SUU ENGL 1010:  Breaking Clean schedule
 

Your goal in this essay is to explore the forces that have made you into the person you are today by describing your experience as an insider or an outsider in your hometown, family, or another group that fate has decreed that you inhabit. This 4- to 6-page essay will include a research in which you find out more about some aspect of your topic by conducting interviews or doing formal research.  As part of your preparation for his essay, you will read and reflect on essays in Breaking Clean and attend either a reception for the author at 5 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Great Hall or the convocation on Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 11:30.

Topics to be covered: cause/effect essay patterns, narrative essay patterns, rhetorical situation, audience analysis, research approaches, MLA documentation.

 

 

Date Assignment due Focus of class
M/Oct13

 

 Introduction to Breaking Clean Read-around of first essay

100-word autobiography

Introduction of "Girl" exercise
W/Oct15 By classtime today, create a "Girl" or "Boy" piece of your own, highlighting the voices that made up your consciousness as you grew up.  Be as specific as you can manage, using active verbs and specific nouns. Keep in mind the way not only the people, but the place helped created the person you are today. This assignment is worth 10 points--a doubling of the usual. Your piece should run about 1 page to 2 pages, typed, edited,  and double spaced. Defining  rhetorical summary with the RS game (5 point)
F/Oct17 Read "A Place of their Own." Create a rhetorical summary of the essay (10 points)

 

 Significant object exercise: please bring an object, photo, or text that might be used to represent an important aspect of your personality or outlook.
W/Oct22

Read "Church and State." Create a rhetorical summary of the essay.

In-class reading and "speaking out" exercise
F/Oct25 Read "Fighting Fire."  Tell a story that illustrates an important, yet problematic value that was part of your education. Insider/outsider exercise

Introduction to MLA "Works Cited" style
M/Oct27 Reading assignment to be announced  
W/Oct29 Reading assignment, to be announced

Introduction to MLA style continued

  
F/Oct31 Library orientation  
M/Nov3 Database research in the Writing Center  
W/Nov5 Introduction to MLA parenthetical style  
F/Nov7

 

 More on parenthetical style  
M/Nov10 Drafting session in the Writing Center  
W/Nov12 Rough Draft Workshop on Essay 3; sign up for a conference with the instructor  
F/Nov15 No class: conferences  
M/Nov17 EditingWorkshop focusing on MLA style  
W/Nov19 Essay 3 due