This outline is for my Monday/Wednesday classes. If you are in a class that meets Tuesday/Thursday, simply add one day to the dates listed below. This is both a document of where we're going and where we've been (and a list of the skills that I expect you to be responsible for in your writing.)
Semester Outline
Week 1: Introductions and Sentences
JANUARY
11 IC: Blog Set-up
HW: Set-up blog by end of week. Choose topic/focus and title for blog. First posting due Week 2.
13 IC: Syllabus and “success” in the class; main and subordinate clauses (p. 148-64)
HW: Read on Active Reading in Handbook (p. 346-51) and “What is the WTO?” (handout)
Week 2: Reading
18 IC: NO CLASS: Labor Day
HW: Blog Work (continuous)
20 IC: Active Reading (346-51)
HW: North of Center
Week 3: Summary and Analysis
25 IC: Summary and Analysis (p. 346-57)
HW: Blog Work (continuous)
27 IC: Summary and Analysis, cont’d
Week 4: Description and Contrast
FEBRUARY
1 IC: Examples, Illustrations, and Description (p. 44-46)
Blog work on descriptions, summary, analysis
HW: Read “Science’s Rule Book Keeps us All Safer” (Lutz)
Blog Work (continuous)
3 IC: Comparison, classification, and definition (pp. 47, 49-50)
HW: Read “Food is Good” (Bourdain)
Week 5: Revision
8 IC: Narration and Process paragraphs (pp. 45-46)
Blog work on narrative, process, comparative, or definition entries
HW: Complete Draft of Summary/Analysis paper
10 IC: Peer Review
HW: Complete Final Draft Essay 1
North of Center
Week 6: Completing Essay 1; Starting Unit 2: Sentences
15 NO CLASS: President’s Day
HW: COMPLETE ANALYSIS PAPER
17 IC: ANALYSIS PAPER DUE
HW: BLOG WORK (continuous)
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