ENGL 108C

 

 Accelerated First-Year Composition

 

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Course Description

Course Policies

Weekly Calendar

Assignments

- Autobiography

- The Play

- The Short Story

- The Novel

- The Research Paper

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