1. We began the class with a review on Comma usage. They had a handout outlining the eight types and while they watched the powerpoint presentation ( commas1.ppt )they were to fill in examples and notes. They will be tested on Commas tomorrow and Thursday.
2. We had started a conversation yesterday about Affirmative Action and weighted the positives against the negatives. It reminded me of a portion from the T.V. show The Office where a black man is a former convict and Micheal wishes the man who hired him had been more progressive and hired a white convict. We watched a piece of that and another video to start a further discussion about this topic. In the end, a young man who created a video talking about the flaws in Affirmative Action, as he sees it, made the strong point at the end that Discrimination being an action against race is as bad as Affirmative Action, making a positive decision based on race.
3. We moved on and read through the poem, “The Cattle Thief” which was fairly easily understood and the students were able to relate it to their prior knowledge of the history of the two groups represented in the poem.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/XpoPvsn0ds4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] He makes a good point: if 10% of the country's population were both without lips, then 10% of the people in colleges shouldn't have lips? Does that necessarily have to be? Watch and decide.