Schedule
Spring 2015 Lone Star College-English 1302
Instructor: Mary Davis
WK
Section: 5068
Material Covered
Activities and Assignments
1
In-Class Agenda
TUEMAR
17
Syllabus discussion
Textbooks 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..
Begin at the Beginning
Learning Evaluation Introduced
Current Issues and Enduring Questions and
A Writer's Guide
Assignment discussion
for first weekly paper (plagiarism).
Syllabus
Students will be organized randomly into
groups, and discuss group presentation
requirements.
Collaborative Learning
.Calendar, Reading/Writing Assignments,
Group Presentation Requirements
Taking Notes/Time Management
Test on knowledge
of logos, pathos, ethos
Any other information/questions that arise
during class,
Complete Questions On Learning Evaluation
THRMAR
19
In-Class Agenda
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.
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.
2
Library Data Base
(See Library Section on lonestar.edu)
IN-CLASS PREP FOR PRESENTATIONS
If time: Plagiarism videos
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
TUEMAR
24
In-Class Agenda
Draft Due Peer Review-Plagiarism
Student Questions Discussion
A Writer's Reference Review
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Debate 450-
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60393641
Charlie Rose Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
on their book,
Think Like A Freak 18 minutes
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 505-537
Work Session/Peer Review
Use Checklist in Peer Review Page 28
AND
Use Review Checklist Page 260
Question Assignment Due
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
APA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA Section,
Pages 444-497
470
Additional Reading
"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
Other Reading
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
74-75, 404, 454
75,183,184,253-254, 268, 404, 454
75, 104-105, 404, 454
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
242--Checklist for Imagining an Audience
A Writer's Reference, Page 13
Outline Exercise
USE ONE OF THE ESSAYS TO OUTLINE PP
Primary/Secondary Sources
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Should College Athletes Receive
Compensation
Brief In-class Paper
IN-CLASS PREP FOR PRESENTATIONS
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
THRMAR
26
In-Class Agenda
First Group Presentation
Plagiarism Paper Due
Student Questions Discussions
CAPSTONE PROJECT ASSIGNED
Capstone project Assigned
(1)First Assignment Annotated Bibliography list
due April 2 for in-class prep
(2) Second Assignment
Proposal /abstract
due April 9
Question Assignment in Class
Students Prepare one question from each (6) assignments
below.
Current Issues and Enduring Questions:
1. Argument (Definition, Induction/Deduction) 74-107
2. Toulmin Argument (Warrants) 337-348
3. Rogerian Argument 6, 392-400
4. Analysis (Fallacies) 18, 160, 188-196, 266, 441
5. Logic 349-381
6. Rhetorical Analysis 404-415
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
A Writer's Reference
Constructing and Evaluating Reasonable Arguments
Pages 78-100
Checklist for Analysis Page 195
Checklist Thesis Statement Page 237
Checklist for Audience Page 242
First Overview On Argument Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCNKREL
67rg
Toulmin PP
AND
http://www.slideshare.net/harut62892/thetoulmin-model-12853941?next_slideshow=1
Rogerian Argument-video
http://writingcommons.org/opentext/genres/academic-writing/arguments/318rogerian-argument
Toulmin/Rogers Quiz
In-class Work Session
Checklist for Organizing an Argument
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 253
3
TUEMAR
31
In-Class Agenda
Draft On College Education Due
Peer Review
Guest Speaker
Student Questions Discussion
Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer Review
Page 344
Warrants Page 339
Come Along If You Feel
Like
Happiness is the Truth
MLA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, CMS Section, Pages
443-497
MLA Section, Pages 372-440
Paper Assigned on College Education
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
Capstone Project
abstract/proposal
Pharrell Williams
Checklist for Analyzing An Argument 106
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
From Walden-David Thoreau Page 778-782
Question Assignment Due
Students Prepare one question 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
From Walden-David Thoreau Page 778-782
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Pages 286-287
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
THRAPR
2
In-Class Agenda
College Education Paper Due
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
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
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
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
Annotated Bibliography Work Session
Question Assignment Due
Students Prepare four questions from:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- "The Death
Penalty: Is It Ever Justified" -- 483-494
Additional Assignment
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.
4
TUEAPR
7
In-Class Agenda
Happiness Draft Due
This draft will be graded. Have two copies
available, one for peer review and one for a
grade.
Group Presentation.
Chicago Style Discussion/Practice
for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
Drugs: Should Their
Sale Be Legalized?
Question Assignment Due
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Students Prepare four questions from drug essay:
"Drugs: Should Their Sale Be Legalized?" 546-580
Other Reading Required Before Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"Using Sources" 267-333
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
In-Class Agenda
THRAPR
9
Happiness Paper Due
Group Presentation
(Using 3 Sources Listed Below)
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
1.Nora Ephron Page 168-175
2.http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/th
e-airbrushed-cover-and-the-damagedone/1117466
A Picture is Worth a Thousand
Words
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
Question Assignment Due
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
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
5
TUEAPR
14
In-Class Agenda
No Planned Group Presentation
Trifles Susan Glaspell
761-771
Draft on Drugs due
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
Question Assignment Due
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Trifles
761-771
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
Writer's Reference Page 13
Revisit APA Discussion/Practice References
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
Test on A Writer's Reference
If time, drama definitions.
Weekly Paper Assignment
Other Reading Assignments Prior to Class
A Writer's Reference for Outlining
Page 13.
Trifles Susan Glaspell 761-771
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
THRAPR
16
In-Class Agenda
Group Presentation
Paper on Drugs Due
Revisit Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer
Review Page 344
Work Session for Capstone Project
Checklist for Analyzing An Argument 106
Human Genetic Modification
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.
Questions Assignment Due
Students Prepare one question each from reading:
"Building Baby From the Genes Up"
Pages 495-498
"Genetically modified
Humans? No Thanks"
Pages 500-501
and
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Argument 179-219
6
Revisit A Writer's Reference, Page 13
Outline Exercise
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
TUEAPR
21
In-Class Agenda
Group Presentation
Weekly Draft for Peer Review Trifles
If time:
In-class one- page paper arguing
the Baltimore Curfew
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimores-newcontroversial-curfew-beginsfriday/27372646#!bDnwhM
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
Capstone Project/Work Session
Revisit Drafting/Revision/Editing
No Weekly Paper Assigned for Following
Week
THUR
APR
23
In-Class Agenda
Trifles Susan Glaspell paper due
Group Presentation
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
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
Fracturing Opinions PP
George Mitchell
American Petroleum Institute
Opponents in Pennsylvania
Texas Regulations
Texas Railroad Commission
Student Discussion
Revisit Argument
Work Session on Argument
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 253
7
In-Class Agenda
TUES
APR
28
Review
Capstone Essay Paper
Cover Page, Abstract/Proposal, Annotated
Bibliography, Reference Page.
No Weekly Draft Due
Group Presentation
Ethics Discussed and Defined
I had done it solely to avoid
looking a fool.
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
DO NOT WRITE THE ESSAYS. JUST ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS.
Final Exam Review
Questions Revisited from Earlier 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
THUR
APR
30
In-Class Assigment
Group Presentation
No Weekly Paper Due
Student Questions Discussion
Capstone Project Essay Due
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 420-434, 443-
Work Sessions
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
449, 435-436, 438-440,
A Writer's Reference Pages 281-286
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
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
Tentative Trip to Bosque Gallery
Final Exam Review
8TH
WK
TUES
MAY
5
NO Class
Finals Week
No Class
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THUR
MAY
7
It's Not Over Until It's Over
Yogi Berra
Final Exam
12:30-2:20
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