Schedule
Spring 2015 Lone Star College-English 1302
Instructor: Mary Davis
WK
Section: 5065
Material Covered
Activities and Assignments
1
TUEJAN
13
Begin at the Beginning
Introduce PowerPoint
On Instruction Evaluation
Current Issues and Enduring Questions and
A Writer's Guide overview
Assignment discussion
for first weekly paper (plagiarism).
Syllabus overview
Collaborative Learning
Discussion
Students will be organized randomly into
groups, and discuss group presentation
requirements.
.Explanation of Calendar, Reading/Writing Assignments,
Group Presentation Requirements
Test on knowledge
of logos, pathos, ethos
Taking Notes/Time Management Discussion
. Students will take notes during the period
and discuss them with colleagues for
comparison. This will be first effort to
demonstrate knowledge of the collaborative
research processes..
Any other information/questions that arise
during class,
Complete PowerPoint Questions On
Instruction Evaluation
Plagiarism paper assigned
Draft due Tuesday, Jan 20. Edited paper due
Thursday, Jan. 22.
THRJAN
15
Avoiding Plagiarism
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
42-45, 281, 283-286
A Writer's Reference
Pages L 24-25 and Page 359, Pages MLA 376-379 AND L
24-25 Plagiarism handouts. Information in syllabus.
More plagiarism information is posted on the blog.
Internet Assignment
Library Data Base
(See Library Section on lonestar.edu)
Required trip to library first half of class for
presentation on citations, academic integrity,
and plagiarism.
Second Half: Computer
Lab/Layout/Turnitin.com/familiarize with blog.
In-class Work Session
Checklist for Organizing an Argument
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 253
Plagiarism videos (if time):
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-problemwith-plagiarism/
9 minutes
Quentin Rowan, Wrote novels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgM3KlxZO
Q 4 minutes
Jayson Blair discussion by professor
2
TUEJAN
20
Thinking and Reading
"...it was at this school that Einstein first engaged in
the visualized thought experiment that helped make
him the greatest scientific genus of his time: He tried
to picture what it would like to ride alongside a light
beam...this type of visualized thought
experiments...became a hallmark of Einstein's career."
Einstein His Life and Universe, Walter Issacson.
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 1-52
Students Prepare one question each from below.
a. Driver license photo, 4-11
b. Homeschooling 12-13
c. "The Undercover Parent" 21-23
d. "Military Women in Combat" 29-30
e. "A First Amendment Junkie" 48-50
Other Reading
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
74-75, 404, 454
75,183,184,253-254, 268, 404, 454
75, 104-105, 404, 454
Draft Due Peer Review-Plagiarism
Student Questions Discussion
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60393641
Charlie Rose Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
on their book,
Think Like A Freak 18 minutes
Work Session/Peer Review
Use Checklist in Peer Review Page 28
AND
Use Review Checklist Page 260
APA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA Section,
Pages 444-497
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
242--Checklist for Imagining an Audience
A Writer's Reference, Outlines for
Summery/Analysis 71-72
Outline Exercise
USE ONE OF THE ESSAYS TO OUTLINE PP
Weekly Paper Assigned on
"The Undercover Parent" 21-23
If time:
In-class one- page paper arguing
the Baltimore Curfew
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimores-newcontroversial-curfew-beginsfriday/27372646#!bDnwhM
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
THRJAN
22
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Students Prepare one question from each (6) assignments
below.
First Overview
On Argument Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCNKREL
67rg
Current Issues and Enduring Questions:
Student Questions Discussions
1. Argument (Definition, Induction/Deduction) 74-107
Toulmin PP
AND
http://www.slideshare.net/harut62892/thetoulmin-model-12853941?next_slideshow=1
2. Toulmin Argument (Warrants) 337-348
3. Rogerian Argument 6, 392-400
5. Logic 349-381
Rogerian Argument-video
http://writingcommons.org/opentext/genres/academic-writing/arguments/318rogerian-argument
6. Rhetorical Analysis 404-415
Toulmin/Rogers Quiz
Other Reading
A Writer's Reference
Constructing and Evaluating Reasonable Arguments
Pages 78-100
Fallacies (PowerPoint Presentation)
4. Analysis (Fallacies) 18, 160, 188-196, 266, 441
Work Sessions on terms/definitions
Page 400, 380, 101, 195,
Plagiarism Paper Due
3
TUEJAN
27
First Group Presentation
Drugs: Should Their
Sale Be Legalized?
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Student Questions Discussion
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"The Undercover Parent" Draft Due
Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer Review
Page 344
Warrants Page 339
Students Prepare four questions from drug essay:
"Drugs: Should Their Sale Be Legalized?" 546-580
546-580
Drugs: Should Their Sale Be Legalized?
Other Reading
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"Using Sources" 267-333
MLA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, CMS Section, Pages
443-497
MLA Section, Pages 372-440
Paper Assigned on Drug Legalization
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
Additional Sources
www.wimp.com/marijuanaboss/ -- two
minutes, 30 seconds pro
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/07/r
on_paul_makes_a_fool_of_steph.html 9
minutes
Ron Paul Republican Conservative Pro/Con
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/syntheticmarijuana-harmful-teenagers-new-drugmenace-children-emergency-room-health16145370
www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?ac
tion=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=TopBar
&module=HPMiniNav&contentCollection=Opini
on&WT.nav=page
http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/weedaddictive
habit-forming 5 minutes
http://www.today.com/video/today/31827427
#31827427
six minutes, pro/con
THRJAN
29
"The Undercover Parent" Paper Due
An Eye for an Eye?
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- 228-266
and
Justice Blackmun Dissent/Justice Scalia Upholding
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/deat
hissue.html
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- "The Death
Penalty: Is It Ever Justified" -- 483-494
Students Prepare four questions from:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- "The Death
Penalty: Is It Ever Justified" -- 483-494
Group Presentation
"The Death Penalty: Is It Ever Justified"
483-494
Discussion by
Stephen Bright/Southern Center for Human
Rights and Yale Law School.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprcHrLz
Ics
Discuss student questions
In-class work session: Students will write a
brief discussion defending the opposite side of
capital punishment to which they adhere, using
information from Page 344 (Toulmin).
Revisit
APA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
CAPSTONE PROJECT ASSIGNED
Capstone project Assigned
First Assignment Annotated Bibliography
Due Tuesday Feb. 3
Second Assignment
Proposal
Due Thursday,
Checklist for Analysis Page 195
Checklist Thesis Statement Page 237
Checklist for Audience Page 242
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
4
TUEFEB
3
You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and
the only way, it does not exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"Building Baby From the Genes Up"
Pages 495-498
"Genetically modified Humans? No Thanks"
Pages 500-501
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Students Prepare one question each from reading:
"Building Baby From the Genes Up"
Pages 495-498
"Genetically modified Humans? No Thanks"
Pages 500-501
No Group Presentation
First Part of Class
Guest Speaker
Peer Review of Drug Legalization Paper
Revisit Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer
Review Page 344
Primary/Secondary Sources
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Brainstorm examples
http://digital.films.com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/P
ortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=43788&loid=116050
&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=Effective Internet
Search: Basic Tools and Advanced
Strategies&IsSearch=Y&parentSeriesID=
Use Section 3 ONLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0plq2E9ZjQ
3 minutes
and
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Argument 179-219
Other Assignment
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Pages 286-287
Students must have 10 sources for the capstone essay
available for in-class preparation for the annotated
bibliography. Laptops can be used in class for this work
session.
added jan 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mrGYAPN
YNQ
more about genes.
Group Exercise with Primary/Secondary
Examples
Chicago Style Discussion/Practice for Works
Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
Weekly Paper assigned on
genetically modified Humans
THRFEB
5
A Picture is Worth a Thousand
Words
Group Presentation (Using 3 Sources Listed
Below)
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
1.Nora Ephron Page 168-175
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Visual Rhetoric
141-177
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
and
Logic (Induction/Deduction) 349-381
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
2.http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/th
e-airbrushed-cover-and-the-damagedone/1117466
3. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140417road-designs-that-trick-our-minds
A Writer's Reference
C3 Revising
Pages 20-28
Work Sheets
Capstone Project/Work Session
Proposal/Abstract Due
See Abstract Example in
A Writer's Reference Page 489
Logic (Induction/Deduction) 349-381
Revisit Fallacies (PowerPoint Presentation)
Discuss cigarette advertising
Review course objectives
Drug Legalization Paper Due
5
TUEFEB
10
Group Presentation
Trifles Susan Glaspell
761-771
Draft of Weekly Paper on genetic
modification of human beings.
What is Justice?
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Critical Reading
74-87
and
A Checklist for Analyzing an Argument
106
and
Trifles
761-771
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Trifles
761-771
This draft will be graded. Have two copies
available, one for peer review and one for
me to grade.
Use Toulmin Model genetic modification.
See page 344 for constructing a Toulmin
argument and page 346 for a checklist for
using the model.
Capstone Project Discussion In-Class
Sources
Work Session
Capstone Outline
Revisit APA Discussion/Practice References
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
Test on A Writer's Reference
Other Reading
A Writer's Reference for Outlining
Page 13.
If time, drama definitions.
Weekly Paper Assignment
Trifles Susan Glaspell 761-771
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
THRFEB
12
Come Along If You Feel
Like
Happiness is the Truth
Pharrell Williams
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 87-107
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"In Pursuit of Unhappiness"-Darrin McMahon, page 783786
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel Gilbert 775778
Students Prepare two questions each from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel Gilbert 775778
Group Presentation
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"In Pursuit of Unhappiness"-Darrin McMahon,
page 783-786
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel
Gilbert 775-778
From Walden-David Thoreau Page 778-782
Pharrell Williams - Happy
(Official Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6SxvsUYtM
Zac Brown Band. Uncaged.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/zacbrownband/u
ncaged.html
Work Session for Capstone Project
Checklist for Analyzing An Argument 106
Revisit A Writer's Reference, Outlines for
Summery/Analysis 71-72
Outline Exercise for Essay
Revisit Checklist Toulmin Argument 337-348
Revisit Checklist for Rogerian Argument 400
Compare the two Arguments
A Writer's Reference Punctuation and
Mechanics Pages 257-273
Weekly Paper on genetic modification due.
6
TUEFEB
17
Group Presentation
"A College Education: What Is Its
Purpose?" -Andrew Delbanco 505-510
"Pondering the Purpose of College"- Alina
Turgend 518-520
"America's Most Overrated Product"- Marty
Nemko 523-528
Weekly Draft for Peer Review
Trifles Susan Glaspell
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Debate 450470
Use Checklist (Rogerian) in Peer Review Page
400
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 505-537
Princeton Memory and the Work of Learning
video about learning and the brain PP
Students Prepare two questions each from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 465-470
Student Loans: Should Some Indebtedness Be Forgiven
Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever
Should College Athletes Receive
Compensation
Brief In-class Paper
Capstone Project/Work Session
Revisit Drafting/Revision/Editing
No Weekly Paper Assigned for Following
Week
THUR
- FEB
19
You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and
the only way, it does not exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hydraulic Fracturing, Current Issues and
Enduring Question
Pages 538-545
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Primary/Secondary Sources
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Argument Analysis 179-219
Hydraulic Fracturing P. 538-545
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Students Prepare two questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Hydraulic Fracturing P. 538-545
and
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Argument 179-219
Brainstorm examples
http://digital.films.com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/P
ortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=43788&loid=116050
&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=Effective Internet
Search: Basic Tools and Advanced
Strategies&IsSearch=Y&parentSeriesID=
Use Section 3 ONLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0plq2E9ZjQ
3 minutes
Trifles Susan Glaspell paper due
7
TUES
FEB
24
I had done it solely to avoid
looking a fool.
"Shooting An Elephant"
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
"Shooting An Elephant" George Orwell
Pages 722 -727
Students Answer questions on Page 727-728
Be Prepared to Defend Your Answers
Final Exam Review
Questions Revisited from Earlier Presentation
No Weekly Paper Due
No Group Presentation
Christopher Hitchens - On George Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_7rn23tD
Nk
Myanmar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hIeuQzLk
gs
Elephant rescue in Burma/Myanmar
http://www.abroadabroad.com/tag/burma/
Discuss Questions Students Have Prepared
Student Response on Learning Outcomes
Review
Capstone Essay Paper
Cover Page,
Abstract/Proposal, Annotated
Bibliography, Reference Page.
THUR
FEB
26
No Weekly Paper Due
No Group Presentation
Student Questions Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhes4Irgvw
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 420-434, 443449, 435-436, 438-440,
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section, Pages 498-537
A Writer's Reference Pages 281-286
Students Answer Questions on Page 449
Thinking About Government Funding For the Arts
Answer as Essay Questions, not Yes/No
Work Sessions
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
A Writer's Reference Pages 281-286
Tentative Trip to Bosque Gallery
Title of exhibit: “Life Lines”
Artist: Margaret Smithers
Open: Feb-24th
Ends: April 2nd
Other Reading
"Mending Wall"-Robert Frost, Page 426-428
"To His Coy Mistress"-Andrew Marvell, 435-436
"The Story of an Hour"-Kate Chopin Page 438-440
Plato Page 443-448
Capstone Project Essay Due
8TH
WK
TUES
MAR
3
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Facebook: How Has Social Networking
Changed How We Relate to Others
594-614
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Facebook: How Has Social Networking
Changed How We Relate to Others
594-614
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THUR
MAR
5
___________________________
It's Not Over Until It's Over
Yogi Berra
Final Exam
Final Exam Review
No Weekly Paper
No Group Presentation
Student Questions Discussion
In-Class Paper:
How Has Social Networking Changed Your
Life
THE FILM LISTED BELOW HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
A PRACTICE FINAL EXAM WILL TAKE ITS
PLACE.
Film
The Social Network
_________________________