Check this page often! The schedule/readings are subject to change.
If there is no hyperlink to one of the readings listed here, it can be found in the Comp_Readings_Fall2019 folder on Google Drive.
Week 1
Monday 8/26 – First Day of Class. Introductions & Diagnostic Essay
Thursday 8/29 – Hawksites, Google Drive & Syllabus. Return & Discuss Diagnostic Essays.
Week 2
Monday 9/2 – No Class! It’s Labor Day.
Thursday 9/5 – Assign Essay #1. Active Voices Ch. 1-3, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Danger of a Single Story TED Talk or, if you prefer, The Danger of a Single Story transcript
Week 3
Monday 9/9 – Writing Processes, Structures, and Progression of Thought. Active Voices Ch. 6, My Five Paragraph Essay by Ed White, continued discussion of Adiche’s “The Danger of a Single Story”
Thursday 9/12 – Thesis & Purpose Active Voices Ch. 28. Howard Zinn’s “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress” (pg 4-22 of the PDF)
Week 4
Monday 9/16 -Active Voices Ch. 8, 10; selections from Strunk&White’s Elements of Style (Parts I, II, and V) and Zinsser’s On Writing Well (Parts 2, 3, 4), and 3 ways to speak English
Thursday 9/19 – Essay 1 draft due. In-class workshop session.
Week 5
Monday 9/23 – What is rhetoric? Active Voices Ch. 13-14
Thursday 9/26 – Essay #1 Final Due. Assign Essay #2.Rhetorical Analysis.
Week 6
Monday 9/30 – Developing an Argument. Active Voices Ch. 16-20
Thursday 10/3 – Logical Fallacies. Active Voices Ch. 21
Week 7
Monday 10/7 – Essay #2 Draft due.
Thursday 10/10 – Assign group projects.
Week 8
Monday 10/14 – No Class! Fall Break.
Thursday 10/17 – In-class Midterm Essay.
Week 9
Monday 10/21 – Group Presentations
Thursday 10/24- Essay #2 Final Due. Group Presentations
Week 10
Monday 10/28– Assign Essay #3. The Language of Journalism &Media. Sinclair Media Group, Active Voices Ch. 41; Orwell’s Politics and the English Language; NPR’s “Would you say it that way?”
Thursday 10/31 – Ledes and Nutgrafs. Grammar workshop. NPR’s Leads are Hard
Week 11
Monday 11/4 – Work on stories.
Thursday 11/7 – Essay #3 Draft due.Workshop stories.
Week 12
Monday 11/11 – Quotes/Summaries/Citations. Active Voices Ch. 29-31
Thursday 11/14 –Essay #3 Final Due. Assign Essay #4. Argument Invention.
Week 13
Monday 11/18 – Proposals.
Thursday 11/21- **Mandatory Library Session**
Week 14
Monday 11/25 – Essay #4 Annotated Bibliography Due. Set up Portfolio Blogs. Return Assignment #3.
Thursday 11/28 – No Class. Thanksgiving Break.
Week 15
Monday 12/2 – Essay #4 Draft Due. In-Class Workshop.
Thursday 12/5 – Catch-up Day
Week 16
Monday 12/9 – Essay #4 Final Due. Last Day of Class.
Portfolio Due by Midnight.
Final Exam: In our classroom on Monday 12/16 at 10:15am.