College Composition Agenda: Week of May 18 through 21
Monday, 5/18 Please bring Write for College with you every day from now on. You have
two drafts of your research paper due today.
This week and next we will be reviewing and practicing the various types of analytical essays.
You will be able to define, draft and explain the differences among these types of essays:
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Analysis
Essay of comparison
Essay of classification
Essay of definition
Cause and effect essay
Problem—solution essay
Essay of evaluation
Do Now #1: Last set due. New set/new heading. Read page two of the capitalization packet
“Proper Names.” Be sure you understand the rules and examples. ON A SEPARATE SHEET
OF PAPER, rewrite each of the four sentences found at the bottom of the page making the
necessary corrections. Add a fifth sentence of your own illustrating the SECOND rule.
Work Period: Reviewing analytical writing—analyzing a process.
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What does the word “analysis” mean?
What are the various ways we analyze things, that is analytical strategies?
What is the purpose of analysis?
Discuss the above questions with a partner and formulate responses to share with the class.
Read pp. 187—89 in Write for College. What is a process? When and why might it be
important to fully understand a process?
Wrap-Up: Brainstorm processes that really interest you and about which you think you have a
fair amount of knowledge. Share your ideas to help us compile a class list.
Tuesday, 5/19 Research paper and “Do Nows” overdue.
Do Now #2: Read page three of the capitalization packet “Titles.” Be sure you understand the
rules and examples. ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER rewrite each of the four sentences
found at the bottom of the page making the necessary corrections. Add a fifth sentence of your
own illustrating the SECOND rule.
Work Period: Select one of the processes discussed/listed in class yesterday. Work your way
through the prewriting process as described on page 189 in WfC.
Wrap-Up: When you have organized your analysis, exchange your prewriting plan with a
partner. Do NOT discuss your prewriting yet. Study each other’s plans and make a list of any
steps in the process you think your partner may have left out. NOW discuss your work with each
other.
Wednesday, 5/20
Do Now #3: Review the rules for capitalization and ask for any clarification you need. Quiz on
capitalization.
Work Period: Read the two model process essays on pp. 190—92 in WfC. Be sure to study and
understand the margin notes in each. Using these models as a guide, begin drafting your own
analytical essay on the process you chose. You will have today and tomorrow to work on the
essay in class. If you finish in time, you may workshop your essay with a partner using the
rubric we will preview in our wrap-up today. You have TWO DRAFTS of your essay due next
Tuesday when we return from the long weekend. The second must show substantial revision.
Work hard, and you won’t have any homework. Waste time, and have this hanging over your
head on prom weekend.
Wrap-Up: Preview rubric for process essay.
Thursday, 5/21
Do Now #4: Due next Tuesday upon completion of fifth response. Exchange yesterday’s quiz
with a partner. PUT YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR PARTNER’s PAPER
and your name at the top of the key. (If you were absent yesterday, you need to do the quiz
today. Your make-up for today will be to write ten sentences illustrating all of the rules for
capitalization.) Use the key to make any necessary corrections. Return each other’s papers and
look to see where you made any mistakes. Do you have any questions?
Work Period: See above.