"XXXL: Why Are We So Fat?" & CAT Revision

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A. Advanced Claims, Reasons, and Evidence

You will have approximately 1 hour to complete this exercise. Read the WHOLE document before beginning your work HERE.



B. Blog 10: Revision of CAT Practice #2

Once you get your CAT response back from me:

1. Read my feedback. 
2. Determine ONE, or at most TWO areas of your writing that need the most work.
3. Plan on how you will revise your writing in the area(s) you have chosen. Your goal is to try to reach the next score level for each area your are revising. If you had a 2, figure out how to get a 3; if a 3, how to get a 4, and so on. 
4. Begin Blog 10: Revision of CAT Practice 2. You may  have to start your response all over or add/delete ideas as you see fit. The completed blog entry is due Tuesday, November 1 at the beginning of class. This blog entry must be 400+ words.

Feel free to ask questions at any point.

HOMEWORK

1. Finish Blogs 9-10.

Homework: Blog 10 (due Sat 26 at 8:00am)

For this blog entry, review pages 1-7 of your class packet as well as your own reflections in blogs 2, 3, 7, and 9 on the four skills (Annotating, Summarizing, Thesis-based writing, and Paragraphing) we covered in this first unit.

Now write Blog 10: Reflection on Skills. This blog entry should be 250+ words and answer the questions below as thoughtfully, specifically, and honestly as you can. Please answer using separate paragraphs, one per topic.

1. What do you think you have learned in terms of writing skills?
2. What proves that you have learned what you say you have learned?
3. What of the material we have covered is still unclear or confuses you? 
4. Would you say that overall you feel more confident about your understanding of basic writing skills, less confident, or about the same as when we started class? What makes you feel this way? 
5. Anything else I should know about?

Brainstorming for and Writing Blog 10: "Where the Whale Be at?" (10/28)

Today you will annotate, summarize, and respond to "Where the Whale Be At?: The Place of Race and Racism in the Discussion of Environmentalism" on pages 46-49 of your class packet.

To help you with your response, I have included some items that I would like for you to check before you begin writing:

1. The 2009 article "An Outer Borough Drought" by Curtney Gross. This article discusses the discrepancy between what kinds of food are available for wealthy New Yorkers versus " lower median income" New Yorkers:

The Upper East Side has one of the highest concentrations of food retailers in the city, according to the Department of City Planning. The neighborhood ranks third in the number of grocery stores per capita, boasting more than 22,000 square feet of strictly supermarket space per 10,000 residents, according to the department.

But out of Manhattan, greens get elusive. In the South Bronx, residents have about half of that supermarket space. In Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant, 82 percent of retailers are unlikely to sell fresh fruits and vegetables, and in some areas of Upper Manhattan that number increases to 90 percent, according to city planning.

This article also includes the Going to Market: New York City's Neighborhood Grocery Store and Supermarket Shortage report. Slides 8-21 are particularly interesting.

 2.Map of Fast Food Places in NYC. Compare this map with the map of the supermarkets...notice anything?

3. A humorous look at the connection between race, class, and food. Who are today's fast food workers?