Hawai`i Community
College, Hilo, Hawai`i
E60 Bulletin Board
10/30/97
BOO!
Activities for the day before Halloween
- Notice:
Take a look at Richard's pictures on his home page.
If you have a picture you want scanned, see your instructor. Go through
the Students and Projects link below.
- Visit a Halloween
site. For extra credit, complete a completed Examaination
of a Web Site form for one site.
- .Grammar (Spelling, cont.)
- Exemption: Margaret and T.J.
- Blue Pencil Lesson Practice/Worksheet only (no computer work)
- Teaching grammar concept (spelling rule of your choice) to instructor
or classmate
- Mechanics Quiz #8
- Work on Writing Activity #4
- Study for LWW Chapter #4 Quiz
- Work on Writing Activity #4:
research planning and gathering information
- Use the links to UHCARL and Hawaii FYI now in the Archives.
- Be sure Writing Assigment #4 is an extension of the informaiton you
gather in Writing Assignment #3
- Writing Assignment #4 can be done in Notepad, HTML Professional,
or a word processing program of your choice. The assignment must be saved
on disk , however, no matter which program you choose.
- Individual Conferences: Progress with Writing Assignments #3 and #4
- Old Business: Check your mid-term progress report to see what
activities are incomplete.
- Work on Writing Activity
#3:
- Earn some extra credit by completing the Examination
of a Web Site form.
- You receive ten points for each site examined thoroughly.
- Print out a form or acquire one from your instructor.
- Use the criteria listed on the examination form as an ouline
for your summary of a web site
- LWW Chapter 3 (Writng a Summary) Quiz
- LWW Chapter 5 (Writing Instructions) Quiz .
- Grammar Activity (Pronouns)
- Rxempt: Margaret and T.J.
- Blue Pencil Lesson E (all)
- Teaching grammar concept (use of he/him) to instructor or classmate
- Mechanics Quiz #6
- Work on Writing Assignment
#2A and B
- Grammar Activity (Word Choice and Spelling)
- Exempt: Margaret, William, and T.J.
- Blue Pencil Lesson H (all)
- Teaching grammar concept (use of farther and further)
to instructor or classmate
- Mechanics Quiz #7
- Grammar Activity (Verbs)
- Exempt: Margaret, William, and T.J.
- Blue Pencil Lesson G (all)
- Teaching grammar concept (subject/verb agreement) to instructor or
classmate
- Mechanics Quiz #5
- Grammar Activity (Plurals and Possessives)
- Exempt: Margaret, William,. and T.J.
- Blue Pencil Practice/Worksheet
- Blue Pencil Lesson F (2 and 3 only)
- Explain the rule for using an apostrophe with a plural noun to your
teacher or a classmate.
- Mechanics Quiz #4 (Plurals and Possessives)
- Grammar Activity (Capitalization)
- Exempt: Margaret, William, and T.J.
- Complete the Blue Pencil Lesson A (all)
- Explain the rule for capitalizing directions (east, northeast, etc.)
to your teacher or a classmate.
- Take Grammar Quiz #3.
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For quick reference for specifics of previous and present class activities:
This web site has been created by Birch Robison, Associate
Professor of Reading at Hawai'i Community College, for students enrolled
in English 060 (Technical Report Writing) for the 1997 Fall semester.
It is an update of a similar activity originating
from the HERN '95
Institute, held at Kapiolani Community College in July, 1995.
Questions about these Internet activities can
be directed to birch@hawaii.edu.
The E60 Bulletin Board is updated two or three times a week
during the semester of instruction.