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............English
800 --- Summer 1999 Calendar
...........................Weeks
1 - 6 (June 21st - July 29th)
Explanation of homework
layout: All activities listed next to the date (not in bold)
is what we will do in class on that day. All assignments
which follow the abbreviated letters signifying homework
(HM) will be due the following class.
WEEK
1: Introductions to the class and the Writing
Process
June 21st - Mon: Introduction to class: syllabus,
policies, textbooks and Student Interviews
Writing sample: What do you think about the growing
incidence of violence in schools? What is influencing this
and what do you feel we should do?
HM: Get textbooks and a computer usage card from the
Bookstore.
June 22nd - Tues: Introduction to the Writing
Process
HM: In The Bedford Reader, read "Champion of
the World" p. 49-53 and "Fish Cheeks" p. 54-58.
Prepare for a quiz on the
reading for Wednesday.
June 23rd - Weds:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2 (bring a disk)
Quiz on the reading. Followed by an
introduction to Daedalus.
HM: In The Bedford Reader, read "On Being the
Target of Discrimination" p. 65-73, "A Crime of Passion" p.
83-87, and "Voice Mail and Fire Ants" (p.323). Possible quiz
on the reading.
June 24th - Thurs: Possible quiz on the reading followed
by a discussion of the reading.
Also preparation for Paper #1: comparing and
contrasting.
HM: Complete Paper #1 (2-3 pages), due next
class:
(1) Bring 4 copies of your completed, typed, double-spaced
paper to class for Monday.
(2) Don't put extra spacing between paragraphs; double-space
throughout the paper and indent 5 spaces at the beginning of
each paragraph.
(3) Remember: titles of short works such as essays and poems
go in quotes and longer works such as books and plays are
either underlined or italicized.
(4) Those without papers will be asked to leave.
(5) Reminder: Workshop days count as 2 absences
(6) If you do not turn a paper in on this due date, you
cannot turn in the revised version, due a week later, for a
grade. You can't pass if you miss one of the required
papers.
WEEK
2: Workshopping Paper #1
June 28th - Mon:
Paper #1 due (2-3
pages)
In Class: Workshopping
HM: In The Bedford Reader, read "I Want a Wife"
p. 274-277 and "Not All Men are Sly Foxes" p. 278-281.
In Skill Builders, read p.1-7 and do exercise 1.1 (p.
7) numbers 1-5 and exercise 1.2 (p. 8) numbers 1-5.
June 29th - Tues: Possible Quiz on the reading
Going over Skills Builders
HM: In Bedford, read "In Defense of Talk Shows"
pp. 282-285 and "The Case for Slavery" pp. 370-373.
June 30th - Weds:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2 (bring a
disk)
HM: In Bedford, read "The Meanings of a Word"
pp. 407-410 and "The Word Police" pp. 287-292.
In Skill Builders, read "Sentence Combining" pp.
24-43 and do the following exercises: Ex 2.2 (p. 28) numbers
1-5, Ex 2.3 (p. 30) numbers 1-5, Ex 2.4 (p. 33) numbers 1-5
and Ex 2.5 (p. 37) numbers 1-5.
July 1st - Thurs: Possible Quiz on the reading followed
by a discussion of the reading.
Going over Skills Builders
Creating Titles
HM: : Revise Paper #1 due Tues, 7/6. Please include
the following:
(1) A title page using MLA format: (a) Title of paper
(be creative with this-draw your reader in) centered about a
third from the top of page (b) Your name centered in the
middle of the page (c) Course, instructor's name and date
centered near the bottom of page.
(2) Peer evaluations stapled to back
(3) Must be typed, double-spaced, have 1" margins, have 12
sized font, and be 2-3 pages in length.
Please note: 10 pts are removed for each page the paper is
under the required minimum length and 5 pts for half a page
under. Don't go solely by word count but by actual
length.
In Bedford, read "Being a Chink" pp. 413-417 and
"Girl" p. 304. Prepare for a quiz on the reading for
Tuesday.
WEEK
3: Definitions and Divisions
July 5th - Mon: No Class - Declared
School Recess
July 6th - Tues:
Revised Paper #1 Due
(2-3 pages)
Quiz on the
reading.
HM: In Bedford, read "Predictable Crises of
Adulthood" p. 294, "But What Do You Mean?" p. 329, and
"Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out" p. 188.
July 7th - Weds:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2 (bring a
disk)
Possible Quiz on the reading followed by a discussion of the
reading.
HM: To begin Paper #2 bring to class for Thurs: (1)
One page of freewriting (2) An outline with a thesis
statement at the top of the outline (see attached for Paper
topics).
July 8th - Thurs: Preparing for Paper #2
HM: Complete Paper #2 (3-5 pages), due next
class:
(1) Bring 4 copies of your completed, typed,
double-spaced paper to class on Monday
(2) Students without papers will be asked to leave and
workshop days count as 2 absences.
(3) If you don't turn a paper in on this date, you can't
turn in the revised version, due a week for a grade,
and you can't pass the class if you miss one of the required
papers.
Topics
for Paper 1 - due June 28th - 2-3 pages
Select ONE of the following paper
topics:
(1) Maya Angelou in "Champion of the World" (p.49) and
Amy Tan in "Fish Cheeks" (p.54) both tell stories of
children who felt like outsiders in predominantly white
America. Compare and contrast the two writers' perceptions
of what sets them apart from the dominant culture. How does
the event each reports affect that sense of difference?
(2) Look at Maya Angelou's "Champion of the World" (p.49)
and Ralph Ellison's "On Being the Target of Discrimination"
(p.65) and compare and contrast the ways the African
Americans in these two essays find their value as human
beings.
(3) Barbara Huttmann in "A Crime of Passion" (p.83)
writes, "For whatever reason, we developed the means to
prolong life, and now we are forced to use it" (85).
Although the purpose and tone of his essay are very
different from Huttmann's, Edward Tenner in "Voice Mail and
Fire Ants" (p.323), makes a similar claim about technologies
unintended consequences; compare and contrast the these two
essays.
(4) Create your own essay topic comparing two of the
essays from this unit.
Topics
for Paper 2 - due July 12th - 3-5 pages
Select ONE of the following paper
topics:
(1) Both Judy Brady's "I Want a Wife" (p.274) and Armin
A. Brott's "Not All Men Are Sly Foxes" (p.278) challenge
traditional ideas about how men and women are supposed to
divide the labor in marriage. Compare/contrast what these
authors reveal about views of marriage and traditional
gender roles and responsibilities.
(2) At the end of "The Case for Slavery" (p.370), A.M.
Rosenthal asserts that "callousness of class" enables people
to argue for the legalization of drugs. How is this concept
of class consciousness related to the problem Barbara
Ehrenreich labels "class exploitation" (para.8)? Write an
essay comparing these two explanations of how class
differences cause misunderstandings.
(3) Michiko Kakutani in "The Word Police" (p.287) is
concerned that "many gung-ho advocates of politically
correct language seem to think the simple suppression of a
word or concept will magically make the problem disappear
(para.24). In "The Meanings of a Word" (p.407), Gloria
Naylor advocates not suppressing language that might be
called "politically incorrect." Compare these two authors
ideas on the issue of language suppression.
(4) You may have noticed the similarity between Gail
Sheehy's characterization in "Predictable Crisis of
Adulthood" (p.294) of the Catch-30 couple (paras.22-30) and
Judy Brady's analysis in "I Want a Wife" (p.274). Use the
information provided by Sheehy (about other stages as well,
if you like) to analyze the particular crisis of the "I" who
wants a wife in Brady's essay.
(5) Judy Brady in "I Want a Wife" (p.274) and Jamaica
Kincaid in "Girl" (p.304) both analyze women's traditional
roles, although they have different perspectives on these
roles. Compare these authors tones and views about these
roles.
(6) What pictures of men and women emerge from Deborah
Tannen's "But What Do You Mean?" (p. 329) and from Dave
Barry's "Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out" (p. 188)? In an
essay, define each sex as portrayed by these two authors,
and then agree or disagree with the definitions.
(7) Create your own essay topic comparing two of the
essays from this unit.
WEEK 4:
Workshopping
July 12th - Mon: Paper #2 due (3-5
pages). In Class:
Workshopping
HM: Work on revisions for Paper #2 and optional
revision on Paper #1
July 13th - Tues: In-class: Writing thesis statements
and topic sentences
The "Well-Built" paragraph and Using Transitions
HM: In Bedford, read "No Name Woman" pp.
585-596 and "The Myth of the Model Minority" pp. 482-490.
Possible quiz on the reading.
July 14th - Weds:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2
Possible quiz on the reading followed by a discussion of the
reading
HM: In Bedford, read "Black Men and Public
Spaces" pp. 168-171 and "I Have a Dream" pp. 502-505.
In Skill Builders, read "Punctuating Sentence
Combinations" pp. 44-49 and do Ex 3.1 (p. 45) numbers 1-5
and
Ex 3.2 (p. 48) numbers 1-5.
July 15th - Thurs: Possible quiz on the reading
followed by a discussion of the reading.
Going over Skill Builders
HM: In Bedford, read "The Ways We Lie" pp.
337-344, "Safe-Sex Lies" pp, 380-384 and
"The Holocaust" pp. 434-437.
Revised Paper #2 due 7/19. Please include the
following:
(1) A title page (2) Peer evaluations stapled to back (3)
Must be typed, double-spaced, have 1" margins,
have 12 sized font, and be 3-5 pgs in length (points will be
taken off for papers under length).
WEEK
5: Revised Paper #2 due
July 19th - Mon: Revised
Paper #2 Due (3-5 pages)
HM: In Bedford, read "The Penalty of Death" pp.
455-458 and "The Unquiet Death of
Robert Harris" pp. 461-465.
In Skill Builders, "Dangling Modifiers" p. 72-73 and
do exercise 4.1 (p. 73) numbers 1-5 and 4.2 (p.74)
numbers 1-5. Also read "Faulty Parallelism" p. 74-76 and
do exercise 4.3 (p. 76) numbers 1-5.
July 20th - Tues: Possible quiz on the reading. Going
over Skill Builders
HM: In Bedford, read "TV Addiction" p.420-422
and "Pornoviolence" p. 425-431.
Prepare for Make-up Quiz next class
(this score will replace lowest quiz score)
Optional
revision of Paper #1 due next class-staple the graded
original to
the back of the revised copy.
July 21st - Weds:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2
Optional Revision of
Paper #1 due.
Make-up Quiz on the
reading
HM: In Bedford, read "Desperation Writing" pp.
258-261.
July 22nd - Thurs: Preparing for Paper #3 and creating
your own arguments about the reading
HM: Complete Paper #3 (4-6 pages), due next
class:
(1) Bring 4 copies of your completed, typed, double-spaced
paper to class on Monday
(2) Students without papers will be asked to leave and
workshop days count as 2 absences.
(3) If you don't turn a paper in on this date, you can't
turn in the revised version, due a week
for a grade, and you can't pass the class if you miss one of
the required papers.
* Bring a
self-addressed stamped envelope, so I can send you a full
printout and breakdown of your course grade. *
WEEK
6: Workshopping and Final Exam
July 26th - Mon: Paper #3 due (4-6
pages). In Class:
Workshopping
** If you go to a writing
tutor in The Learning Center for Paper #3, you can get 3
points of extra credit.
Attach a tutor slip to the front of the final draft of the
revised paper due Thursday, July 29th. **
July 27th - Tues: Class time given to see
writing tutors in building 5
HM: Review the essays (listed below) for the final
exam on Thursday.
July 28th - Weds: DO
NOT meet in the Computer Lab,
meet in the regular classroom
In Class: Timed Writing
Workshop
HM: Revised Paper #3 due 7/29. Please include the
following:
(1) A title page using MLA format (2) Must be typed,
double-spaced, have 1" margins, have 12 sized font,
and be 4-6 pages in length--Points will be taken off for
papers under length. (3) If you used outside research,
see p. 655-667 to see how to incorporate quotations and cite
works. (4) Attach tutor slip to front if you visited
a tutor.
If you haven't
already, bring a self-addressed stamped envelope
** Next class
meet in the computer lab-you can type the
2 hour final on the computer or hand write it
**
July 29th - Thurs:
Meet in the Computer
Lab: bottom floor of bldg 2
Revised Paper #3 Due (4-6
pages)
Final: Open
Book, Closed Note Exam
Essays
to write on and know for Paper #3 and for the final
exam
Analyzing one or more of the
following essays, create your own argument for Paper #3:
"No Name Woman" (585), "The Myth of the Model Minority"
(482), "Black Men and Public Spaces" (168),
"I Have a Dream" (502), "The Ways We Lie" (337), "Safe-Sex
Lies" (380), "The Holocaust" (434),
"The Penalty of Death" (455), "The Unquiet Death of Robert
Harris" (461), "TV Addiction" (420), and
"Pornoviolence" (425).
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