Dual Credit 1302Mrs. Beard
3rd Nine Weeks Syllabus/Unit Plan
Primary objective: To provide students with the tools necessary to think, read, and write critically. This course is also designed to help students understand the writing process and to become fluent in a variety of writing styles. Students will be asked to both evaluate and create different writing techniques. Students will also be exposed to a variety of different rhetorical strategies and will connect those strategies to meaning within certain literary works.
Course Description:
English 1302 builds upon what students learned in English 1301, emphasizing more complex research, analytical, and rhetorical skills that are needed for their college courses, no matter what their major field of study may be. Students are prepared to write more advanced essays and research papers, and they are introduced to the formal study of texts selected from a variety of genres (historical, philosophical, political, literary, and ethnographical, among others)
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will…
- Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative research processes.
- Develop ideas and synthesize primary and secondary sources within focused academic arguments, including one or more research-based essays.
- Write in a style that clearly communicates meaning, builds credibility, and inspires belief or action.
- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of texts for the ethical and logical uses of evidence.
- Apply the conventions of style manuals for specific academic disciplines (e.g., APA, CMS, MLA, etc.).
Core Objectives:
- Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
- Communication Skills: To include effective written, oral, and visual communication
- Teamwork: To include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal
- Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making
January 2-6
Mon/Tues: Student Holiday
Wed/Thurs; Discuss focus for second semester; introduce Frankenstein (notes--background, themes; read and discuss “The Future of Happiness”
HW: Read Frankenstein, Letters – Chapter 8
Fri: Free-write Friday #1
January 9-13
Mon: Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz (formative); read and annotate “Transexual Frogs”
Tues: Frankenstein Reading Check, letters through Chapter 8 (formative) Discuss Frankenstein HW: continue Frankenstein
Wed/Thurs: Read and discuss “Transsexual Frogs” with connections to Frankenstein
HW: continue reading Frankenstein
Fri: Free-write Friday #2
January 16-20
Mon: Holiday HW: continue reading Frankenstein
Tue: Reading check quiz over Frankenstein, chapters 9-17 (formative); review strategies for writing arguments
Wed/Thurs: Timed Writing (argument essay—summative); Read “The Birthmark” and respond to the questions provided.
Fri: Free-write Friday #3; discussion
HW: Finish Frankenstein
January 23-27
Mon: Unit 9 Vocab Quiz (formative); Discuss Frankenstein and “The Birthmark.”
Tues: Discuss Frankenstein HW: Start reading The Immortal life Henrietta Lacks)
Wed/Thurs: Circle discussions of Frankenstein Journal Check #1(1-3) –formative. Journals will be checked at 7 am on Thursday. Be sure you have completed all work prior to that time. No makeups. )
Fri: Friday Free-write #4
January 30- February 3
Mon: Discuss Frankenstein; assign essay and annotated bibliography
Tues: Unit 10 Vocab Quiz (formative); review for test HW: Finish Part 1 of HeLa
Wednesday/Thursday: Frankenstein test (summative—entire novel, including notes, etc)
Friday: Reading Check: Part 1 of HeLa; Free-write (Henrietta Lacks) #5
February 6-10 Research Week
Mon: Goal: select 5 credible sources from the library’s databases.
Tues: Goal: select 5 credible sources from the library’s databases.
Wed/Thurs: Works Cited page due at the beginning of class (formative); If you are absent, works cited pages must be emailed to me no later than 3 pm on the day you are enrolled in class in order to avoid late penalties; we will work on annotations in the computer lab.
Friday: Library: work on annotated bibliography Hw: Finish Part 2 of HeLa
February 13-17
Mon: Go over Frankenstein Test; Review annotated bib assignment requirements; begin drafting introductory paragraphs
Tues: Annotated Bibliography due (summative)***All classes must be uploaded by 7:15 am;
Students will read and annotate the passages on cloning/genetic technology in preparation for next week’s debate.
Wed/Thurs: Reading Check: Part 2 HeLa (formative); Writing Workshop (formative): Introductory paragraphs are due. Two typed copies are required for the workshop. IF you are absent, the work must be emailed to me no later than 3pm on the day you are scheduled for class in order to avoid late penalties. Please keep in mind that missing the workshop may mean you forfeit the opportunity to have me look over it.
Each group will be assigned a position for the debate; groups will have time to work after the writing workshop.
Fri: Free-write Friday #6 (Henrietta Lacks) final group meeting (25 minutes)
HW: prepare for Tuesday’s debate
February 20-24
Mon: Student Holiday
Tues: Debate: should we clone? Why? Why not?
Wed/Thurs: Writing Workshop: Revised Intro and 3 topic sentences; Socratic Seminar: HeLA
(Journal Check #2 (4-6)—formative)
Fri: Reading Check: Part 3 HeLa (formative); Free-write Friday #7; continue discussion
February 27-March 3
Mon: Unit 11 Vocabulary Quiz (formative); continue discussion of HeLA
Tues: HeLa documentary Be sure to watch if you are absent.
Wed/Thurs: Discuss documentary; silent conversation (bring your books!)
Fri: Reader Response Essay due (summative) essay must be uploaded to turnitin.com by 7:15 am; hard copy will be collected in class.
Free-write Friday #8 ; work on research essays
March 6-10
Mon: Writing Workshop: Full essay including works cited is due for peer-review and self-edit. (formative)—bring two typed copies of your essay. If you are absent, the work must be emailed to me by 3 pm in order to avoid late penalties. You will need to attend tutorials as well to complete the self-edit/peer-edit component. These may not be completed after the essay is submitted.
Tues: Start Food Unit; Read and discuss “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” p. 657 EAA
Wed/Thurs: Watch Fresh ***You will be required to make up this viewing should you miss class.
Fri: Literary Research Essay is due (summative); all essays must be uploaded to turnitin.com by 7:15 am. The hard copy will be collected in class. Free-write Friday #9 ; Journal check #3 will be at the beginning of the week after we return from Spring Break. Make sure you have completed 7-9)
Tutoring: room 2602: Tuesday /Thursday 2:50-3:20; other times by appointment (no appointments on Wednesday)
Make-ups: If you need to make up a quiz or test, please see me and we will work out a time. Students have one week to make up a test or quiz.
Absences: If you are going to be absent, the courteous thing to do is to let me know. If you are out for an extended time, please email me to make arrangements to get any work you have missed. In addition, please check my website for handouts/notes/announcements. It is your responsibility to keep up with the syllabus. You are held accountable for all quizzes, tests, and coursework, EVEN if you missed the previous class. Again, contacting me when you are absent will help you stay on track.
Grading Policy: 75% summative
25% formative *******AP/Dual Credit courses do not allow for retesting on either formative or summative assessments.
Summatives: 4Formatives: 14
Timed Writing Frankenstein Reading checks (2)
HeLa reading checks (3)
Frankenstein TestVocab Quizzes (4)
Reader Response Essay Writing Workshop (2)
Journal Checks (2)
Annotated Bibliography Works Cited Page