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Week One |
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Tuesday || 01.18 |
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Go over syllabus
General Essay Guidelines & Pre-writing Techniques |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 01.20 |
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Patterns, "Freewriting" pp 25-30 |
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Courtney Crowder, "If You Can Raed Tihs, You Msut Be Raelly Smrat"
FoxNews.com (FNC) Tuesday , March 31, 2009 |
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Further commentary regarding typoglycemia. |
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Journal Writing & Listing Introduced |
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.: demo: Journals & Listing |
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.: demo: Freewrite session
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.: demo: Student Freewrite example |
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Brainstorming, Mapping |
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.: demo: Mapping—Student Examples |
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.: Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations:
Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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Week Two |
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Tuesday || 01.25 |
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Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" handout |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 01.27 |
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Formal / Informal Audience and tone |
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Wikipedia.org / "Smoking Ban" |
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Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly |
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.: demo: John Updike, "Beercan" || Image of a Schmoo.
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Exercise 1:Formal/informal letters, due 02/01 |
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Week Three |
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Tuesday || 02.01 |
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Introduction paragraphs |
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.: demo |
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Autobiographical Paragraphs |
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.: demo |
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Video example of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia |
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Narration Essay Pattern • Conflict Types |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 02.03 |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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.: demo |
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Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97 |
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The ‘I’ Voice, Style, and Audience |
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.: demo |
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Week Four |
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Tuesday || 02.06 |
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E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183 |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative, due 02/17 |
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Guidelines for Assignments |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 02.08 |
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Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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Week Five |
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Tuesday || 02.15 |
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Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” handout |
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student example: Katherine Hummel |
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Thursday || 02.17 |
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More Characteristics of Description Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Suzanne Berne, “Ground Zero” p 167 |
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Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern, in-class, due 02/22 |
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Week Six |
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Tuesday || 02.22 |
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Exemplification (Illustration) Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Passive voice versus Active voice |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 02.24 |
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Exemplification (Illustration) Essay Pattern |
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