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Week 1 |
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08/27 Monday: |
Basic Introduction: Syllabus |
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General Essay Guidelines |
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Pre-writing techniques and Journal styles |
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• demo |
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• Sylvia Plath's Journals |
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Listing Pre-Write Technique |
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• Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations |
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08/29 Wednesday: |
Mapping/Grouping/Clustering |
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Discuss Peter Elbow, “Freewriting” p 67 |
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• demo |
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• demo-Student Example of Freewriting Exercise |
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• demo: My Own Freewrite Session |
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Assignment 1: FreeWrite session, in-class: Las Dos Fridas |
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• addendum |
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Week 2 |
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09/03 Monday: |
Labor Day
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09/05 Wednesday: |
Discuss Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” p 54 |
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• demo-Joan Didion |
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Formal vs. Informal Voice |
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• demo |
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Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly |
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Wikipedia.org "Smoking Ban" |
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Week 3 |
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09/10 Monday: |
Rhetorical Elements |
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Appeals in Writing: logos, pathos, ethos |
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• demo |
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Constitution Cafe- Chapter 1 |
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09/12 Wednesday: |
Discuss Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” p 235 |
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• demo |
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Narrative Essay Pattern |
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• demo-Narration Essay Pattern |
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FW 2: What is your writing style? <due Monday 09/17 |
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Week 4 |
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09/17 Monday: |
Autobiographical Writing |
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Video example of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia |
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• demo |
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Discuss E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 163 |
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• demo-'I' Voice, Style, Audience |
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Description Essay Pattern • prt 1-Organizing information |
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• demo |
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FW 3: Freewrite, Guernica |
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09/19 Wednesday: |
Discuss Guernica FW |
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Description Essay Pattern • prt 2-Metaphors/Similes |
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Discuss Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” supplemental |
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Discuss N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” p 118 |
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Discuss John Updike, "On the Beer Can" • Image of a Schmoo. |
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Week 5 09/26 |
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09/24 Monday: |
Constitution Cafe- Chapter 1, 2 Group Discussion |
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09/26 Wednesday: |
Types of Evidence |
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• demo: in-text citations |
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Exemplification Essay Pattern introduced |
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• demo |
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Discuss Dave Leonhardt, “The College Dropout Boom” p 265 |
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Signal Phrases Overview |
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• demo |
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FW 4: Description of Music, draft 1 |
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.: video-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" |
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Assignment 1: Description/Exemplification |
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Review E.B. White's essay "Once More to the Lake" p 163 |
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Week 6 |
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10/01 Monday: |
Discuss Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” supplemental |
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Creating a Thesis Statement |
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• demo |
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Discuss Leslie Marmon Silko, “Language and Literature —” p 39 |
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• demo- from English 2327: American Literature I |
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Assignment 1: Description/Exemplification, formal draft due |
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10/03 Wednesday: |
Constitution Cafe- Chapter 3 Group Discussions |
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Preliminary Casual Research: |
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School Database: Current Issues |
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FW 5 / Assignment 2: Current Issue Discussed/Preliminary Thoughts |
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Introductions |
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• demo |
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Week 7 |
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10/08 Monday: |
Library Orientation/Library Tour and Databases |
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10/10 Wednesday: |
Assignment 2: Exemplification, formal draft due |
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Conclusions |
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• demo |
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Summary-Paraphrase-Quote-Analysis |
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• demo |
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Article Selection for Synopsis |
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• Topics for Final Project |
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Review for MidTerm |
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Week 8 • |
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10/15 Monday: |
Midterm • Bring Blue Book to class |
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10/17 Wednesday: |
Discuss Daniel Solove, “The End of Privacy” p 384 |
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Plagiarism/Citations |
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• demo |
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• Final Project Expectations |
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• Formal declaration of Thesis, due 10/29 |
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• demo (review) |
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Week 9 |
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10/22 Monday: |
MLA Standard Guidelines |
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• demo: signal phrases (quick review) |
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• demo: in-text citations (quick review) |
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Bring A Writer's Reference to class this week. |
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Article Synopsis due |
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Definition Analysis |
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• demo |
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10/24 Wednesday: |
MLA Standard Guidelines |
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• Works Cited Page |
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• Proper presentation of article titles / In-Class Exercise |
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Week 10 |
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10/29 Monday: |
Peer Review Thesis Statements |
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10/31 Wednesday: |
Discuss Michael J. Bugeja “Facing the Facebook” p 399 |
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Formal Declaration of Thesis due |
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Assignment 3: Definition Pattern discussed |
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Week 11 |
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11/05 Monday:
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Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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• demo |
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Discuss Nicholas Car, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" p 336 |
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Peer Review Discussions over Assignment 3 |
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Assignment 4 / FW 6: Reality Television versus College Life demo |
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11/07 Wednesday: |
Assignment 3: Definition, formal draft due |
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Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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Assignment 4 / FW 6: Reality Television versus College Life discussed |
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Discuss John Berger, “Francis Bacon and Walt Disney” supplemental |
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11/08 Thursday: |
Last Day to Drop a Class and Earn a 'W' |
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Week 12 |
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11/12 Monday: |
Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence > Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner |
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• demo |
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• —and then again... |
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• demo-How to Use a Semicolon |
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Assignment 4: Reality Television versus College Life due |
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FW 7: In-class exercise |
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11/14 Wednesday: |
Classification/Division Analysis |
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• demo |
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Discuss Richard Hoggart, “The Uses of Literacy” p 288 |
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FW 8: In-class exercise |
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Week 13 |
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11/19 Monday: |
Combined Analysis |
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Group Discussion: Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism” supplemental |
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Discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea supplemental |
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• demo |
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Group Discussion: Constitution Cafe |
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11/21 Wednesday: |
Group Discuss Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” supplemental |
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Final Project Due beginning of class for extra credit |
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Tenative Works Cited page due |
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11/23 Friday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 14 |
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11/26 Monday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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11/28 Wednesday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Week 15 |
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12/03 Monday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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12/05 Wednesday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Week 16 |
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12/12 Wednesday: |
Final Exam 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm |
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