Class Schedule:

DATES / TOPICS
Week 1
8/31/15 to 9/4/15 / Class introduction and
Course Guidelines
Strategy: The Writing Process, Analytic
Writing, and Close Reading
Assigned: Close Reading 1
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies/grammar / Materials:
“How Can I Become An Analytical Reader?” (Steps to Writing Well p. 180-182)
“What Is Academic Writing?” by L. Lennie Irvin (Handout)
Week 2
9/8/15 to 9/11/15 / Strategy: Description
Assigned: Paper 1- College/Career Essay
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies; Goal Setting Activity
Due: Close Reading 1 / Materials:
“The Santa Ana”
(The Norton Sampler) by
Joan Didion
“Snake” by Annie Dillard
(Steps to Writing Well p. 328)
Week 3
9/14/15 to 9/18/15 / Strategy: Narration
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies
Writing Workshop 1: peer and self-editing / Materials: “Shooting Dad” by
Sarah Vowell (Bedford p. 152)
Excerpts from House on
Mango Street by Sandra
Cisneros
Week 4
9/21/15 to 9/25/15 / Strategy: Research
Assigned: Paper 2- Documented Essay
In-class activities: Research/Library/Database Activity/Evaluating Web Sources
Due: Paper 1-College/Career Essay / Using Databases and the Internet (Steps to Writing Well p. 374)
Week 5
9/28/15 to 10/2/15 / Strategy: Documented Essay
Assigned: Continue research
In-class activities: Works Cited/Annotated
Bibliography journals and writing
strategies; Avoiding Plagiarism and
Using Citations
Writing Workshop 2: peer and self-
editing techniques / Materials:
Preparing an Annotated Bibliography, Distinguishing Paraphrase from Summary, Avoiding Plagiarism and Incorporating Source Material (Steps to Writing Well p. 391-398)
Week 6
10/5/15 to 10/9/15 / Strategy: Documented Essay
Assigned: Revision
In-class activities: Writing conferences
Due: Paper 2 – Documented Essay / Materials:
Web/database/print sources on topic of choice
Week 7
10/13/15 to 10/16/15
(Columbus Day Holiday on 10/12/15) / Strategy: Division/Analysis
Assigned: Paper 3 - Division/Analysis or
Classification
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies / Materials:
“What is Really in a Hot Dog?” by the Staff of SixWise.com (Steps to Writing Well p.270)
Week 8
10/19/15 to 10/23/15 / Strategy: Classification
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies
Writing Workshop 3: peer and self-editing
techniques / Materials: “The Plot Against People” by Russell Baker (Steps to Writing Well p.268)
“The Ways We Lie” (50 Essays p.120)
Week 9
10/26/15 to 10/30/15
END OF 1st QUARTER / Strategy: Revision/Reflection on Journals
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies
Due: Due: 1st Quarter Journals and
Paper 3- Division/Analysis or Classification / Materials:
Student Journals, including initial Goal Setting Activity from Week 2
Week 10
11/4/15 to 11/6/15 (short week—student holidays on 11/2 and 11/3) / Strategy: Definition
Assigned: Paper 4 – Definition or Example
In-class activities: journals and writing
strategies / Materials:
“The Munchausen Mystery” by Don R. Lipitt (Steps to Writing Well p. 257)
Week 11
11/9/15 to 11/113/15 / Strategy: Example
In-class activities: journals and
writing strategies / Materials:
“So What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” Lisa Wilson Strick (Steps to Writing Well p. 205)
Week 12
11/16/15 to 11/20/15 / Strategy: Finish Definition and Example
Modes
Writing Workshop 4
Due: Paper 4--Definition and Example / Materials:
Sample student essay (Steps to Writing Well p. 203)
Week 13
11/23/15 and 11/24/15 (short week--Thanksgiving Holiday) / Strategy: Process Analysis
In-class activities: types and strategies of
effective process analyses
Assigned: Paper 5: Speeches/Technical
Writing / Materials:
Informative Process Essay: “To Bid the World Farewell” by Jessica Mitford (Steps to Writing Well p. 218)
Directional Process Essay: “Preparing for the Job Interview: Know Thyself” by Katy Piotrowski (224)
Week 14
11/30/15 to 12/4/15 / Strategy: Process Analysis
In-class activities: strategies of
effective speeches
Due: Paper 5--Speeches and Technical
Writing
Assigned: Close Reading 2 / Materials:
TED: “The Danger of Silence” by Clint Smith
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (50 Essays p. 172)
Week 15
12/7/15 to 12/11/15 / Strategy: Comparison and Contrast
Assigned: Paper/Unit 6: Webtext portfolio
In-class activities: peer and self-editing
Due: Close Reading 2 / Materials:
Point by point: “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” by Bruce Catton (Steps to Writing Well 239)
The Block: “Two Ways of Viewing the Same River” Samuel Clemens (Steps to Writing Well p. 243)
Week 16
12/14/15 to 12/18/15
(then WINTER BREAK) / Strategy: Cause and Effect
In class activities: work on webtext / Materials:
“Some Lessons from the Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma (Steps to Writing Well p. 283)
Week 17
1/4/16 to 1/8/16 / Strategies: Culmination of Modes of
Writing / Materials:
“Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies” (Steps to Writing Well p. 357)
Wix.com or Weebly.com
Week 18
1/11/16 to 1/15/16 / Strategy: Create and Organize Webtext
In class activities: journals and webtext / Materials:
Wix.com or Weebly.com
Week 19
1/19/16 to 1/22/16 / Strategy: Create and Organize Webtext
In class activities: journals and peer and
self-edit webtext (Gallery Walk)
Due: 2nd Quarter Journals and
Webtext draft for Gallery Walk (Writing
Workshop 6) / Materials:
Wix.com or Weebly.com
Week 20
1/25/16 to 1/28/16 / Strategy: Reflections and Goal Setting
Due: Paper 6: Webtext final draft
And Reflections / Materials:
Wix.com or Weebly.com

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