Current Week
Week Twelve Dec 8 & 10
Monday Dec 8th
Draft Workshop
Homework Due:
1. Draft of Reflective Essay – two typed copies
2. Reader Input Request Memo
– two typed copies
if you come without the 2
typed copies of your draft and the 2 typed copies of your Reader Input
Request memo the workshop will not be very useful for you.
Do in Class:
WORKSHOP: draft
Wednesday Dec 10th
Last Day
Homework Due:
1.
Final Draft of Reflective Essay: see syllabus and Critical Writing
handout for formatting and submission guidelines
2. Learning Journal and Self-Assessment -
see notes for 12/3
3. Sentence Logs
Previous Weeks
Week
One Sept 22 & 24 – Getting Started
Monday Sept 22ndGetting
to Know You
Do in Class:
WRITE a
Letter or Essay of Introduction to me. (Where are you in school? Have you
taken Eng 101 before? Do you like writing? What do you think makes a
good essay? What else would you like me to know about you? If you have
lingering questions about our class, this is a good place to ask them.)
Wednesday Sept 24th Housekeeping
& Intro to Analysis
Do in Class:
PRESENTATION:
The
Nitty-gritty details of this class
LECTURE:
Welcome to Class & Paraphrase x 3
Handouts:
Minutes
Syllabus
Schedule
Learning
Journal
The Iguana
Week Two
Sept 29 & Oct 1 – What is Analysis?
and
Habits of Mind
very intense week – don’t
be absent
Read for this week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 1:
Analytical Habit of Mind p 1-40
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 2: What Is Analysis and How Does It Work? p 41-76
Monday Sept 29th
Five Analytical Moves and Notice & Focus Practice
Homework Due:
List of essays you would like to nominate for our reading list
(at least 9, listed in order of preference)
Do in Class:
LECTURE:
Analysis: 5 Analytical Moves
PRESENTATION: Notice &
Focus – 3 Fall Poems
IN-CLASS
WRITING: Paraphrase x3
Handouts:
3 Fall Poems
Mending
Wall
Writing & Gardening
Wednesday Oct 1st
Thinking Analytically and Intro to “The Method”
Do in Class:
LECTURE: Thinking
Analytically - did not do
PRESENTATION: The Method
IN-CLASS
WRITING: step 5 of The Method
Hand-outs:
Class Reading List
Declaration of Independence
The Day I Became Charles Whitman
Class Reading List:
1. Bad Eyes by Erin McGraw p 371
2. The Owl Has Flown by Sven Birkerts p 71
3. Imagination and Reality by Jeanette Winterson p 598
4. Designs for Escape by Witold Rybczynski p 425
5. From the Frying Pan Into the Fire by Arlie Russell
Hochschild p 215
6. Introduction to Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig p 315
7. Transformation of Everyday Life by Richard Florida p 194
8. Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the Classless
Society by Julie Charlip p 80
9. The Lost Art of Argument by Christopher Lasch p 302
Week Three
Oct 6 & 8 - Filling Up Your Tool Kit
Read for this week:
Writing Analytically
Chapter 4:
Reading: How to Do It and What to Do with It p 109-133
Making Sense: Chapter 1
“Making Sense
Through Reading” p 8 - 19
Class Reading List:
Selection 1 & 2
1. Bad Eyes by Erin McGraw p 371
2. The Owl Has Flown by Sven Birkerts p 71
Monday Oct
6th Filling Up Your Tool Kit
Do in Class:
PRESENTATION: Writing Summaries
IN-CLASS WRITING:
Quiz
LECTURE:
Thinking
Analytically
STYLE:
Appositives
Handouts:
Class
Reading List
Writing Summaries
Appositives
Wednesday Oct 8th
Reading Analytically
Do in Class:
LECTURE:
Reading Analytically
IN-CLASS
WRITING: Quiz
DISCUSSION of readings
Handouts:
Why
Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Analytical Essay
Instructions & Guidelines
Week Four Oct 13 & 15
–Evidence & Support & Logic
Read for this week:
Writing Analytically
Chapter 5: Linking Evidence & Claims p 137-162
Making Sense:
Chapter 1: Making Sense
Through Writing p 20 - 37
Class Reading List:
Selection 3 -
Imagination and Reality by Jeanette Winterson p 598
Why Leaves Turn Color in
the Fall
Monday Oct 13th
Evidence & Support and Presentation of Essay 1
CLASS CANCELLED - INSTRUCTOR ILL
Wednesday Oct 15th
Analyzing Arguments/ Logic and Plagiarism/Quoting & Citing
Homework Due:
1.
Have re-read all our readings thus far as an observant (not opinionated)
reader. Keep notes of your observations and questions. Bring, in
writing, at least 3 ideas -- drawn from work we have done -- on what
you might want to explore in our Analytic Essay.
Do in Class:
DISCUSSION
of readings
PRESENTATION: 10 on 1 with Ackerman’s Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
LECTURE:
Evidence & Support
PRESENTATION:
Plagiarism/Quoting & Citing
LECTURE:
Quoting & Citing
WORKSHOP:
generate ideas for essay
Due at End of Class:
Plagiarism Pledge
Handout:
Birches
Handouts: Draft
Workshop
Week Five
Oct 20 & 22 – Interpretation & Thesis
Read
for this week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 3: Putting
Analysis to Work: 3
Extended Examples p 77-108
Writing Analytically
Chapter 6: Making a Thesis Evolve p 164-195
Writing Analytically
Chapter 7: Recognizing and Fixing Week Thesis Statements p 197-217
Monday Oct 20th Interpretation
Homework Due:
Have read
Birches handout
Prepare a
written plan for Essay One launch.
Do in
Class:
PRESENTATION: Panic-reduction strategies, including, but not limited to,
Wednesday Oct 22nd Thesis
Bring
to Class:
Drafty
Draft of Analytical Essay – (the
thesis workshop can’t help you if you haven’t gotten started yet.)
Do in
Class:
LECTURE:
Fantabulous Lecture on Thesis
WORKSHOP:
Thesis
Week
Six Oct 27 & 29 – Drafting and Intros & Conclusions
Read
for this week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 8: Introductions and Conclusions p 219-241
Monday
Oct 27th
Draft
Workshop #1
Homework Due:
1.
Improved Draft of Analytical Essay – two typed copies
2. Reader
Input Request Memo – two typed copies --
if you
come without the 2 typed copies of your draft and the 2 typed copies of
your Reader Input Request memo the workshop will not be very useful for
you.
Do in
Class:
WORKSHOP
Wednesday Oct 29th Draft Workshop #2
Homework Due:
Draft in
Progress
Do in
Class:
WORKSHOP:
Introductions
and
Conclusions
Week
Seven Nov 3 & 5 –This & That
Read for this
week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 14: Nine Basic Writing Errors p 349-384
Class Reading
List:
Selection 4, 5, & 6
Monday
Nov 3rd Essay-o-Rama: Analytic Essay Due/Launch
Critical Essay
Homework Due:
1. Final Draft of Analytical Essay: see syllabus
and Analytical Writing handout for formatting and submission
guidelines
2. Class
Reading List: Selection 4
Do in Class:
IN-CLASS WRITING:
Quiz
DISCUSSION
Handouts:
Critical Essay
Wednesday Nov 5th
BWE & Sentences Logs
Homework Due:
1. Have read class selections
4, 5, & 6 as an observant (not opinionated) reader. Keep notes of your
observations and questions.
Do in Class:
IN-CLASS WRITING:
Quiz
DISCUSSION of
readings
Due end of
Class: At
least 3 ideas -- drawn from work we have done -- on what you might want
to explore in our Critical Essay.
Week
Eight Nov 10 & 12 –Modes & Critical Essay
Read for this
week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 9 Organization: Forms and Functions
Wednesday
Nov 12th feedback on Analytic Essay & Essay Q &A
Homework Due:
Mid-term
Self-Assessment (see handout) - moved to the 17th per class meeting Nov
5
Written plan for
Critical Essay launch.
Do in Class:
GET essays back
PRESENTATION on essays being
returned
PRESENTATION: BWE
&
Sentence Log
Handout &
Sentence Log Worksheet
DISCUSSION of readings
PRESENTATION:
Panic-reduction strategies, including, but not limited to Sample Essays
(Handy,
Sieg,
Farmer) Instructor Input, and Other Clever Tricks I Have.
Handouts:
Self-Assessment
Sentence Log
Handout &
Sentence Log Worksheet
Handy,
Sieg,
Farmer)
Week
Nine Nov 17 & 19 – Style
Read
for this week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 10 Style: Choosing Words p 257-274
Writing Analytically
Chapter 11: Style: Shaping Sentence (and Cutting the Fat) p 275-294
Monday
Nov 17th
Draft
Workshop #1
Homework Due:
1. Draft
of Critical Essay – two typed copies
2.
Reader
Input Request Memo – two typed copies
if you
come without the 2 typed copies of your draft and the 2 typed copies of
your Reader Input Request memo the workshop will not be very useful for
you.
3.
Mid-term
Self-Assessment (see handout) - moved to the 17th per class meeting Nov
5
Do in
Class:
WORKSHOP:
draft
Handout:
Extra Credit Book Project
Wednesday Nov 19th
Style
Workshop
Bring
to Class:
Analytical
Essay as well as Draft in Progress of Critical Essay
Do in
Class:
LECTURE:
Style
WORKSHOP:
Style
Week
Ten Nov 24 – Sources and Reflective Essay
Read
for this week:
Writing
Analytically
Chapter 13: Finding and Citing Sources p 323-347
Class
Reading List:
Selection
7
Monday
Nov 24th Essay-o-Rama:
Critical Essay In/Reflective Essay Out
Homework Due:
1.
Final Draft of Critical Essay: see syllabus and Critical Writing
handout for formatting and submission guidelines
2.
Class Reading List: Selection 7
Do in
Class:
IN-CLASS
WRITING: Quiz
DISCUSSION
Handouts:
Reflective
Essay
sample first draft
Wednesday Nov 26th No Class – go bake a pie
Week Eleven Dec 1 & 3
–Reflective Essays
Read for this week:
Writing Analytically
Chapter 13: Finding and Citing Sources p 323-347
Class Reading List:
Selections 8 & 9
Monday Dec 1st
Reflective Essay
Homework Due:
1. Have read
class selections 7, 8, & 9 as an observant (not opinionated) reader.
Keep notes of your observations and questions.
Do in Class:
IN-CLASS WRITING: Quiz
DISCUSSION of readings
Due end of Class:
At least
3 ideas -- drawn from work we have done -- on what you might want to
explore in our Reflective Essay.
Wednesday Dec 3rd
Reflective Essay
Homework Due:
Written plan for Reflective
Essay launch.
Learning Journal and Self-Assessment - deadline moved to 12/10
Self-Assessment
Review your Learning Journal entries from this
quarter. Think back to what you believed about writing and your
abilities as a writer at the start of the quarter. Consider how you
have grown and changed.
Please compose a one-page self-assessment in
which you cover these topics:
-
What specifically contributed to this growth?
-
What, if anything, held you back or do you wish you had done
differently?
Do in Class:
GET essays back
DISCUSSION of readings
Panic-reduction strategies,
including, but not limited to,
Instructor Input
Other Clever Tricks I
Have
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