This and next week

Hi!
This week we started reading the article "Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police."
We'll finish reading it on Monday.
On Tuesday, we'll continue with the handout "Summarizing a text."
If you do not come with the text answered, we won't be able to move faster.
I am sending the ppts containing each class' material. Read them and if you have questions please ask them in class or just post them as comments.

More information on

Civil Rights Movement:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/Welcome.htm

JFK Assassination:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

America during the 50's:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html

America during the 60's:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html

America during the 70's:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html

Might help

This website might be helpful for your Language Studies class.

http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/

Homework for Monday

Hi!
Homework for Monday:

A.
Read the two texts (Creatividad, La Llave del Siglo XXI, Thirty Eight who saw murder didn't call the police) and follow the fisrt three steps in writing a summary.

1. Step One: "...accurately read the original text.", "...identify the controlling idea of each paragraph." (Summarizing a Text, 1)
2. Step two: "...analyze the rest of the information in the text, interact with the ideas." (Summarizing a Text, 2)
3. Step three: "... read through your highlighting and marginal notes and determine the controlling idea of the entire reading." (Summarizing a Text, 5)

B.
Read the handout "Summarizing a Text" and complete exercises 1-17.


If you are curious about who Marco Antonio de La Parra is, you can find information about him on this website:
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-68482006000200008&lng=pt&nrm=

This week

Hi!
Remember, on Wednesday we have the Intensive test.

For Thursday we have two homeworks:

1. Workshop 1: This must be done.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgmvk7jn_7827pk4g

2. Summarizing a Text: This document consists of 21 pages and is now at Picachu photocopy center. I can also email it to you if you want. I'm uploading it at SIGA also, but that might take a while. This document must be read for Thursday's class since we will discuss it and use it to start producing summaries.

Today we reviewed the handout about APA Referencing System. We did some exercises and finished with that.