Preliminary Sources Citations

1. Whose I.D.E.A. is it, anyway? A look at the involvement of high school students with learning disabilities in the individualized educational planning team process
2. Non-Urban Poverty and Public Education in Midwest America

   Arthur L. Aikman

   Peabody Journal of Education 
   Vol. 45, No. 5 (Mar., 1968) , pp. 308-310

   Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

   Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1490386
3. Pasachoff, Eloise. "Special education, poverty, and the limits of private enforcement." Notre Dame Law Review Aug. 2011: 1413+. Business Insights: Global. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.

   URL
   http://bi.galegroup.com/global/article/GALE%7CA272245399/a9b53cf52aeff7b702a489f99871e10c?u=uiuc_lewis

Description of Charlie's Place

The arrangement of the furniture in Charlie's Place makes it very clear that they are looking to accommodate a variety of groups. The carpeted portion of the room, which consists of everything except the perimeter, is divided into two sides, which we will call the left side and the right side. On the left side, closest to the Math and Computer Science hallways, there are three rows of seven circular tables, each surrounded by four chairs each. These are accompanied by the cash registers for the food lines, a sort of bar of elevated chairs, and three televisions playing ESPN, a Lewis news station, and ABC. This side of the room is clearly optimized for individuals and closer, more intimate groups who could be entertained by the televisions. On the right side of the room are eleven rectangular tables, which are formed by two square tables each, and are surrounded by eight chairs apiece. There is also one square table and three circular tables, each with four chairs. All of these tables look incredibly out of place, as if they were stuck in because either the tables came in a packaged price deal or because the floor space was wasted otherwise. This area is clearly optimized for larger social groups or gatherings.

Surrounding the perimeter of Charlie's Place is a number of elevated tables with two chairs each, as well as some booths located around the walls of the right side. These seem to be there so different types of groups may access the outlets on the walls if they have laptops. The tall tables are most likely used for individuals who need to do homework on their computers or need to have a meeting with one other person, usually a professor or fellow classmate based on the observed interactions in these spaces. The booths seem to be mostly used by classmates working together on a project, who are using their laptops, or couples having breakfast together.

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Snow Day Activity

Throughout all of junior high and high school I was a member of Student Government. By my last two years I had even become class president. I really wanted to keep up with it in college. When I got to UIUC, I tried very hard to find the Student Government to join. However, they did not have a very large presence on campus and it was not until my second semester that an acquaintance of mine had said that he was a member of the Student Government and that he would be able to get me to join his committee. Well when I finally did get to go, the committee meeting was only about 10 minutes long and we did not have one for another two months. When I left UIUC, I had felt that it was so difficult to get involved with the Student Government and it did so little that I decided I would not try to become involved with it anymore. By letting go of that, I was eventually able to have time to join the Math Club here at Lewis and become a big part of that. It has been a much more enjoyable and enlightening experience in the one and a half years in Math Club than my 6 years of Student Government, and I feel that I am not missing too much without Student Government as a big part of my life anymore.

Emails About Absence

Email 1:

Hey teach!

I need an extension on that paper that was due yesterday when I missed! I couldn't turn it in - my internet was down! How crazy is that?! I also need a pdf of the lecture notes I missed! Oh, and you must have entered a couple of my grades wrong, because I know for sure I should have an A!

Later!

Email 2:

Dear Dr. Walts,

Please pardon me for my absence today, my dad received a flat tire on his way to work and I am about to leave to go bring the spare to him, which will inevitably cause me to miss class today.

Since I will not be in class, I was wondering if there was a time I would be willing to meet with you to ask a few questions I had about the second page of the reading for today. I have work during your normal office hours, but I was hoping that I could come in early or stay after sometime this week so that I do not fall behind. I know we had a paper due today, and although I was able to upload it to Blackboard I can not hand it in today because I will not be in class. I was wondering if it would be okay to hand it in to you next class or when we meet, whichever comes first, without a late penalty given the circumstances.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

Sincerely,

Michael Smith

Passage-Based Focused Freewrite for MLK Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"

Passage:

"While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas ... But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms."

Response:

I like this passage because it opens straight into the complaint. This allows the remainder of the text to be used to appropriately respond to the complaint.. I also like that M. L. King, Jr. points out how important this issue is to him, since he seldom answers criticism and thinks of these particular critics so highly. The third thing that impresses me about this passage is that even while disagreeing with the clergymen, M. L. King, Jr. still finds a way to complement them and in turn draw them in, as opposed to insulting them because of their opposing viewpoint. He even calls their criticisms "sincerely set forth," showing that he does not feel that they are disagreeing with him with malicious intent and this also harbors good will towards the clergymen in an attempt to draw them in more to hearing him out.

Declaration of Independence (Simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences)

Here are the examples I was able to find for the different types of sentences:

• Simple: We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. (Declaration of Independence par. 5)

• Compound: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (Declaration of Independence par. 3)

• Complex: He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. (Declaration of Independence par. 3)

• Compound/Complex: We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. (Declaration of Independence par. 5)

Source: Declaration of Independence. 1776.