Below you will find our last online tasks, to be given to me in class or in my escaninho by the appointed dates. The tasks are due June 15, June 22 and June 29, respectively.
July 6 is our last day of classes and here we will have an essay to be written (for 20 points).
A) Task on paraphrasing (for June 15)
Video by professor Stacy (7 minutes) http://youtube.com/watch?v=c43vCtTLLLs
1)Your task: : Watch video (Prof. Stacy) and show, with arrows , the direct quotes within a paraphrase and the sentences created by Stacy which were not in the original text.
Original:
What killed the dinosaurs: In 1980, Nobel-prize winning physicist Luiz Alvarez and his geologist son Valter rocked the scientific world with their proposal that the dinosaurs became extinct as the result of an impact of a huge rock from space. They found iridium in a thin layer of clay that marked the boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary geological periods, at the same time as the end of the dinosaurs and the appearance of mammals. Because iridium is rare on Earth rocks but abundant in rocks from the space (for example, in meteorites), they theorized that the iridium had come from a cosmic impact. (Sally Stephens, “ It Could Happen to Us”).
Cretaceous = period when the dinosaurs lived; Tertiary= period when mammals came on the scene.
Paraphrase [ for you to work on and indicate the direct quotes ]:
According to Stephens, two scientists named Alvarez made an amazing proposal in 1980. They had discovered iridium, a whitish metal, in some clay that marked the boundary between the time the dinosaurs disappeared and the time the mammals of the earth came forth. “Because iridium is rare in Earth rocks” but common in meteorites, “they theorized that the iridium had come from a cosmic impact” (21). This is sort of like crime detection on the mystery of who killed the dinosaurs. The iridium itself is the evidence and the Earth is the crime scene.
2) Your task: Enter
http://gsi.berkeley.edu/teachingguide2009/academic-misconduct/exercise.html
Say whether the 4 paraphrases are ok or not. Write a small report and tell me how well you did fare in this exercise.
B) Task on the Road not Taken (for June 22) HOME-TAKE ESSAY FOR 20 POINTS
Task – Write a 5-paragraph academic essay (introduction – 3 body paragraphs- conclusion) . Make it well structured. Unless you have developed your own way of structuring your essay, I advise you to use Marine Parks model.
Make sure you watch the videos on the poem, indicated below. Pay special attention to what Kevin Murphy says (23 minutes). Incorporate some of that into your essay. Also watch Stacy (7 minutes).
1) (Road noT taken) lecture by Stacy : http://youtube.com/watch?v=adj-Xd642UY
2) The Road no taken ( read aloud , with English subtitles) : : http://youtube.com/watch?v=SnWU29o2xwA
3)Kevin Murphy, Professor of English at Ithaca College, examines the discrepancy between Robert Frost's popularity during his lifetime and the darker implications of his poetry, as exemplified by one of his most cherished poems. (class in 23 minutes):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a5140uJOUDE&feature=related
C) Task on Parallelism (which will be useful for your writing skills)
for June 29
Enter : http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/niu/niu10.htm
1)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!
2)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: Take note of any of the 9 items you had problems with. Copy the item for me, not just the number of it!
3) As some help is needed for this task, watch the video (5 minutes) on parallelism (preparing for the The Graduate Management Admission Test:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8JkwCbd3o
