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hi class welcome to English 102 my name
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is Shauna Hayes I am your instructor
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this semester I want to just take a few
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minutes and walk you through the course
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setup so just follow along and jot down
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any questions that you may have feel
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free to pause the video and go back if
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you need further explanation or if I
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don't answer your questions please just
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email me um a specific list and I'd be
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happy to work with you so this is our
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content page this is our homepage um if
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your numbers look a little different
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that's okay uh the basic setup is the
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same so you'll notice up at the top here
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you have some some icons most of them
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you will not have to worry about but you
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do need to check announcements regularly
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these will pop up for you as soon as you
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open Blackboard and go into our class to
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announce any new um postings that I have
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made but it's always important to go in
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there and make sure that you have read
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through everything sometimes I make
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changes to assignments I may change due
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dates or add extra credit so the
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announcements are very important I also
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Post in there um office hours that I
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will hold online via Zoom for you so if
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you need to meet with me and ask any
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questions about an upcoming assignment
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or an essay um you can pop into the zoom
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um office hours and ask questions there
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so you'll find that information in the
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announcements you'll also notice that
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your grade book is here so you can
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access that anytime and there's a
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messages link here which is important so
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if you want to send me a message through
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the course
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instead of going into your MCC email
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account you can do that this way by
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clicking new message and then just start
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typing my name there I am you'll type
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your question here and then go ahead and
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hit send so this is a good way for you
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to contact me if you're working on an
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assignment and have a question uh just
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give me 24 hours to respond to you if
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you respond to if you send me an email
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through your MCC email account you may
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have uh quicker response time just
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because I have email on my phone and I
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don't have the Blackboard app on my
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phone so I do check my email a little
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bit more often than I come into
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Blackboard um but I will still get back
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to you within a day so under that you'll
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see you have some folders here you have
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course and instructor information and
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then you have these learning modules
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below so we're going to just go through
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this first folder folder together you'll
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see that you can click on the simple
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syllabus it is important important that
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you read through the syllabus make sure
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that you understand what is required of
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you as a student in this class uh what
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my rules are upcoming um expectations
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things like that I will have another
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video where I walk you through the most
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important elements of the syllabus but I
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do recommend that students read through
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it this first week uh let me know if you
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have any questions under that you'll see
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course schedule so go ahead and click on
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that if you click on the link here it
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will pop up for you so you can see that
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you you have all of your assignments for
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the entire semester laid out for you and
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um I do this for several reasons I think
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that students take online classes
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because they are are swamped um some of
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you may have full-time jobs and families
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and some you know of things coming up in
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your personal life so maybe you want to
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work ahead in your online class and
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that's completely fine you do have to
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meet the doe dates though um so
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everything in our class is due Tuesday
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Mornings at 8: am the only time that it
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is different is the very first week due
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to that holiday you'll see here that
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everything is due on the Wednesday
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instead but going forward everything is
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due on Tuesdays at 8:00 I do not accept
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late work in this class and the reason
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for that is because you already have all
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the information here for you so there is
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no reason for you to submit work late
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unless there is some kind of um huge
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issue in your life where you will
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contact me personally way in advance and
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let me know um what's happening and and
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why you need some extra time I do not
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give students extra time if they email
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me the night before the due date for
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obvious reasons you've had the whole
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week before to get your work in and I
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recommend that you do not procrastinate
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so um the late the late work policy is
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very strict in this class so if you do
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not submit your work you will receive a
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zero under the course schedule you'll
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see my information this is how to
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contact me this is my main office on
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campus this is my office phone number
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the best way though uh to reach me is
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through that email uh but make sure that
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you use your MCC email account when
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emailing me otherwise I can't open it so
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under that you'll see the the first week
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here week one is all due September 4 so
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let's go ahead and click on it and dive
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in you'll notice that there's a
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discussion board a journal and there's
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some readings and a quiz along with an
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assignment so let's go ahead and just
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start looking through this just to see
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what's expected you click on that
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discussion board first and the first
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week I just want to learn a little bit
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about you and have you learn a little
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bit about each other since this is an
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online class we don't get to meet
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together in person um but this way we do
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get to know a little bit about each
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other before diving into some of the
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more serious topics so answer these
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questions spend some time with your
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response and then make sure that you
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follow the requirements to get full
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credit for the discussion boards those
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are all listed here for you make sure
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that you read through those carefully
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when you're ready to respond to that
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main post you just go ahead and click in
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this box and start typing so um hi my
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name is shaa
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Hayes I love teaching English and
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literature and enjoy
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reading
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obviously in my spare time now I'll go
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back up here what are some of the
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questions that it's asking me what's my
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major long-term career goals Etc Hobbies
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so you can continue like this you can
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write in paragraph form I recommend that
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you do use separate paragraphs instead
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of just making this one long response
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you can also number your responses if
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you want to um I enjoy reading I enjoy
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hiking uh
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vacationing um walking by Beach and so
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on and you have some cool things up here
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that you can use so let's say I don't
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like the number and I instead want to
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use bullets so I can change those to
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bullets or numbers or however I want um
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let's say I want to bold reading and
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underline it because I love it let's say
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that I said I love reading the New
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Yorker since the New Yorker is a
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magazine a publication I know I need to
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italicize that so let's go ahead and do
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that and then later I do ask you to find
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some things on the internet so if you
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have to include a link let's say um
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let's say we have to include a link to a
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poem so
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let's look up a poem linkston Hughes is
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my favorite so we'll just go right to
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him okay I like this I'm going to
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highlight and copy this link I'm going
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to go in here and I'm going to write
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poem by linkston
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Hughes and I'm going to highlight that
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click on the link I'm going to include
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that link there paste it right in and
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insert it that way all of my classmates
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can look at that my instructor can look
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at that let's say I need to attach
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something that I have written on my own
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and saved on my desktop I can look for
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that here so I can go into my
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[Music]
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documents let's see how about I just go
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into American lit we'll use
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feminist uh critical theory sure we'll
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put that there so that's a document that
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you can include or let's say hey you
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know what I have to include this week A
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Spoken Word poem and so I have to find
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that on YouTube of course I would have
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already done this ahead of time and
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known which one I wanted to use but I
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would probably then I would probably
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search for that specific poem like rifle
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uh by Rudy Francisco is very good so
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let's just include Rudy there we'll go
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ahead and click insert so that's how I
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would include a video to share with um
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my classmates and my instructor and then
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maybe I wanted to give a brief um
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overview of that poem I could still keep
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typing below and then whenever you're
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done with your main post obviously none
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of this is what you want for week one
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you just want to tell us about yourself
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but you would click respond and as soon
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as you click respond you will be able to
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view your classmates responses to this
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main post and then you can go in and you
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can reply to them so um so really
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important that you read through all the
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instructions there take your
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time under course introductions you'll
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see a a journal and it says here I must
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click Start attempt in order to access
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the instructions you need to do this
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each and every time do not panic about
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clicking start attempt it is not timed
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you can go in and out as often as you
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would like it's just the way Blackboard
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is set up so you'll see the journal
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overview here um you need to read
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through this very carefully it's
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important to understand that I do not
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read these entries um the information is
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private I just glance at the submission
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make sure that the top of it is
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submitted using MLA guidelines which
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means you have your header here your
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name here my name here the course Title
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Here the date written just like this the
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title you'll notice it's not bolded or
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underlined and everything is double
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spaced indented first um line of my
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paragraphs there good margins looks
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great so this would be 100% journal and
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I wouldn't even have to read it so um
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just understand that you can feel free
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to be honest and open in these journals
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think of them as free writing uh just
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with a little bit of structure so this
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is these are the instructions and then
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you'll click continue to get that
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journal prompt each week so this week it
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says after watching shimma n adi's Ted
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Talk the danger of a single story then
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read through the following prompt so I'm
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going to go ahead and click on that Ted
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Talk there she is and she's telling me
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about the danger of a single story and
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um I'm going to watch that and read
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through the or watch that and take notes
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while I listen and then I'm going to go
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ahead and read through the prompt and it
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says do not submit your work in the
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submission box below okay so that means
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do
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not type your response like this this is
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not what I want instead you're going to
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use this attachment icon that we just
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learned about in the discussion boards
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you're going to find it on your desktop
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and you're going to upload it that way
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so you're going to save it it's going to
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come right here for my viewing pleasure
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there it is you can take a look at it as
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soon as it pops in and that way you can
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make sure that the formatting looks
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right and that it's all there and that
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you've responded to everything that you
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need to and then you're going to go
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ahead and click submit because I ask you
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to uh use MLA formatting that is why you
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cannot type in this box directly because
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the formatting will be a total mess so
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that is how you submit your journals
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each week on your Journal you'll see you
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have your readings and quiz you have
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readings and quizzes every single week
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again you have to click Start attempt
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even though nothing's timed do not panic
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um you'll have a lot of videos this week
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um just a couple short short readings at
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the end but everything that's
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highlighted in the reading section is
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what I want you to read there is no
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official textbook for this class so
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everything is housed right here for you
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but you do have to link out to all of
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these and make sure that you watch
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everything that is asked of you in the
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reading section before moving on to the
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quiz so I ask you to take a look at
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Raymond Carver's bio and Emily
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Dickinson's bio then read the short
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story by Raymond Carver which pops open
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right when you click on it and the poem
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by Emily
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Dickinson and then you're ready to go
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into the quiz so you'll notice that the
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quiz requirements are here for you first
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the quiz requirements are really
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important and you need to read through
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them very very carefully I am very picky
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about quizzes and I'll tell you why in a
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minute here's a student example of a
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quiz response so you'll see that they
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have their heading here real nice a good
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title everything is in here look at all
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these beautiful quotes and then um if
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you want to read through these which I
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recommend that you do you'll get an idea
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of what it is I'm looking for in your
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responses each week so again I say do
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not submit your work in the submission
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box below you must type it in a separate
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document and then upload it below just
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like we just did for the journal you'll
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need to use a word-based document to
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respond to all of the questions for the
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quizzes each week use that me MLA
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formatting and good grammar and spelling
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blah blah blah so each week I give you
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tips for success for your quiz these are
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crucial to you receiving full credit on
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your quizzes I ask that you respond to
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each question with fully developed
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complete sentences and then this week
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these are all of your little tips for
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Success so you must read through these
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the reason why I give you these is
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because this is going to help build your
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knowledge for the essays that you write
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in this class and classes in the future
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it's really important that you
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understand how to use quotes how to know
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how to site properly and I teach you
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that each and every week with your
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quizzes so I am really picky and I grade
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your quizzes really harshly if you do
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not follow these weekly tips so it's
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important that you read through these
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each and every week because they do
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change they're not always the same as
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we're kind of building your know
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as the course goes on so what I ask that
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you do this first week is introduce the
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poet author and title of the piece when
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answering the question be sure to proof
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read for errors in some cases you do
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need to include citations from your
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readings to support your responses if
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you include quotes be sure to use quotes
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and inex citations this is that inex
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citation right here you must include the
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author's last name and the page number
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so there's the author's last name page
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number and Par parentheses if there are
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no page numbers you will use the
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paragraph number instead just like this
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and it must look just like this you do
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not need a comma here but you must have
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a period after the p a r a space then
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the number then your end parentheses if
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you're citing poetry you need to include
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the line numbers so just like this your
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poet last name is here the lines are
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here so similar to the one above we're
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just altering the information on the
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inside
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and when quoting poetry it's incl
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important to include a slash in between
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the line breaks so that you must include
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the exact punctuation and capitalization
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that is present by the poet because it's
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there for a reason for
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example in Walt Whitman's poem America
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the narrator includ includes a list of
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all of those who should be treated equal
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in our country all alike and deared
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grown ungrown young or old there's a
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line break see this flash I added strong
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ample Fair enduring capable and Rich and
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because I've already introduced
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Whitman's last name here I don't know
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need it here I'm just telling you which
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lines I have included notice here that I
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have also introduced like I set up here
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the poet's name and the title of the
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piece before responding to the quiz
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question it's really important that you
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do this notice that I also use the word
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the narrator here not Whitman because
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the poet is not always the one who's
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speaking in the poem you cannot assume
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actually ever that it is the poet
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speaking in the poem unless it is
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specifically said in the poem itself so
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then you get down to the quiz questions
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for this week you'll notice the point
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value is here and sometimes I say you
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need to include a specific quote or
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example from the piece to support your
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response so make sure that you do that
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make sure that you do include the quotes
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make sure you do include examples use
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good quotes and good Intex citations
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like you just learned how and then once
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you're ready and you've proof R you can
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include that attachment here and then
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simply click
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submit so under the readings and quiz
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tab you'll see assignments assignments
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are um sort of building blocks to your
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midterm and your final so your midterm
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is going to an essay based on a poem and
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then you're also going to submit a
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presentation based on that poem so you
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will do both you will have an essay and
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a presentation at midterm time that
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you'll need to submit and you'll see
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here that you have the instructions for
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the essay they're very specific very
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very detailed so it's important that you
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read through those along with the
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instructions for the presentation so you
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click on those there you go everything's
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there for you and then it tells you
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what's coming up so next week you're
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going to submit your poem choice so it's
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important that you read through the
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instructions this week get an idea of
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what it is you're going to do these
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three poems you may not use because I
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use them in the class as examples and
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then here's just some links you can see
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Poetry Foundation you can just you can
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click around you can start searching for
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your poem that you have to submit next
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week for approval and then you need to
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check the course schedule for upcoming
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due dates so you'll notice if we go out
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of the assignment you don't have
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anything to submit this week all I ask
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that you do is review the instructions
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so you can click out of that when you're
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done reading go back into the course
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schedule and you can look here and see
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assignments each week are building you
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towards that midterm so here's week one
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where you review the instructions then
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you submit your poem I'm asking that you
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work on the Poetry essay and
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presentation in week three that you do a
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check-in in week four
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that you finalize everything in week
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five and then you submit so you have
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quite a while to do this project but it
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is very lengthy and it does take quite a
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bit of time so it is important for you
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to start working early and do not save
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this for midterm time your midterm and
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your final are worth 50% of your overall
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grade so it's really important that you
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start this early and even in weeks like
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week three where the assignment is to
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work on your presentation I do give you
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information in here like the student
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example and videos in here that will
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help you use kind of as building blocks
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through each week so you want to keep
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working make sure that you're checking
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in in all of your assignments each week
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even if you have nothing to submit
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there's information in here that's going
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to be really helpful to you so anyways
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that's all the assignments for all the
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weeks and those that's pretty much the
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overview for our course so if you have
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any further questions or concerns please
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please email me right away I don't want
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anyone to feel lost um and I really look
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forward to working with all of you
