Our first assignment will be a compare/contrast paper...we will begin the preparation for this on Mon...Aug. 22...Friday, August 19th, in class we will read some writing which will promulgate the series of works we will be reading next week as integral to our Compare/Contrast paper due in about a week...either Aug. 30th or 31st...
08-22-26-11:
Monday:
1. Oral review of our in-class story from Fri...
2. Test on story...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Oral review of pp: 88-93 in our text, A Reader for College Writers, which you were to have read for today's class...discuss as needed
4. Discussion of the essay by Paul Aronowitz, pp: 116-119 which you were assigned to read over this past wk/end...
H.W: Review pp: 88-93 for a Tues. test; then, review the "A Brother's Dreams" essay from pp: 116-119 for a Tues test; then, read the second short story in the packets I provided for you all on last Friday for a Tues. discussion and a Wed. test...
Tuesday:
1. Test on text pp: 88-93...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Test on text essay pp: 116-119...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Discussion of our second short story in our packets as prep. for our Compare/Contrast essay due next Monday...
H.W: Review short story #2 for a Wed. test; also, Answer on paper...type on your computers...question #'s: 1, 4, 5, & 6 on p. 119...; also, read in our text, "Burger Queen," pp: 112-114 and carefully review the vocabulary on p. 112...
Wednesday:
1. Test on short story #2 from our packets...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Correct h.w. together in class from text p. 119...discuss...collect...
3. Discussion of "Burger Queen" essay from text...review of vocab. wds...
H.W: Text, p. 114-115: answer on paper (typed) #'s: 1, 2, 3, & 5 on 114 and #'s: 1, 2, & 3 on 115...; also, read first half of our third story in our packets as prep. for our Compare/Contrast essay due next Mon...
Thursday:
1. Test on text essay, "Burger Queen,"...correct..discuss...collect...
2. Correct text h.w. from pp: 114-115...discuss...collect...
3. Discussion on first half of our third short story in our packets, i.e., how are these three stories comparable...how are they distinct...?
H.W: Read the remainder of our short story in our packets for a Fri. test/discussion; then, read from text p. 108: N.B. there will be a brief test on this page Fri.
Friday:
1. Test on our third short story...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Test on text p. 108...correct...discuss...collect...
3. In-class overall discussion of the three stories we have read since last Fri: How do they compare?...What are several discernible distinctions? This will lead us into our first essay due next Tues. which will Compare/Contrast these three works...
H.W: Review all three stories and begin the intro. par. for the Compare/Contrast essay due Tues...we will look at these intro. par's on Mon...final essay will be due either Tues. or Wed...check over any vocab. selections in Ch. 2 of our A Reader for College Writers text: vocab review and/or test on these words next week...
08-28-09-02-11:
Monday:
1. Finish test on "Study Calculus," from text...collect...discuss...collect...
2. Review: 1) Topic Sentences, 2) Thesis Sentences, 3) Integration of quotes within essays and on title pages as contiguous to our Compare/Contrast papers which will be submitted on Wed.
3. Collect, then review orally together our intro. drafts to the Compare/Contrast papers due Wed....
4. Review together the grading rubric I have provided to you last Friday as help for what we want in the Wed. essay...
H.W: Prepare essay due Tues...also...Read in text, pp: 74-75 and answer on p. 76, question #'s: 1-4 on paper...
Tuesday:
1. Brief discussion on our essays due tomorrow...needs, etc...
2. Test on "Writing and its Rewards," from text...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Correct h.w. from text p. 76...discuss...collect...
4. Read together in class intro. comments and review vocab. for essay, Suffering," on p. 71 of text...
H.W: 1. First essay of the semester is due tomorrow...2. Read in text, "Suffering," on p. 72-73; then, answer on paper from p. 73, #'s: 1-3.
Wednesday:
1. Submit Compare/Contrast essays...
2. Correct text h.w from p. 73...discuss...collect...review vocab. on p. 71...
3. Read silently in class, pp: 68-69 in text; then, discuss together...how does this qualify as a "Compare/Contrast essay?
H.W: From text, answer on paper #'s: 1-6 on p. 69; also, in text, read the four distinct sample writing paragraphs on pp: 63-64 and answer on paper from p. 64, #'s: 1, 3, & 5.
Thursday:
1. Correct text h.w...discuss...collect...
2. Briefly discuss the four par's read last nite...
3. Orally read/analyze intro. to "Burger Queen," on p. 112; then, review vocab at bottom of page...;then, we will read "Burger Queen on pp: 113-114...discuss...
H.W: Answer on paper from text on p. 114, #'s: 1, 2, 3, & 5...p. 115, #'s: 1, 2, & 3...; then provide a one paragraph critical review of "Burger Queen"...type this...
Friday:
1. Correct "Burger Queen" h.w...discuss...collect...
2. Submit "Burger Queen" critical reviews...
3. General intro. comments re: the purposes of text, ch. 3...
H.W: Read in text, Ch. 3, pp: 125-135...test on these pages on Tues...
09-06-09-11:
Tues:
1. Return Compare/Contrast essays...discuss...peer eval's...
2. Test on text pp: 233-236...Essays of Description...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Refer to our, "Birthday Party" vignette...is this effective and engaging description...why?...how?...literary devices? Essay of critical evaluation on "Birthday Party" due on Fri...
H.W: Text, read "Fish Camp" pp: 260-264; then, answer on paper from p. 264, #'s: 1 - 8...
Wed:
1. Brief discussion of "Birthday Party" elements to be considered for our Fri. essays...
2. Test on "Fish Camp"...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Correct "Fish Camp" hw...discuss...collect...
H.W: Read "Charisma" essay in text on pp: 266-268; then, answer on paper from p. 268, #'s: 1 - 5...
Thurs:
1. Test on "Charisma"...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Discussion on Narrative Writing...possible student choices for your own Narrative essays due next Tues...review Description and Narration chapter in our text...
H.W: Critical Evaluation Essay due tomorrow...plus...read in text from ch. 7 on Narration, pp: 273-277...
Fri:
1. Collect Critical Evaluation Essays...
2. Review text/discuss...pp: 273-277...discuss your choices for a personal description essay and how you will delineate your character(s) for the essay due on Tues...
H.W: Text, read pp: 293-295, "The Day I Was Fat."...then, ans. quest's: 1 - 6 from p. 295 on paper for Mon...Description/Narration essay due next Tues...
09-12-16-11:
Mon:
1. In class essay: response to prompt: The Birthday Party...first 30 min's...; then, finish essay at home due on Tues...
2. last 15 min's: text: pp: 277...284-85...read orally...discuss; read Heaney poem in text, pp: 290-291...discuss...What is an Explication de Texte? Steps involved in this type of essay...?...
H.W: Finish essay begun in class for Tues...
Tues:
1. Submit Birthday Party essays...
2. Our descriptive Narration Essays drafts on a person of significance and lasting impact should be fully completed...follow text examples and directives for this...we will peer edit...discuss...them in class...they will be due on Thurs...
3. After having read Heaney in our text on Monday, we will now look at another Heaney poem as prep. for our next upcoming Explication de Texte essay...
H.W: Descriptive Narration Essay on a person of significance is due on Thurs...
Wed:
1. Continue explicating our Heaney poem in text orally in class...
2. Text, p. 302, "Nagasaki..."...read together...discuss...any "9-11" commonalities?
H.W:Narration essay due Thurs...also...ans. on paper from text, p. 304, #'s: 1-6...
Thurs:
1. Submit Narration/Description essays...
2. Correct text p. 304 hw quest's...discuss as needed...collect...
3. Vocab WkShts distributed...review first ten words together,,,
H.W: Two sent's w/ea. of the first ten words on Vocab Shts. due Fri...
Fri:
1. Return narration essays...discuss...
2. Correct vocab. hw...collect...
3. Text, writing a letter to a person of significance...p. 305-306...read/discuss/begin...
H.W: not sure yet...wait...we will have some...
09-19-23-11:
N.B. On Monday, we will also begin an in-class revision of our last week in-class writing prompts which I have just finished correcting for you; so, you will receive them back on Monday...we will revise them toward higher grades on Mon and Tues...so...some of our Mon and Tues work below will be moved ahead slightly...
Mon:
1. Correct remaining Vocab. WkSht. wds...discuss...submit
2. Return first drafts of Narrative/Description essays...discuss...
3. Read together in text, pp: 71-72: "Suffering"...discuss...then, ans. orally #'s: 1-3 on p. 73...
4. Begin our poetry analyses of selected works for our next Monday Explication de Texte Essay...
H.W: Text, read pp:74-75, "Writing and Its Rewards."...then, ans. on paper from p. 76, #'s: 1-4.
Tues:
1. Correct h.w...discuss...submit...
2. Read together in text, pp: 144-145, "An Unusual Affliction,"...discuss as component of intro. par. styles and concl. par. styles...how is a thesis used here?
3. Review our eight poems...selecting one for our Explication de Texte essay due next Mon...review sundry lit. devices and structural elements in these poems...
H.W: Text, ans. quest's 1-6 on p. 146 on paper...also, select which poem you will use for your Explication de Texte Essay due next Mon.
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Text, read orally together pp: 147-48, "How to Keep Air Clean."...discuss...what Intro. par. techniques are used? What is analogy used for here? Concl. par. techniques?...Orally review/discuss quest's: 1-5 on p. 149...
3. Review selected poems for Fri. essay...
H.W: Text, read "Fish Cheeks," pp:151-152; then, ans. on paper from p. 153, #'s 1-7.
Thurs:
1. Correct h.w...discuss...submit...
2. Review lit. devices...structural approaches...used in poetry...select individual poems for our papers...sample intro par's viewed for Explication format...
3. Text, read pp: 155-156, "A Prayer for the Days of Awe."...discuss...
H.W: Text, p. 156-7, #'s: 1-7...ans. on paper...also, write intro. par's for Explication essays due Mon...
Fri:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...submit...
2. Peer Review and Teacher Editing of intro par's for Explication Essays...
3. In class writing of body par's for Explications...
4. Oral review of lit. devices to be considered for analysis as Explication Essays are completed over the wk/end...
H.W: Explication de Texte Essays due on Mon...also, in text, read pp: 168-171...test on these pages on Tues...
09-27-30-11:
Tues:
1. Oral review of all poetry we are examining for our Wed. Explication de Texte Essays...Frost's, "Out, Out," the eight Shakespearean Sonnets, Dickinson's, "Apparently With No Surprise," and Eberhardt's, "For a Lamb." themes, literary devices, grammatical structures, syntax, etc...are all to be covered...
2. Review of sig. lit. terms in text, pp: 163-171...
H.W: Text, "Wolf," pp: 325-327; then, answer on paper from P. 327, #'S: 1-5; also, draft for Explication due on Wed...
Wed:
1. Collect Explications...
2. Quiz on "Wolf."...correct...discuss...submit...
3. Correct "Wolf" hw, p. 327...discuss...submit...
4. Oral reading of "An Unusual Affliction" in test, pp: 144-45; then, discuss...
H.W: text, p. 146, #'s: 2-6...on paper...also, one sentence and a definition for vocab wds. from our wkshts. #'s: 11-20 for Thurs...
Thurs:
1. Return Explication drafts...discuss...
2. Work on final draft due Fri. in class as I oversee, etc...20-25 min's...
3. Review our vocabulary wkshts, #'s: 11-20...submit sentences...
H.W: Explication de Texte Essays due Fri...also, read in text, pp: 147-148, "How to Keep Air Clean."
Fri:
1. Collect essays...
2. Test on "How To Keep Air Clean."...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Continue reviewing our vocab. Wkshts, #'s: 11-25 in class...
H.W: Text, read on pp: 154-56, "A Prayer for the Days of Awe."...then, answer on paper from p. 156-57: #'s: 1-7...
10-03-07-11:
Mon:
1. Collect Explication Essays...
2. In text, correct h.w. quest's from p. 304 after a quick perusal of "Nagasaki."
3. In text, quick oral reading of Satan's, "Why Does Everybody hate Me?"...then, review of challenging vocab wds...then discussion on role of Satire in Essay Writing...
H.W: Text, ans. quest's 1-8 on p. 214 and read Diary Handout Sheet from Addison's Satire...
Tues:
1. Correct p. 214 h.w...discuss...collect...
2. Review Satirical elements in Addison's Diary Satire...
3. In text, read/discuss "Illustration" as an Expository Genre, pp: 315-316...discuss...
4. Read "Wolf" on pp: 325-327...discuss...
H.W: Ans. quest's 1-5 on p. 327; then, read in text, "Covert Force," pp: 329-332 and answer on paper from p. 332-333, #'s: 1-8...
Wed:
1. Correct p. 327 questions...discuss...correct p. 332-333 questions...discuss...collect...
2. Few comments...few handouts...on "Illustration" topics/essays...
3. Read together in text, "English is a Crazy Language." also review vocab wds. on pp. 334-337...discuss as Illustration form...
H.W: Answer quest's: 1-7 on p. 337 and read in text, "The Death of Common Sense," pp: 339-344...look over Questions for Discussion on p. 344...we will discuss them Thurs...
Thurs:
1. Correct text hw from p. 337...discuss...collect...
2. Discuss from text, "The Death of Common Sense." and then review orally the answers to the questions read last nite on p. 344...How is this all related to Illustration Writing?
3. Intro. to our other text, They Say, I Say...
H.W: Illustration Essay due on Friday...also read in They Say, I Say pp: 7-27 and essay on p. 151-52...test on Fri...
Fri:
1. Collect Illustration Essays...
2. Discuss new text, They Say, I Say...pp: 7-27...
3. Test on first essay in new text from. p. 151-52...correct...discuss...collect
H.W: Text, read two essays: pp: 153-160...also, answer on paper from p. 156, #'s: 2,3,&4...from p. 160, #'s: 1 & 3...
10-10-11:
Mon:
Off...PSAT special tutoring...
Tues:
1. Submit Illustration Essays as modeled from text selections...
2. In They Say, I Say text, p. 151 of Ch 13...Is Fast Food the New Tobacco?...read together orally...discuss...then read also p. 151-153...Don't Blame the Eater...discuss...
HW: Answer on p. 155-156, #'s: 1-4 on paper for Thurs...
Wed:
Off...PSAT...
Thurs:
1. Return Illustration Essays...discuss...possible rewrite...we will see...
2. Correct hw from text...discuss...submit...
3. Read together orally in text, pp: 157-160... What You Eat is Your Business...discuss...
HW: Answer #'s: 1-4 on pp: 160-161 on paper for Fri...
Fri:
1. Correct hw from text...discuss...submit...
2. Read in text together orally in class pp: 162-166...discuss...
3. Several student presentations will proceed re: Illustrations for both writing and Speaking as we present our Illustration Essays to the class...do not forget the needed recitations of a Sonnet before the end of the first quarter...
H.W: Critical Reviews due on Tues...
10-18-22-11:
Mon:
1. Finish correcting our "The Notebook" tests...discuss...submit...
2. In-class essay of criticism on "The Notebook"
3. Submit Illustration Essays...they will be ret'd on Fri. and you will re-write them in class on Fri. also
H.W: Finish criticism essay at home if needed; also, in They Say text, read pp: 392-402 and answer on paper from p. 402, #'s: 1-3
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Discussion of text: "A Fire in the Basement" essay...
3. Submit Criticism Essays
H.W: Text, read pp: 404-408 and answer on paper from p. 408, #'s: 1-4
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit
2. Discussion of text, "The Decline of Declinism" essay...
3. Review Vocab Wk Sht. words, #'s: 15-25...discuss/provide sents...
H.W: Text, read pp: 410-419 and answer on paper from p. 419-420, #'s: 1-4 and also provide a definition and a sentence for vocab words #'s: 16-25...type this...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Discussion of text, "The Last Superpower" essay...
3. Correct Vocab hw...discuss...submit...
4. Return of Explication de Texte Essays...review/discuss...
H.W: Read in text, pp: 421-440, "The World is Flat" Essay; then, answer on paper from p. 440-441, #'s: 1-4...
Friday:
1. Return Illustration Essays...discuss...
2. In-class rewrite of Illustration Essays...
3. If time, we will correct Thurs. hw; othersise, on Monday
H.W: I will be returning the Criticism Essays...rewrite them for Tues...
10-24-28-11:
Mon:
1. Intro. par's to Critical Review essays due...peer edit...teacher correct...discuss...be sure you review a book you have fully read...
2. Text, A Reader for College Writers: Read in class together and finish for hw, "High Anxiety," pp: 362-365
HW: finish above reading and ans. on paper from p. 365, #'s: 1 & 3...p. 366, under "Thinking Critically," # 2...also, finish Critical Review essay for either Tues or Wed...we will determine that on Mon...
Tues:
1. Correct text hw, pp 365-66...discuss...submit...
2. Continue working on Critical Review essays in class as I peruse the room and assist...essays due Wed...
H.W: Text, A Reader for College Writers, read "Temptations of Old Age,"...pp: 367-68; then, from p. 369, ans. on paper #'s: 1,2,4, & 5...under "Thinking Critically," # 1...also finish Critical Review essay for Wed...
Wed:
1. Submit Critical Review essays...
2. Correct hw from text, p. 369...discuss...submit...
3. Begin oral reading in class of "They Shoot Helicopters..."pp: 370-374...discuss
H.W: Finish reading above text and ans. on paper for hw from p. 374, #'s: 1,3,74...p. 375, # 7...
Thurs:
1. Correct text hw from pp: 374-75...discuss...submit
2. Teacher hand-out on Santayana's essay, "War."...read together...discuss...
H.W: Analysis paper...approx. 200 wds...explaining Santayana"s thesis/thesis supports in the essay/illustrations in the essay/Allusions in the essay...
Fri:
1. Discussion of Santayana's essay...collect student analysis essays...
2. Text, oral reading of "How the Lawyers Stole Winter."...discuss...
3. Vocab review...have our vocab wkshts w/you...words 20-31 will be studied...
H.W: Vocab: Two sents w/each of the words from #'s 20-31...
10-31-11-11-04-11:
Mon:
1. We will proceed w/our Critical Review Essays and our in class editing/re-submitting of them on Tues...or Wed...
2. In our text, A Reader for College Writers, we will quickly orally read/discuss: Ch. 12, "Argumentation."...pp: 275-478; then, we begin preparing to write our Argument Essays as similar to the two text readings: "Desperate to learn English," and "Melting Pot or Tossed Salad."...pp: 504-509...reading of the first Argument Essay will proceed in class...
H.W: Read "Melting Pot" essay in text and answer on paper from pp: 508-09, #'s: 1,2,4,6,8,10, & 11...
Tues:
1. Correct text hw from pp: 508-09...discuss...collect...
2. In Gym 2, bring Critical Review essays...we will edit/revise/complete a final submission on Tues & Wed...
N.B. We will also begin our Argumentation Essays
H.W: Finish final draft of Critical Review Essay for a Wed. submit...also, create an intro. par. of the Argumentation Essay w/a topic sentence and a clear thesis sentence for Wed.
Wed:
1. Submit final Critical Review Essays...
2. I will peruse the room reviewing your intro. par's of your Argumentation Essays as you further write these in class...first drafts).
H.W: Continue Argumentation essays, writing all par's except the concluding par...also, do words 22-30...two sent's for each word...from our Vocab. WkShts...
Thurs:
1. We will review Vocab. words 22-30 in our Vocab WkShts...discuss...collect...
2. Proceed w/our Concluding par's for our Argumentation Essays...
H.W: Finish Argumentation Essay for a submission on Mon....also, read in text, pp: 515-519 on "Persuasion" Essay Writing...test on this on Tues...
Fri:
Off
Nov. 7-11-11:
Mon:
1. Return Critical Review and Illustration essays...discuss...
2. In text, correct hw from pp: 508-509...discuss...submit...
3. Review the two Argument Essay topics you have brought to class...discuss...
4. Begin to read orally in text, p. 488, "The Right to Be Let Alone."...discuss...
H.W: Text, p. 490, answer on paper #'s: 1-7...also, do both #'s: 1 & 2 under "Thinking Critically."
Tues:
1. Correct h.w...discuss...submit...
2. Begin in-class Argument Essays after I approve topic choices...
H.W: Text, read pp: 492-496, "Bicycle Menace."...then ans. on paper from p. 492, #'s: 1-8...also, edit/rewrite whatever we have looked at from our in-class Argument essays that can at this point be rewritten...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Continue toward completion our in-class Argument essays...
H.W: Text, read pp: 498-502..."Free Speech on Campus."then answer on paper from p. 502-03, #'s: 1-10...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Finish in class our final copy of our Argument essays...submit either at end of period or first thing on Fri...
H.W: Finish Argument Essays and read pp: 515-519 in text on "Persuasion Essay Writing."...test on these pages on Fri...
Fri:
1. Collect Argument Essays...
2. Test on "Persuasion" pages read last nite...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Read/Analyze/Evaluate/Discuss in text pp: 519-531...
HW: Write intro. par's for a Persuasion Essay...
11-15-18-11:
Tues:
1. Return final presentations of both the Critical Review and the Illustration essays; also, briefly reference the earlier written Explication de Texte Essays...comments...another Explication will be due in about ten days...
2. Correct/Edit/Revise first drafts of Argument Essays...
3. Reference several samplings of Argument Essays in our texts...discuss...
H.W: Finish Argument essays w/concl par's...
Wed:
1. Finish our Argument Essays in class as I peruse the room assisting w/formulation...
H.W: Complete Argument Essay final submission...also, read in text, A Reader for College Writers, "Free Speech On Campus."
Thurs:
1. Collect final essays of Argumentation...
2. Discuss text essay, "Free Speech..."
H.W: In text, answer on paper from p. 502-03, #'s: 1-10
Fri:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
2. In-class Prompt...35 min's: Write an essay response on paper; then, Monday, upon return, edit/develop further this Prompt essay for a Tuesday submission
11-21-21-11:
Mon:
1. Collect all final Argument Essays...finish any during first half of period...
2. Read/review/analyze/discuss the two Coca-Cola Marketing letters...
3. Begin individual letters to established corporations/firms w/a concern requesting solutions...
H.W: Text, "Free Speech" essay, read and provide both a textual synopsis and a response to the Argument advanced in the text...also, complete first draft of Corporate Letter...
Tues:
1. Oral review...maybe a written quiz on "Free Speech" essay in text...correct...discuss...submit...
2. Peer editing by two other students of your corporate letters...discuss...
3. Rewriting of corporate letters...finish for hw
H.W: Final draft of corporate letters...also, essay due on Tues. after break re: Thanksgiving...explanations/instructions will be given in class...
Nov. 28-Dec. 02-11:
Mon:
1. We will pursue our letters to Corporate Officials modeling the two Coca-Cola letters in our Prompts...
2. Any final Argument essays?
3. Also, begin our Persuasion Essays as extensions of our Argument Essays...or, as responses to/developments of our Arguments Essays...do you see?
H.W: Text, read pp: 515-519...520-524...also, read Education is the Priority," pp: 532-534; then, answer on paper from p. 535, #'s: 1-8...
Tues:
1. Continue our Corporate letters/responses to those letters......
2. During second half of class, correct hw...discuss...submit...
H.W: read in text, pp: 537-541; then, answer on paper from p. 541-42, #'s: 1-10...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue our corporate letters/responses...
H.W: Begin Persuasion Essays as extensions of our Argumentation Essays...intro. par's due Thurs...also, read in text, pp: 543-548; then, answer on paper from p. 549, #'s: 1-10...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...submit...
2. Hand in completed Corporate letters/responses by end of period...
3. Submit intro par's for Persuasion Essays...
4. Begin completing Persuasion Essays in class...finish all except concl. par's at home for Fri...
Fri:
1. Return corrected intro par's for Persuasion Essays...
2. As students complete Persuasion Essays, I will edit, evaluate, assist...
3. Finish Persuasion Essays by end of period...submit...
H.W: We will see...depends on what we complete by Fri...
Dec. 5-9-11:
Mon:
1. I will not be in the room today...in the school library for an outside speaker; so. here is your in-class assignment: Text: pp: 532-534, "Education is the Priority"...read, then answer on paper quest's : 1 and also 4 to 8...then under "Thinking Critically," quest's: 1 & 2...hand in to teacher at end of period
2. Read in text, pp: 538-541, " I Have a Dream," then, answer on paper from p. 541, quest's: 1-8...this assignment can be finished as hw for Wed...
H.W: see #2 above
Tues:
1. Continue our Corporate Letters...
Wed:
1. Correct/discuss Mon. in-class work...return hw...
2. Correct/discuss Mon. hw...submit for my corrections...
3. Continue our Corporate Letters
Thurs:
1. Finish/submit our Corporate Letters
2. Begin our Persuasion Essays...intro par's by end of per...
Fri:
1. Again, I am out of class on a filed trip; so, do this: Read in text, pp: 543-548: there are three essays here to read on a common topic of persuasion... then, ans. on paper from p. 549, quest's: 1-10...also...answer from "Critical Thinking," either #1 or #2...your choice...hand in all these answers at the end of the period...
H.W: Write the body par's of your Persuasion Essays for Mon...
Dec. 12-16-11:
Mon:
1. All Corporate Letters Essays are to be submitted by the end of the per...
2. Correct our in-class text work from both texts...discuss...collect...
3. Review of Writing for College text intro. pages to Persuasion Essays/Techniques/Purposes/Illustrations...discuss...
4. Begin intro par's to Persausion Essays...finish for hw
H.W: see #4 above...also, Vocab. WkShts...do #'s: 21-30...one def. and one sentence for each of these words...due Tues...
Tues:
1. Collect Persuasion Essays intro par's...correct...return...continue w/our essays...
2. Continue Persuasion Essays
H.W: see Mon assignmnents plus finish all of Persuasion Essays except intro par's...
Wed:
1. Correct our vocab. WkShts hw...discuss...collect...
2. Work toward completion w/Concl. par's of our Persuasion Essays...
H.W: Finish Persuasion Essays
Thurs:
1. In-class hand-written response to a Writing Prompt for full period...collect at end of per. ...rm. 229...
H.W: Vocab WkShts: #'s: 31-40... a definition and a sentence for each word..
Fri:
1. Correct w/Peer Editing...the Persuasion Essays...discuss...;then, each student will re-write for final submit his Persuasion essay...complete by end of per...
2. We will also correct several Vocab Wds...discuss, etc...
3. We will discuss the purposes of/your understandings of yesterday's Prompt Essay as we re-read the excerpt/analyze/ evaluate/conclude...I will correct all these over the wk/end...return them on Mon or Tues...
Dec. 19-20-11:
Mon:
1. Finish all our final drafts of Corporate Letters...submit...
2. Read...discuss in College Writing text...last three essays in text on Persuasion...discuss...
3. Begin in-class our essays of choice to be completed/submitted at end of class on Wed...
H.W: Continue...complete essay of topic choice due on Tues...also, answer in text from p. 549, #'s: 1-10...
Tues:
`1. Finish essays of choice in class unless they are already completed; if so, submit to me for an initial correcting; then, you may be able to improve the essays in a rewrite before the end of the period...
2. Submit text hw questions/answers...we will go over these in class if time allows; otherwise, i will correct them over the break
H.W: We will see...probably a Persuasion Essay...
Jan. 3-6-12:
Tues:
1. In class Persuasion essay...use text ex's re: Immigration/Tuition advocations as exemplars...
2. Our Vocab. WkShts: We will complete these w/about 5 wds. per day by Fri; then, be aware some of these words may be a component of our Sem. Exam...
3. Intro. to our Research papers: Topics/ Sources...Annotations...MLA...
H.W: "Research" topics for our Research papers...have two choices for Wed...
Wed:
1. Finish Persuasion essays...submit...
2. Begin on-line research for our Research Papers...annotations...MLA...
3. Review five more vocab. wds...discuss...use in sent's...
H.W: Intro par's to research papers
Thurs:
1. Review Intro pars...peer editing...correct...edit...redo for final par's...
2. Continue research...proceed w/body pars...
3. Five more vocab wds. reviewed/discussed...
H.W: Proceed w/research and body par's for our Research papers...
Fri:
1. Continue Research papers...body par's...citations...MLA...
2. Review all 62 vocab wds...
H.W: Complete Research Papers for a submission on our Sem. Exam test day...
Study A Reader for College Writers text excerpts covered this sem. for our test next week
Jan 9-13-12:
Mon:
1. In Gym II: Continue working on our Research Papers that are to be completed and submitted on the day of the Sem Final...
2. Second half of the per: Review of text, A Reader for College Writers, to prepare for the Final later in the week...I will offer pages to study, terms to know, and types of essays to understand/define...you will need to study for this exam; also, there will be an in-class essay...
H.W: Continue Research Papers toward completion by the Final Exam day...Review appropriate pages/terms/essays in text for the Exam...
Tues:
1. Same procedures as Mon
H.W: Same as Mon...
Wed-Fri: Exams
Jan 17-20-12: Sem II...new class
Tues:
1. Intro to class...students will write an essay in class in response to a formal Prompt; then, I can correct...peruse...the work to see our present writing abilities/needs/potentials...
2. Text: A Reader for College Writers...read pp: 63-64...then, on p. 65, answer #'s: 1, 3, and 5...also: read pp: 67-69...then, answer #'s: 1-6 on p. 69...
H.W: Finish #2 above which we may have begun in class...
Wed:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
2. Begin to work on our Prompt Essay revisions which I corrected last nite...
3. Text: read pp: 71-72; then, answer #'s: 1-3 on p. 73...
H.W: Finish correcting/editing/revising essay we did in class on Tues...also finish #3 above...
Thurs:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
2. Finish editing/revising our Tues Prompt essays by end of period...submit...
H.W: Text: read pp: 74-75; then, answer #'s: 1-4 from p. 76...
Fri:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
2. Read orally the hand-out, "Obasson,"...discuss...
H.W: Write an essay in response to the "Obasson" Prompt
Jan. 23-27-12:
Mon:
1. Finish our "The Birthday Party" Analysis Essays...
2. Discuss from text, "Burger Queen" and correct hw. from pp: 114-15...collect/return
3. Quiz on our "Three Pictures" Vignette...correct...discuss...collect...
4. Intro. to our paper(s) for this week: Compare/Contrast...discuss...reference text...
H.W: Read "The Legacy" as prep for our Compare/Contrast papers
Tues:
1. Quiz on "The Legacy"...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Text, Ch. 9, "Compare and Contrast"...Orally read, then discuss pp: 349-359...
H.W: Read "The New Dress" as prep for our developing of our Compare/Contrast papers
Wed:
1. Quiz on "The New Dress"...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Begin writing in class our Compare/Contrast essays...Topic Sent...Thesis Sent...
3. Have two fellow students "peer review" your essays; then, have me review it; then, you edit it...
H.W: Complete intro par and at least one body par of Compare/Contrast essays
Thurs:
1. Proceed toward completion of our Compare/Contrast Essays
H.W: Complete Essays...also, read in text: "Temptations of Old Age," pp: 367-68; then, answer on paper from p. 369, #'s: 1-5, "Questions for Discussion" and #1, "Thinking Critically."
Fri:
1. Collect Compare/Contrast Essays...
2. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
3. Read intro "Preparing to Read" and review Vocab for "They Shoot Helicopters" in text, pp: 370-71...discuss
H.W: Finish reading "Helicopters" essay in text and do on paper for Mon, "Questions for Discussion" on pp: 374-75...
Jan 30-Feb 03-12:
Mon:
1. Return Aronowitz hw from text...discuss...
2. Proceed toward middle par's...and...then...on to concluding par of our Compare/Contrast essays as we write these in class...
HW: We have now read in text over the wk/end, "High Anxiety"; so, now...answer on paper from p. 365, #'s: 1-4...also...do some editing of our papers...
Tues:
1. Correct test hw...discuss...collect...
2. Work in class to completion of our "Compare/Contrast" papers...
H.W: Finish 'Compare/Contrast" papers...submit on Wed...
Wed:
1. Test on Compare/Contrast chapter in text, pp:349-361...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Now, we will proceed w/our "Explication de Texte" essays...be sure you have your Sonnets packets w/you in class...first: review of intro par. for Explications...then, analysis of works possible for Explications...then...begin intro par's...
H.W: Continue Explications w/body par's fully concluded for Thurs...
Thurs:
1. We will continue to compose our Explication de Textes toward completion...
H.W: Text, pp: 367-69: read: "Temptations of Old Age."; then, answer on paper from p. 369, #'s: 1-5...plus, complete Explication Essays...
Fri:
1. Correct text hw...discuss...collect...
2. Collect Explication de Texte Essays
3. In text, orally read together, "They Shoot Helicopters, Don't They?"...pp: 370-74; then, discuss...
H.W: Text, p. 374, #'s: 1, 3, 4...answer on paper for Mon...also, select topics for our next essay to be started on Mon/Tues: Narratives...
02-06-10-12:
Mon:
1. Continue our Compare/Contrast papers in class till end of class on Tues...
2. Discussion of Woolf's, "The New Dress" as it can be included w/an allusion or two to our present Compare/Contrast papers...test on the story on Tues...
3. Return of corrected second versions of analysis/Narrative essays, i.e., "The Birthday Party" 2...
H.W: Read in text "High Anxiety" and answer on paper from p. 365, #'s: 1-4...also review "The New Dress."
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss...also discuss how this assignment was related to our Compare/Contrast papers...collect hw...
2. Test on "The New Dress."...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Finish in class our Compare/Contrast papers for a submit at end of class or Wed...we will see...
H.W: Read in text, "Temptations of Old Age," p. 369 and answer on paper questions 1-5...how does this rate as a Compare/Contrast essay?
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. We will now pursue our Explication de Textes essays which we have been preparing for since last week...Some may have their intro par's already completed...good...essays are 250wds...due at the beginning of class on Fri...you need your poetry packets, etc...
H.W: Read in text, " They Shoot Helicopters, Don't They?" and answe on paper from p. 374, #'s: 1, 3, 4, and 7...Was this an effective and interesting Compare/Contrast essay...or not?
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue toward completion our Explication de Texte essays...I will be around to assist, etc...
H.W: Finish Explication essays for start of class submit on Fri...
Fri:
1. Collect essays...
2. Intro to Narration chapter in text...ch. 7...discussion...oral in class reading of several selected descriptive pages...What is a Personal Narrative?...In class reading of text essay, "The Day I Was Fat."...pp: 293-295...discuss as a Personal Narrative...next, what topics shall we consider for our own Personal Narrative Essays due next Wed?
H.W: Text, answer on paper from p. 295, #'s: 1,2,3,4,& 6...and bring two distinct topics for our in-class writing of our Personal Narratives starting Monday
Feb. 13-17-12:
Mon:
1. We are finishing our Explication de Texte papers due at the end of the period...
2. I am returning your Compare/Contrast essays w/suggestive comments for improvement...discuss...
H.W: Text, read pp: 233-237...test on Tues...also read pp: 251-252, "Watching the Reapers," and answer on paper fom p: 252 #'s: 2,3,4,6,...and p. 253, top, #'s: 1 & 2...
Tues:
1. Test on Text h.w...correct...discuss...collect...
2. Correct Text hw...discuss...collect...
3. Begin our Personal Description..."Narration"...essays...have your two topics of choice written out and ready for my approval...
H.W: Text, read pp: 254-257; then, answer on paper from p. 258, #'s: 1,2,3,4,6,7, & 12...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue working on our Personal Description essays...
H.W: Text, read pp: 266-268; then, answer on paper questions from p. 269, #'s: 1-6...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue working on our Personal Description Essays
H.W: Finish Description essays for Fri...
Fri:
1. Collect Description Essays...
2. Intro. to Narration Essay...read orally together in Text, pp: 275-278...discuss...
H.W: Text, read pp: 286-288, "The Colossus in the Kitchen"...then, answer on paper questions in text from p. 288, #'s: 1-6...
Feb. 21-24-12:
Tues:
1. We will be rewriting our Explication de Texte Essays and/or developing our Personal Description Essays...
2. Reference in Text, Sullivan's, "If at First You Do Not See..."...few comments...review of Vocab. on p. 246...as contiguous to our work on our Personal Description Essays...
H.W: Read in text, pp: 247-49; then, answer on paper from pp: 249-50, #'s: 1-8...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue same essay work as stated for Monday...
H.W: Read in text, pp: 251-52, "Watching the Reapers," and answer on paper from p. 252, #'s: 1-6...
Thurs:
1. Correct h.w...discuss...collect...
2. Complete both the second version of our Explication de Texte Essays and the full version of our Description Narration Essays by end of period...submit...Title Pages: Some reflective/indicative quote to promulgate the text...
H.W: Read in Text, pp: 270-274...test on these pages on Fri...
Fri:
1. Test on text hw...correct...discuss...collect...
2. We will next review/discuss our Corporate Letters packets...discuss the two letters...begin to formulate our own Letters to a Corporate or an Executive issue...which letter do you want to emulate...why?...
H.W: Intro. par's for our Corporate Letters due Mon...
Feb- 27-Mar 2-12:
Mon:
1. We will be finishing our Personal Description essays in class...then submitting them on Tues...
2. We will read our Corporate Letters...proceed w/the development of our own Letters...
3. Review of text hw questions/answers on final essays assigned for reading in the Description Ch. of our text...
H.W: Finish Description Essays...do intro par. for Corporate Letter...
Tues:
1. Submit Description Essays...
2. Review/Discuss our intro par's for Corporate Letters...
3. Vocab Wk Shts...review words #'s: 10-20...
H.W: Compose body of Corporate Letter...
Wed:
1. We will complete our Corporate Letters in class and exchange them for peer editing...
2. Continue Vocab Review from Tues. class
3. Text, we will read orally together pp: 275-278...discuss...
H.W: Read in Text, "The Colossus in the Kitchen" pp: 286-88; then, answer onpaper from p. 288, #'s: 1-6...also complete final draft of Corporate Letter...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Submit...briefly peruse/discuss Corporate Letters...
3. Read orally in Text, Heaney's work...pp: 290-91...discuss...
H.W: Answer on paper from p. 290, #'s: 1-6...also, provide one sentence each for the first 20 vocab wds on our Vocab WkShts...
Fri:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Read orally in text, "The Day I Was Fat,"...discuss as Narrative Writing Exemplar...
H.W: Answer from text on paper #'s: 1-6 on p. 295......also...Compose your own 250-400 wd. "Personal Narrative" patterned similarly to the text Narratives we have thus far examined...
Mar. 05-09-12:
Mon:
1. Finish our Narration Essays...submit on Tues...text, ch. 7, read/discuss pp: 286-288...
2. Review Corporate Letters for clarity of purpose in our upcoming Letters...discuss...
H.W: Text, read, pp. 293-295, "The Day I Was Fat."...ans. on paper from p. 295, #'s: 1-6...
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss as Narration example...wh effective?...collect...
2. Submit Narration Essays
3. Begin Corporate Letters
4. H.W: Intro par. to Corporate Letters...
Wed:
1. Continue our Corporate Letters toward completion
2. Vocab WkShts...review words 21-26...discuss...use in sentences, etc...
H.W: Finish Corporate Letters
Thurs:
1. Exchange for peer editing our Corporate Letters...
2. Final edit of Corporate Letters in class...submit at start of class on Fri...
3. Vocab WkShts...review words 27-32...discuss...use in sentences, etc...
H.W: Text, read pp: 297-300, " 37 Who Saw Murder..." and answer on paper from p. 300-01: #'s: 1-6...
Fri:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Submit Corporate Letters...
3. Read orally in text pp: 311-316: Exposition and Illustration...discuss...
H.W: Text, read pp: 302-304, "Nagasaki..." and answer on paper from p. 304, #'s: 1-6...
March 12-16-12:
Mon:
1. Corporate Letters: Full Period
H.W: Text, read "Illustration" Essays chapter...pp: 315-324...
Tues:
1. Complete Corporate Letters...Peer Editing...Revising...Self-Editing...
H.W: Finish Corporate Letters for Wed.
Wed:
1. Collect Corporate Letters...discuss...
2. In text, read orally together, "Wolf," 325-327...discuss...why is this a good exemplar of Illustration Writing?
H.W: Answer on paper from text, p. 327, #'s: 1-5
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Read together in text, "Covert Force," pp: 329-332...discuss as Illustration...
H.W: Answer on paper from text, pp: 332-33,#'s: 1-8...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect
2. Return Corporate Letters...students then each respond to the issue of concern in the Corporate letter of another student in/with their own Corporate response letter...
H.W: Text, Read "English is a Crazy Language,"...then, answer on paper from p. 337, #'s: 1-7...
Fri:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue for full period to respond w/our "Response" letters to other students' Corporate letters...
H.W: Finish Corporate Response Letters
Mar 19-23-12:
Mon:
1. Revise Corporate Letters for final submission...some peer editing here, etc..
2. Discussion of our Paris, 1953, Prompt Essay...what is being asked of our writing response?
3. Begin in-class writing of our essay response
H.W: Complete prompt essay response w/title page and contiguous relevant quote...
Tues:
1. Editing of our Prompt-response essays...re-writing of them after peer/teacher reviews/discussion...
2. Begin re-write of the essay w/additional rules we have established last week for par. development/transitions...
H.W: Finish re-write of 1953 Paris essays...submit on Wed. also, read in text, pp: 311-316 on Exposition Writing and Illustration Writing...
Wed:
1. Collect final version of our Paris, 1953 essays...brief discussion...
2. Test on text hw...correct...discuss...collect...
3. Oral in class reading of"Wolf," pp: 325-327...discuss as Illustration Essay...
H.W: Text, p. 327, #'s: 1-5...plus: read also "Covert Force," pp: 329-332 and answer questions for discussion on pp: 332-333, #'s: 1-8...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Discussion of text essay, "Covert Force"...
3. In-class essay: begin intro par's and thesis sentences on choice of any two poetry prompt essays...finish par. one for hw...
Fri:
1. Peer editing of our intro par's for poetry prompt-response essays...each student corrects the intro par's of two other students...returns them...we work on an intro par revision; then, proceed w/the remainder of the essay to completion...Submit this essay at the end of the period...
2. Several students present brief research on aspects of ideal techniques for illustration usages in an Illustration Essay...discuss...
3. Review orally our vocab/lit. terms shts...#'s: 20-29...
Enjoy your break...
Apr 9-13-12:
Mon:
1. In A Reader for College Writers text, read "English is a Crazy Language," pp: 334-337; then, answer on paper from p. 337, Questions for Discussion, #'s: 1,4,5, &7...also answer, Thinking Critically, #'s: 1 & 3...
2. Rewrite par's 13 and 14 of this essay, combining both par's into one final par...also, while rewriting this par, create an entirely new direction for the final par. than the author has written that fits more effectively with a summative and intelligent set of concluding sentences...submit all of this work in class on Tues...
H.W: Text, read "The Death of Common Sense," pp: 339-343; then, answer on paper from p. 344, 3's: 1,2,3,5, & 6...
Tues:
1. Submit work from yesterday...
2. In A Reader for College Writers text, read "The Right To Be Let Alone," pp:488-490; then, answer on paper from p. 490, Questions for Discussion, #'s: 1,2,4,5,&7...next...go back in the text to p. 344 and answer under Critical Thinking, #1...submit all of this work in class on Wed...
H.W: Text, read "High Anxiety: It Never Ends," pp: 362-365; then, answer on paper from p. 365, #'s: 1 & 3...ALSO: Bring to class your They Say, I Say texts on Wed...
Wed:
1. Submit work from yesterday...
2. In your They Say, I Say text, read both of these two articles: first, pp: 342-354, "Up Against Wal-Mart."...second, pp: 356-359, ""Progressive Wal-Mart. Really."...next, create a 250-400 wd. in-class essay in which you either support or criticize the sales/marketing/advertising policies of a major store or a popular restaurant or a famous Sports Team or a prestigious University, detailing what this organization is doing wisely...or unwisely...as you see it...four or five par's preferred...
H.W: Complete intro par's w/a thesis for this essay
Thurs:
1. Continue the essay begun in class yesterday...at some point in the period, have another student peer-edit your essay and sign his name at the bottom...
H.W: complete the final draft of this essay and submit it in class tomorrow...
Fri:
1. Submit the Thurs essays...
2. Read in A Reader for College Writers text, "On Fire," pp: 407-410; then, answer on paper from p. 410, #'s: 1,2,3,5, & 7...next, read ""Florida's Fire Ants Headed for Trouble," pp: 412-414; then, answer on paper from p. 415, #'s: 1,3,4, & 7...
H.W: Finish any of this assignment remaining and submit this work in class on Monday
04-16-12:
Mon:
1. We will finish our Prompt Essays on "Cold November," or "Father-son Camping" in class by the end of the period today...then submit them w/full title page w/quotes...
2. When above is completed, proceed onto your Illustration Essays w/ two quotes, two examples, and at least one visual illustration...these are due on Thursday...
H.W: College Writers text, read pp: 362-65, "High Anxiety" then answer on paper from p. 365, #'s: 1,3,& 4
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Proceed to writing our Illustration essays as exemplified in the test...full period...
H.W: College Writers text, read pp: 367-68, "Temptations of Old Age"...then answer on paper from p. 369, #'s: 1-6...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Finish our Illustration essays for end of period submission...also, have two students peer edit them before submitting your final draft to me...
H.W: College Writers text, read pp: 370-74, "They Shoot Helicopters,"...then answer on paper from p. 374, #'s: 1,3, & 4...also submit two topic choices for your upcoming Compare/Contrast Essays...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. In College Writers text, we will orally read together/analyze, "How the Lawyers Stole Winter."...pp: 376-78...discuss as a Compare/Contrast essay...
3. Students then answer on paper from p. 379, #'s: 1,2,5, & 7...submit at end of period...
4. We will determine our best topic choices for our Compare/Contrast Essays; then, we will begin them in class and finish the intro. par's for hw...
H.W: See #4 above...
Fri:
1. We will peer edit...then re-write our intro par's for our Compare/Contrast essays...
2. Proceed with completing our Compare/Contrast Essays for rest of the period...
H.W: Complete Compare/Contrast Essays for Monday...Also, read in College Writers text, the "Process Analysis" chapter, pp: 385-87; then, read the essay, "Do You Want to be a Millionaire?" on pp: 398-400...then answer on paper from p. 401, #'s: 4 & 5...
04-23-27-12
Mon:
1. We are finishing the re-write of our Prompt Wind/Fishing Essays...submit at end of per...
2. Intro par's to our Illustration Essays are due...per edit...re-write in class...submit...as I look at them, you all proceed w/your body par's,...include: ex's, quotes, facts, and visual illustrations...
3. Return intro illustration par's; then, students proceed w/working on full Illustration Essays...
H.W: In College Writing text, read: "How to Fight a Duel," pp: 403-05; then, answer on paper from p. 406, #'s: 2,3,5, & 6...
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue w/Illustration Essays for rest of the period...
H.W: In College Writing text, read: "On Fire," pp: 407-410; then, answer on paper from p. 410, #'s: 1,2,3,5, & 7...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Finish Illustration Essays within first 10-15 min's of class...peer edit...re-write as needed...submit by middle of the period to end of the period...
3. Begin our Research Papers...Submit your three topics for my approval...
H.W: In College Writing text, read: "Florida's Fire Ants..." pp: 412-414; then, answer on paper from p. 415, #'s: 1, 3, 4, & 7...
Thurs:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Proceed w/both the research for and the writing of our Research Papers...
H.W: Complete intro par and the first of the body paragraphs of the Research Paper.
Fri:
1. Continue w/writing/researching for...our Research Papers...
H.W: In College Writing text, read: pp: 463-482...there will be a test on these pages on Monday...also...on Monday, we will continue w/our Research Papers...
Apr 30-May 04-12:
Mon:
1. Correct hw from text, pp: 488-490...discuss as Argumentative model for upcoming essay...collect
2. Students proceed w/Researching for/Writing of Research Papers...N.B. There must be a text source, a periodical source, an internet source at a minimum...
H.W: Text, read, "Bicycle Menace," pp: 492-495; then, answer on paper from p. 496, #'s: 1-8.
Tues:
1. Correct hw from text...discuss as an Argumentative model...collect...
2. Return graded Illustration Essays...discuss...students then rewrite them and re-submit on Wed...
3. Students proceed w/Research Papers once Illustration Essays are re-written, but rewriting the Illustration Essays should take all of this period today...
H.W: Text, read, "Free Speech on Campus," pp: 498-502, then, answer on paper from p. 502-503, #'s: 1-10.
Wed:
1. Correct hw from text...discuss as our third Argumentative Essay model...collect...
2. Students proceed w/Research Papers for the rest of the period...
H.W: Text, read, "Bilingual Education," pp: 504-508; then, answer on paper from pp: 508-509, #'s: 1-13.
Thurs:
1. Correct hw from text...discuss as fourth Argumentative Essay model...collect...
2. Students finish writing Research papers...they are due on Fri...
3. On Thursday, before finalizing your Research Papers, have two students peer-review them; then, you edit your papers...they are due at the start of class on Fri...
H.W: Finish Research Papers and write the Intro Par for your Argumentative Essays
Fri:
1. Collect Research Papers
2. Return editied re-write essays of Illustration...discuss...
3. Students proceed w/the composing of their Argumentative Essays as I peruse the room grading the intro par's...
H.W: Complete body par's of Argumentative Essays for Monday...
May 7-11-12:
Mon:
1. Continue our Research Papers...full period
H.W: In text, read "Free Speech on Campus," pp: 499-502; then, answer on paper from p. 502-03, #'s: 1-10...also...bring a book review and a movie review from a magazine or an on-line source which we will use as a model for our movie/book revue Essays due on Fri...
Tues:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Continue Research papers for rest of period...
H.W: In text, read Bi-Lingual Education," pp: 505-508; then, answer on paper from pp: 508-09, #'s: 1-13...also, be sure you have a sample book and a sample movie review w/you in class tomorrow...
Wed:
1. Correct hw...discuss...collect...
2. Finish Research Papers and submit final version by the end of the period today...
H.W: Intro par's due tomorrow for an Argumentative Essay
Thurs:
1. Collect Research Papers...
2. Collect Intro par's fro Argumentative Essays...grade...return...students then continue their Argumentative Essays for the rest of the period...
3. Submit your book and/or movie review articles to me for a grade/an approval...
H.W: Finish Argumentative Essays...
Fri:
1. Collect Argumentative Essays...
2. We will now begin our movie and/or book reviews in class...
H.W: Finish Book/Movie Review essay first draft for Monday
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