Developmental English Midterm Grades and Assignments
Please post any questions that you have here about assignments that are due. Here is the list below:
Assignments due:
* Blog Comment on Writing: On the blog for our class, post a comment about you past history as a writer. What writing problems do you have? How do you hope to improve as a writer?
* Paragraph on trees article: Trees are disappearing on the West coast because of global warming. Write your opinion about what you learned from this article in a brief freewrite.
trees dying because of global warming
* Read the essay by Vaclav Havel in Reading the Environment. Write a paragraph on what you learned from Havel. Do you agree or disagree with his views?
* In class Havel quote (this may be posted as a comment on my blog): choose a quote by Havel and write about it
* In class, we revised four sentences students wrote. If you didn't complete this assignment, revise the first four sentences in the editing link under Spring 2009 course updates
* We wrote about the possibility of electric cars becoming popular. Do you think they will help resolve the global warming problem? link
* Write a paragraph about Obama's energy policies. We read an article about Obama's energy policies.
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* Fill out the entire questionnaire at the beginning of the Reading the Environment project
* Write an in-class essay after watching the film Out of Balance
posted by Dr. Comprone's Blog @ 1:23 PM
4 Comments:
Dr. comprone this is your student Devan Hughes and this site is nice, and i am enjoying your class.
I do not think it is a smart idea to pursue investments in environmental technologies while we are in a recession. I think right now the government needs to work on our economy issue for the year 2009, what good is giving millions of people jobs in the year 2025 when everyone is out of work now.
I don't think the government can give incentives to private businesses to invest in renwable energy, with out taking more money out of the tax payers.
I think Obama's plan is ambitious enough, but I think he needs to be more concerned with the economy right now, and then he can worry with the environmental technologies. I do think the environmental issue is important, but right now I think we need to be concerned with getting people jobs now.
Dear Karen,
That is an important point. The only objection I have is that during a recession, the government always spends more money to get us out of the recession. So, if the government didn't spend money on a green economy, it would have to spend more money to do something else. It sounds strange, but during a recession, the government must do something to stimulate the economy because people have less faith in businesses. That is why so much money is going into a green economy and helping the banks.
Thanks, Devan, for your comment. I appreciate your hard work in our class.
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