Whose truth shall set you free?
Schedule of Homework and Activities
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Homework (due on date)
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Class activities
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1/19 |
Introductions: Your attention, please! “Dusting” by Julia Alvarez Syllabus/Policies
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| 1/21 | Develop a Pie Chart that shows how you divide up your attention (or your attention gets divided up). Be honest! |
The Attention Walk Assign Diagnostic Essay (Due Thursday) "What gets my attention (whether it deserves it or not) and why?" Discuss Attention Pie Chart
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Bring your GREEN lab sheets and make a lab plan. |
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1/21 |
Buy Books (I will be checking to see you've purchased them) Write Diagnostic Essay, two (2) pages TYPED. (Note: Follow the submission guidelines in the syllabus for formatting instructions, minus manila folder.) Include a detailed version of your Pie Chart.
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Check textbook purchase (10 Points) How to succeed in College (in a few words) Diagnostic Essay due 12-Step Program Presentation Reading and Responding Split-page journal-entry method. What happens when you're not really paying attention.
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1/23 |
Read: EH 1-5 Journal: Choose one of the quotations on p. 2 and expand upon it using an example from your own life, explaining why you agree or disagree.
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Discuss quotations, Santa Clause, and why we believe things that are not rational. |
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1/25
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Read: EH 6-11 Journal: Respond to prompt in box on page, then answer the questions in "Just the facts" section. Then, in your journal, choose one activity from the "Expanding Horizons" section (1-5) on pp. 10-11. Read EH 12-16 "If It Sounds Too Good to Be True..." Bring Green sheets (filled out) |
Assign Essay #1 Discuss Gabler's essay. Facts and fictions. Short quiz Main points and supporting details. Be prepared to discuss your homework in class. The Glories of PREWRITING Visit 800 Lab Discuss the readings. Too good to be true. What do these e-mails have to do with Urban Legen |
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2/1 |
Read EH: 12-21. Focus on Lichtman's essay in particular, review vocab, and write in your journal about why Lichtman thinks people believe in superstitions. Write: Work on Essay 1 (Prewriting) Read: EH 17-19 and review vocab Journal: p. 19 prompt and "Just the Facts" |
"Sectioning"Superstitions Discuss Lichtman's essay and the curious thing about superstitions. |
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2/3
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Read: "Gotcha!" in EH 22-27, "section" it, and make journal response according the prompt at the end of the essay. Buy Rules of Thumb at the bookstore.
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WASPS (Writer, Audience, Subject, Purpose, Situation) Reading Hayden's essay as writers What makes reading "boring"? |
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| 2/5 | Review "Gotcha!" and carry out some prewriting in response to Essay 1 prompt. Blog and/or journal about psychics and skepticism and credulity. |
Writing Complex theses. More on Writing Essay 1. Distribute Thesis handout Organizing/outlining PIE paragraphs. FANBOYS/SUBORDINATION |
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2/8 |
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2/10 |
Prepare a tentative thesis sentence following the guidelines and then prepare a rough outline as described in class last week. Type it up and bring FOUR copies to class. |
THESIS WORKSHOP(Bring four typed copies of thesis and outline to class for peer review) Discuss Rules of Thumb as a resource. What is Grammar and why is it so critical? Tools not rules. |
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2/12 |
Link to Wikipedia to read up on "CULTURE". Then, review a Myspace page (your own or someone else's) and write a journal entry in which you analyze the page author's relationship with POP culture based on how he or she represents him or herself. Be specific Read: EH 30-34 Write a Journal Entry in which you expand on any one of the quotations on page 30. Be sure to provide specific examples in support of your ideas. Write: Use your thesis and outline to develop a draft of Essay 1. |
Discuss Culture Discuss Culture and Attention Myspace and the Advertisement of Identity
Essay 1.1 due (bring three copies) Peer Workshop |
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2/15 |
Write: Complete revisions of Essay 1, write reflective essay (link here), and prepare Manila folder for final submission. Blog: Please go to blog and post.
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Essay 1.2 due with Reflective Essay in Manila Folder Discuss Pop Culture, quotations Introduce Essay 2 Assignment Summarizing |
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2/17 |
Read: "Why we can't stop looking" (link) BRING A PRINTOUT TO CLASS. Write one-paragraph summary. Blog: Write entry in response to prompt: mandatory. |
Discuss "Peep" culture. Quiz? |
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2/18 |
Read: "Mysogyny--Set to Music--May Alter Teen Behavior" (link) and a response (link) BRING A PRINTOUT TO CLASS. Write one-paragraph summary. Write: Blog response Read: What are kids' entertainment execs doing for girls and racial minorities? (Link) Write one-paragraph summary. BRING A PRINTOUT TO CLASS Write: Blog response |
Does pop music makes teens have sex too early? Quiz? Discuss racial representation in pop culture Quiz? |
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Week 6 HOW COOL IS THAT! CULTURE WITH POP Make an appointment for this week in 800 Lab |
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| 3/22 | Read: "The Mediocre Multitasker" (link) and a BBC article on a recent study from Stanford (link)
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Discuss "The Culture of Multitasking" and your Attention |
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| 3/24 | Prewrite for at least one half hour (really), then formulate a thesis sentence that contains three clauses, using coordination and subordination. Type it and make three copies for peer workshop. Think about how you might develop this idea. Revise Essay 2.1 thesis and outline using instructions from class on Monday. Make an appointment in the 800 Lab (or come to my office hours) this week! |
Thesis and Outline workshop
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3/25 |
Continue work on 2.1 revision Write Descriptive paragraphs according to guidelines discussed in class. Bring three copies Paragraph workshop Revise your paper to the point you would likely turn it in and prepare one copy to bring to class. |
Thesis, outline, paragraph due. Bring three copies. All students MUST go to 800 lab (or make an appointment) before this date. |
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| Week 7 I Am What I Eat: Food and Identity | ||||||||||
| 3/1 | Revise your paper to the point you would likely turn it in and prepare one copy to bring to class. |
Essay 2.1 due. Editing Workshop: Bring a draft of your Essay 2 that is nearly ready for submission and highlight/edit for at least three of errors. |
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| 3/3 | Eat well. Read: Tim Wu's Blog about eating in Mongolia. Blog: Write about how our taste in food is determined in large part by how and where we were raised. Write about the weirdest or most disgusting things you've ever eaten.
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Today: sentence focus. Food: What's for Dinner? Introduce Food Journal/Data collection Discussion about food |
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3/5 |
Eat Read: EH 79-83 "Repulsive Dinners" Keep your Eating Journal BLOG: Describe a meal you ate at some point in the last week. Go into detail about it, mentioning, for example, the name and specs of the restaurant (if you ate out), who prepared it (if you were at home), the kinds of ingredients in it and where they were purchased, how satisfying the meal was, how often you eat this meal, how it compared to your other eating experiences in terms of cost, and/or anything else that might relevant. Explain your choice. Why this and not something else? Read: EH 86-89 "Food Icons" and review vocabulary Keep your Eating Journal Write: Complete journal entry according to prompt at end of essay |
Discuss how we eat stories Introduce Essay 3 assignment |
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| 3/8 | Write Essay 2.2 and gather all prewriting, drafts, peer workshop comments, outlines, etc. to include in your manila folder. |
Essay 2.2 due View PBS documentary "The Meaning of Food"
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| 3/10 | Print out and read: John Ikerd's "The New American Food Culture" and Patricia Leigh Brown's feature article on Ranch 99 BLOG: Which American food culture (as defined in the article) do you belong to? |
Finish Documentary and discuss it along with Ikerd's article
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3/12 |
Read: EH 93-97 "Throughput" Use split-page journal entry method as you read. Keep your Eating Journal Write: a journal entry in which you explain how Schlosser's article either a) makes you feel about the job YOU had at a fast food restaurant or b) (if you never had a job at one of these restaurants) how it makes you feel about fast-food workers. Also, discuss why you either choose or do not choose fast food. Read: Michael Pollan's "Happy Meals" (link here) Keep your Eating Journal. Take a look at the Data you've collected. Blog: Revise yesterday's journal entry and post it on the BLOG. Also, post comments to two other postings. |
Quiz We ARE fast food. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Discuss Pollan's article Discuss Meal Notebook data Clustering/Data analysis |
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| Week 9: I Am What I Eat: Food and Identity | ||||||||||
| 3/15 | Read: Chu (Handout) Write: Continue prewriting along guidelines suggested in class. (Your extensive prewriting will constitute part of your grade on the essay.) Contribute to BLOG
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Discuss Chu's essay The connection of Food and Culture Organization, Transitions, and Writing with Purpose Expressing how ideas relate. Turning prewriting in rough outlines. |
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| 3/17 | Write: Continue Prewriting toward a thesis and supporting points. Type a thesis and a rough outline of your Essay 3. Try to develop each point with some specific illustration and ideas.
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Continue Pollan discussion Workshop Rough Outlines
Noun phase appositives (especially to introduce quotations) Sentence focus. |
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3/18 |
Write: Contribute to BLOG
Read: Judy Chu Read the blog entries submitted by other students.
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Discuss Spam and the Meaning of Food. Review of 12-Step Today: Reading the Assignment |
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| Week 10 I Am What I Eat: Food and Identity | ||||||||||
| 3/22 | Review assignment, post to BLOG, continue tutorials, reread Chu, Pollan, Ikerd. Begin research into the history of the particular food item you will be writing about. Interview a family member about a food item or a recipe. Go on-line and find out something about a food's history
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Introduce Googledocs Thesis party Begin "Say/Do" Outline Office hours today |
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| 3/24 | Read: Rules of Thumb on MLA Style Post to BLOG Continue work on Outline |
MLA style/Integrating sources/Readings Transitions/the power of connections |
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3/26 |
Write: Continue your work on Essay 3.1 by typing a "Say/Do" outline that states your thesis, orders supporting points, states transitional logic, and sketches out illustration (e.g. quotations, description, examples, analysis, definition, narrative, etc.) Outline should be 1-2 pages in length
POST OUTLINE TO GOOGLEDOCS Revise outlines |
Outline Building I will be selecting six students (at random) to present their work on their outlines to the class. Post your outline to Googledocs so that you can project it onto the screen from my laptop. Students will vote for the student who has written the most thorough outline. Students who have NOT done the assignment (or who do not show up to class) will receive a "0" on this 20 point assignment. Outline Workshop Transitions Passive voice/sentence focus |
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| Week 11 Ethics: Am I right or am I left? | ||||||||||
| 3/29 | Write: Complete drafts of Essay 3.1 (Make three copies for review) Use accurate MLA style formatting for this draft. For up-to-date instructions link here. |
Essay 3.1 due. Make three copies for Peer Workshop. You will be turning one of these in for points. |
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| 3/31 | Write: Respond to journal prompt on p. 203 EH 196-203 Introduction and "Profile of a Cheater" BLOG: What moral obligation does a student have if he or she witnesses cheating? Write a PIE paragraph in response. |
Review MLA style Cheating/Introduction to the ethics of misrepresentation. Discussion/debate |
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4/2 |
Listen to this Radio Lab "Deception" podcast , taking notes as you listen. Provide a summary of one page. Write: Essay 3.2 and Reflective Essay Complete final edits and revision of Essay 3.1, gather all pre-writing, drafts and other evidence of your process in your manila folder for submission. Write Reflection Use split-page journal entry method Read: EH 205-209 "Ethics in Business" Use Split-page journal entry method and respond to journal prompt on p 212 |
Summaries of podcast due. Discuss "Deception" Essay 3.2 Due in folder Discuss the reading. Do the ends ever justify the means? Discuss Ethics and why students cheat Assign Essay 4 The Basics of making arguments Discuss various ethical questions. |
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| Week 12 Ethics: Am I right or am I left? | ||||||||||
4/5 |
Read: TBA
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More on Developing an argument Discuss reading |
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4/6 |
Read: EH 217-221 "White Lies" Contribute to BLOG
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More on Making the Case Do the ends justify the means? |
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4/8 |
Prepare to continue "Cheating Debate" Read EH 217-221 "White Lies" Contribute to BLOG Read: and reread EH 217-221 "White Lies" |
Finish "Cheating" discussion Discuss the ethics of deception and "White Lies" Introduce Essay 4 Quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing Using evidence Continue discussion of "White Lies" and cheating What about the ethics of lying to ourselves? Prewriting exercise Using active verbs and true subjects |
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| 4/14 | After thorough pre-writing, establish the issue as you understand it, consider why it should be important to your audience as well, form an answer to the question, answer it, and then provide the reasons for your answer. Form an outline of your argument , type it, and bring it to class.
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The principles of evidence Thesis and outline workshop Discuss audience and tone. How do you represent yourself while you make the case? |
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4/16 |
Write: Essay 4.1 |
NO CLASS Work on Essay 4.1 |
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| Week 14 Chronicle of a Death Foretold | ||||||||||
| 4/19 | Write: Essay 4.1 and prepare three copies for peer workshop. |
Essay 4.1 due Peer Workshop (Bring three copies for review)
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| 4/21 | Read: 1. Read CDF 1-6 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading and in keeping track of the characters and themes.
BLOG: TBA |
Introduction to Reading Fiction/the novel Form reading groups Assign Essay 5 Discuss the Opening of the novel. Point of view. Begin character chart. Quiz
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4/22 |
1. Read CDF 7-25 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. Revise and edit Essay 4 and submit with all prewriting, drafts, and print-outs of internet sources in folder. Complete reflective essay . |
Continue discussion of the novel Quiz Group discussion Essay 4 due with Reflection Continue discussion of novel |
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| 4/26 | Read: CDF 25-47 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading.
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Form presentation groups |
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| 4/28 | Read: CDF 48-65 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. BLOG: TBA |
Quiz |
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4/30 |
Read: CDF 66-85 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. |
Quiz |
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| Week 16 Chronicle of a Death Foretold | ||||||||||
| 5/3 | Read: CDF 85-96 Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. 1. Read CDF 66-97. 2. Use split-page journal method to assist you in reading. |
1. Quiz CDF 66-97. 2. Discuss novel 3. Forming questions 4. Introduce Essay 5 |
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| 5/5 | 1. Read CDF 97-End. 2. Prepare for group presentations 3. Reread novel preparing notes 4. Complete lab work 6. Work on organizing portfolio and revising essays. |
1. Quiz CDF 97-End. 2. Discuss novel 3. Forming questions |
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| 5/7 | Prepare for group presentations |
Group Presentations |
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| 5/10 | Review novel for thematic discussion |
Group Presentations |
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| 5/12 | Work on organizing portfolio and revising essays. Save all Work to GoogleDocs for Essay transfer to E-Portfolio |
Review/Editing Editing Workshop |
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| 5/14 | Complete lab work Work on organizing portfolio and revising |
1. 2. Work on E-Portfolio Creation |
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| Week 18 Prepare E-Portfolios | ||||||||||
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