Date

Topics and Readings

Assignment

Week 1

Sept 6-8

Course goals, requirements, resources

Learning styles

 "In the Hay" (handout)

Syllabus (handout)

-Letter to instructor

-Obtain library barcode

Week 2

Sept 11-15

-Narration as argument; using concrete images;
writing dialog

Scott R. Sanders, "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" 169

Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter" 420

Written responses to readings

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

Week 4

Sept 25-29

Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man" 98

Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space" 196

Written responses to readings

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
Oct 11

Week 6 

Oct 11-13

-Peer ReviewNaomi Shahib Nye, "To Any Would-Be Terrorists" 369

Essay 2 revision due Oct 13

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

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

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

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

Week 11 

Nov 13-17

Library Orientation (follow-up) Nov. 15

Judy Brady "Why I Want a Wife" 374

Bibliography draft due Nov. 17

Week 12

Nov 20-22

Bibliography due

-Testing Internet sources

Final bibliography due Nov 20

Nov 23-26

Thanksgiving break

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

Week 14 

Dec 4-8

Report on research project / oral reading of best work

Preparing the self-assessment

Week 15
Dec 11 -13

Final evaluation:
December 13, 11:30-1:30

Self-assessment due