MW8:00 CLASS: TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE Refer to Part One of the Syllabus for an Overview

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Changes may be made to the schedule and/or other elements of the syllabus as the semester continues. Updates are announced in class and posted on the course website.

Class sessions often incorporate uses of the course book (The Custom English 1A Textbook). Also, the course book, computer access, printer access, and online accessare necessary to complete out-of-class assignments.

MW8:00 CLASS: TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE Refer to part one of the syllabus for an overview of Supplemental Learning requirements. Refer to part three of the syllabus regularlyfor Supplemental Learning due dates.

DAY NINETEEN (3/30)
NO CLASS / DAY TWENTY (4/1)
Summary vs. Analysis:
Describing and Analyzing Your Collage
DUE TODAY:
 Project Two, Individual Collage Draft (-20 points from final Project Two score for missing collage draft stamp) Participate in today’s feedback session with your collage rough draft to earn the Project 2 rough draft stamp; resubmit your stamped rough draft collage with your final Project 2 materials.
DAY TWENTY-ONE (4/6)
Summary vs. Analysis:
Describing and Analyzing Your Collage (continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK:DUE TODAY(discussed in class)
 Complete: Idea Generation Activities , Project Two Essay
(Review pgs. 95-113 for idea generation strategies to use)
 Review: “Planning and Drafting” (pages 113-125)
 Review: “Choosing Strategies of Development” (190-214) D
 Complete: Detailed Outline, Project Two Essay / DAY TWENTY-TWO (4/8)
Sharing and Responding: Project Two
DUE TODAY
Rough Draft: Project Two Essay
DAY TWENTY-THREE (4/13)
Rhetorical Strategies Palette and Project Three Overview: Focusing on Definition, Causes and Effects, and Argument
In-Class Reading: “Our Schedules, Ourselves” (236-239)
Due Today:
Major Project Two (a.) Final Rhetorical Analysis Essay Draft, b.) Final Individual Research Collage, and c.) Individual Research Collage stamped rough draft (-20 points for missing stamped collage rough draft/One collage rough draft is required instead of three copies of an essay rough draft.)
DAY TWENTY-FOUR (4/20)
Rhetorical Strategies Palette and Project Three: Focusing on Definition / Research Connections to Definition
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
 Review: “Conducting Research” (pages 422-451)
Complete: Reading Response/Research Activities
 Complete: Idea Generation Activities , Project Three
(Review pgs. 95-113 for idea generation strategies to use) / DAY TWENTY-FIVE (4/22)
Rhetorical Strategies Palette and Project Three Focusing on Cause and Effect Analysis
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
(at least 350 or more written words)
 Actively Read: “Definition” (pages 308-336)
 Actively Read: “Cause & Effect Analysis” (pages 216-232)
 Complete: Reading Response Activities
 Student Group Readings (sign up to read and respond to two selections – as discussed in class)
(Definition) “Escape Artists” (pages 323-329)
(Definition) “I Remember Masa” (pages 329-331)
(Cause & Effect) “Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique?”(pages 232-234)
(Cause and Effect) “It’s Not Just How We Play That Matters” (pages 234-236)
DAY TWENTY-SIX (4/27)
Rhetorical Strategies Palette and Project Three Focusing on Argument
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
 Complete: Follow-Up Composition for Cause and Effect
 Actively Read: “Argumentation” (373-404)
 Complete: Reading Response Activity
Actively Read: “Is a Dog Sniffing for Drugs Outside a Home a Search Prohibited by the Fourth Amendment?” (pages 73-83)
 Complete: Reading Response Activity / DAY TWENTY-SEVEN (4/29)
Writing With Sources &
Using Proper Documentation
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
 Complete: Updated and Detailed Outline, Project Three (incorporating choices from the rhetorical strategies palette/Review: “Planning and Drafting” (pages 113-125) for outline strategies.)
 Complete and bring: Project Three Research
Research materials (high quality sources, notes, dialectical responses, annotations)
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT (5/4)
Writing With Sources
Using Proper Documentation (continued)
COURSE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES: DUE TODAY
 Complete: Project Three Draft: Three Copies of Your Rough Draft (Bring three copies of your rough draft and participate in today’s feedback session to earn stamps on all three drafts; resubmit all 3 stamped copies with the project 3 final draft.)
 Reference Reading: “Writing With Sources and Using Proper Documentation” (pages 452-500) / DAY TWENTY-NINE (5/6)
Preparing Your Portfolio: Analyzing Instructor Feedback / Bring Today: Graded Projects One and Two with instructor feedback
DUE TODAY
Major Project Three (a.) Final Rhetorical Analysis Essay Draft, b.) Final Individual Research Collage, and c.) Individual Research Collage stamped rough draft (-20 points for missing stamped collage rough draft/One collage rough draft is required instead of three copies of an essay rough draft.)
DAY THIRTY (5/11)
Preparing Your Portfolio: Feedback Group Meetings
DUE TODAY:
Updated Draft, Project One (+ Previously Graded Version) / DAY THIRTY-ONE(5/13)
Preparing Your Portfolio: Feedback Group Meetings
DUE TODAY:
Updated Draft, Project Two (+ Previously Graded Version)
DAY THIRTY-TWO(5/18) 8:45AM-11:15A
Post-Test (In-Class Essay for the Portfolio)
DUE TODAY:
Portfolio (For More Details: See Syllabus, Part One)
Course Participation Notebook (See Syllabus, Part One)

Reminder: Part Three of the Syllabus Turn in yoursupplemental learning form (stamped by the appropriate deadlines throughout the semester), so your completed activities (and hours) earn points.