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Week 1 |
01.17 |
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Tuesday: |
Basic Introduction to Course |
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General Essay Guidelines |
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Pre-writing Techniques |
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.: demo |
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Thursday: |
Writing Patterns |
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"Freewriting" pp 25-30 |
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Journal Writing & Listing Introduced |
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First Impressions & Observations |
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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, Clustering, Mapping |
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.: demo: Clustering/Mapping—Student Examples |
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.: Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations |
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Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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Week 2 |
01.24 |
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Tuesday: |
Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"—supplemental |
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.: demo |
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Thursday: |
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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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Suzanne Berne, “Ground Zero” p 167 |
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Exercise 1: Formal/informal letters, due 01.31 |
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Week 3 |
01.31 |
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Tuesday: |
Paragraph Construction |
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.: demo-Introduction paragraphs |
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.: demo-Autobiographical Paragraphs |
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Narration Essay Pattern • Conflict Types |
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.: demo |
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Thursday: |
Guidelines for Reading |
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.: demo |
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The ‘I’ Voice, Style, and Audience |
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.: demo |
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.: resume cover-letter |
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Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97 |
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Week 4 |
02.07 |
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Tuesday: |
Narration Essay Pattern |
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E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183 |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative, due 02.14 |
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Thursday: |
Guidelines for Assignments |
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.: demo |
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Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern-Jazz, in-class |
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.: video-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" |
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Week 5 |
02.14 |
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Tuesday: |
Description Essay Pattern |
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Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” supplemental |
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student example: Katherine Hummel |
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Thursday: |
More Characteristics of Description Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”—supplemental |
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Week 6 |
02.21 |
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Tuesday: |
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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Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” p 236 |
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Thursday: |
Process Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Bread Making |
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Process Pattern Example |
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Arthur Miller, “Get it Right: Privatize Executions” p 299 |
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Biography of Timothy McVeigh |
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Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, due 03.06 |
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Week 7 |
02.28 |
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Tuesday: |
Be sure to bring Bedford to class this week. |
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Choose Possible Topic of Interest for Final Essay from Supplied List |
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.: demo-Introduction to Library Databases: SIRS |
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Citations |
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.: demo |
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Works Cited Page Overview |
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.: demo |
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Plagiarism Defined |
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.: demo |
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Thursday: |
More Elements of Research Paper |
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Summary - Paraphrase - Analysis |
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.: demo |
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Signal Phrases |
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.: demo |
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In-Text Citations |
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Bedford: Variations, p 518-527, sections: 1-4, 6, 23 |
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MLA Changes • Guidelines for Works Cited Page |
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.: demo |
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Week 8 |
03.06 |
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Tuesday: |
Final Research Project Expectations |
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> Thesis/Introduction due 04.03 |
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> Article Synopsis due 04.10 |
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> Preliminary Works Cited page due 04.17 |
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> Final Project due 04.26 |
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Topic List Distributed |
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Midterm Study Guide |
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Thursday: |
Midterm: Bring Blue Book to class. |
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Spring Break |
03.12-03.18 |
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Week 9 |
03.20 |
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Tuesday: |
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436 |
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Proper title presentations in paper and Works Cited page |
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Thursday: |
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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John Berger, "Francis Bacon and Walt Disney"—supplemental |
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Proper title presentations in paper and Works Cited page (2) |
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Essay 2: Comparison/Contrast due 04.17 |
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Week 10 |
03.27 |
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Tuesday: |
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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in-class work |
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Thursday: |
Library Orientation |
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Article Synopsis Assignment |
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Review Final Research Project Expectations |
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Week 11 |
04.03 |
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Tuesday: |
Essential Rhetorical Elements |
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.: demo |
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Essay 2: Comparison/Contrast due 04.17 |
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Cause / Effect Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Formal Thesis/Introduction for Final Project due |
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Thursday: |
Easter Holidays |
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Week 12 |
04.10 |
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Tuesday: |
Division / Classification Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” p 485 |
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Article Synopsis Assignment / Printed off material from school database due |
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Thursday: |
Conclusions |
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Research and Biased Sources |
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Statistics |
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.: demo-Review of Thesis Expectations |
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Friday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Week 13 |
04.17 |
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Tuesday: |
Definition Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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José Antonio Burciaga, “Tortillas” p 524 |
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Preliminary Works Cited page due |
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Essay 2: Comparison/Contrast due 04.17 |
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Thursday: |
Definition Essay Pattern |
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Harry Frankfurt, “On B.S.”—supplemental |
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Review MLA Work Cited page expectations |
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week 14 |
04.24 |
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Tuesday: |
Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”—supplemental |
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Thursday: |
Combining patterns |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism”—supplemental |
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Final Project due |
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week 15 |
05.01 |
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Tuesday: |
Student/Teacher Conferences |
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Thursday: |
Student/Teacher Conferences |
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week 16 |
05.08 |
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Tuesday: |
Comprehensive and Rhetorical Exam |
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Final Exams |
Final Exams: 05.09 - 05.15 < Click for full exam schedule |
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