Lesson Plan for Week 9: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Eng 193, Prof. Newfield
27 November 2012

1. Thought for the day:

   Every $1 that the California taxpayer invests in UC and its students results in $9.80 in gross state product and $13.80 in overall economic output. Every $1 reduction in state funding has the potential to reduce the state's economic output by $2.10 - not including collateral effects resulting from decrease in the quality of education or the likelihood of diminished funding from other sources.

   Source: http://is.gd/ulituy

2. Administrative matters:
   • Did everyone have a good Thanksgiving?
   • Reminder: three lecture notes were posted last Tuesday; they will be taken down tonight. If you are keeping up with the lecture notes and have not yet obtained these, please do so before midnight.
   • The document How Your Grade Is Calculated (in Excruciating Detail) has been updated slightly to reflect the fact that section meets 9 times this quarter, not 10.
   • I mis-spoke in section two weeks ago: your second paper is due on Dec 12, not December 1. This means that I will not have your papers graded by the final (since the final is the day after your papers are due). If you would like to have your paper graded by the time that you take your final, you should turn it in by Dec. 5.
   • Thanks to the conversion of U-Mail to the Office 365 platform, my school email is currently not working. Please use eng193 dot pmooney78 at neverbox dot com until further notice. If you have sent me email at my school address since about 2 a.m. today, I have not received it. (Note: As of 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday 28 November, this seems no longer to be the case.)
   • Have an outstanding professor or TA? Nominate him/her for a prestigious Faculty Senate award! https://senate.ucsb.edu/~awards/nominations/
   • Reminder: if you have not yet taken either of the first two quizzes, you must take the third quiz (29 November) to avoid automatically restricting your grade to the non-passing range. No re-tests will be offered and no excuses will be accepted.
   • Distribution and discussion of fiction-grading rubric.
3. Writing Research Group-based feedback exercise, based loosely on this article. (You may find it helpful to log into the UCSB Library Proxy Server before clicking on that link.)
   • Return quizzes (during group work), plus any outstanding papers.
   • For those who have asked: The musical selections played during the exercise all came from soundtracks to detective movies that are mentioned in the course syllabus, primarily those that are mentioned as "recommended viewing" on the last page. They were:
     1. Bill Conti, Meet Ms. Banning, Glider, Pt. 1, and Cocktails (from the soundtrack to the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair), followed by Samurai Code Quote #2 (from the soundtrack to Ghost Dog).
     2. Robert Miles, Voices From a Submerged Sea (from the soundtrack to Th1rt3en), followed by Samurai Code Quote #3 (from the soundtrack to Ghost Dog).
     3. Suzuki Keiichi, The Naruto-ya Rice Merchant Massacre (from the soundtrack to Zatoichi), followed by Samurai Code Quote #4 (from the soundtrack to Ghost Dog).
     4. Jerry Goldsmith, J.J. Gittis and Love Theme From Chinatown (End Title) (from the soundtrack to Chinatown), followed by Samurai Code Quote #1 (from the soundtrack to Ghost Dog).
     5. Hans Zimmer, Corynorhinus (from the soundtrack to Batman Begins).
4. Administrative matters:
   • Please be in section next week! I will be distributing evaluations and I want your honest feedback!
   • Questions?