Week One || 01.19.10
Tues:
Go over syllabus
Jerrold Zar, "Ode to My Spell Checker"
Thurs:
Prewriting Techniques:
web log: ars longa, vita brevis
Free-writing introduced; Journals; Listing
Student Example of Free-write
Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations
Brainstorming: Mapping, Outlines
Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations:
Frida Kahlo's Las Dos Fridas
or Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns)
due Tuesday 01.26.10 |
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Week Two || 01.26.10
Tues:
Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" handout
Essay writing modes:
Audience and tone
Points of view expressed with first, second, third person
Mapping—Student Examples
Reading Journal
Basic essay guidelines
Thurs:
Informal vs. Formal Voice
Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly
"Smoking Ban" / Wikipedia.org
Exercise 1: Formal/informal letters due 02.04.10 |
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Week Three || 02.02.10
Tues:
Introductory paragraphs
John Updike "Beer Can" .: an example of the perfect paragraph
Narration Essay Pattern
Types of conflict; How to read an essay
>Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97
Autobiographical Paragraphs
Thurs:
Exercise 1: Letters due
Narration Essay Pattern
>E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183
Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative due 02.11.10 |
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Week Four || 02.09.10
Tues:
Exercise 2: Description Essay Pattern
Objective (neutral) vs. Subjective (opinionated); Metaphor, simile, personification: demo
Sylvia Plath "Metaphors"
>Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” handout
Thurs:
Autobiographical Narrative due
Description Essay Pattern
Organizing information
>N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” handout
Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern, due 02.18.10 |
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Week Five || 02.16.10
Tues:
Exemplification (Illustration) Essay Pattern
>Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” p 236
Thurs:
Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern, due
Process Essay Pattern
Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, part one due 02.25.10 |
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Week Six || 02.23.10
Tues:
Exemplification & Process Essay Patterns
Breadmaking
>Arthur Miller, “Get it Right: Privatize Executions” p 299
Thurs:
Bring Bedford Handbook to class.
List of passive verbs
Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence > Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
How to Use a Semicolon
Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, part two due 03.04.10 |
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Week Seven || 03.02.10
Tues:
Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
Different ways to Analyze material
Yahoo News Article " 'Degrading' Lyrics Linked to Teen Sex"
Thurs:
Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern due
Cause / Effect Essay Pattern
>Robin Lakoff, “The Power of Words in Wartime” p 363 |
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Week Eight || 03.09.10
Tues:
Midterm week / Review
Citation Demo—MLA 2009
Thurs: Midterm |
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Spring Break Week || 03.15.10 - 03.21.10 |
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Week Nine || 03.23.10
Tues:
MLA changes
Essay 2-part1: Cause / Effect Essay freewrite
Thurs:
Creating a Thesis Statement Based on Supportive Evidence—Demo
Generating a Formal Thesis
> Final project overview: Seven page essay, with MLA Bibliography
Choose topic of interest for final essay.
> Formal declaration of thesis due 04.06.10
Essay 2-part 2: Cause / Effect Essay, part two due 03.30.10 |
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Week Ten || 03.30.10
Tues:
Essay 2: Cause / Effect Essay Pattern, part two, due.
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern
>Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436
>Gwendolyn Brooks, “Sadie and Maud” p 443
Essay 3: Comparison / Contrast Essay due Thursday 04.08.10
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Easter Break || 04.01.10 - 04.05.10 |
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Week Eleven || 04.06.10
Tues:
Final project review: Seven page essay, with MLA Bibliography
Choose topic of interest for final essay.
> Generating a MLA Works Cited Page
Formal Thesis for Final Project due
>Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” p 485
Thurs:
Library Database Orientation
Essay 3: Comparison / Contrast Essay due |
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Week Twelve || 04.13.10
Tues:
Definition Essay Pattern
Thurs:
Definition Essay Pattern
>Jose Antonio Burciaga, “Tortillas” p 524
Friday: 04.16.10: Last day to drop a class and receive a 'W'.
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Week Thirteen || 04.20.10
Tues:
Division/Classification Essay Pattern
Essay 4: Definition or Division/Classification Essay due 04.27.10
Gathering Evidence: Summary, Paraphrase, Quotations
Formal Introduction to Final Research Project Due
Thurs:
Combining patterns |
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Week Fourteen || 04.27.10
Tues:
Combining patterns
Essay 4: Definition or Division/Classification Essay due
Thurs:
Combining patterns
> Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” handout
Preliminary Work Cited due. |
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Week Fifteen || 05.04.10
Tues:
Combining patterns
Thurs:
Review Pattern for Departmental Final
Final Project Due, both digital and print versions, with formal Work Cited Page. |
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Departmental Finals Week|| 05.12.10 - 05.18.10
Tues: May 18
Class 08.00 am - 09.15 am — Exam time 08.00 am - 09.15 am
Class 11.00 am - 12.15 pm — Exam time 10.15 am - 12.15 pm
Class 01.40 pm - 02.55 pm — Exam time 12.30 am - 02.30 pm |
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