Blog Assignment Two: From Farm to Fridge

Directions

First, students should watch the following four-minute video (here).

For their blog, students should summarize the contents of the video in terms of facts and images. The blog should address what the video said, but also what it showed. Consider creating keywords. 

After viewing the video and summarizing it, students should analyze the contents of the video by connecting it with the reading and meditating on its significance. 

Topic Sentence Exercise

They took turns minding each other’s piglets so that each sow could forage. All of this natural behavior is inexpressible in confinement. 

Domestics pigs, usually raised in confinement, were let loose in this facility and their behavior observed. 

In this environment, the sows covered almost a mile a day in foraging, and, in keeping with their reputation as clean animals, they built carefully constructed nests on a hillside so that urine and feces ran downhill. 

Under normal conditions, pigs reveal that they are highly intelligent and behaviorally complex animals.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh created a ‘pig park’ that approximates the habits of wild swine.

Blogging the peer review

For Introductions

Besides making sure your thesis is there:

- test whether or not your keywords are defined
EX: Superbugs are...
- introduce the texts you're going to be using
EX: In this essay I will give evidence from The CAFO Reader, Food, INC., and Slaughterhouse.
- give the reader a story/preview from your evidence
EX: We can already see these ideas at work in a story from The CAFO Reader. In that story...

Topic Sentences

Topic sentences of paragraphs should generally correspond to the ideas raised in the thesis. Further, the topic sentence of each paragraph should define what every other sentence in that paragraph is about.

Keywords

Remember, keywords are ideas. They are ideas because they can explain more than one thing. Is antibiotics a keyword? Maybe...but "low-wages" are definitely a keyword, because they can explain how labor is paid for in more than one industry (food, retail, prison, etc).

NOTE: You don't have to actually use the word "keyword" in your essays. You might use the word "ideas" instead - it depends on who you consider your reader to be.

Peer Review: Assignment One

Peer Review Guidelines

1. Move into your PR groups.
2. Determine who will read in what order.
3. Budget 10-15 minutes per person and no more.
4. The reader reads their paper aloud.
5. Give written feedback that offers specific criticism according to criteria below.
6. Put your name on this feedback and give it to the writer.
7. Keep your written feedback and staple it to your final draft.
 


ENG 101 Assignment One

Evaluate the essays in your peer review groups by responding thoughtfully to each of the following criteria. Focus on the criteria you feel students should most address in their drafts. Attach written suggestions from your peers to your final drafts for full peer review credit.

1. Thesis: Essay explains what CAFOs do, how CAFOs work, and what they mean using keywords; (30%)

2. Structure: Essay organized around topic sentences; each paragraph provides 'they say' context; essay explains direct quotations (30%)

3. Evidence: Essay successfully places direct quotes into each body paragraph; essay cites those quotes correctly according to MLA guidelines; essay contains a bibliography (20%)

4. Critical Thinking: Essay interprets quotes in original ways that go beyond class discussion; essay connects main ideas to other texts or moments in text; essay utilizes keywords and defines them

Quiz: CAFO Reader

Open note if you show the professor your note-taking process. 

Directions: Summarize the main ideas of the CAFO Reader assignment. More points will be awarded for more specific answers. Worth up to 6 points. 

Blog One: Summary, Paraphrase, and Direct Quotation

Length: 250-300 words

For your first blog, summarize the introduction of Daniel Imhoff's The CAFO Reader. Be sure to practice the following techniques:

* Give your reader directions. Who is your audience? What do they need to know when they encounter your blog post for the first time?

Sample directions: In this blog I will discuss...

* Practice summary: summary is the art of condensing lots of information into just several sentences. You may have to raise key terms, key dates, keywords, or key ideas. You will have to arrange these ideas in a way that makes sense for your reader. You should define the special terms, keywords, or ideas that you bring up. If the reader needs to know more about the passage where you found the idea, it's your job to explain it.

* Practice paraphrase: Paraphrasing happens when you put a short phrase or sentence or important idea into your own words. Remember to refer to the author.

* Direct quotation: Once in your blog, use "direct quotation" to pull out a special phrase, group of words, single word, or sentence that you find especially meaningful. Be sure to put citation at the end of your sentence, before the period. Then explain the meaning of that quotation to your reader, no matter what else happens in your blog.

This quote is important because...

OR


Here, Imhoff's ideas are important because....

Diagnostic Instructions

Writing Directions

Read the passage handed out in class and write a 400-word essay responding to the ideas it presents.  In your introduction, be sure to state the article’s most important ideas. Develop your introduction by identifying the one idea in the passage that you feel is especially significant, and explain its significance - this will be your thesis.  Support this thesis with evidence or examples drawn from the article, other texts you have read and/or learned in school, and/or personally experienced. As you write your essay, be sure to summarize the important passages in your own words, quoting where you feel necessary or desirable to make a point. 

Remember to review your essay and make any changes or corrections that are needed to help your reader follow your thinking.  You will have 60 minutes to complete your essay.

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