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Getting Started ❖ Please sign in. ❖ Please make a placard for information for the instructor:

➢ On one side, fold it in half and write your name on one half. ➢ You can place this on your desk for today. ➢ On the other side, write a paragraph about you:

■ Where you are from. ■ What brought you here. ■ Your college major or interests. ■ What ESL classes you have had before. ■ Your language strengths and weaknesses. ■ Anything else I should know about you.

Welcome to ESL-097 Professor J.M. Davis

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❖ Syllabus Activity

❖ Blackboard Information

❖ Your RCBC Google Account

❖ Computer Lab Schedule

❖ Homework for Class 2

What is ESL-097?

Syllabus/ Ice-Breaker Activity

What is the professor’s email?

How do I meet with her?

If you could live anywhere on the planet and take everything you love with you, where would you live?

What books / materials are needed

for this class? When must you have

them?

If you could only wear one color, what would it be?

What is the Attendance Policy?

How important is it in this class?

In your family, name a tradition you practice.

How many essays will we write? What

percentage of the grade are the

essays?

What type of music or band or singer is your favorite?

How should assignments be

submitted? What is the format?

What’s an activity or goal you want to accomplish in your lifetime?

Can work be submitted late? What if

I’m absent?

What show do you binge watch?

What is the academic etiquette for

cellphone and computer use?

What’s something about you that people would be surprised to know?

What is plagiarism? What happens if

you plagiarize?

What food could you NOT live without?

What is the grading scale for this

class?

What’s your funniest memory with your best friend?

How many grading categories are

there in this course? Name them.

If you were famous, what would you be famous for?

Do you have any assignments due

for class 2?

When is your first essay due?

What kind of essay is it?

If you could eat at only ONE more restaurant , which would it be?

What does the syllabus say about

participation?

If you could switch places with anyone in your family for a day, who?

Using RCBC’s Blackboard System ❏ Go to:

http://rcbc.edu/blackboard.

❏ Click on the English for Academic Purposes under “My Courses.”

❏ Click on Week 1 to see the class materials.

❏ Click on My Grades and

Essays.

RCBC’s Google Mail and Google Docs 1. Log in to your RCBC Google Mail account. You can do this by going to http://www.rcbc.edu/email. A student e-mail would look like this: [email protected] ([email protected].)

2. Click on the the “box of boxes” in the upper right corner of your email.

3. To create a document, click on the blue page icon.

4. In the document options at the top of the screen, click on “Blank.”

How to Use Your RCBC Google/ Email Account: ❖ Login to your rcbc google mail at this link: http://www.rcbc.edu/email

❖ Your email will be formatted as follows: [email protected].

Example: [email protected]

❖ In your email account (which you should use for all college correspondence and check daily), click on the “box of boxes” in the upper right hand corner.

❖ Click on the Google Docs icon.

❖ Click on “New” to create a new document.

❖ Use the MLA format- Your name / Prof’s Name / ENG-101-Practice Doc / Date -as the heading in the upper-left corner.

❖ Follow my lead to format your paper correctly.

❖ Under the “File” tab, download your practice paper as a Microsoft Word .docx. This is what you will upload into your assignment area in Blackboard.

Computer Lab Hours and Use Mt. Laurel Campus

Laurel Hall, Room 133

Monday: 8 am - 8:30 pm

Tuesday: 8 am - 8:30 pm

Wednesday: 8 am - 8:30 pm

Thursday: 8 am - 8:30 pm

Friday: 8 am - 7 pm

Saturday: 9 am - 2 pm

Sunday: Closed

The RCBC Mt. Laurel computer lab is available for the

convenience of RCBC students. Please note hours are subject

to change each term and during final exam week. Reminders:

● Students must bring their student ID cards and sign in to access the computer labs

● Users must follow posted lab guidelines ● Printers are to be used for class assignments only ● You may only print one copy of a document, and no

more than ten pages per day

Homework for Class 2 ❖ Buy the textbook for ESL-097 ❖ Be sure you can use your

Blackboard account and the RCBC Google drive.

❖ In Final Draft 4, read “Buy Nothing Day” on pp. 18-19 and write answers for the reading questions on p. 19.

❖ Reading / Listening Quiz 1 about reading homework on Thursday!