use two signal verbs from the list in TSIS (pp. 39-40); bold those signal verbs. This entry should be at least two well-developed paragraphs.
• Get a Head Start on E1D2:
• Review the feedback your classmate gave you for E1D1. Begin revising Essay 1 based on that feedback and on your own ideas. You will continue to develop your essay after receiving my comments. E1D2 (a three-page minimum) will be due on Saturday, 9/29, by 11:59 p.m., so it would be wise to dig into the second draft now.