Week
Type of Writing/Thematic Focus
The Sundance Reader and
Handouts (h)
Writer’s Harbrace
Handbook and other
Writing Resources
Writing Assignment
Overview of course and resources;
review syllabus and expectations; SAT
resources
“The Writing Process” pp. 15-47
 fragments, run-ons, comma
splices
 semi-colons; colons
paragraphs
2&3
Writing a college worthy essay
models of great writing;
two introductions to college
essay; pair/share; rough
draft of college essay;
instructor feedback
4&5
Narration
Self-Discovery
Read pp. 65-68
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1
model: Cisneros
style: syntax
sentence composing (h)
college essays (h)
sentence combining
quotation marks
dialogue
syntax continued
1st paper due
“Shooting an Elephant” p. 96
http://www.onlineliterature.com/orwell/887/
“My Name Is Margaret” (h)
http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Fac
ulty/marosale/TRC/Readings2.htm
“The Masked Marvel’s Last Toehold”(h)
http://www.oocities.org/wawli/jmk
10.htm
6&7
Description
Time
Read pp. 115-122
model: “Ring of Time” (h)
http://www.mrrena.com/misc/rotim
e.shtml
“Once More to the Lake” p. 147
http://www.moonstar.com/~acpjr/B
lackboard/Common/Essays/OnceLa
ke.html
“Out There” p. 126
http://enovel4free.files.wordpress.c
 diction
 parallelism
 coordination/subordination
2nd paper due
om/2007/11/in-cold-blood-trumancapote.pdf (first page and a half)
“Unforgettable Miss Bessie” p. 137
http://www.nysedregents.org/Comp
rehensiveEnglish/Archive/2003061
9exam2.pdf
“I Stand Here Ironing” (h)
http://teachersites.schoolworld.com
/webpages/JVivian/files/I%20Stand
%20Here%20Ironing%20text.pdf
8&9
Comparison and Contrast
Environment
Read pp. 221-227
model:
 passive voice
 verb tense
3rd paper due
“Neat People vs. Sloppy People” p. 234
http://evergreenessays.blogspot.co
m/2005/11/neat-people-vs-sloppypeople.html
“Two Ways to Belong in America” p. 246
http://wikicik.wikispaces.com/file/view/Mukh
erjee-2WaysToBelong.pdf
“Remembering My Childhood” (h)
www.solonschools.org/.../48200912
0618_DavidSedarisPiece.doc
“Two Views of the River” p. 161 (h)
http://wikicik.wikispaces.com/file/view/Twai
n-2Views.pdf
10 & 11
Cause and Effect
Race, Class, Gender, & Culture
Read pp. 455-462
model: “Barbie Doll”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/
barbie-doll/
letters from professors
 MLA format
 paraphrase
 embedded quotations
4th paper due - research
“Why Schools Don’t Educate” p. 466
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig1
1/gatto3.1.1.html (scroll down to
the paragraph beginning “Two
institutions . . .”)
“Black Men and Public Spaces” p. 477
http://www.srs-pr.com/blackmen.pdf
“On Teenagers and Tattoos” (h)
http://www2.fiu.edu/~ereserve/010
029088-1.pdf
“My Wood” (h)
http://grammar.about.com/od/classi
cessays/a/fortermywood08_2.htm
“Drugs, Sports, Body Image, and G.I. Joe”
(h)
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/2
2/science/drugs-sports-body-imageand-gijoe.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
12 & 13
Definition
Society
Read pp. 167-172
model: My Losing Season excerpts
“Needs” p. 189 (can’t find this one
online)
“Everyday Use” (h)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/qu
ilt/walker.html
“Why I Want a Wife” (h)
http://sussex.de.schoolwebpages.co
m/education/components/docmgr/d
efault.php?sectiondetailid=9806&fi
leitem=8774&catfilter=ALL
 subject/verb agreement
5th paper due – possibly
multi-genre
14
Process
Learning
Read pp. 405-410
 pronoun usage
Speech – written and oral
delivery
model: “How To Be a Sensitive Poet”
Choice of process or
division/classification
http://www.everseradio.com/mattgroenings-how-to-be-a-sensitivepoet/
Due next week 15
“How to Mark a Book” p. 411
http://www.maebrussell.com/Articl
es%20and%20Notes/How%20To%
20Mark%20A%20Book.html
“Stripped for Parts” (h)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archiv
e/11.03/parts.html
“Dolphin Courtship” (h)
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/1
8/science/dolphin-courtship-brutalcunning-andcomplex.html?pagewanted=all&src
=pm (Keep reading; it is longer
than two paragraphs!)
15
Division and Classification
Behavior
Read pp. 351-357
model:
“Friends, Good Friends—and Such Good
Friends” p. 358
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&r
ct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd
=4&ved=0CFsQFjAD&url=http%3
A%2F%2Facademic.luzerne.edu%
2Fshousenick%2F101-DIVISIONCLASS%2520essay%25
20FRIENDS.doc&ei=HdYeUKLUI
 parallelism
Speeches due
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“The Seven Deadly Sins of Students” p. 377
http://chronicle.com/article/The-7Deadly-Sins-of-Students/46719/
“Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” p. 364
(can’t find online link)
16 - 18
Argument and Persuasion
Values
Read pp. 501-507
model: “Living Like Weasels”
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG2
00-lad/dillard.htm
“In Praise of the ‘F’ Word” p. 518
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ethos, logos, pathos
rhetorical strategies
counterarguments
visual arguments
 easily confused words
http://www.thedailybeast.com/news
week/1991/05/05/in-praise-of-the-f-  modifiers
word.html
“Stuff Is Not Salvation” p. 508
http://www.thedailybeast.com/news
week/2008/12/12/stuff-is-notsalvation.html
“America the Beautiful: What We’re Fighting
For” (h)
(can’t find online text)
7th paper with research
Final exam