Week of...

Monday

Wednesday

1/24

Discuss: 1. Project 1
2. Audience/Tone
3. Analyzing for values

HW: 1. Print out and diagram important aspects of the website that help you determine tone and to what and how they will respond.

Discuss: 1. Your findings
2. Formatting a goodwill business letter.

HW: Complete a Peer Response Draft of Project 1 for Peer Response on Monday.

1/31

2/7

Discuss: 1. Freewriting
2. Researching for ideas: what is a reputable resource? Why can't we use Yahoo or Google or Wikipedia?  Why are there such strict formatting rules?  What's wrong with cut and paste? How do we avoid replicating an idea?  Why do we hope there are no articles about what we are writing about?
3. Talking about grades: What does an "A" paper/portfolio look like? What do you do if you get a grade that you do not expect? 

HW: Find and read at least one article about your selected group on Academic Search Complete.  Bring it to class.  Don't forget to practice active reading!

Discuss: 1.Your articles.
2. What is an annotated bibliography?  Why do scholars do them? What are our goals for an annotation?
3. Proper citation and formatting

*Create the citation for your article.

HW: Finish constructing the first and second of your four required annotations for your mini-Annotated Bibliography for a peer response on Monday.  Do note that the completed Annotated Bibliography with all four annotations is due on Wednesday.  

2/14

Peer Response

Discuss: 
1. The articles you found.
2. What are you already discovering about your topic?  
3. How do you turn that into a paper idea?
4. What other kinds of research do you need to do?
5. What is a working thesis statement (AKA: your rhetorical purpose)?


HW: 1. Start thinking about your scope and angle for your Project 2 essay.  What do YOU have to ADD to this discussion?  How are people getting it wrong? How do you correct them?  Who is "them"? How do you discuss this part of yourself while making your discussion interesting to and significant for readers who do not know you and/or who aren't insiders in the group you are referring to?  
2. BE READY TO WRITE YOUR WORKING THESIS STATEMENT ON THE BOARD IN CLASS ON WEDNESDAY.
3. Finish mini-Annotated Bibliography for class on Wednesday (at least four entries), one of which must be from an academic journal.


 

Submit: Annotated Bibliography

Discuss: 1.Write your working thesis statement on the board!
2. What is a Cover Sheet and how do you complete it?
3. What are Proposals and how do you complete them?
4. Sign up for conferences.

HW: Be prepared for your conference, which includes having a completed 1+ page proposal and a revised Cover Sheet.

2/21

  

NO CLASS
Conferences

Discuss: 1. Proposals
2. Cover Sheets

HW: Complete Peer Response Draft of Project 2 (3+ pgs) and revised Cover Sheet for Peer Response on Monday. 

Discuss: 1. Constructing a logical argument: the role of introductions and conclusions
2. A thesis must be arguable
3. Writing is not a formula, the five paragraph essay is for high schoolers, and no one likes a laundry list
4. Hedging
5. First and Second Person
6. Integrating quotations
7. For the love of all things holy, format your paper correctly

HW: Complete Peer Response Draft of Project 2 (3+ pgs) and revised Cover Sheet for Peer Response on Monday

 

2/28

Peer Response

Discuss: Why is writing hard?  What do you need to do better?  

HW: Revise draft and prepare portfolio for submission on Wednesday.

Submit Project 2 Portfolio

Reflections on Project 2

Meet Mr. Day!

Discuss: 1. Project 3
2. Brainstorm about current trends on university campuses.  When and why did it start? Why is it popular right now? What values underpin its popularity? If this trend continues, what does it say about the future? 

HW:  Freewriting about trends for class on Monday.

3/7

Discuss: 1. Freewriting
2. Project 2 results (remember, ask for help understanding, your grades are your own business and not anyone else's, by law you and I cannot talk about anyone's grades by yours, we cannot discuss grades over email, and revision is an opportunity, not a punishment)

HW: Proposal and Cover Sheet for conference.

NO CLASS
Conferences


Discuss: 1. Proposals
2. Cover Sheets


HW: Complete Peer Response Draft of Project 3 (4+ pgs, 3+ citations), Works Cited page, and Cover Sheet for Peer Response on the Monday after Spring Break.

3/14

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

3/21

Submit Project 3 Portfolio

Reading Quiz!

Discuss: 1. The novel
2. Project 4 (Summary: Freytag pyramid; personal Response; literary analysis (an argument [the theme] sustained with textual evidence).

HW: Summarize the book in about 1 double spaced page (no less and not much more than 1 full page).  Then, in a separate 2+ page document, offer a personal response to the book.

Remember, a Summary is completely objective, which is why it is inherently different from a mostly subjective Response.  But a Response is also partly objective; you have to be responding to the information in the document, so misreading the document can make your Response wrong.  In both of the documents that you will create, strong, clear writing is always the goal.

3/28

Peer Response (Summary and Response)

Discuss: 1. Your responses.
2. What is a theme, how do we write about them, and what are the dominant themes of this novel?

HW: Proposal for conference.  No need for a cover sheet on this one.

4/4

HW: 1. Prepare Project 4 Portfolio for submission.

4/11

4/18

4/25

5/2
Finals Week