Grades and other business

Dear ENG 1121-5422 students,
Below you’ll find a chart of your grades for the research essay, final exams, and the course.  I hope that none of these grades come as a surprise to you; if you believe that I have made an error, please make an appointment to come speak with me so we can iron [...]

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Final exam tomorrow

Remember that tomorrow, 18 May 2009, is the first part of our final exam.  I plan to arrive by 9:40, travel permitting, so that anyone who wants more time can arrive early as well.  You will be able to use your text book, the two stories provided on handouts, the novel, and a dictionary during [...]

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Walk the Bridge

From the Student Wellness Center:
The Student Wellness Center invites all City Tech students, staff and
faculty to join us for this semester’s Walk the Bridge tomorrow, May
14th, at 1:00pm.  We will kick off from the Atrium courtyard.
We will be giving free embroidered City Tech baseball caps to the first
150 walkers.
Grab a friend, co-worker, or classmate, put [...]

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Help with your bibliography

I hope you know that in addition to writing an annotated bibliography, you need to write and include a bibliography with your research essay.  This second bibliography should be what’s called a Works Cited page.  it is its own page, after the last page of your essay, and includes only the sources you actually refer [...]

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Literary Arts Festival tonight!

Please come to the Literary Arts Festival tonight!
Bring your friends and classmates!
To reiterate the incentive:  if you attend a significant part of the festival, I will excuse one absence; if you attend all of the festival, I will excuse two absences.  If you do not have absences that you need excused, I will add a [...]

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Tuesday–The Women’s Show

You might be interested to attend all or party of tomorrow’s WOMEN’S SHOW.  I will be speaking at it, as will many other members of the City Tech community.  If you have some time between 11:00 am and 3:00pm, please consider attending!  See below for details.
The Humanities Department Presents THE WOMEN’S SHOW A tapestry of [...]

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Today at the Wellness Center!

As a part of City Tech’s Women’s Health Week, the Student Wellness
Center is inviting all students, faculty and staff to get tested for HIV
today, Monday, March 23rd, from 10am to 2:30pm in Pearl 104.
Why does the Student Wellness Center Promotes HIV Testing?
While HIV infection rates across the country are dropping, the rates of
infection among young [...]

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Literary Arts Festival writing submissions–DEADLINE EXTENDED AGAIN to 4/6/09

The City Tech Literary Arts Festival Competition

Deadline: Monday, 6 April 2009

◙The Adolphus Lee Poetry Award (1-3 poems may be submitted)

◙The Charles Matusik Fiction Award (1 short story)

◙The Lou Rivers Drama Award (1 one-act play)

◙The Regina Lebowitz Humor Award
(poetry, fiction, essay, or drama–15 page limit)

◙The E.B. White Award for [...]

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Wednesday’s in-class midterm essay exam

Today in class, the few of us who were present decided on the questions for the midterm, which will be given on Wednesday.  I will not offer any make-up exams, so be present on Wednesday, and be on time!
These are the questions we agreed upon:
1. Discuss the role that death plays in 2-3 stories that [...]

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CUNY classes are in session today!

Yes, there is school today.  Despite NYC public schools being closed today, CUNY classes are still in session.  We will be discussing the short fiction in-class exam that will be given on Wednesday.

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