Fall '08 Schedule of Homework and Activities (in progress)
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Homework (due on date)
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Class activities
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8/18 |
Buy Books
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Introductions: Your attention, please! “Dusting” by Julia Alvarez Syllabus/Policies |
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8/19 |
Buy Books (I will be checking to see you've purchased them) |
Check textbook purchase (10 Points) Discuss reading The Attention Walk Assign Diagnostic Essay (Due Thursday) "What gets my attention (whether it deserves it or not) and why?"
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8/20 CAC |
Develop a Pie Chart that shows how you divide up your attention (or your attention gets divided up). Be honest! | Meet in 18-108 Discuss Attention Pie Chart How to succeed in College (in a few words) Create iGoogle pages/Open a gmail account |
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| 8/21 | Write Diagnostic Essay, two (2) pages TYPED. (Note: Follow the submission guidelines in the syllabus for formatting instructions, including manila folder.) Include a detailed and carefully formatted version of your Pie Chart. |
Diagnostic Essay due 12-Step Program Presentation Reading and Responding Split-page journal-entry method. |
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Schedule a time to meet with me in my office to discuss your diagnostic essay and make a lab plan |
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8/25 |
Read: EH 1-4 Journal: Choose one of the quotations on p. 2 and expand upon it using an example from your own life, explaining why you agree or disagree. |
Discuss the concept of failure of reality to live up to appearances. What happens when you're not really paying attention. Facts and fictions.
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8/26 |
Link to the WNYC's Radio Lab podcast on "Deception," the act of lying. After listening to the entire show on your computer or Ipod, in your journals, write about one or two experiences your own that the show reminds you of.
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Assign Essay #1 Discuss "Deception" |
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8/27 CAC |
Read: EH 6-11 Journal: Respond to prompt in box on page, then answer the questions in "Just the facts" section. Then, in your journal, choose one activity from the "Expanding Horizons" section (1-5) on pp. 10-11. |
Discuss Gabler's essay. Short quiz Main points and supporting details. Be prepared to discuss your homework in class. The Glories of PREWRITING |
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| 8/28 | Read EH: 12-21. Focus on Lichtman's essay in particular, review vocab, and write in your journal about why Lichtman thinks people believe in superstitions.
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Quiz Discuss the readings. Too good to be true. What do these e-mails have to do with Urban Legends? |
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Schedule a Time to Meet with Me in My Office to discuss your diagnostic essay and make a lab plan |
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9/1 |
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L A B O R D A Y |
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9/2 |
Write: Work on Essay 1 (Prewriting) Read: EH 17-19 and review vocab Journal: p. 19 prompt and "Just the Facts" |
The Thesis Sentence (and the sentence) Discuss Lichtman's essay and the curious thing about superstitions. |
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9/3 CAC |
Write: Follow early steps of 12-Step Program, then write three potential thesis sentences that respond to the Essay 1 assignment. Bring these to class on your flash drive or e-mail them to yourself so you can access them in on-line in class.
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Thesis workshop (bring three copies of potential theses). How to limit and expand. So what? |
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| 9/4 | Prepare several possible thesis sentences following the guidelines. Type them and bring THREE copies to class. |
More on Writing Essay 1 Organizing PIE paragraphs. |
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9/8 |
Write draft of Essay 1.1, make three copies for Peer Workshop, Make one hard copy for me. |
Essay 1.1 due for Peer Workshop (Bring three copies to class for peer review) Discuss Culture |
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9/9 |
Link to Wikipedia to read up on CULTURE. Then, review a Myspace page (your own or someone else's) and write a journal entry in which you analyze the page author's relationship with POP culture. Read: EH 30-34 Write a Journal Entry in which you expand on any one of the quotations on page 30. Be sure to provide specific examples in support of your ideas.
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Discuss Culture and Attention Myspace and the Advertisement of Identity |
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9/10 CAC |
Bring an electronic version of at least ONE full page of your essay. Be sure that you have done your best to address sentence errors and compose strong paragraphs.
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What is Grammar and why is it so critical? Tools not rules. Combining sentences using FANBOYS.
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| 9/11 | Edit Essay 1.1 with an eye for fragment, comma splice, and run-together sentence. Repair any that you find. Complete revisions of Essay 1 and prepare Manila folder for final submission. |
Essay 1.2 due Write Reflective Essay in class Discuss Summarization |
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9/15 |
Write: One-page summaries of assigned chapters of the documentary. Read: View on-line Review Essay 2 assignment |
Discuss Merchants of Cool Discuss Pop Culture Summaries due in class Introduce Essay 2 Assignment |
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9/16 |
Review "Merchants of Cool" and write a BLOG entry about something in the documentary that you didn't know about before, and discuss any ways in which film changes your view of the pop-culture you consume? |
Discuss Merchants of Cool Make a proposal to the class about what individually they should do to capture more control of their culture from corporate interests. |
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9/17 CAC |
BLOG: Do teens really have control over what is cool? Do you, after all of our discussion in class, accept the main argument of Merchants of Cool that corporate interests have hijacked teen culture in order to exploit teens, their labor, and their parents' labor? Read: TBA |
Discuss Work/Pop culture
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| 9/18 | Prewrite for at least one half hour, then formulate a thesis that contains three clauses: a) a main clause; b) a subordinate clause using "because"; and c) either another subordinate clause or a coordinate clause (FANBOYS). Type it for peer workshop. Think about how you might develop this idea. |
"Get Control of Your Culture" presentations (cont.) Discuss the thesis statement. Continue with coordination (FANBOYS), and subordination. Thesis Workshop |
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| Week 6 HOW COOL IS THAT! CULTURE WITH POP | |||||||
| 9/22 | Write thesis sentence for Essay 2.1. Be certain to develop this draft from a thesis formulated along the guidelines discussed in class. Review handouts on "thesis" and "paragraph development" |
Essay 2.1 due. Peer Workshop. Bring three copies. |
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| 9/23 | Revise Essay 2.1 thesis and outline using instructions from class on Monday. Make an appointment in the 800 Lab (or come to my office hours) this week! |
Review revision strategies/Paragraphs/Noun-phrase appositives/Person-shifting errors/Passive voice and wordiness.
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9/24 CAC |
Continue work on 2.1 revision
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Meet in Computer Assisted Classroom Discuss Privacy issues Create pages Introduce e-portfolios MLA style |
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| 9/25 | Revise your paper to the point you would likely turn it in and prepare one copy to bring to class. | All students MUST go to 800 lab (or make an appointment) before this date. Editing Workshop: Bring a draft of your Essay 2 that is nearly ready for submission (if you've gotten it that far) and highlight/edit for at least three of errors identified on your previous essay. Today: sentence focus. |
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| Week 7 I Am What I Eat: Food and Identity | |||||||
| 9/29 | Eat well. Read: Introduction to "Food, Glorious Food" in EH as well as all of the quotations on the previous page in preparation for posting to the blog. Blog: In full paragraph-length entries, write about why you agree or disagree with one of the quotations about food on EH p 77. Make sure you include the quotation and write a PIE paragraph. |
Food: What's for Dinner? Introduce Food Journal Discussion about food Read aloud: Tim Wu's Mongolia Blog
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| 9/30 | Read: Keep your Eating Journal, read Wu's Blog Write Essay 2.2 and gather all prewriting, drafts, peer workshop comments, outlines, etc. to include in your manila folder. Prepare your journal for review |
Essay 2.2 due Write Reflection in class I will check journals in class today Lecture: Using concrete details in descriptive writing |
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10/1 CAC |
Eat Read: EH 79-83 "Repulsive Dinners" Keep your Eating Journal Write: Describe a meal you ate at some point in the last week. Go into detail about it, mentioning, for example, the name and specs of the restaurant (if you ate out), who prepared it (if you were at home), the kinds of ingredients in it and where they were purchased, how satisfying the meal was, how often you eat this meal, how it compared to your other eating experiences in terms of cost, and/or anything else that might relevant. Explain your choice. Why this and not something else? |
More on food and what our choices might mean about us.
British and American English: "Divided by a Common Language"--What are some aspects of YOUR English that differ from the "correct" use of American English? Like food, our language helps to define our cultural identities. |
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| 10/2 | Read: EH 86-89 "Food Icons" and review vocabulary Keep your Eating Journal Write: Complete journal entry according to prompt at end of essay
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Quiz Discuss the Reading Introduce Essay 3 assignment |
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| 10/6 | Read: EH 93-97 "Throughput" Use split-page journal entry method as you read. Keep your Eating Journal Write: a journal entry in which you explain how Schlosser's article either a) makes you feel about the job YOU had at a fast food restaurant or b) (if you never had a job at one of these restaurants) how it makes you feel about fast-food workers. Also, discuss why you either choose or do not choose fast food. |
Quiz We ARE fast food. A Writer's Introduction
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| 10/7 | Read: Chu (Handout) Keep your Eating Journal. Take a look at the Data you've collected. Blog: Revise yesterday's journal entry and post it on the BLOG. Also, post comments to two other postings. |
Discuss Chu's essay The connection of Food and Culture Discuss Meal Notebook data |
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10/8 CAC |
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting | ||||||
| 10/9 | Read: Reread Chu's essay |
Clustering/Data analysis More on Chu's essay |
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| Week 9: I Am What I Eat: Food and Identity | |||||||
| 10/13 | Read: Michael Pollan (link here) Write: Continue prewriting along guidelines suggested in class. (Your extensive prewriting will constitute part of your grade on the essay.)
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Discuss Pollan's article What does food mean? Organization, Transitions, and Writing with Purpose Expressing how ideas relate. Turning prewriting in rough outlines.
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| 10/14 | Write: Continue Prewriting toward a thesis and supporting points. Type a thesis and a rough outline of your Essay 3. Try to develop each point with some specific illustration and ideas.
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Continue Pollan discussion Workshop Rough Outlines
Noun phase appositives (especially to introduce quotations) Sentence focus.
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10/15 CAC |
Write: Continue your work on Essay 3.1 by typing a rough outline that states your thesis, orders supporting points, states transitional logic, and sketches out illustration (e.g. quotations, description, examples, analysis, definition, narrative, etc.) Read: Read the blog entries submitted by other students.
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Outline Workshop Explore News Media sources in computer lab Form Groups Introduce Group News Media Assignment Stories and their storytellers Essay 3 Outline Due (on Googledocs)
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| 10/16 | Complete Essay 3.1 and make three copies (don't forget to staple them). | Peer Workshop Teacher evaluation (tentative) |
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| Week 10 MEDIA WEEK: What's News? | |||||||
| 10/20 | Using Googledocs, review two essays of your peers and make comments following guidelines you've been given in class
Read: handout on "Reading the News" Collaborate on GNM assignment by following your media source and conferring with other group members. Blog: Visit Google News or the New York Times or FOX News or Commondreams.org or SFGate.com or The Guardian or The Onion or any other news source on-line and choose a story there that gets your attention (makes you want to read it) and read it; and then on blogger provide a link to the site where you found the story, summarize the story briefly, and explain why you found it interesting. Read others' entries to get an idea what people are finding interesting. Entry due by 10:00 pm.
Journal: What are your news consumption habits? Do you believe you are getting accurate and complete stories? |
FACTS, JUST THE FACTS What is "spin?" Discuss reading Newspapers/Magazines Groups work on Group News Media Assignment |
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LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR NEXT ELECTION |
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| 10/21 | Read: Collaborate on GNM assignment by following your media source and conferring with other group members. |
Groups work on GNM assignment |
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10/22 CAC |
Write: Complete final edits and revision of Essay 3.1, gather all pre-writing, drafts and other evidence of your process in your manila folder for submission. Write Reflection Read: Collaborate on GNM assignment by following your media source and conferring with other group members. Present: Begin preparations for GNM presentation and website. |
Discuss television news Discuss Radio/Internet News Meet in Computer Assisted Classroom |
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| 10/23 | Develop your presentations in collaboration with your group. Be sure to begin monitoring your source to see how it is telling the story. |
Work in groups on GNM Presentations Homophones and spellchecking Passive voice/sentence focus |
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| Week 11 Ethics: Am I right or am I left? | |||||||
| 10/27 | Write: Essay 3.2 and Reflective Essay Read: Monitor your news source. Make sure presentation is ready to go. Rehearse if possible. Be certain that each group member has equal opportunity to participate.
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Essay 3.2 Due in folder GNM Presentations We will hear two today. |
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| 10/28 | Write: Respond to journal prompt on p. 203 BLOG: What moral obligation does a student have if he or she witnesses cheating? Write a PIE paragraph in response. |
GNM Presentations We will hear three today. |
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10/29 CAC |
Read: EH 196-203 Introduction and "Profile of a Cheater"; Use split-page journal entry method
Write: Respond to journal prompt on p 208
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Discuss the reading. Do the ends ever justify the means? Discuss Ethics and why students cheat Assign Essay 4 |
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| 10/30 | Read: EH 205-209 "Ethics in Business" Use Split-page journal entry method and respond to journal prompt on p 212
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Final media reports/Summary discussion
The Basics of making arguments Discuss various ethical questions. |
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| Week 12 Ethics: Am I right or am I left? | |||||||
11/3 |
Read: Voter pamphlet. Prepare an argument for your position on Prop 8.
BLOG: Is voting in an informed way is the ethical thing to do? Defend your answer. |
More on Developing an argument Debate: the ethics of 8. |
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11/4 |
Read: EH 217-221 "White Lies"
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More on Making the Case Debate the ethics of torture Do the ends justify the means?
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ELECTION DAY |
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11/5 CAC |
Prepare to continue "Cheating Debate" Read EH 217-221 "White Lies" |
Finish "Cheating" discussion Discuss the ethics of deception and "White Lies" Introduce Essay 4 Quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing Using evidence
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| 11/6 | Read: Review "Deception" podcast and reread EH 217-221 "White Lies" | Continue discussion of "White Lies" and cheating What about the ethics of lying to ourselves? Prewriting exercise Using active verbs and true subjects |
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| 11/10 |
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V E T E R A N S D A Y |
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| 11/11 | After thorough pre-writing, establish the issue as you understand it, consider why it should be important to your audience as well, form an answer to the question, answer it, and then provide the reasons for your answer. Form an outline of your argument , type it, and bring it to class.
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The principles of evidence Thesis and outline workshop Discuss audience and tone. How do you represent yourself while you make the case? |
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11/12 CAC |
Write: Essay 4.1 |
Journey to CAC Work on Essay 4.1 |
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| 11/13 | Write: Essay 4.1 and make three copies |
Essay 4.1 due (make three copies) Peer Workshop
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| Week 14 Chronicle of a Death Foretold | |||||||
| 11/17 | Write: |
Essay 4.1 due Peer Workshop (Bring three copies for review)
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| 11/18 | Read: 1. Read CDF 1-6 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading and in keeping track of the characters and themes.
BLOG: TBA |
Introduction to Reading Fiction/the novel Form reading groups Assign Essay 5 Discuss the Opening of the novel. Point of view. Begin character chart. Quiz
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11/19 CAC |
1. Read CDF 7-25 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. |
Continue discussion of the novel Quiz Group discussion |
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| 11/20 | Revise and edit Essay 4 and submit with all prewriting, drafts, and print-outs of internet sources in folder. Complete reflective essay . |
Essay 4 due with Reflection Continue discussion of novel |
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| 11/24 | Read: CDF 25-47 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading.
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Form presentation groups |
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| 11/25 | Read: CDF 48-65 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. BLOG: TBA |
Quiz |
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11/26 CAC |
Read: CDF 66-85 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. |
Quiz |
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| 11/27 |
HAPPY THANKSGIVING |
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| Week 16 Chronicle of a Death Foretold | |||||||
| 12/1 | Read: CDF 85-96 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. 1. Read CDF 66-97. 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. |
1. Quiz CDF 66-97. 2. Discuss novel 3. Forming questions 4. Introduce Essay 5 |
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| 12/2 | 1. Read CDF 97-End. 2. Prepare for group presentations 3. Reread novel preparing notes 4. Begin prewriting for Essay 5.1 5. Complete lab work 6. Work on organizing portfolio and revising essays. |
1. Quiz CDF 97-End. 2. Discuss novel 3. Forming questions |
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| 12/3 | Prepare for group presentations |
Group Presentations |
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| 12/4 | Prepare for group presentations
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Group Presentations |
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| 12/8 | Review novel for thematic discussion |
Final discussion of Novel and Meaning |
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| 12/9 | Draft Essay 5.1 Work on organizing portfolio and revising essays. Save all Work to GoogleDocs for Essay transfer to E-Portfolio |
Essay 5.1 due Peer Workshop |
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| 12/10 | Revise Essay 5.1 Complete lab work Work on organizing portfolio and revising |
1. Meet in Computer-Assisted Classroom 2. Work on E-Portfolio Creation |
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| 12/11 | Reread essays. |
Essay 5.2 due
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| Week 18 Prepare E-Portfolios | |||||||
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