English 370, Section 8180: English Fundamentals
Summer 2006: MTWTh 10:30-12:45, rm 1413
Office Hours & Place: By arrangement
Online Reference: Qcounty.com/SCC/Summer06
Instructor Dave Badtke
(707)864-7000, x5501 or (707)334-4882
Dave@Badtke.com, Dave.Badtke@solano.edu
Assignments
Week 3, beginning 7/3/2006:
Monday:
• Hand in your relationship paper and, if you did it, your rewrite of your story.
Today we’ll begin covering examples and illustrations, rhetorical modes which are critical to creating vivid
essays that engage your reader. We’ll also begin our discussion of writing responses which will help you
prepare for the CME.
• We’ll complete Unit 4 in Sentence-Combining and you’ll hand in your workbooks.
Homework due Wednesday: Write a 2-3 page response to Quindlen’s essay “Homeless,” pages 176-178
in Bedford, using the following outline form that we’ll discuss and work on in class:
¶ 1— Intro summarizing article’s beginning, middle & end + Thesis Statement
¶ 2— Article beginning + your example-based response
¶ 3— Article middle + your example-based response
¶ 4— Article end + your example-based response
¶ 5— Conclusion in which you look back, discuss your main idea & leave the reader thinking
Tuesday:
• Have a great July 4th holiday!
Wednesday:
• We’ll begin Unit 5 in Sentence-Combining on compare & contrast.
• We’ll complete our discussion of examples by discussing Brent Staples’s “Black Men and Public
Space” and begin discussing compare & contrast essays.
Homework due Thursday: Read pages 200-214 in Bedford and complete Unit 5 in Sentence-Combining.
“Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson.
Thursday:
• We’ll begin Unit 6 in Sentence-Combing which will help you use subordinating conjunctions to
create more subtle, nuanced sentences. If we finish, you’ll hand in your workbooks.
• We’ll discuss Suzanne Britt’s “Neat People vs. Sloppy People.”
Homework due Monday: Write a 2-3 page, 500-750 word, compare-contrast response to either Staples’s
or Britt’s essay in which you compare and contrast your experiences with the author’s. As always, this
paper needs to be double-spaced, typed, with a title and MLA header. In addition, you also need to
include text citations and a Works Cited which we’ll discuss in class.