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10/25

icon Essay Map for the Midterm Essay (and All Remaining Essays)

icon Midterm Review

This is a review for our Midterm/ Essay #2, which will take place on TUE. NOV. 1st (2:15 pm - 4:25 pm)

icon Class Notes Session #11 -- Midterm Review

icon Our MIDTERM / ESSAY #2 will take place on THU. 11/1 (2:15 pm - 4:25 pm)

We will be taking the Midterm on Tue. 11/1, 2:15 pm - 4:25.

IN-CLASS ESSAY


Use the Midterm Review to get ready for this essay!

icon Reading for Session #12 (Thu. 10/27): Gautam Bhatia, "New (And Improved?) Delhi"

***Please try to read this before our next class.

We will always give you ~15 minutes of reading time during class for readings, but that may not be enough for some students.

10/20

  **SESSION #10 THU. 10/20 **

Links on Materials on Work on Amazon.com Warehouses

icon A Revised Draft of Essay #1 was DUE on THU. 10/20

If you didn't submit this work yet, you can make it up!

When you're finished please upload it to our Submit Page:

submit101.lagcconline.com

icon Amazon's NYC Warehouse Workers Become First in US to Unionize

icon "How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement" (Time Magazine)

icon Inside Amazon.com for Christmas

icon Inside of Amazon's busiest days

icon "Revealed: Amazon Employees Are Left to Suffer After Workplace Injuries" by Michael Sainato

icon Working at an Amazon Warehouse

icon From Mall to Amazon.com Fulfillment Center

Amazon: Amazon.com @ Google Maps

icon Sarah O'Connor Amazon Article (bit.ly)

icon Reading: Sarah O'Connor, "Amazon Unpacked" (pp. 100-111 in Course Pack)

icon Group Work -- Sarah O'Connor's "Amazon Unpacked": More on Work in the 21st Century

icon Class Notes Session #10 -- Sarah O'Connor's "Amazon Unpacked"

10/18

  **SESSION #9 TUE. 10/18 **

CLASS CANCELED -- INSTRUCTOR PERSONAL DAY -- PLANNED TRAVEL 

We will adjust our class schedule accordingly.

icon OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT READING: Alex Janin, "Thanks to Remote Work, Many in Gen Z May Never Work in an Office. Will It Matter?" COURSE PACK, pp. 28-32

icon OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT ONLINE ACTIVITY: Reading Questions on Alex Janin, "Thanks to Remote Work, Many in Gen Z May Never Work in an Office. Will It Matter?"

You can read the article and answer these questions for EXTRA CREDIT.

OPTIONAL / EXTRA CREDIT -- On Google Forms, GRADED DUE TUE. 10/25 (11:59 pm)

10/13

  **SESSION #8 THU. 10/13 **

icon Combining Sentences Handout (Part 2)

This 2nd grammar handout will help you stop FRAGments in your writing and understanding 'connecting words' that use SUBORDINATION.

icon A Revised Draft of Essay #1 is DUE on THU. 10/20

Keep working on your draft.

When you're finished please upload it to our Submit Page:

submit101.lagcconline.com

icon In-Class Practice Sentences

For the Combining Sentences with Subordination handout

icon (Answer Key to In-Class Practice Sentences)

For the Combining Sentences with Subordination handout

icon Apple iPad 2010 Original Ad

icon  The Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn's Lies

Link to a video posted by an amateur 'citizen journalist' on the conditions at one of Foxconn's iPad manufacturing plants in China

icon Apple Chinese Factory Foxconn Nightline

(For enrichment -- Link to a segment from a TV news broadcast on FoxConn plants.)

icon In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

(Link to the original New York Times article online.)

icon Duhigg and Barboza iPad Article (bit.ly)

icon Reading: Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, "In China, Human Costs Are Built into an iPad", COURSE PACK, pp. 83-96

icon Group Work Duhigg and Barboza's iPad Article

icon Class Notes Session #8 -- Duhigg and Barboza's "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad"

icon CLASS WAS CANCELED FOR TUE. 10/18 -- (INSTRUCTOR TRAVEL)

There will be an EXTRA CREDIT exercise on a Alex Janin's short article on Remote Work and Gen Z (Wall Street Journal) posted before Tue. 10/18. Complete reading questions for OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT.

***For everyone -- you should use this extra time to work on your Revised Draft of Essay #1, which is due on THU. 10/20 (11:59 pm).***


icon OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT READING: Alex Janin, "Thanks to Remote Work, Many in Gen Z May Never Work in an Office. Will It Matter?" COURSE PACK, pp. 28-32

icon OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT ONLINE ACTIVITY: Reading Questions on Alex Janin, "Thanks to Remote Work, Many in Gen Z May Never Work in an Office. Will It Matter?"

You can read the article and answer these questions for EXTRA CREDIT.

OPTIONAL / EXTRA CREDIT -- On Google Forms, GRADED DUE TUE. 10/25 (11:59 pm)

10/11

  **SESSION #7 TUE. 10/11 **

icon Peer Editing for Essay #1

icon Reading : Andrew Curry, "Why We Work", Course Pack, pp. 23-27

icon Curry Reading Link

icon Group Work --- Andrew Curry's "Why We Work"

icon Class Notes Session #7 -- Peer Editing on Essay #1 Andrew Curry's "Why We Work"