Week / Type of Writing/Thematic Focus / The Sundance Reader and Handouts (h) / Writer’s Harbrace Handbook and other Writing Resources / Writing Assignment
1 / Overview of course and resources; review syllabus and expectations; SAT resources / “The Writing Process” pp. 15-47 / ·  fragments, run-ons, comma splices
·  semi-colons; colons / paragraphs
2 & 3 / Writing a college worthy essay / models of great writing; / ·  style: syntax
·  sentence composing (h)
·  college essays (h)
·  sentence combining / two introductions to college essay; pair/share; rough draft of college essay; instructor feedback
4 & 5 / Narration
Self-Discovery / Read pp. 65-68
model: Cisneros
“Shooting an Elephant” p. 96
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/
“My Name Is Margaret” (h)
http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Faculty/marosale/TRC/Readings2.htm
“The Masked Marvel’s Last Toehold”(h)
http://www.oocities.org/wawli/jmk10.htm / ·  quotation marks
·  dialogue
·  syntax continued / 1st paper due
6 & 7 / Description
Time / Read pp. 115-122
model: “Ring of Time” (h)
http://www.mrrena.com/misc/rotime.shtml
“Once More to the Lake” p. 147
http://www.moonstar.com/~acpjr/Blackboard/Common/Essays/OnceLake.html
“Out There” p. 126
http://enovel4free.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/in-cold-blood-truman-capote.pdf (first page and a half)
“Unforgettable Miss Bessie” p. 137
http://www.nysedregents.org/ComprehensiveEnglish/Archive/20030619exam2.pdf
“I Stand Here Ironing” (h)
http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/JVivian/files/I%20Stand%20Here%20Ironing%20text.pdf / ·  diction
·  parallelism
·  coordination/subordination / 2nd paper due
8 & 9 / Comparison and Contrast
Environment / Read pp. 221-227
model:
“Neat People vs. Sloppy People” p. 234
http://evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2005/11/neat-people-vs-sloppy-people.html
“Two Ways to Belong in America” p. 246
http://wiki-cik.wikispaces.com/file/view/Mukherjee-2WaysToBelong.pdf
“Remembering My Childhood” (h)
www.solonschools.org/.../482009120618_DavidSedarisPiece.doc
“Two Views of the River” p. 161 (h)
http://wiki-cik.wikispaces.com/file/view/Twain-2Views.pdf / ·  passive voice
·  verb tense / 3rd paper due
10 & 11 / Cause and Effect
Race, Class, Gender, & Culture / Read pp. 455-462
model: “Barbie Doll”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barbie-doll/
letters from professors
“Why Schools Don’t Educate” p. 466
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/gatto3.1.1.html (scroll down to the paragraph beginning “Two institutions . . .”)
“Black Men and Public Spaces” p. 477
http://www.srs-pr.com/black-men.pdf
“On Teenagers and Tattoos” (h)
http://www2.fiu.edu/~ereserve/010029088-1.pdf
“My Wood” (h)
http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/fortermywood08_2.htm
“Drugs, Sports, Body Image, and G.I. Joe” (h)
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/22/science/drugs-sports-body-image-and-gi-joe.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm / ·  MLA format
·  paraphrase
·  embedded quotations / 4th paper due - research
12 & 13 / Definition
Society / Read pp. 167-172
model: My Losing Season excerpts
“Needs” p. 189 (can’t find this one online)
“Everyday Use” (h)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html
“Why I Want a Wife” (h)
http://sussex.de.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=9806&fileitem=8774&catfilter=ALL / ·  subject/verb agreement / 5th paper due – possibly multi-genre
14 / Process
Learning / Read pp. 405-410
model: “How To Be a Sensitive Poet”
http://www.everseradio.com/matt-groenings-how-to-be-a-sensitive-poet/
“How to Mark a Book” p. 411
http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/How%20To%20Mark%20A%20Book.html
“Stripped for Parts” (h)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/parts.html
“Dolphin Courtship” (h)
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/18/science/dolphin-courtship-brutal-cunning-and-complex.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm (Keep reading; it is longer than two paragraphs!) / ·  pronoun usage / Speech – written and oral delivery
Choice of process or division/classification
Due next week 15
15 / Division and Classification
Behavior / Read pp. 351-357
model:
“Friends, Good Friends—and Such Good
Friends” p. 358
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Facademic.luzerne.edu%2Fshousenick%2F101--DIVISIONCLASS%2520essay%2520FRIENDS.doc&ei=HdYeUKLUI5Ka8gS9jYHYAQ&usg=AFQjCNE5Rh3jXfa45DyT8i0SLZ6qo4hF8w&sig2=R_UJBUC5q3vgrZWRK5909Q
“The Seven Deadly Sins of Students” p. 377
http://chronicle.com/article/The-7-Deadly-Sins-of-Students/46719/
“Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” p. 364
(can’t find online link) / ·  parallelism / Speeches due
16 - 18 / Argument and Persuasion
Values / Read pp. 501-507
model: “Living Like Weasels”
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-lad/dillard.htm
“In Praise of the ‘F’ Word” p. 518
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1991/05/05/in-praise-of-the-f-word.html
“Stuff Is Not Salvation” p. 508
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/12/stuff-is-not-salvation.html
“America the Beautiful: What We’re Fighting
For” (h)
(can’t find online text) / ·  ethos, logos, pathos
·  rhetorical strategies
·  counterarguments
·  visual arguments
·  easily confused words
·  modifiers / 7th paper with research
Final exam