ENG 101 Communication Arts I
Adams State University Extended Studies Open Enrollment
XI. Unit by Unit Layout
Unit 1
Writing Prompt
Introduction to class
Read Most Common Punctuation Mistakes
The Structure of the Essay
Audience
Read through Plagiarism Handout and http://www.plagiarism.org/
Write 1 page in your own words: What is plagiarism?
How it can be avoided?
Unit 2
Writing Prompt
50 Word Bio
2 page (500 words) Narrative on Self
8 Sentence Paragraph
Read A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
Answer two short responses Discussion Posts
Total Points for class: 1950 points
Unit 3
Writing Prompt
Read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read The
Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Compare and contrast the main characters in these stories.
Handout on Compare and Contrast,
http://www.eslbee.com/compcont.htm Discussion Posts
MLA Citation
Handout on MLA
Example page. Thesis Introduction
Handout: How to tell a strong thesis from a weak thesis
Given a topic, write a good thesis statement Poetry Introduction
Diction
Unit 4
Writing Prompt
Poetry Introduction Imagery
Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Short Response Questions.
Discussion Posts
Personal Narrative 3 page (750 words)
Pick one event from your life Academic writing Process
Given Topic, writing an introduction
Unit 5
Writing Prompt
Poetry Introduction Lines and Sounds
Academic Writing Process Body Paragraphs
Read A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García
Márquez 2 Page Response to the reading
Discussion Posts
Creative Writing Assignment
Write a short story (if you need a prompt, email me)
Unit 6
Writing Prompt
Poetry Introduction Meter
Academic Writing Process Conclusions
Introduction to the Analysis Paper Handouts
Example Analysis Paper Read Poems
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Saul and David by Anthony Hecht I am not Yours by Sara Teasdale
Poor Angels by Edward Hirsch
Discussion posts and questions Analysis paper 1 Draft
Unit 7
Writing Prompt
Peer Edit of Analysis Paper
Revision of Analysis Paper Due
Read Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essay Question:
Discussion Posts
Unit 8
Writing Prompt
Why does Goodman Brown become "a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a
distrustful, if not a desperate man" after his experience in the forest?
Peer Edit of Young Goodman Brown Essay
Revise Young Goodman Brown Essay
Rd. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 Page Response Paper Discussion Posts
Unit 9
Writing Prompt
Read Poems
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost I Love You
Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda Invictus by William Ernest
Henley
Discussion Posts and Questions on poems Analysis Paper 2 Draft
Unit 10
Writing Prompt
Peer Edit of Analysis Paper 2
Revise Analysis Paper 2
Rd The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
2 Page Essay relating to The Things They Carried on what are some
things you carry everyday.
Discussion Posts
Unit 11
Writing Prompt
Read The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Read A White Heron by
Sarah Orne Jewett Read The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Discussion Posts on these stories
Write a Comparing and Contrasting Essay for the main characters of two
of these three texts we read this week
Unit 12
Writing Prompt
Read Poems
Prophetic Outlook by Ernest Hilbert Domestic Situation by Ernest
Hilbert Flatirons by David Yezzi
Discussion posts on these poems Writing a Sonnet
I would recommend the Shakespearean sonnet but here is a link which
has the examples of each type of sonnet:
http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
Unit 13
Writing Prompt
Read The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Read God Sees The Truth, but Waits by Leo Tolstoy
Discussion Posts
Unit 14
Writing Prompt
Read The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling Discussion
posts
Analysis Paper 3 Draft
Choose any story we have read
Unit 15
Writing Prompt
Analysis Paper 3 Final Draft
Read Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold Read The Dover Bitch by
Anthony Hecht
Unit 16 Final
1.
2. 3.
Discussion Post Response to both poems
One of these five questions will be randomly chosen for you, you will 1
1⁄2 hours to complete this essay.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator reports at the end of her story that
John faints. Did Gilman intend this incident as a suggestion that the
doctor and men in general are really no stronger than women
emotionally? Explain your answer.
In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, how does the priest react to
the man with wings? What does his response symbolize?
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes a bold commentary about class and social
standing in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Explain whether you
believe it to be the story of society’s refusal to accept anyone who is
different.
4. 5.
In The Story of an Hour, the story says Mrs. Mallard "had loved him [her
husband]-- sometimes. Often she did not." If she was "often" not in love
with him, why did she marry him?
In The Bet, the lawyer writes that he has experienced all kinds of things
in books: love, hunting, mountain climbing, storms, miracles, religions,
wars, etc. Is reading about something the same as experiencing it? Which
is better and why?