Class:
Instructor:
ESL 045.01/055.01 Item #s1382/1383
Lyn De Carlo
Phone:(206) 368-9440. Office Phone: (206)528-4598
e-mail: ldecarlo@sccd.ctc.edu,
Office: IB 2423C, #6
Office Hours: By appointment as needed.
Classroom: CC 3350 Class meeting times : Tue / Thur 6.30pm – 8.50pm
First day of class: Tuesday January 3, 2006.
Holidays:
Mon Jan 16 (Martin Luther King Jr), Mon Feb 20
(President’s Day)
Last day of class:
Thursday March 16.
Textbooks:
Better Writing Through Editing, Peterson & Hagen
(available in bookstore). I will also give you handouts. You
will need to pay me $3.00 for handout copies.
Also recommended: Longman Dictionary of American
English .
Materials:
Please bring a 3-ring binder notebook, lined paper, pencil,
and eraser.
Course Description:
The purpose of this class is to help you to improve your
writing skills by using a system to focus on the errors you are
making in your writing, and to practice correcting those
errors. There will be some paragraph and essay level writing,
but sentence level correction and editing of common
grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors and the
particular errors of the students in this class, will be the main
focus of the class.
How to do well in class:
 Come to class every time. Come on time and don’t leave early.
 Do your homework. Turn it in on time. Do it before class. You cannot do it
in class.
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If you are sick or have an emergency, call & leave me a message or send me
an e-mail message.
If you miss a class, ask a classmate for the homework. If you need a
worksheet, ask me for it during the next class.
Be active in class and always speak English.
Sit next to different classmates every week; sit next to people who don’t
speak your language.
Work together with others and help others. Respect your classmates.
Ask questions if you don’t understand.
Read as much as you can in English!
Use the Loft tutor center on the 2nd floor of the NSCC Library.
Have as much FUN as you can learning English and in class!!
Assignments and Quizzes:
You will do some of your writing in-class & some as take-home
assignments or homework from the text. Both are important.
Quizzes may be announced a few days before they are given, or you may
also have a pop quiz which means the quiz is not announced. You can expect that
we will have at least one quiz on each chapter we cover in the textbook. Quizzes
must be taken on the day the teacher gives them. You cannot make up a quiz if
you are absent.
How to Format your writing papers:
1. All paragraphs and homework must be double-spaced on lined paper. The paper
must have a margin line. 2. Write with the margin on your left. 3. When you
hand in a revised paper, give me the old paper too. 4. You can use the Loft tutors
to help with homework paragraphs, but you must have specific questions to ask
them when you go there. 5. If you are able to write an assignment on computer
instead of handwriting, please do so!
Grades: I will give you % grades on your quizzes, tests and homework so you can
see your progress.
To continue in this class next quarter, you must:
1. Attend at least 75% of the time
2. Do at least 75% of the homework, & get a grade of at least 75% on it.
3. Take at least 75% of the quizzes & tests & get at least 75% on them.
4. Get a grade of at least 75% on your in-class writing.
Your final grade will not show a percentage grade, but will show S, Y or NC:
S
= Satisfactory, pass to next level.
Y
= Working and progressing but need more time at this level
NC
= No pass. Grades too low or work insufficient to pass this class.
What the grades on your papers mean:
/ = 80% or more
or
4 – Excellent – 90%,
/ = 60-79%
3 - competent/ at level - 75-89%
/ = less than 60%
2 – making progress – 60-74%,
1- beginning – 0-59%
Please talk with me if you have special problems or needs. For example, if
you have trouble seeing the board or hearing, talk with me about sitting at the front
of the class.
There will be regular homework assignments. There is no late homework
without previous permission. If you are absent unexpectedly, please call a
‘homework buddy’ for the homework assignment.
My homework buddies are:
Name: _________________________ Phone: _________________
Name: _________________________Phone: _________________
Good Luck and let’s all work together to enjoy
and learn as much as we can this quarter!