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Weekly Topical Schedule for ENGL 0955

This schedule represents the required curricular topics to be addressed in ENGL 0955 as well as the mandatory writing and tutoring work to be assigned. Individual class schedules may vary by section but will include all of the following topics and assignments.

Weekly Topical Schedule for ENGL 0955, including ideas for possible assigned readings           

Semester Week

Topics to be covered this week

Possible articles for reading, discussion & writing

(All found in the Mercury Reader)

Week 1

Aug. 23-27

-Syllabus and schedule

-Introduction to Blackboard

-Student success

(188) Roger Rosenblatt – “I Am Writing Blindly”

(23) Russell Baker – “School vs. Education”

(35) Langston Hughes – “Theme for English B”

Week 2

Aug. 30-Sep. 3

-Parts of speech (LYSK 23-28)

-Vocabulary skills

(37) Frederick Douglass – “Learning to Read and Write”

(17) Joan Didion – “On Self Respect”

Week 3

Sep. 6-Labor Day

Sep. 7-10

-Main idea                          *Essay 1 assigned

-Frequently confused words (LYSK 3-22)

-Paragraph and essay organization

(101) Stephanie Ericsson – “The Ways We Lie”

(225) Richard Wright – “The Library Card”

Week 4

Sep. 13-17

                                            

-Supporting details/topic sentences   

-Remembering textbook information

-Strategic reading and note-taking strategies (Cornell, outline, map, summary, etc.)

(281) Mark Twain – “Reading the River”

(286) Bruce Bower – “Chimps May Put Their Own Spin on Culture”

(329) Aaron Copland – “How We Listen to Music”

Week 5

Sep. 20-24

-Prepositional phrases (LYSK 69-74)

-Subjects, verbs, and verb Phrases (LYSK 63-68, 97-102)

(378) Richard Rodriguez – “The Workers”

(45) Robert Coles – “The Children of Affluence”

Week 6

Sep. 27-Oct.1

-Organizational patterns in reading and writing (narration, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, description, listing, etc.)

-Maintaining consistent verb tense (LYSK 126-127)

(271) Leon R. Kass “Why Doctors Must Not Kill”

(84) Anna Quindlen “Abortion Is Too Complex to Feel All One Way About”

Week 7

Oct. 4-8

                              *Essay 1 DUE, Essay 2 assigned

-Using pronouns correctly (LYSK 155-167)

-Point of view (objective/subjective, tone, connotation) and person (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

(191) Helen Keller – “Everything Has a Name”

(236) Robert Heilbroner – “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements”

Week 8

Oct. 11-14

Oct. 15 Fall Break

-Dependent clauses (LYSK 75-81)

-Compound and complex sentences

-Fragments and run-ons (LYSK 82-96)

(308) Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – “Harrison Bergeron”

(375) Carol Shields – “The Case for Curling Up with a Book”

(306) Barbara Jordan – “The Americanization Ideal”

Week 9

Oct. 18-22

-Dependent clauses, fragments, and run-ons, cont’d

-Inferences and critical thinking

(293) Edward Abbey – “The Right to Arms”

(207) Anna Quindlen – “Gay”

 

Week 10

Oct. 25-29

-Punctuation and capitalization, including comma rules (LYSK 168-202)

-Test-taking strategies

(183) Donald M. Murray – “The Maker’s Eye”

(115) Katha Pollitt – “Why I Hate Family Values”

Week 11

Nov. 1-5

                                 *Essay 2 DUE, Essay 3 assigned

-Introduce Night and related topics

-Vocabulary and context for Night

(56) Stanley Milgram – “The Perils of Obedience”

(29) Zitkala-Sa – “From: The School Days of an Indian Girl”

Week 12

Nov. 8-12

        *Tutorial on assignment of each student’s 

                choice DUE by or before this week

-Night and related materials

-Inferences and critical thinking

-Review grammar skills

(74) Helen Keller – “Three Days to See”

(152) Nina Shea – “A Worldwide Phenomenon”

Week 13

Nov. 15-19

-Night and related materials

-Reading skills: main point and supporting details

-Review grammar skills

(203) Everett Ruess – “Letters from the Frontier, 1934”

(211) Zora Neale Hurston – “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Week 14

Nov. 22-24

Nov 25 & 26 Thanksgiving

-Night and related materials

-Point of view, tone, and connotation

-Review grammar skills

(240) Vine Deloria, Jr. – “We Talk, You Listen”

(26) Northrope Frye – “Don’t You Think It’s Time to Start Thinking?”

Week 15

Nov. 29-Dec. 3

-Night and related materials             *Essay 3 DUE

-Final exam preparation

 

Week 16

Dec. 6-9

Final exam on grammar and reading

 

 

 
 

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