August 2020
Homework
Tuesday
Homework
Thursday
Homework
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Syllabus / Norton / Icebreakers / InQuisitive / PDF (Word, PDF Creator, Xodo) / Breakout Rooms in Zoom / Create Group Folder in Quip for members in Breakout Group / Teambuilding /
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Purchase your books
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Mindup, Snipping Tool (WIN + Shift + S), and Quip / Draw Personal Identify Mindmap (best friend, dream house, dream job, dream vacation, next big purchase, enjoyable activity) / Save in Quip Personal Folder
Peer Reading Pitfalls: imitating the instructor and acting like an editor.
Types of Reading: read as a "common reader", read to "know the writer"(values, assumptions, opinions and their effect on the text, the writing process and thesis clarity, unknowns), read to "diagnose key problems", and read to "improve paper" (by comparing it to models).
Peer Interaction: summarize, stop and predict, ask questions, label problems, and make suggestions.
Reading Critically: (5th vs 4th) Rhetorical Context [rhetoric, rhetorical situation (1) and rhetorical contex], Purpose [persuasive, argumentative, informative, and aesthetic], audience, genre, stance, medium, pattern-design-structure, evidence, semantic field
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
Begin Semantic Field--Declaration of Independence
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Last Day to DROP/ADD
Read and analyze: Declaration of Independence / Can you determine any semantic fields? / How are it’s paragraphs organized? (Outline of ideas and argument)
Recommended Reading: Chapter 2 (10-32 )
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Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion – Self Identification?
Begin Semantic Field (a, b, c, 1,2,3,4)--Declaration of Independence (Math Problem Example)
Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, semantic field)
Academic Writing: Context (types of writing [persuasive, argumentative, informative (1), and analytical]*, topic, focus, thesis (1), evidence (research), structure (rhetoric) and organization)
Read: “Narrating” NR 462-470 / Discuss
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Then, read this fragment from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This fragment serves as a model narrative.
Finally, reflect on the narrative model and review the paragraphs written by your group members.
Try to give feedback related to spelling, grammar, pertinent details, audience, purpose, style (engaging, concise, etc.), and organization of ideas.
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Discuss Chp 1 and “Our Declaration”
Discuss : “Narrating” NR 462-470 / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
Genre for narratives or recurrent literary form (autobiography, biography (1), life story, short-story, novel [bildungsroman, J ane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Little Women, Harry Potter, House on Mango Street], non-ficiton oral history or photo history (1,2))
Quip Feedback
Last Day to submit Credit-By-Exam
Review the paragraphs written by your group members. Try to give feedback related to spelling, grammar, pertinent details, audience, purpose, style (engaging, concise, etc.), and organization of ideas.
Read Literacy Narrative (75-97)
Write A Thesis Statement for your Research Paper
Read: “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (Norton 697-703)
September 2020
Homework
Tuesday
Homework
Thursday
Homework
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Admin: Quip and Homework Reminder
Our Narrative vs. Literacy Narrative (83) / Discuss the literacy narrative “Mother Tongue” (Norton 697-703)
Paramedic Method: practice
Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
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Reading: Profiles (Norton 233--245) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
Narrative Revisions: Edit a peer’s narrative description applying the Paramedic Method.
Group Description Paragraph: Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing. Then, create a collaboratively written newspaper version of the description–one that merges the information gained from each writing viewpoint (outside-inside)? What is your stance and purpose? Where does it fit into the newspaper? Have you included any quotations? You may need to read one of these brief articles (1,2) first.
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Essay 1: Topic “Profile in Courage” - See Profiles in Courage by JFK* (Turn-in using D2L Dropbox) / For advanced essayists (1)
Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
Explanation / More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words /
Thesis Statement
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Write a Rough Draft for Essay 1
InQuizitive:
1. How to Use InQuizitive
2. Editing the Errors That Matter
3. Comma Splices
4. Omitted Commas
5. Unnecessary Commas
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Classes will meet
Labor Day
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Feedback: Expository Thesis Statement
Preliminary Bib / MLA / Zotero / Sample Preliminary Bibliography
Discuss Description exercise.
Explanation / More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words
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Description Exercise: Now create a collaboratively written newspaper version of the description–one that merges the information gained from each writing viewpoint (outside-inside)? What is your stance and purpose? Where does it fit into the newspaper? Have you included any quotations? You may need to read one of these brief articles (1,2) first.
Revise and edit the Rough Draft for Essay 1
Begin your research in the Library
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Admin: D2L, InQuizitive
Explanation / More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats
Essay 1
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Continue your research in the Library
Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid and place it on Quip. If you are still working on your Essay, make sure this is done by Saturday.
Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
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Finish your Preliminary Bibliography
Read: Nash / Do: Online quiz
InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
Read “Stance”, Norton (66-68)
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Feedback on Exit Ticket
Review:Person, Voice, Point of View
Reading Questions: Stance
Aiming at the right audience: Describing your new significant other (1,2,3) / Your stance? Your tone?
Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from a different person´s point-of-view / How does this change the voice, perspective, and stance. Should you alter the “person”? Try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
Preliminary Bib
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Read: “Developing Habits of Mind” (NR 45-52)
Read: “Audience” (NR 57-60)
Read: “Fields of Study” (NR 291-320)
Quip: Add the group paragraphs from class.
Last Day to Submit Incomplete Grade
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Questions about the Study Guide?
Discuss the “Developing Habits of the Mind” and “Fields of Study”
Look back: Run-on Sentences
Academic Writing and the First Person
Another look at Person: The Sun Magazine (A 40yr old, independent, ad-free magazine that uses words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being)
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Take notes on Rothko
Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
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Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
Mid-Semester Grades Due 4:00 pm
ENG 1112-196
ENG 1112-196
