___ ENG 101 | Assignments | Course Schedule  ___

Instructor: Sheila Booth - sbooth@qcc.mass.edu

Course Outline and Schedule of Assignments ~ Fall 2007 Sections 19, 22

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;
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 18-20

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
-Testing Internet sources

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