Tth 8:00 Class: Tentative Class Schedule

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Changes may be made to the schedule and/or other elements of the syllabus as the semester continues. Updates are announced in class and posted on the course website.

Class sessions often will incorporate uses of the course books (The Hunger Games, The Custom English 575 Textbook). Also, you will need course books to complete out-of-class assignments.

TTH 8:00 CLASS: TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Reminder: Refer to part three of the syllabus for Supplemental Learning Center due dates.

DAY ONE (1/13)
INTRODUCTIONS:
Course, Students, and Instructor
/ DAY TWO (1/15)
Writing Sample / Introductory Assessment
CHECKLIST: WORK DUE TODAY
Annotation of Course Syllabus
Assignments, due next class, require uses of both of class books.
DAY THREE (1/20)
Reading and Writing in Context:
Audience, Purpose, Genre, Tone, and Role
Reading Response Strategies
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter One, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Menu Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Start Strong: Taking Charge of Your Success in College” (pgs. 78-107/Custom)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities(as discussed in class) / DAY FOUR (1/22)
Focus on the Genre: Academic Essay Structure
Reading Response Strategies (continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Two, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Menu Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Get Ready to Read: Active Strategies for Managing Texts” (pgs. 108-143/Custom)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
DAY FIVE (1/27)
Writing as a Process / Idea Generation (including Reading Response) Strategies
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Three, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Watcher at the Gates” (464-468/Custom)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Essay Structure (pgs. 366-376/Custom)”
o Complete: Reading Response Activities(discussed in class) / DAY SIX (1/29)
Overview: Rhetorical Strategies Palette
Overview: Outlining Strategies
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Four, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “I Don’t Know What to Write” (377-386/Custom)
o Complete: Idea Generation Activities (Student Choices/as discussed in class)
o Read: “How Do I Get My Ideas Together?” (pages 390-395)
o Complete: Reading Response (as discussed in class)
DAY SEVEN (2/3)
Focus on: Paragraph Elements (Topic Sentences, Major Details, Minor Details, and Concluding Sentences)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
(as discussed in class)
o Read: Chapter Five, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Read: “Getting the Big Picture: Identifying the Main Idea in College Reading” (pgs. 216-247)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities / DAY EIGHT (2/5)
Focus on: Paragraph Elements (continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
(as discussed in class)
o Read: Chapter Six, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Read: “Lend Some Support: Locating and Using Important Details” (pgs. 248-273)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
DAY NINE (2/10)
Focus on Description
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Seven, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Complete: Class Follow-Up Composition
(a follow-up activity to class on Day Eight, 2/5) / DAY TEN (2/12)
Focus on Narration
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Eight, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Complete: Class Follow-Up Composition
(a follow-up activity to class on Day Nine, 2/10)
DAY ELEVEN (2/17)
Focus on Process Analysis
Introductions and Conclusions
DUE TODAY
Course Notebook Activity:
o Read: Chapter Nine, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Project One Draft: Three Copies of Your Rough Draft
(Bring three copies of your rough draft and participate in today’s feedback session to earn stamps on all three drafts; resubmit all 3 stamped copies with the project 1 final draft.) / DAY TWELVE (2/19)
Genre Overview: Career Research Collage
DUE TODAY
Major Project One (& 3 Stamped Copies of Rough Draft = -20 points for missing 3 stamped rough drafts)
DAY THIRTEEN (2/24)
Idea Generation: Project Two
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Ten, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Jump Start Your Career” (pgs. 32-56)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class) / DAY FOURTEEN (2/26)
Career Choices – Values and Interests
Idea Generation: Project Two (continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Eleven, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “Skills and Interests: Your Career Assets” (pgs. 57-76)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
DAY FIFTEEN (3/3)
Informational Interviews and Your Career Collage
Career Research: Selecting High Quality Sources
(Active Reading and Idea Generation, Project Two)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Twelve, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: Informational Interviewing Resources (online)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class) / DAY SIXTEEN (3/5)
Career Research: Analyzing High Quality Sources
Quotation Selection (Active Reading and Idea Generation, Project Two)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Thirteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Print and Bring: Occupational Outlook Handbook (information about at least one career / to be annotated and discussed in class)
o Print and Bring: Professional Association Information (or other information from the “More Information” links – Occupational Outlook Handbook/to be annotated and discussed in class)
DAY SEVENTEEN (3/10)
Career Research, Analysis, and Quotation Selection
The Hunger Games: Group Collage Development
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Fourteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Print and Bring: High Quality Sources for Career Research Collage (discussed in class/list of required sources provided) / DAY EIGHTEEN (3/12)
Career Research Collage: Image Selection & Analysis
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Fifteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: High Quality Sources for Career Research Collage
(discussed in class/list of required sources provided)
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(discussed in class)
DAY NINETEEN (3/24)
Research Collage Development: Group & Individual Projects
COURSE NOTEBOOK:DUE TODAY(discussed in class)
o Read: Chapter Sixteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Bring: Images & Quotations: Career & Hunger Games Collages (as discussed in class)
o Complete: Dialectical Responses/Images and Quotations / DAY TWENTY (3/26)
Research Collage Development: Group & Individual Projects
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY (discussed in class)
o Read: Chapter Seventeen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Bring: Images & Quotations for Career & Hunger Games Collages (new assignment/discussed in class)
o Complete: Dialectical Responses to Images & Quotations (new)
DAY TWENTY-ONE (3/31)
Career Collage Draft Due/Collage Draft Feedback
Rhetorical Analysis Practice and Idea Generation
DUE TODAY:
Course Notebook: o Read: Chapter Eighteen, Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities (as discussed in class)
o Project Two, Career Collage Draft
Participate in today’s feedback session with your Career Collage rough draft to earn a rough draft stamp; resubmit your Career Collage rough draft (stamped) with your final Project 2 materials. / DAY TWENTY-TWO (4/2)
Career Collage Analysis Essay:
Idea Generation and Outlining Strategies
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Nineteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
(as discussed in class)
o Read: “How Do I Write a Rhetorical Analysis?” (handout)
o Complete: Reading Response Activity
(as discussed in class)
DAY TWENTY-THREE (4/7)
Project Two Essay Development:
Exemplification, Description, & Process Analysis
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapter Nineteen, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Review: “I Don’t Know What to Write” (377-386/Custom)
and “How Do I Get My Ideas Together?” (pages 390-395)
o Complete:Idea Generation Activities & Essay Outline, Project 2 / DAY TWENTY-FOUR (4/9)
Project Two Essay Draft Feedback
Project Two Essay Development (continued)
Due Today:
o Read: Chapter Twenty, The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Project Two Essay Draft: Three Copies of Your Rough Draft
(Bring three copies of your rough draft and participate in today’s feedback session to earn stamps on all three drafts; resubmit all 3 stamped copies with the project 2 final draft.)
DAY TWENTY-FIVE (4/14)
Final Draft of Project Two Due:
Career Collage and Rhetorical Analysis Essay
DUE TODAY
Major Project Two (+ 3 Stamped Copies of Rough Drafts = -20 points for missing stamped rough drafts) / DAY TWENTY-SIX (4/16)
The Hunger Games, Argument, & Educational Policy Claims
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapters Twenty-One & Twenty-Two, Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Read: Educational Policy Claim Readings #1 & #2
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN (4/21)
The Hunger Games, Argument, & Educational Policy Claims
(continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapters Twenty-Three & Twenty-Four, Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Read: Educational Policy Claim Readings #1 & #2
o Complete: Idea Generation/Reading Response Activities / DAY TWENTY-EIGHT (4/23)
The Hunger Games, Argument, & Educational Policy Claims
(continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Read: Chapters Twenty-Five, Twenty-Six, & Twenty-Seven,
The Hunger Games
o Complete: Reading Response Activities
o Read: Educational Policy Claim Reading #3
o Complete: Idea Generation/Reading Response Activities
DAY TWENTY-NINE (4/28)
The Rhetorical Strategies Palette and Argument
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
o Review: “I Don’t Know What to Write” (377-386/Custom)
and “How Do I Get My Ideas Together?” (pages 390-395)
o Complete: Additional Idea Generation Activities, Essay Outline, and Project 3 Rough Draft (3 copies to be stamped) / DAY THIRTY (4/30)
DUE TODAY
Major Project Three (& 3 Stamped Copies of Rough Draft = -20 points for missing 3 stamped rough drafts)
DAY THIRTY-ONE (5/5)
Portfolio Preparation / Group Debate Meetings
DUE TODAY:
Updated Draft, Project One (+ Previously Graded Version) / DAY THIRTY-TWO (5/7)
Portfolio Preparation / Group Debate Meetings
DUE TODAY:
Updated Draft, Project Two (+ Previously Graded Version)
DAY THIRTY-THREE (5/12)
Portfolio Preparation / Group Debate Meetings
DUE TODAY:
Updated Draft, Project Three (+ Previously Graded Version) / DAY THIRTY-FOUR (5/19) 8:45AM-11:15A
Class Debate/Discussion: Educational Policy Claim, The Hunger Games / In-Class Essay, The Hunger Games DUE TODAY: Portfolio (For More Details: See Syllabus, Part One) Course Participation Notebook (See Syllabus, Part One)