Updated SUU English 1010
Schedule II/RIVER:
Our goal for this project: In our first project, I asked you to pay especially
close attention to discovering a meaningful aspect of your life by working
through a reading, response, and writing process. I also asked you to pay
especially close attention to using concrete details to get across a
first-person perspective.
In our second project, you'll build on what you learned with the first essay
by learning how to frame thesis statements both in starting from an abstract
idea and in beginning with specifics. You'll also learn the ways in which two
kinds of organizational structures: the definition pattern and the comparison
and/or contrast format can help you discover and express ideas.
Important concepts for this project: thesis statement, purpose, audience
expectations, genre definition, comparison/contrast, transitions, sentence
variety
Due dates: Rough draft workshop Friday, March 8; final writer's notebook and
draft, 5 p.m. March 15. If you need a little more time on your Essay II, you may
have until CLASSTIME MONDAY to submit your notebook.
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Assignments: |
| Monday Feb. 11 |
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| Wednesday Feb. 13 |
- Today: Introduction to Essay II.
- Purchase: A River
Runs Through It.
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| Friday Feb. 15 |
- By classtime today: Read the first quarter of
A River Runs Through It and e-mail your responses to the
first set of
study questions to your group and Julie. (10 points)
- By classtime
Monday, Feb. 25:
Comment on Friday's' responses by two people in your e-mail group.
(10 points) Be sure to send Julie a copy.
- By classtime: Read
about defining in your St. Martin's Guide. pages 601-608. Be prepared to
describe the different sorts of definitions in a 10-point quiz.
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NO CLASS DURING WEEK SEVEN: SPRING BREAK
Date: |
Assignments: |
| Monday Feb. 25 |
- By classtime today: Read the second quarter of A River Runs
Through It and respond to one of the sets of study questions connected with
that section in your writer's notebook. E-mail your comments to your group and
Julie.(10 points)
- By classtime Wednesday: Comment on responses by two
other people in your e-mail group.(10 points) Be sure to send a copy of
your comments to Julie.
- By classtime today:
Read about comparing and contrasting in St. Martin's, pages 617-21. Be prepared to show the two ways of
organizing comparing and contrasting in a 10-point quiz over the material and bring
St. Martin's to class.
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| Wednesday Feb. 27 |
- Due today: Read the third quarter of A River Runs Through It and
respond to the third set of reflecting questions in your writer's notebook.
E-mail your comments to your group and Julie. (10 points)
- By classtime Friday:
Comment on responses by two other people in your e-mail group.(10 points) Be sure
to send a copy of your comments to Julie.
- In-class: More discussion on
comparison/contrast
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| Friday March 1 |
- Due today: Read the final quarter of A River Runs Through It and
respond to the last set of reflecting questions in your writer's notebook.
E-mail your comments to your group and Julie. (10 points)
- By classtime
Friday: Read about transitions 561-62 in your St. Martin's Guide.
Be prepared for a quiz over this material.
- By classtime Monday:
Comment on responses by two other people in your e-mail group.(10 points) Be sure
to send a copy of your comments to Julie.
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Date: |
Assignments: |
| Monday March 4 |
- By classtime: Choose the essay option you
want to pursue for your first paper and e-mail Julie about your choice.
- By classtime: Complete the warm-up exercise for the option in your writer's notebook.
(10 point)
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| Wednesday March 6 |
- Writing Center Workday on Essay II
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| Friday March 8 |
ROUGH DRAFT WORKSHOP on ESSAY II. Bring two copies of your draft to
class--one for your peer editor and one for me. The final essay will be due
Friday, March 15. (20 points) |
Date: |
Assignments: |
| Monday March 11 |
- In class exercise: titles
- In class discussion: title pages
- In class discussion: fragments
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| Wednesday March 13 |
- Writing Center Workday on Essay II
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| Friday March 15 |
- Writing Center Workday on Essay II
- ESSAY II paper and notebook
due by 5 p.m. in my office with the following items (or if you need a little
more time, turn everything by classtime Monday with no penalty.
- Here's
what your notebook should include:
- A letter to me explaining what
problems you encountered in completing your paper and how you solved them as
well as a list of what your papers strengths and weaknesses are. Also explain
how, given more time, you would have revised the paper further.
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A title page that follows MLA format. Look below for a sample.
- The
final draft of your paper; remember to leave a two-inch margin on the right-hand
side in order to leave yourself room to make handwritten comments on the purpose
of each section.
- The rough draft that your peer editor marked up for
you. (If you are making up the rough draft workshop by going to the writing
center, be sure to include the draft you took there AND the bottom half of your
consulting form signed and dated by the tutor.)
- Print-outs of your
responses to the RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT study questions and the comments you SENT
to people in your e-mail group.
- Your in-class daily notes and exercises.
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Here is a sample title page in MLA style followed by a sample of what your
first page should look like. Remember, start about one third of the way down the
page. Don't put your own title in quotation marks and don't underline it. Do
center everything.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
by
Julie Clark Simon
ENGL 1010
Professor Jane Doe
15 March 2002
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First page of essay: Your name and page number should go on the right hand
margin 1/2 inch from the top of the page. The title should go one inch down
from the top of the page. Your essay should start two lines (one double-space)
below your title.
| Clark Simon 1
A Tale of Two Sisters
Essay starts here
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