___ ENG 101 | Assignments | Course Schedule ___
|
Date |
Topics and Readings |
Assignment |
|
Week 1 Sept 6 |
Course goals, requirements, resources Learning styles Handouts: "In the Hay"; Syllabus |
-Letter to instructor -Obtain library barcode |
|
Week 2 Sept 11-13 |
-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 |
|
Week 3 Sept 18-20 |
Judith Ortiz Cofer "A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood" 42 -Saving files, file formats (RTF) -Using quotations and parenthetical citations |
Written responses to readings |
|
Week 4 Sept 25-27 |
Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man" 98 Brent Staples, "Black Men and Public Space" 196 -Peer review |
Essay 1 due for peer review 9/27 Revision due 10/2 |
|
Week 5 Oct 2-4 |
Norman Cousins, "Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy" (provided) Barbara Huttman, "Crime of Compassion" (provided) MLA Works Cited list and parenthetical citations |
Written responses to readings |
|
Week 6 Oct 9-11 |
-Peer Review Naomi Shahib Nye, "To Any Would-Be Terrorists" 369 |
Essay 2 due for peer review 10/16 Revision due 10/18 |
|
Week 7 Oct 16-18 |
Martin Gansberg, "37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police" 24 -Developing an argument and rhetorical appeals |
Written responses to readings |
|
Week 8 Oct 23-25 |
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?" 227 Jo Goodwin Parker, "What Is Poverty?" 94 |
Essay 3-draft- 10/30 Revision due Nov 6 |
|
Week 9 Oct 30-Nov 1 |
Peer review essay 3 Argument/Persuasion -Internet and Library Research strategies Philip Meyer, "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?" 224 |
Revise essay 3 Compose questions for research essay Research topic due 11/6 |
|
Week 10 Nov 6-8 |
Library Orientation: Nov. 8 Handouts: -Summarizing and paraphrasing (handout) Sample bibliography |
Prepare annotated bibliography Draft due Nov.13 |
|
Week 11 Nov 12: Veterans Day Nov 13-15 |
Library Orientation (follow-up), Nov 15 Judy Brady "Why I
Want a Wife" 374 |
Annotated bibliography due 11/20 |
|
Week 12 Nov 21 |
Bibliography due Nat Hentoff, "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?" 318 |
Source summary due 11/27 |
|
Nov 22-25 |
Thanksgiving break |
|
|
Week 13 Nov 27-29 |
Source summary due for peer review Prepare research project report Student-teacher conferences as needed |
Research essay project due Dec. 6 |
|
Week 14 Dec 4-6 |
Research essay due / oral reading of best work |
Prepare assessment |
|
Week 15 Dec 11 |
Self-assessment essay due Final evaluation: 8:00 am Class: Mon. Dec 17, 9-11 9:30 am Class: Thurs. Dec. 13, 9-11 |