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ENG 101 -- Class Notes  
Session 5  
Thu. 9/29  
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TODOs  

1)	Go Over Grade Books -- Look over your feedback for the “Using Quotes: The Basics” activity
 
grades101.lagcconline.com 
  
2)	Starter Word File for Essay #1 (10 min.) 
 
3)	**Sample Essay #1 (25+ min.)  
  
4)	**Robert Moses -- "The Saga of Flushing Meadows" 
Introduced + Selected Letters (10 min.) 
  
**"The Valley of Ashes" -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- ~5 min.  

***Break*** 
  
5)	**Robert Moses -- "The Saga of Flushing Meadows"  
 
(55 min.  = 15 min. Reading + 20 min. Reading Questions 
+ 10 min. Discussion)  

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      Sample Essay #1
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**What’s good about this sample essay? Write down two things that are successful about this response. Also write down one suggestion, either in the ‘style’ or the evidence (argument).  

**It connects Amy Tan to the writer’s own story.  ***She relates to the story....  
**She uses an everyday situation.  
  
**Good use of quotes and quote sandwiches (3 is ideal).  
  
Sentence styles (confusing overlong sents.)  

THESIS STATEMENT (goes at the end of intro.)  

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Robert Moses "The Saga of Flushing Meadows" (pp. 73+ in Course Pack)  
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1) CHOOSE A PHOTO.  What does your photo show about the history of Flushing Meadows....  
  
2 things / events / functions  that Flushing Meadows was used for? Was it always a park?  
  
Timeline for Flushing Meadows Park, Queens  
  
--Corona Dumps / ash heap 1890s - 1930s  
 
**Answers

**Farmland  1600s   
  
**Corona Dump 1900-1938 -- coal ash  
  
**World’s Fair 1939-40  
  
They presented a vision of America -- cars, highways and suburbs!  
  
**United Nations 1946  
  
-World’s Fair 1964-65  
  
**Shea Stadium 1960s 2000s  
  
**Tennis Stadium  
  
**Citi Field -- Present Day  
  
Queens Hall of Science Museum / Art Museum (1964 World's 
Fair)  
  
**Unisphere (1964)  
  
**Flushing Meadows -- green space   

2) What kind of a person was Robert Moses? Using “The Saga of 
Flushing Meadows,” what kind of personality does he project? 
Confident
Over-confident
Proud of NYC 
Proud of his accomplishments building highways, bridges and parks
  
***Overconfident -- brag about his work with highways, bridges and tunnels and turning the Corona Dump into the site of 2 World’s Fairs (in 1939 and in 1964) -- He managed both projects 25 years apart!  
  
Confident / overconfident
Consistent in his efforts to improve this space (two World's Fairs, UN, museum, stadiums)  Grand Central Parkway!
  
"Saga" -- like an epic (thinks his accomplishments are 'epic’)?    -

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  NEXT TIME THU. 10/6**  
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**THERE ARE NO CLASSES AT LAGUARDIA ON TUE. 10/4 (YOM KIPPUR) SO OUR CLASS MEETS NEXT ON THU. 10/6!

1)	START WORKING / KEEP WORKING ON YOUR ESSAY #1 -
- PRELIM. DRAFT DUE IN WEEK ON TUE. 10/11 (2:15 pm) 

PLAN TO BRING 2+ PRINTED PAGES TO CLASS THEN (OR HAVE A LINK TO A GOOGLE DOC OR WORD DOCX FILE).
  
Just follow the 3 Steps to write your essay. You can add a short intro. / conclusion for the revised version.  

*We’ll be looking at Queens Historical Photos -- so there isn’t a ‘reading’ for next time. We’ll  be looking at photos from LaGuardia’s mini-museum -- The La Guardia and Wagner Archives in class then.

***Use this week to make progress on your Essay #1!