Dual Credit Calendar
Weeks 1-3
Week 1
Wednesday, January 18
Introduction and Orientation
Review Syllabus on Learning Web
Assignment: Buy textbooks at Katy HCCS campus bookstore: Literature for Composition and
The McGraw-Hill Handbook
Print and bring in Syllabus from Learning Web
Thursday, January 19
Review and take quiz on Syllabus
Review textbooks and Rhetorical Modes: Narrative and Description
Assignment: Read McGraw 62-71 and Literature 11-20
Week 2
Monday, January 23
Discuss Description essay and Critical Reading Process
Read and begin Critical Reading of “Ripe Figs” 11-12 and “There Will Come Soft Rains” 24-28
Assignment: Read LC 22-38, and “Senior Picture Day” 33-36
Wednesday, January 25
Discuss Outsider Narrative and brainstorm Description essay
Read and respond to “Senior Picture Day”
Assignment: Read “Salvation” 351-52, McGraw 42-50
Thursday, January 26
Take Multiple Choice quiz
Outline and write first draft of Description
Assignment: Bring in Description first draft. Read “The Necklace” 38-43 and “The Man Who was
Almost a Man” 757-65
Week 3
Monday, January 30
Revise and edit Descriptive journal Read McGraw 72-93
Critically Read and compare “The Necklace” and “Almost a Man”
Assignment: Bring in Description final draft and portfolio
Wednesday, February 1
Turn in Descriptive portfolio
Play “Worst Person in the World” game
Brainstorm Outsider Narrative
Assignment: Read identity poems (LC 1104-16)
Thursday, February 2
Take Quiz on Poems and stories
Begin Outsider Narrative essay
Assignment: Read “Two Kinds” 1079-86 and “Everyday Use” 1087-92