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Here is the reading schedule:
Week #
#1
• Introduction
• Pretest
• Punctuation rules and assignment
• Word choices and sound devices—Keeping a list
• Essay assignment (Want/Should)
• A word about research papers
• Reading assignments: “Us and Them” (716); “Our Mother’s Face” (724); and “Mick Jagger Wants Me” (741)
• “The Courthouse Ring” by Malcolm Gladwell (handout)
#2
• Essay due; discussion
• Punctuation quiz
• Purpose, audience, and organization
• Collaboration; revising
• MLA and other styles
• Look at memoir writing; beginning, ending, and dialogue
• Reading assignments: “A Giant Step” (730) and “None of This Is Fair” (735)
#3
• CJC Library orientation
• Capitalization rules
• Discuss memoirs (reading assignments)
• Generate ideas
• Begin 1st essay: Memoir (writing lab)
#4
• 1st Essay due (memoir)
• Capitalization/punctuation quiz
• Pronoun usage
• Guiding the reader and defining
• Reading assignments: “Parallel Worlds” (519), “Pulpit Talk” (538), and “Changing the Face of Poverty” (542)
#5
• Discuss analyzing texts (reading assignments)
• Writing ideas
• Causes and effects
• Classifying and dividing
• Documentation: two parts
• Pronoun quiz and feedback
• Reading assignments: “Lurid Numbers” (525) and “Seeing as Believing” (531)
• Assignment: Bring notes for in-class essay next week.
#6
• Discuss reading assignments
• 2nd Essay (in-class, textual analysis)
• Reading assignments: “Just Be Nice” (583), “Class in America – 2003” (589), “On Being Black and Middle Class” (611), and “The Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest” (625)
#7
• Discuss reading assignments
• Parallelism
• Padded sentences
• “Glossary of Usage”
• Arguing a position
• Argument essay due next week
#8
• 3rd Essay due (argument)
• Comparing and contrasting
• Describing
• Explaining processes
• Making an evaluation
• 5 Groups report on reading selections (641-661)
• Collaborative evaluation essay due next week.
• Reading assignment: “A Rose for Emily” (700)
#9
• 4th Essay due (collaborative, evaluation)
• Possible punctuation, capitalization, and pronoun test.
• MLA style research papers
• Discuss “A Rose for Emily”
• Close reading: Thinking and writing about literature
• Textual evidence
#10
• Research paper Q & A
• Close reading exercises/prep for essay.
• 5th Essay (in-class, literary analyses)
• Research preview due next week.
#11
• Research paper introduction, outline, working conclusion, and Works Cited page due.
#12
• Testing
#13
• Research papers due (Tuesday)
• Multi-media preparation for oral presentation
#14
• Thanksgiving Holiday
# 15
• Oral presentations
• Exam review
# 16
• Final Exam (Check exam time.)