English 80-12 (CRN 80684) Fall 2009

English 80-12 (CRN 80684) Fall 2009

Tuesday 12:20- 2:40 -Classroom–DDH 104K

Thursday 12:20-2:40 – Computer Lab – WSL 005

Instructor:Dale Drennan Office:FT 204-F

Phone:661-654-3069 (office)Office Hours:Tues. 11:00- 12:15; Th. 3:00-4:45

by appointment or by email

Email and Web Address:

Required Texts:1. Mosaics Focusing on Essays, 4rd edition—Kim Flachmann

2. the lakota way by Joseph Marshal (See Eng 101 in Runner Bookstore)

3. dictionary and thesaurus

4. English 80 stock cards (purchase from Reprographics for $2.00)

Other Materialsthumb/flash drive, 3 ring binder and paper, portfolio folder, pen, pencil and highlighters

COURSE INFORMATION & POLICIES

Prerequisite: A total English Placement Test score of 120 or higher.

To advance to English 100, students must earn a grade of C- or higher in English 80.

To be eligible for a C- in English 80, students must earn a C- or higher on at least one in-class writing assignment and a C- average on all other course assignments.

Course Description: Designed to improve reasoning, reading, and writing skills. It helps students build a strong foundation in these skills for successful performance in college. This course may be taken for credit toward full-time status but does not count toward the baccalaureate degree.

Course Goals

At the end of ten weeks, students in English 80 should be able to do the following:

Reading

1. use critical reading skills;
2. reason clearly in oral and written form;
3. demonstrate literal, inferential, and analytical or critical comprehension;
4. recognize the main idea as well as the supporting details and conclusions in a reading selection;
5. use an academic vocabulary;
6. distinguish between fact and opinion;
7. critically revise their own writing.

Writing

1. use critical writing skills;
2. write effective sentences;
3. develop and support main ideas;
4. use an academic vocabulary;
5. punctuate according to conventions;
6. use conventional essay and paragraph structure;
7. edit their own writing using standard, edited American English. (Basic level skills must be

exhibited before students can expect passing scores on their essays.)

Waiting List Policy

On a waiting list, you are eligible for a place in the class

1. if you come to every class and

2. if you turn in the work while you are there.

Being on a waiting list does not mean you are guaranteed a place in the class. It simply means you are welcome to wait for an opening in the class if you so desire. If no one drops out of the section you’re attending, no students can add.

As a result, you should be aware of the last day to add and have a back-up choice if you need another class. This plan is especially important for financial aid recipients and for F-1 and J-1 visa holders, who mustcarry a full load to receive their financial aid. Being on a waiting list does not count as a class toward your full load.

Instructor-Initiated Drop Policy

Many students are trying to get into composition courses. As a result, this course is subject to the policy on instructor-initiated drops. If the class is full and has a waiting list, I have the right to have you administratively dropped from class by the end of the second week of the term if you have missed three consecutive class sessions and have not contacted me. However, you should not assume that you will be automatically dropped from this course if you have not attended.

An excused absence is when you absolutely must miss class because of unavoidable circumstances, such as a family emergency or, more obviously, giving birth. Incidents such as doctor appointments or work schedules that conflict with school schedules or registering for classes are within your control and as such are not valid reasons for missing class.

Also, please note that being absent does not excuse you from knowing the class material covered that day, turning in assignments on time, or being unaware of changes to the schedule. You should also be aware that due to their nature, in-class activities can not be made up. Excessive absences, then, will result in a reduction on your class participation grade and may also affect your final essay grades. (We will discuss this more in class.)

IF YOU MUST MISS CLASS, FOLLOW THESE THREE STEPS:

(1)contact me as soon as possible;

(2)arrange for someone to drop off your assignments, or e-mail them to me; and finally

(3)contact a fellow classmate (not the instructor) to find out what you missed in class that day. (See below.)

The below is for you to gain contact information just in case you do miss class.

Name Phone # E-mail Address

______

______

______

Please keep in mind that this information is extremelyconfidential—you maynot give it out to anyone unless you have the person’s permission. Also, please don’t assume that just because someone shared his or her contact information with you that the person is romantically interested in you. This information is solely for academic purposes.

COURSE CURRICULUM/ASSIGNMENTS

Class Behavior:

Tardies: Arriving late and leaving early are distracting and disruptive. Please be considerate of your fellow classmates, and see me if outside obligations will affect your arriving to class on time.

Electronic devices: Out of respect for everyone in class, please turn off all electronic devices while you are in the classroom. If your wife is expecting a baby or you have an ill relative and are expecting a call any minute, please see me.

Academic Freedom: As a student at CSUB, you have the right to expect a quality education which is free from prejudice, inaccuracy, and misleading or irrelevant course material. Furthermore, your grade in this course will reflect your efforts as a student and a scholar, not your beliefs, heritage, gender identification, or any other similar consideration.

Class Participation & Homework:

Although I will periodically be lecturing, this class is fundamentally based on class discussions and peer work. The more you participate with your own opinions, ideas, and examples, the more you will gain from the class. Also, the more you interact, the more you will have to write about. Quizzes, SSR, and your Writer’s Notebook are all part of your class participation and homework grade. Quizzes may or may not be announced.

Reading to Writing Exercises: You will be required to write summaries and responses to your reading throughout the quarter. These will be announced in class. Reading to Writing Exercises will also include vocabulary work.

Writer’s Notebook and SSR: Please purchase a three ring binder that you can divide into three parts. The first section will be for your Reading Journal. The second section will be for your Vocabulary Log, and the third for notes. We will do fifteen minutes of Sustained, Silent Reading (SSR) at the beginning of class, so make sure you also bring your book, the lakota way, to every class meeting. We will follow SSR with a quick Reading Journal entry in which you will record your impressions of, and responses to, your reading. Specific prompts to help you do this will be given in class. No letter grades will be assigned to any part of the notebook. Points will be given for carefully maintained journals which show evidence of thoughtfully exploring prompts and ideas. Writer’s Notebooks are due at the end of the quarter.

You will have an opportunity to hear Joseph Marshall, author of the lakota way, speak on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in the CSUBIcardoCenter. If you attend, you will receive extra credit.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to enter an essay contest. Winners will be announced during Marshall’s visit on November 4th, and their essays will be posted on the Roadrunner First-Year RUSH Web-site. I will give you more information on this in class.

Assignments:

All assignments should be typed and double-spaced unless I indicate otherwise.You should use a font no larger than 12 and no smaller than 10, and please avoid all-caps, all-bold, or all-italicized font. Please turn in all prewritings, drafts, and any other material requested with each essay assignment. Failure to do so can result in up to a letter-grade reduction on your final essay grade. Be sure to label and save all your work on your flash drive!

In-class Essays:

You will have the opportunity to write three in-class essays. To be eligible for a C- in English 80, you must earn a C- or higher on at least one in-class assignment. In class essays are important!

Rewrites:

In certain cases, I may require a rewrite of a previously graded paper. (Please note that rewrites are at my discretion.) All rewrites are due within one week of the return date of the original essay, and the original essay must be attached to the rewrite. In order for a grade to improve, you need to do more than simply correct the marks on the original essay. In other words, rewritten papers should show extensive revision as well as editing. The final grade will be an average of the original and the rewritten essay.

Late Assignments:

Your assignments are due on the date indicated on the syllabus or indicated by the instructor. Please do not come to class with your work on a memory device and ask if you may “print it out really quickly.” You should have your work in hand when you arrive for class, or it will be considered late. I always accept late essay assignments; however, be aware that essay grades are reduced by one letter for each day they are late. Because of its nature, in-class work may not be made up.

Portfolio folders: Please keep all of your graded work in your portfolio folder until the end of the quarter. This way you can review feedback and see improvement in your writing.

Academic Honesty Policy

This course is subject to the academic and disciplinary sanctions established by CSUB for plagiarism as outlined on the university website:

turnitin.com: turnitin.com is a tool to help you avoid plagiarism. Shortly after you submit your paper (approximately two hours), you can access a color-coded report with details about your use of sources in your paper. But a clean report does not necessarily indicate that you have not plagiarized. This site does not detect problems with paraphrasing that is not cited properly. Therefore, use this site only as a guide. To use turnitin.com, you will need to create a “user profile” with the following information:

Class ID#: 2864110

Class Enrollment Password: roadrunner.

After your profile is created, you can log onto and use the site. Note: Submitting a paper to turnitin.com does not mean you have submitted your paper to your instructor; you must also hand in a copy of your paper to your instructor.

Writing Workshops (Grammar/Usage)

Required:A MyWritingLab online workshop is required for this course. The workshop consists of a pre- and post-diagnostic and 10 grammar/usage topics.

MyWritingLab: You are responsible for completing 10 MyWritingLab topics in conjunction with your English 80 class. This requirement is worth 10% of your overall English 80 grade. To receive full credit, you must (1) take the pre-diagnostic; (2) master approximately one topic per week, for a total of ten topics by the end of the quarter; and (3) take the post-diagnostic. Please note that topics mastered through the pre-diagnostic will count towards your ten topics. To master a topic, you must earn a score of 80% or higher on both the Recall and Apply sections for each of the following MyWritingLab topics:

pronouns

combining sentences

correct verb tense and form

the subject and the verb

subject-verb agreement

adjectives

adverbs

recognizing phrases and clauses

fragments

comma splices/fused sentences

You will be held responsible for these new skills every week in your writing. Since this is an online workshop, you can work on these topics outside of class at your convenience, so long as you master approximately one topic per week, for a total of ten topics. This means that if you wait until the end of the quarter to complete all ten topics, you will not receive full credit and your essay grades may suffer.

To register to the site, you will need your MyWritingLab code packaged with your Mosaics text and the following course identification number:

MWL course ID forEnglish 80-12 is 699129W

A time will be scheduled during your first or second week of class to help you register to the site and create your user profile, and you will need your MyWritingLab code and course identification number to do this. If you have already registered to the site in a previous class, you do not need to register and create a new user profile. Instead, you will need to login to the site, click on “join a different class,” and follow the directions from there.

For additional information on MyWritingLab, view the video and/or power points at the following Web sites:

How to register for MWL

mwlreg.ppt

or

How to switch classes in MWL

How to get around MWL for English 80

Note: If you exhaust a topic before mastering it, let your instructor know, and he or she will have it “unlocked” for you. All topics are unlocked every Sunday.

Note: To avoid double enrollment in MyWritingLab, students should not be enrolled in Humanities/Behavioral Sciences 277 while also enrolled in English 80. If you are enrolled in Humanities/Behavioral Sciences 277, please let your instructor know immediately.

Recommended: Individual, Drop-in Tutoring

Your instructor may also require that you complete individual, drop-in tutoring for certain aspects of your writing, in which case you will receive a Tutor Referral Form with your graded essay. If you receive a referral form with any of your papers, you are required within one week to take the form and your paper into one of the main CSUB tutoring centers (OASIS, STAAR, and CAMP) for individual assistance. Your instructor may withhold your essay grade until after you have completed this requirement.

Furlough Plan

The Furlough Agreement dated July 28, 2009 between CSU and CFA allows each campus president to designate up to six furlough days as campus closure days. President Mitchell has chosen to designate one furlough day this quarter: September 8th. The remaining furlough days for this quarter for this English 80-9 and English 80-12 are Nov. 17, 18 and 19. These dates are marked on the Syllabus below.

Suggested Schedule

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Reading the Lakota way and for Completing My Writing Lab Topics

Week of / Pages to read by the end of that week / My Writing Lab Topic
Sept 21 / Introduction pp. xi-xiv and Afterward pp. 196- 230 / Pronouns
Sept. 28 / CH 1 &2 pp 1-36 / Combining sentences
Oct 5 / Ch 3,& 4 pp. 37-75 / Correct Verb Tense and Form
Oct 12 / Ch 5, 6, & 7 pp. 76- 124 / The Subject and the Verb
Oct 19 / Ch 8 & 9 pp. 125- 158 / Subject-Verb Agreement
Oct 26 / Ch 10, 11, & 12 pp.159-206 / Adjectives andAdverbs
Nov.2 / You should be finished reading the book by the end of this week. / Recognizing Phrases and Clauses
Nov. 9 / XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX / Fragments
Nov. 18 / XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX / Comma Splices; Fused Sentences

COURSE SCHEDULE*

Week One

9/15Getting-to-Know-You Game

Roll, adds, drops

Discuss syllabus, exchange contact information

The Reading Process/ Thinking strategies

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Note: Homework assignments (HW) listed in the syllabus are due the next class period.

HW:Skim- read Mosaics Chapters 1-3, pages 2-29.

9/17Reading Workshop

Set up email accounts

HW: Skim-read Mosaics chapters 4, 5, and 6, pages 30- 82.

Week 2

9/21Last Day to add classes

9/22SSR starts.Bring the lakota way to every class.

Reading Workshop- the lakota way

HW Read Review Mosaics p.121

1. Describing pp. 123-124
2. Narrating pp. 157-158
3. Illustrating pp. 190-191; 194-197
4. Analyzing a Process pp. 222-223
5. Comparing and Contrasting pp. 258-259
6. Dividing and Classifying pp. 294-295
7. Defining pp. 328-329
8. Arguing pp.389-390

9/24Discuss the Writing Process, conventional essay form, rhetorical modes.

HW: Read Richard Rodriguez’s “Dawn’s Early Light” pp. 211-213 and France Borel’s” The Decorated Body,” (illustration) 215-217.

Week Three

9/29 Reading Workshop- Illustration Essays

HW: Read Mosaics chapter 6and 7, pages 83-120..

9/30HW:Attend” Everything You know about Indians is Wrong” by Paul Chaat Smith at the Dore Theater.

10/1Discuss In-class essay prompt plan.

In Class Essay #1- part A (Illustration)

Week Four

10/6Writing-Revision Workshop: Draft #1

HW: Write Draft #2

10/8Writing -revision and editing -Draft #2

Introduction to Turnitin.com

HW: Read David Leevy’s “Why We have a Moon” pp. 251-253.

Week Five

10/13Essay #1 Part B due (Illustration)

Reading workshop- Process Analysis

HW: Read student essay “You Too Can Procrastinate pages” 230-231.

10/15Reading workshop

HW: Choose a Process Analysis topic and write steps for the process.

Week 6

10/20Reading Workshop

HW: Read Janice Castro’s “Spanglish Spoken Here” pp 351-353.

10/22In-Class Process Analysis Essay #2. Bring your list of steps.

HW: Read Lars Eighner’s “Dumpster Diving” pp. 330-332.

Week Seven

10/27Reading Workshop- Definition essays

HW: Read What is Intelligence? (Definition)pp. 349- 350

10/29Reading and Writing Workshop

HW: Choose a Definition Essay topicand write brainstorm paper.

Week Eight

11/3Writing- workshop Draft #1 Definition Essay

HW: Complete Draft #1

11/4HW: Attend “An Evening With Joseph Marshall III”at 7:00 pm in the Icardo Center

11/5Writing Workshop- revision and editing (grammar)

HW: Complete Draft #2

Week Nine

11/10Definition essay #3 due

Reading workshop

HW: Read student essay “A Call for Policies on Drinking” pp 398-399.

11/12Writer’s Notebooks Due (optional)

Reading and Writing Workshop