Week One || 09.01
Tues: Go over syllabus
Prewriting Techniques:
     Free-writing introduced; Journals; Listing
     Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations

Thurs: Brainstorming: Mapping, Outlines
Essay writing modes, Reading Journal
Free-write: First Impressions & Opinions: Frida Kahlo's Las Dos Fridas
     due Tuesday 09.08.09

Week Two || 09.08
Tues: Formal / Informal Audience and tone
Points of view expressed with first, second, third person
Basic essay guidelines

Thurs: Introductory paragraphs
Informal vs. Formal Voice
          Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly
          "Smoking Ban" / Wikipedia.org
Assignment 1: Formal/informal letters due 09.17

Week Three || 09.15
Tues:
Narration Essay Pattern
Types of conflict; How to read an essay
>Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97
Autobiographical Paragraphs
John Updike "Beer Can"  .: an example of the perfect paragraph

Thurs: Assignment 1: Letters due
Narration Essay Pattern
>E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183

Assignment 2: Autobiographical Narrative due 09.24

Week Four || 09.22
Tues: Assignment 2: Description Essay Pattern
Objective (neutral) vs. Subjective (opinionated)
Metaphor, simile, personification: Sylvia Plath "Metaphors"
>Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” handout

Thurs: Autobiographical Narrative due
Description Essay Pattern
Organizing information
>N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” handout
Assignment 3: Description Essay Pattern, due 10.01

Week Six || 10.06
Tues: Exemplification & Process Essay Patterns
Breadmaking
>Arthur Miller, “Get it Right: Privatize Executions” p 299

Thurs: Common Grammar Issues
Bring Bedford Handbook to class.
Assignment 4: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, part two due 10.15

Week Seven || 10.13
Tues: Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
Different ways to Analyze material
Yahoo News Article "'Degrading' Lyrics Linked to Teen Sex

Thurs: Assignment 4: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern due
Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
>Robin Lakoff, “The Power of Words in Wartime” p 377
Assignment 5: Cause / Effect Essay, part 1 due 10.20

Week Eight || 10.20
Tues: Midterm week / Review
Citation Demo—MLA 2009
Assignment 5: Cause / Effect Essay, part 1 due

Thurs: Midterm

Week Nine || 10.27
Tues: MLA changes
Assignment 5: Cause / Effect Essay, part 2 due 11.03

Thurs: Creating a Thesis Statement Based on Supportive Evidence—Demo

WeekTen || 11.03
Tues: Cause / Effect Essay Pattern, part 2, due.
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern

Thursday: Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern
>Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436
>Gwendolyn Brooks, “Sadie and Maud” p 443

Week Eleven || 11.10
Tues: Final project outlined: Five (or more) page essay, with MLA Bibliography
Choose topic of interest for final essay.
>Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” p 485

Thurs: Library Database Orientation

Week Twelve || 11.17
Tues: Definition Essay Pattern

Thurs: Definition Essay Pattern
>Jose Antonio Burciaga, “Tortillas” p 524
Friday: 11.20.09: Last day to drop a class and receive a 'W'.

Week Thirteen || 11.24
Tues: Gathering Evidence: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotations
Thesis Statement due. Introduction page / draft due.

Thurs: Thanksgiving Holidays

Week Fourteen || 12.01
Tues: Combining patterns

Thurs: Combining patterns
> Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” handout
Preliminary Work Cited due.

Week Fifteen || 12.08
Tues: Combining patterns
Three pages of research paper due.

Thurs: Review Comparison / Contrast Pattern