English 1101.13 schedule, fall 2016
Updated 11/29/16
Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative. I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.
Day/Date | Assignments due | Readings due | In class |
Monday, August 15 | Course syllabus |
Introduction to course Persuasive format |
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Wednesday, August 17 | Student
info (online) Launchpad registration |
Golden rules 1-5 |
Simple Stuff Writing exercise 1 |
Thursday, August 18 | Drop/add ends |
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Monday, August 22 | Writing exercise 2 ENGL 1101 pre-test (D2L assessment course quiz) Launchpad exercise 1: Word Choice |
Simple Stuff Golden rules 6-10 |
No class meeting |
Wednesday, August 24 | Practice GR quiz (optional) Practice GR quiz answers (for practice purposes) Golden rules exam (D2L quiz) Plagiarism module, part 1 (D2L module & Plagiarism quiz) |
No class meeting | |
Monday, August 29 | Launchpad exercise 2: Hyphens | Nuggets 1-5 Persuasive format sample 1 LBR: "The Family" 143-44 "Big Mother Is Watching" 428-31 |
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Wednesday, August 31 | Nuggets
6-10 |
Writing exercise 3 | |
Monday, Sept. 5 | Nuggets exam (D2L quiz) | Labor Day holiday |
Labor Day holiday |
Wednesday, Sept. 7 | Launchpad exercise 3: Quotation Marks | Quotations 1-3 LBR: "We Have No 'Right to Happiness'" 26-30 "What If Marriage Is Bad for Us?" 160-63 Handout: "My Husband's Nine Wives" |
Paper 1 assigned Writing exercise 4 |
Friday, Sept. 9 | Paper 1 proposal due by 5:00 p.m. | Submit via email to chip@chipspage.com | |
Monday, Sept. 12 | Paper 1 complete draft post to D2L Assignments dropbox by 9:30 a.m. |
Quotations 4-5 |
No class meeting |
Wednesday, Sept. 14 | Peer response 1 | Word problems LBR: "Keep Online Poker Out . . ." 269-71 "Laptops in the Classroom?" 271-74 |
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Monday, Sept. 19 | Word problems quiz (D2L quiz) Paper 1 final draft |
LBR: "Class Dismissed" 294-96 Handout: "Why Do American Kids Learn So Little?" |
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Wednesday, Sept. 21 | Quotations quiz Quotations quiz answers |
Handouts: "Japanese Education" "Order in the Classroom" |
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Friday, Sept. 23 | Quotations exam (D2L quiz) | due by 10:00 p.m. | |
Monday, Sept. 26 | Launchpad exercise 4: prepositions | LBR: "Proposal to Abolish
Grading" 312-14 "In Defense of Testing" 315-16 "Two Cheers for Examinations" 317-20 |
Paper 2 assigned |
Wednesday, Sept. 28 | LBR: "Everyone Is a Media Outlet" 416-20 "What Adolescents Miss . . ." 423-25 |
In-class essay |
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Monday, October 3 | Paper 2 complete draft | Introductions Conclusions Peer response 2 |
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Wednesday, October 5 | LBR: "Work" 331-36 Handout: "What You Do Is What You Are" |
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Monday, October 10 | Paper 1 corrections Paper 2 final draft |
LBR: "Brains as Well as Brawn" 337-38 "Case for Working with Your Hands" 338-47 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 12 | Last
day to withdraw with "W" grade |
LBR: "Eat Food: Food Defined" 492-500 "Against Meat" 510-17 "The Carnivore's Dilemma" 553-56 |
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Monday, October 17 | LBR: "Salvation" 236-37 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 19 | Handouts: "America, Look at Your Shame " "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" |
Paper 3 assigned | |
Friday, Oct. 21 | Paper 3 proposal due by 5:00 p.m. | Submit via email to chip@chipspage.com | |
Monday, October 24 | Paper 3 complete draft | Peer response 3 | |
Wednesday, Oct. 26 | In-class essay corrections | LBR: "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" 232-35 | Library orientation |
Monday, October 31 | Learning Curve exercise 2: subject-verb agreement |
Online: "Barbie
Doll" LBR: "I Want a Wife" 150-51 |
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Wednesday, November 2 |
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LBR: "Women's Brains" 223-28 "You Are What You Say" 368-73 "The Second Shift" 144-49 |
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Monday, November 7 | Learning Curve exercise 3: commas splices |
LBR: "The Male Myth" 229-31 Handout: "The 'Act Like a Man' Box" |
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Wednesday, November 9 | Learning Curve exercise 4: fragments | Handouts: "Men as Success Objects" "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" |
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Monday, November 14 | Learning Curve exercise 5: pronouns | Online: "Hard Rock" | Paper 4 assigned |
Wednesday, November 16 | Paper 4 proposal | 1101 post-test | |
Monday-Saturday, November 21-26 |
Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday | Thanksgiving holiday |
Monday, November 28 |
Handouts: "Obsessed with Sport" "It Isn't Just a Game" |
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Wednesday, November 30 | Paper 4 complete draft | Peer response 4 | |
Monday, December 5 |
Paper 3 corrections | Handout: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" | Discuss exam |
Final exam Wednesday, December 7 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Paper 4 final draft All rewrites |
Exam essay |