RDG 100 Course Outline/Schedule
Date
Session/
Meeting
1
2
Focus
Introduction to RDG 100 – Critical Reading
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Class Introductions
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Course Syllabus Activity
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Introduction to Blackboard & GTC Gmail
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Course Entrance Letter
Unit 1: Critical Thinking & Effective Reading
Study Strategies
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Goal Setting
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Survey & Question
3
Intro to Computer Learning Environment – Aplia
4
The Reading Process & Critical Thinking
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The Reading Process
7
Questioning
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Curiosity Inventory
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Read & Respond to Deep Thinking
Questions for “Cultivating Curiosity”
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Introduce Critical Thinking Circles
Unit 2: Context Clues, Vocabulary & Main Ideas
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Vocabulary Strategies: VAN – Visual aid,
Association & Notecards
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Word parts & stems
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Word Part Matching Game
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Denotation & Connotation
8
Computer Lab
5
6
9
10
11
12
13
14
Main Ideas & Topics
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Art Prompt
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Key Terms Activities
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MAPPS
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Paragraph Scramble
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Concept Maps
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Critical Thinking Circle
Unit 3: Patterns of Organization & Implied Main
Ideas
Patterns of Organization
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Recognize to Identify Activity
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Predicting & Identifying Patterns
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Relating Ideas & Pattern
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Types & Examples of Patterns
Implied Main Ideas
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Making generalizations
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Cartoons
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
Couch Trip
Critical Thinking Circles
Assignment Due / Assessment /Test
(RJ = Reflective Journal/Questions)
 Complete/submit Entrance Letter
 Student Information Sheet
Effective Reader Inventory
Pre-study/Survey notes on Ch 1
Aplia Pre-Test
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 1
RJ: (Lib Guide) Speaking to the Identity of
Chinese Children in U.S.
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 2
Pre-study/Survey notes on Ch 3
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 3
Aplia Due: Chapters 1-3 due
Pre-study/Survey notes on Ch 4
(Activity - Ancestry Mapping)
RJ (Lib Guide) Obama and the Politics of
Outsourcing
Pre-study/Survey notes on Ch 5
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 4
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 5
(Activity - Health Survey)
RJ (Lib Guide) Excerpts from Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal
15
Review for Midterm Exam
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 6
16
Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam
17
Unit 4: Reading & Study Strategies
Study Strategies

Applying Reading Process

Taking Notes

Textbook Chapter Reading

SQ3R
Pre-study/Survey notes on Ch 7
Date
Session/
Meeting
Focus
22
Reading Textbook Chapters

Reading & Study Aids

Highlighting, Annotating, Outlining
Computer Lab
Visual Information

Critical Thinking Circles
Unit 5: Critical Reading & Researching
Reading Critically

Fact & Opinion

Fact & Opinion
23
Research Class in Library
24
Analyzing Author’s Tone
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Critical Thinking Circles
18
19
20
21
Analyzing Author’s Tone
25
Evaluating Evidence
Assignment Due / Assessment /Test
(RJ = Reflective Journal/Questions)
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 7
Aplia Due: Chapters 4-7
RJ (Lib Guide) Children, Adolescents, and
the Media: Seven Key Issues
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 8
RJ (Lib Guide) The Future of Feminism Is
with Men OR Think You're Smart? Can You
Tell What's on Her Mind
Library Assignment/Culture Research
Project Articles & Outline
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 9
(Activity - Song Lyrics)
(Community Environment Survey Activity)
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 10
RJ (p. 566) Excerpts from An Inconvenient
Truth
26
Applying Critical Reading Skills to Arguments

Critical Thinking Circles
27
Applying Critical Reading Skills Online
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 11
28
Presentation of Culture Research Project
Culture Research Project
29
Presentation of Culture Research Project
30
Last day of class – Review for Final
31
Final Exam
Reading/Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 12
Aplia Due: Chapters 8-12
Aplia Post-Test
Course Exit Letter
Effective Reader Inventory (End)
Final Exam
Final Exam:
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Updated: Monday, March 21, 2016