OPSU ADVANCED COMP 2006

Hello there. This is Tyler, your friendly neighborhood blogger. I tell you exactly what we did on the 1st and 3rd of May.

May 1

-The first thing everyone did was talk about their Faulkner and Hemingway Research Papers. We all discussed what kind of problems we had and how much tireless hours we spent on it.
-Shea made a suggestion for future Advanced Comp. classes. She recommended that Research Papers should be done first before moving on to the Faulkner and Hemingway Style Narratives. I think she has a good point.
-Laura gave the Journal Prompt today. The topic was, "What do you think the sculpture out on the OPSU front yard represent?" Becky was the only one in class who read her Journal Entry.
-It was Marcus turn on Author's Chair today and he decide to read his Autobiography. Everybody thought it was well written, descriptive, and pretty humorous.
-Shea missed Author's Chair last week. So she also did hers as well today.
-Laura had Reader's Chair today. She decided to read a paragraph from J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit.
-Dr. Richter reminded everyone that the research papers were due next week on the 1oth.
-The last thing we did was Peer Critique our papers and sign up for a scheduled time to meet Dr.Richter so she could review them.

May 3

-We had no class today.
-All we had to do was come to Dr. Richter's office individualy for the Professor's critique on the Fualkner and Hemingway Research Papers.

OPSU ADVANCED COMP 2006

April 10, 2006

* Journal prompt was given by Kelly: Describe the animal that your personality is most like.
*Author's chair was read by Becky: a poem she wrote in 2002 after losing her 11-year-old son in a cave-in accident.
*Writing lesson was given by Shea, titled "Welcome to Shea's Creative Writing Seminar." In her lesson, we wrote about a topic given to each student, and in that topic, there were four words that were also given for us to use. After the students read their works (and received a prize for doing so), we continued with the lesson. We were then divided into teams and both members of the team were given a title, words that were familiar, and words that we possibly didn't know, and write for 15 minutes each. Once our 15 minutes were up, we traded stories with our teammates and completed their stories. The stories were read, and they were very humorous. Excellent writing lesson!

April 12, 2006

*Journal prompt was given by Cory: What kind of drink would you be if you were a drink?
*Reader's chair was read by Shea: Lewis Gizzard's Shoot Low Boys - They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies. This was a humorous excerpt on bologna.
*We briefly discussed our autobiographies and our in-class presentation.
*Writing lesson was given by Mitch, titled "Mitchell Locke's Horror Writing Lesson." It was a lesson over the horror genre. We first were told to make a list of scary images, followed by writing a scary event that happened to us that turned out to be nothing. After that, we wrote about a movie or TV show that scared us most as a child. To conlcude his writing lesson, we used the words that we created with the scary term and wrote our own story. Very scary, but really good writing lesson.
*Once the writing lesson was over, we evaluated Dr. Richter.

Hello, English 4123 Students!
This is your professor typing away! I've just created a blog for us to use this spring as our class record. Each week a student will take "minutes" or notes on our classroom activities. Then, by the Tuesday of the following week, that student will tell the world about what went on in English 4123 the previous week via this blog. At the end of the semester, there will be at least 17 entries to the blog. Students -- and "outsiders" -- may rebutt or comment on the blog's contents if they wish. The bloggers themselves may blog about advanced composition in verse, in parody, in bulleted format, in real paragraphs; they may be serious or not! However, they must be comprehensive and sign their own names!
The world is ever-evolving (and revolving), and various types of written discourse are created daily. The "blog" is one of the newest forms of writing. You can never say that Richter doesn't try to stay up-to-date in the world of composition!
This initial post serves as an introduction of our class to the world and our class blog to you, the Oklahoma Panhandle State University students in English 4123: Advanced Composition.
Go into the world, prosper, and blog.
May the blog be with you.
There's good blogging at midnight!
Into each life, some blog must fall.
There's no business like blog business!
My kingdom for a blog!
A blog in the hand is worth two blogs in the bush.
Take two blogs and call me in the morning.
I hear you blogging, but you can't come in.
Blog in my ear, and I'll follow you anywhere!
--sjrichter
12/29/05