September 24, 2012
Welcome to ENG 1510
Composition I
***Please keep your homework at your desk.***
Tonight’s agenda
• Share & collect homework (autocorrect article)
• Documenting sources – basics of MLA format 
announce HMWK, part one
• Grammar workshop – adjectives/adverbs (p.
435-40) – quiz #1 next week
• Break (10 min.)
• Narration – a ballad
• Narration – a film  announce HMWK, part two
Share our homework – NY Times
autocorrect article
• Share your response with a partner. In
what ways are your responses similar? In
what ways are they different?
• Report out.
Basics of MLA format
• Review Dan’s document
• Formatting expectations for formal essay
#1
• Purdue OWL
HMWK, part one – due Oct. 1 (20 points)
• Create an MLA works cited page that
features each of the following types of
sources:
– A song
– A book
– A Web site
– A movie
– A newspaper article
Grammar workshop –
adjectives/adverbs (p. 435-40)
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Review text.
Complete exercises in groups of three.
Report out.
Grammar quiz #1 next week
Break
• See you in ten minutes …
Narration – two ballads
• Listen to excerpts of two ballads by Bob
Dylan: “The Lonesome Death of Hattie
Carroll” and “Ballad of Thin Man”
• William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond
ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’
And the cops were called in and his weapon
took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree
murder
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize
all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears
• William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was
snarling
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all
fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears
• You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, “Who is that man?”
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home
• Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
• You raise up your head
And you ask, “Is this where it is?”
And somebody points to you and says
“It’s his”
And you say, “What’s mine?”
And somebody else says, “Where what is?”
And you say, “Oh my God
Am I here all alone?”
• Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
Ballad vs. ballad
• You just listened to excerpts from two
Dylan ballads.
• With your partner, discuss …
– Which present a more tangible story?
– How does each text feel/sound/seem
different?
– Report out.
Critical viewing – Easy A
• See handout.
• Responses due Oct. 1