Shadowing Practice: TS 97 Quick Start Video - Learn English Speaking with Video

Thank you.

Welcome, everybody.

This is, I'm Tim Langley, and I'm your writing instructor.

And I wish we could be face to face, but a lot of you prefer online and is a great option as well.

So I want to talk to you about a couple things.

And the first thing I want to do is give you some encouragement.

If you're a little bit nervous about doing online school or writing, and you maybe have felt in the past that you didn't do so well in a writing class,

I want you to know that I am committed to helping you do well in my class.

My philosophy as a teacher is kind of a customer service

approach where I will do whatever I can to help you be successful and I want you all to succeed.

So I want you to know that right from the beginning, right off the bat, that that's what I'm here for.

Again, my name is Tim Langley.

I'm going to jump in and give you kind of a quick guided tour of my class.

So if you'll just hang on for a second, let me just show you what my class looks So when you first land in my classroom,

which is the English 97 or TS 97 Introduction to College Paragraphs,

it'll look, I've set it up so it's real, I think it's pretty user friendly.

And that's why I've made this video.

And so I'll put this video right here so you can see it.

But do you see right here where it says week one?

You just everything you need to do for week one, which starts January 3rd is right here.

And you literally will just progress through it.

You'll just click on each thing

and go right down the row till you're already done with everything that has to do with week one.

Okay.

When you get to week two, the second week of the quarter, second week of January says week two, there's a mini lesson

and kind of how I set this up just to kind

of give you kind of a perspective of kind of like I have kind of like a one,

two, So let me show you what I mean by my one, two, three approach.

Okay.

Let's see if I have this ready to roll here.

Yep, here it is.

So what I did was I set it up so a normal week progression looks like this.

Step one is you're going to read or watch a video and take notes on it, just like we were meeting face -to -face.

If you and I were, as a classroom, were face -to -face, I might first have a mini lecture

and talk to you about how to use comments or some punctuation rules or what does a good paragraph look like.

The blue step here, step one, you'll look at the content, read it, take notes on it in a notebook.

If it's something you watch, take notes on it in a notebook.

Okay.

And then step two is there'll be some kind of a writing assignment.

Every week there'll be a, and they're not long, they're one paragraph.

It's a well -developed paragraph, but it's still at this point in your English progression.

This is just a introduction to college paragraphs for most of the quarter.

Okay.

Read a lesson, watch a video, and then there'll be a writing assignment that you'll do here.

And then there'll also be, starting week two, there'll be some kind of a reading assignment where you're all going to be reading the book Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand.

You'll see that in your syllabus, and I will have sent that to you in a video, in an email.

Okay, so read the lesson, write the writing assignment, and do the reading assignment where you answer some questions.

Now, somewhere in some of the lessons, if I show you here, let's see if I can just do this here.

In some of the lessons, I mean, some of the weeks we'll have, there'll be just quizzes, like right off the bat on week one here, you don't have the book yet.

So I'm gonna teach you a little mini lesson on correction symbols.

and then a quiz on correction symbols.

And then here's the week one writing assignment.

Okay.

Now, one of the nice things I did for you guys

this quarter is I made a real effort to do something for you to give you a gift

that I used to love when I was in school.

And so what I did is all throughout the quarter, it'll look pretty much like this.

When you open up your writing assignment, which, by the way, is most of your grade is the writing assignments, it'll give you the purpose of the assignment,

what the task is, you have to do.

And then if I scroll down here, it'll give you how you were going to be graded.

So those three things on all assignments.

But here's the really nice thing I added this quarter.

I've never done this before.

It says check here to see the assignment rubric.

Oops, that's not it.

It's above it here.

Let me show you here to see what this should look like.

Read this week one, write an assignment model.

So every week when I give you an assignment, I'll actually include a model in there so you can actually click on it.

Why don't I just do that right now just to show you what it looks like.

OK, and you can download it so you have it and save it on your computer if you want.

But it actually shows you what it looks like.

OK, your name, you put your name here.

I should say your name, the class, the date and week one writing assignment, title of your assignment.

influence your life.

Okay.

And so it kind of shows you a well -developed paragraph.

So that is really nice because every single assignment, the writing assignments, you'll have that model.

You go, okay, I can just open up the model and see what it looks like.

Okay.

So that's the progression throughout the whole quarter.

And again, it goes like this every week, week one, two, three, all the way throughout the whole quarter.

You'll see many lessons.

Sometimes there'll be a quiz, but all the way to the very end.

And that should guide you kind of get you started.

I hope you find this helpful.

I look forward to working with you.

I will send you an email every either Sunday night or Monday.

Monday morning, telling you what to do that week, giving you some tips and reminders.

And then I'll probably send something late in the week reminding you what you need to have gotten done.

Thank you.

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