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Assignment 2

1. Write a journal entry for 15 to 20 minutes on the following topic.

Think about something unusual that you witnessed recently. What happened? What

was unusual about the experience? What about this experience struck you? How did you feel

coming away from the experience?

The last week I had to witness a bad happening in the school in which I am working currently.

I am the English teacher there, I was hired around a month ago. I was in inductions almost every day;

but at the same time, I had to give classes to the during this last term of the year.

The first time that I had class with the students of 11th grade, everything went as normal as possible.

I introduced myself and gave the most important commands and advices for the class. But the second

time I had class with them; as soon as I came in to the classroom a student was yelling and

behaving in a wrong way. I told him off because it was annoying all the things he was doing.

Suddenly, he started answering me in a bad way, being so rude with me. I just tried to handle the

situation. Unfortunately, the next class the situation went worse, he coursed me in the middle of the
class.

Everybody was listening to the things that the student was saying to me. Immediately, I took him to

the principal’s office to try to solve the problem. But the student was very upset. He started yelling the

Principal, even with bad words. At the end, he was fired from the school because of his behavior.

Although it was the best punishment for him, I felt really bad with the situation! I am new in the

school, I do not know most of the students; even more, I always tried to be kind with them, but this

was something that I never expected lo live here. I want the student to reflect on the situation and

change his attitude towards life.

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2. List a few good sources for the topic ideas in the following writing assignments.

Writing Assignment Sources

- RA Berry - Economic Development and Cultural

Change, 1975 - journals.uchicago.edu. Open
unemployment as a social problem in urban Colombia:
myth and reality.
a. Describe a social https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/450788?
problem in your
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community and
suggest ways to - C Blasier - Journal of Inter-American Studies, 1966 -
solve it. cambridge.org. Power and Social Change in Colombia;
the Cauca Valley.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-
inter-american-studies/article/abs/power-and-social-
change-in-colombia-the-cauca-valley/
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- P Barolsky - 2010 - books.google.com. Why Mona
Lisa smiles and other tales by Vasari.
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work of art and
discuss how it
makes you feel. - M Jeffreys - Colby quarterly, 1993 -
digitalcommons.colby.edu. The Mona Lisa and the
Symbol of Ideas: Pater's Leda as Mother to Yeat's
Helen.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=2949&context=cq

c. What are your - S Jamruz-Smith, PL Harrison, JA Cummings -

three greatest Communique, 2013 - academia.edu. The 2012 school
accomplishments? psychology futures conference: Accomplishments and
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- JS Mitchell - SOUND AND VIBRATION, 2016 -

sandv.com. Our Accomplishments–Your Legacy.
http://www.sandv.com/downloads/1608mitc.pdf

3. Use one of the techniques described in this lesson to come up with your own topic for

each of the following writing assignments. Remember, you only need to list topics.

Writing Assignment Topics

a. Write a five-page research paper about a
subject that interests you.
b. Write a two-page essay giving advice on a
topic with which you are familiar.

4. For each writing assignment described below, tell who the audience is and for what they

would be looking in the writing.

Writing Assignment Audience Purpose

a. an essay on a college application
form
b. a letter to the editor of your local
newspaper
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c. an essay on a biology test

d. a research paper for a college

composition class

5. Choose a piece of writing. The writing can be from any source. Then, answer the

following questions about the writing.

Piece of Writing
Reference
What is the topic?
What is the purpose of the writing?
Who is the main audience?
What is the form of the writing?
Did the writer achieve his or her goals? Give
specific examples to support your opinion.