Week One || 01.19.10
Tues:
Go over syllabus
     Jerrold Zar, "Ode to My Spell Checker"

Thurs:
Prewriting Techniques:
     web log: ars longa, vita brevis
     Free-writing introduced; Journals; Listing
     Student Example of Free-write
     Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations
Brainstorming: Mapping, Outlines
Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations:
      Frida Kahlo's Las Dos Fridas
      or Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns)
     due Tuesday 01.26.10

Week Two || 01.26.10
Tues:
Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" handout
Essay writing modes: Audience and tone
Points of view expressed with first, second, third person
Mapping—Student Examples
Reading Journal
Basic essay guidelines

Thurs:
Informal vs. Formal Voice
          Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly
          "Smoking Ban" / Wikipedia.org
Exercise 1: Formal/informal letters due 02.04.10

Week Three || 02.02.10
Tues:
Introductory paragraphs
John Updike "Beer Can"  .: an example of the perfect paragraph
Narration Essay Pattern
Types of conflict; How to read an essay
>Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97
Autobiographical Paragraphs

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

Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative due 02.11.10

Week Four || 02.09.10
Tues:
Exercise 2: Description Essay Pattern
Objective (neutral) vs. Subjective (opinionated); Metaphor, simile, personification: demo
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
Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern, due 02.18.10

Week Six || 02.23.10
Tues:
Exemplification & Process Essay Patterns
Breadmaking
>Arthur Miller, “Get it Right: Privatize Executions” p 299

Thurs:
Bring Bedford Handbook to class.
List of passive verbs
Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence > Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
How to Use a Semicolon
Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, part two due 03.04.10

Week Seven || 03.02.10
Tues:
Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
Different ways to Analyze material
Yahoo News Article " 'Degrading' Lyrics Linked to Teen Sex"

Thurs:
Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern due
Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
>Robin Lakoff, “The Power of Words in Wartime” p 363

Week Eight || 03.09.10
Tues:
Midterm week / Review
Citation Demo—MLA 2009

Thurs: Midterm

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

> Final project overview: Seven page essay, with MLA Bibliography
Choose topic of interest for final essay.

> Formal declaration of thesis due 04.06.10

Essay 2-part 2: Cause / Effect Essay, part two due 03.30.10

Week Ten || 03.30.10
Tues:
Essay 2: Cause / Effect Essay Pattern, part two, due.
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern
>Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436
>Gwendolyn Brooks, “Sadie and Maud” p 443
Essay 3: Comparison / Contrast Essay due Thursday 04.08.10

Week Eleven || 04.06.10
Tues:
Final project review: Seven page essay, with MLA Bibliography
Choose topic of interest for final essay.

> Generating a MLA Works Cited Page

Formal Thesis for Final Project due
>Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” p 485

Thurs:
Library Database Orientation
Essay 3: Comparison / Contrast Essay due

Week Twelve || 04.13.10
Tues:
Definition Essay Pattern

Thurs:
Definition Essay Pattern
>Jose Antonio Burciaga, “Tortillas” p 524

Friday: 04.16.10: Last day to drop a class and receive a 'W'.

Week Thirteen || 04.20.10
Tues:
Division/Classification Essay Pattern
Essay 4: Definition or Division/Classification Essay due 04.27.10
Gathering Evidence: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotations

Formal Introduction to Final Research Project Due

Thurs:
Combining patterns

Week Fourteen || 04.27.10
Tues:
Combining patterns
Essay 4: Definition or Division/Classification Essay due

Thurs:
Combining patterns
> Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” handout

Preliminary Work Cited due.

Week Fifteen || 05.04.10
Tues:
Combining patterns

Thurs:
Review Pattern for Departmental Final
Final Project Due, both digital and print versions, with formal Work Cited Page.

Departmental Finals Week|| 05.12.10 - 05.18.10

Tues: May 18
     Class 08.00 am - 09.15 am — Exam time 08.00 am - 09.15 am
     Class 11.00 am - 12.15 pm — Exam time 10.15 am - 12.15 pm
     Class 01.40 pm - 02.55 pm — Exam time 12.30 am - 02.30 pm