___ ENG 101 | Assignments | Course Schedule MWF | Course Schedule TR ___
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Topics and Readings |
Assignment |
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Week 1 Sept 6-8 |
Course goals, requirements, resources Learning styles "In the Hay" (handout) Syllabus (handout) |
-Letter to instructor -Obtain library barcode |
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Week 2 Sept 11-15 |
-Narration as
argument; using concrete images; Scott R. Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" 169 Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter" 420 |
Written responses to readings
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Week 3 Sept 18-22 |
Judith Ortiz Cofer “A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” 42 -Saving files, file formats (RTF) -Using quotations and parenthetical citations -Peer review |
Draft essay 1 for peer review, 9/22Essay 1 revision due Sept 27 |
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Week 4 Sept 25-29 |
Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man" 98 Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space" 196 |
Written responses to readings |
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Week 5 Oct 2-6 |
Norman Cousins, “Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy”(provided) Barbara Huttman, “Crime of Compassion” (provided) -Works Cited list and parenthetical citations |
Essay 2-draft due |
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Week 6 Oct 11-13 |
-Peer ReviewNaomi Shahib Nye, "To Any Would-Be Terrorists" 369 |
Essay 2 revision due Oct 13 |
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Week 7 Oct 16-20 |
Martin Gansberg, “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” 24 -Developing an argument and rhetorical appeals (handout) |
Written responses to readings |
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Week 8 Oct 23-27 |
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?" 227 Jo Goodwin Parker, "What Is Poverty?" 94 |
Essay 3-draft-due Oct 30 Essay 3 revision dueNov 1 |
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Week 9 Oct 30-Nov 3 |
-Peer review essay 3 -Internet and Library Research strategies -Summarizing and paraphrasing (handout) Philip Meyer, "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?" 224 |
-Select research topic for annotated Works Cited list; topic due Nov 6 -Compose questions for research essay |
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Week 10 Nov 6-8 Nov 10: Veterans Day Holiday |
Nat Hentoff, "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?" 318 Library Orientation: Nov 8 -Handouts: Purdue OWL Using Modern Language Association Format Sample bibliography |
Research for annotated bibliography |
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Week 11 Nov 13-17 |
Library Orientation (follow-up) Nov. 15 Judy Brady "Why I Want a Wife" 374
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Bibliography draft due Nov. 17 |
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Week 12 Nov 20-22 |
Bibliography due -Testing Internet sources |
Final bibliography due Nov 20 |
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Nov 23-26 |
Thanksgiving break |
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Week 13 Nov 27-Dec 1 |
Prepare source summary/interpretation Guides for project report Student-teacher conferences as needed |
Research essay project due Dec 6 |
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Week 14 Dec 4-8 |
Report on research project / oral reading of best work
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Preparing the self-assessment |
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Week 15 |
Final
evaluation: |
Self-assessment due |