| Class 7 |
9/17 |
1) Check syllabus calendar for week. |
| 2) Hand back work | ||
| 3) Review comma usage | ||
| 4) Reading quiz on two stories: "Two Kinds" and "Saboteur" | ||
| 5) Group 2 presents on "Two Kinds" | ||
| 6) Discuss both stories | ||
| Homework | 1) Finish your first draft in MLA format, using a QQISA hook, leading to a thesis. Make sure to underline your thesis and topic sentences. Also, make sure that you have in-text citations for your quotes and a bibliography page for your work in an anthology. If you come to the Draft Workshop without a rough draft or a handwritten draft, you'll automatically lose 25% of your grade of your final paper, which means that your grade will start at a C. | |
| 2) Run ons/comma splices: Look over Section 20 on these egregious errors in the Bedford Handbook. Pay attention primarily to those rules you don't yet understand or have never heard of. Then go to the Bedford website at http://dianahacker.com/bedhandbook6e/ The website has practice quizzes (that it scores for you) under Grammar Exercises and then Punctuation. Go through the exercises that involve cs/ro. If there's something you didn't understand, make sure to ask when we go through the quiz in class. | ||
| Class 8 |
9/19 |
Draft Workshop |
| Homework | 1) As needed, read section 3 (a & b too) in the Bedford on the topic of revision and development of your essays. | |
| 2) Read 59 (a-e) in your Bedford Handbook on writing about literature, to reinforce issues that we've touched on in class. | ||
| 3) Suggestion: write several more drafts and email them to one another for further feedback, or if you're really not confident of you're not signed up for English 152, sign up, add the half credit, and get a tutor conference in the Writing Center. Or come see Dave in his office. Finish your final draft for Class 10. Make sure to read over page 18 in your class booklet and double check each of these issues in your paper. Also, read the scoring rubric carefully on p. 19 to see what an A paper looks like. | ||
| 4) Read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" on p. 216. Be prepared for a reading quiz and discussion at class 9. | ||
| 5) Also read the essay titled "A Reading of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'" in your class booklet on pp. 61-72. | ||
| 6) And now, thinking back at "Everyday Use," read the article on names in the story at http://home.online.no/~helhoel/walker.htm | ||
| 7) Group 3 prepares for their presentation on "The Lottery" at Class 9 |
Note: The above assignments and deadlines are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances.