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Syllabus
Daily
work: DOL, Journals, Grammar and Writing assignments
Semester
1 Units:
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Note-taking and listening skills
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Vocabulary Project: Testing terms
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Writing Elements
- The
Glass Menagerie
- The
Raven
- The
Pit and the Pendulum
- A
Separate Peace
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Transcendentalism
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Emerson - Self-reliance
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Alice's Restaurant
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Thoreau - Walden
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Whitman - Song of myself
Semester
2 Units:
- Daily:
DOL, Journals, CHOICES, grammar and spelling
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"Facing the blank page"
- “Why
write?”
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Research paper - MLA format, 7 pp. minimum
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Prewriting
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Hypothesis
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Research Techniques
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Readers Guide and ProQuest
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Evaluating sources
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Notetaking
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Annotated bibliography
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Thesis
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Sentence outline
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Writing
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How to summarize/paraphrase/quote
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Research notes
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Citations in MLA
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Responsible writing/ethics
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Drafting sequence
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Introduction
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Body
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Conclusion
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Final draft
Grading Criteria
50% -
Tests, Quizzes and Projects
25% -
Homework
25% - AR
tests (graded, no make up book reports)
Extra
credit assignments are not automatically offered.
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