We'll be conducting essay three, website analysis draft responses on Monday, May 17. Please come prepared.

For those who were not in class Monday morning, if you hope to have your essay read in Tuesday's portfolio process, you must have a portfolio-ready essay to me, in my office or mailbox in building five, by 8:15 on Tuesday, May 11. Otherwise you risk not having your essay read and you will make the class tougher than it has to be by putting all your eggs in the final portfolio reading basket. If you are having concerns in getting your portfolio ready, come by my office and talk to me ASAP.

For those who were not in class Monday morning, if you hope to have your essay read in Tuesday's portfolio process, you must have a portfolio-ready essay to me, in my office or mailbox in building five, by 8:15 on Tuesday, May 11. Otherwise you risk not having your essay read and you will make the class tougher than it has to be by putting all your eggs in the final portfolio reading basket. If you are having concerns in getting your portfolio ready, come by my office and talk to me ASAP.

A few people didn't get their essays responded to during class. Among them are Danielle March and Mariya Kirilovich and Blake Hallum. If the three of you could read and respond to each other's essays, that would be great. Keep an eye on this site. If others would like to respond, please do. Final drafts are going to include submitting the responses received from your peers.

If you have questions for me, I'm traveling out of town to a funeral, so will have only hit-and-miss internet access most of the weekend, but I'll get back to you as quick as I can, either in the blog for by email.

For Monday, bring a hard-copy draft of your essay, having made the best of it based on your draft and the feedback you receive. The essays will not be collected for grading until Tuesday, but don't put off any work until Monday. The more revising you do between now and then, the more beneficial Monday's exercise will be to you, and the better the essay you'll be able to submit Tuesday. See you Monday!

Chapter 1

• Traditions of the vesleija (wedding feast):
  • No one goes hungry
  • guests help pay for the wedding by dancing with the bride and dropping money into a hat
  • Couples are not allowed to dance with other people.

If you are here looking for information for Bradley Bleck's section of English 101 for Spring 2010 at Spokane Falls CC, you are in the right place. Please follow the below prompts as they will get you headed in the right direction.

1. Click on the "create new account" link to your left.
2. Create a user name for yourself, something that you won't be embarrassed by as nothing ever really disappears from the internet. Plug in an email address that you use, as you will occasionally receive an email from me regarding the class. This is not visible to others in the class unless you make it so. You may also be asked to create a password at this point. If that's the case, do it. It can be changed, by you or me, if need be at a later date.
3. Click "submit" and you will be able to post to the site.
4. Once you have created your account, look over the syllabus, assignments and schedule, link to which can be found in the upper right hand corner of the page. You don't need to log in to look at these materials. Read through the syllabus, schedule and first assignment and bring any questions that come up to class on Wednesday. We'll have a quick discussion of the syllabus then, before launching into the first assignment.
5. To get some practice with the system, take the material you wrote up in class on Monday and post it to the site. If you don't like what you came up with in class, you can start the process over, but provide a list of 10 things you know a lot (or enough) about, choose one of them and create a list of details about that item, then write about one of those details in as much detail as possible.

The covers sheets are attached. Fill out the proper sheet and attach it to your essay before submitting your portfolio.

This is the stuff we came up with in class today.

• Sexual Harrassment—Ona’s being raped by her
• infant Mortality/health care—Ona and child die during childbirth
• police brutality/corruption—wrong move gets a beating, unfair treatment in court
• fair treatment of seasonal workers—turn horses out in winter?
• Homelessness/evictions
• Alcoholism/addiction—runs off to get drunk after Ona’s death
• Prison and food—dope ‘n joe, hospital food
• Adulterated food going to the poor
• Panhandling—Jurgis begging and meeting Duane

Despite the continuing fight over health care reform, Americans need to keep in mind that they have it pretty good in relation to earlier generations. In Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the protagonist Jurgis is injured on the job and finds himself hospitalized. “Jurgis was ready to leave the hospital at the end of two weeks. . . his place was needed for someone worse off than he” (215). Many today find themselves in similar straights when it comes to health care. They cannot afford to get the care they need. One website that addresses the problems that remain with our health care system, and the need for further reform, can be found at HealthCare.Gov. This site relies on a mythology of the government efforts being a friend to the people most in need of the benefits of health care reform.

Attached you'll find covers sheets for the first two essays.