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ENGL 108C |
Accelerated First-Year Composition |
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Weekly Calendar Assignments - The Play Online Writing Lab (OWL) |
Weekly Calendar (*subject to change) Week 1 Aug. 21 M Introduction Aug. 23 W Autobiographical essay Aug. 25 F “Butterflies” and “The Road Not Taken”
Week 2 Aug. 28 M “A Chase” by Annie Dillard Aug. 30 W “The summer I left childhood was white” by Audre Lorde Sept. 1 F Workshop on peer-review
Week 3 Sept. 4 M Labor Day Sept. 6 W Peer-review of the draft of autobiographical essay Sept. 8 F Integrating peer-comments and other revision strategies
Week 4 Assignment I due on Monday, Sept. 11 Sept. 11 M Mini workshop on grammar points and punctuation Sept. 13 W The play: The Importance of Being Earnest, act I Sept. 15 F The Importance of Being Earnest, act II
Week 5 Sept. 18 M The Importance of Being Earnest, act III Sept. 20 W Group presentations of scenes from the play Sept. 22 F Writing a review of a theatre production
Week 6 Assignment II due on Friday, Sept. 29 Sept. 25 M Peer-review of the review essay Sept. 27 W Preparing Power-Point Presentations Sept. 29 F The short story: “The Story of an Hour”
Week 7 Oct. 2 M Summarizing a story: “The Last Leaf” Oct. 4 W Analyzing setting, character and theme: “The Yellow Wallpaper” Oct. 6 F Elements of Visual Design
Week 8 Oct. 9 M October Break Oct. 11 W Components of the assignment Oct. 13 F Preview of PP Presentations Assignment III due on Monday, Oct. 16 Week 9 Oct. 16 M PP Presentations I Oct. 18 W PP Presentations II Oct. 20 F The Novel: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, part I
Week 10 Oct. 23 M One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, part I (second half) Oct. 25 W One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, part II Oct. 27 F One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, part III
Week 11 Oct. 30 M One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, part IV Nov. 1 W Viewing the movie: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Nov. 3 F Comparing the movie adaptation with the novel
Week 12
Nov. 6 M Peer-review of the draft of compare/contrast paper Nov. 8 W Research paper: brainstorming possible topics Nov. 10 F No Class!
Week 13 Assignment IV due on Monday, Nov. 13 Nov. 13 M Doing library research; research online Nov. 15 W Working with secondary sources & Using the MLA citation style Nov. 17 F Writing annotated bibliographies
Week 14 Nov. 20 M No Class! (Research Time) Nov. 22 W Thanksgiving vacation Nov. 24 F Thanksgiving vacation
Week 15 Nov. 27 M Synthesizing sources * Revised annotated bibliographies due Nov. 29 W Workshop on drafts Dec. 1 F Peer-review of the draft of research paper
Week 16 Assignment V due on Friday, Dec. 8 Dec. 4 M Revision Dec. 6 W Out-of-Class Revision Time Dec. 8 F Final meeting
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