English 101-088 Mondays, 2-3:40 in S732 ... Thursdays, 2-2:50 in S738
Jan 27 - Intro to course
Jan. 30 - Discussion of "The Benjamin Franklin Effect" by David McRaney
For Feb. 3, use your "Response/Reaction Paper" handout to write a response to "The Benjamin Franklin Effect." Make this your first journal entry! Focus on the first two bullet points to guide your journal entry. One page per journal entry is good.
Ongoing journal assignment: At least three journal pages per week. Most of the time, you will be given a prompt or assignment for your journal. If not, write your entries anyway. Respond to whatever the reading assignment is at the time. Use the Writing Studio/Duke Univ. handout on Response/Reaction to guide you.
Feb. 3 - Further discussion. Developing a response, developing a thesis.
Feb. 6 - In-class writing assignment
Feb. 10 - Quiz on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part 4. Discussion of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Part 4. Review free writing. Learning more about journaling.
Helpful information on writing in your journal. http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/writing-resources/journal-writing
Feb. 13 - Revising, reworking your short paper. You will write your revision at home. (No class -- illness)
Feb. 17 - NO CLASSES -- Presidents Weekend!!!
Feb. 20 - Monday schedule. View videos. Discuss effective revision methods.
Further discussion of Autobio/Part 4.
Feb. 24 -BEGIN Frederick Douglass class discussion. Two selections in your textbook.
Feb. 27 -- "Haters" draft returned to students. Homework for this date, collected on this date, is posted in "videos" tab. Give this assignment a name: "healthy, wealthy, wise," Draft 1. Frederick Douglass discussion continued.
March 3 -- Lesson on advanced annotation.
March 6 --Quiz on "The Benjamin Franklin Effect," Franklin's autobiography selection, and the two Frederick Douglass selections.
March 10 -- "Healthy wealthy wise" draft 1 returned to students. Revision due March 17
March 13 -- Discussion of "Resurrection" by F. Douglass
March 17 -- How to develop good, effective support for your thesis. Bring "Locke and Load" to class!
March 20 -- "Argument and Persuasion," textbook, p.1. Bring "Locke and Load" to class! Bring textbook to class or get copies of Argument and Persuasion chapter and "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
March 24 -- MID-TERM! THIS CLASS WILL BEGIN AT 2:15, INSTEAD OF THE NORMAL START TIME. (THIS CLASS MEETING ONLY!) The mid-term will require you to write a short essay based on one or more of the following: "Locke and Load," "Learning to Read and Write," and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Locke and Load" can be found here: http://nyti.ms/1fuWeqN
Also, please read the pros and cons of the legality of carrying a concealed weapon here. PRINT this and bring to class.
http://concealedguns.procon.org/
MARCH 24: ALL REVISIONS DUE. YOU HAVE WRITTEN AN ESSAY ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT, OR WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH BF REGARDING BECOMING HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE, AND AN ESSAY ON "HOW I DEAL WITH HATERS." IF YOU WANT TO REVISE YOUR FIRST DRAFT, THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN THEM IN.
March 27 -- Improve your revision and rewrite skills. Read the chapter on description in our textbook. Grammar lesson.
March 31 -- "The Qualities of the Prince," p. 61. and the chapter on comparison and contrast. QUIZ/short written assignment!!!! This quiz will cover "The Qualities of the Prince," Argument and Persuasion, Description, and Comparison and Contrast.
Preparing to write a longer essay.
April 3 -- More on the longer essay. Read the Martin Luther King, Jr. selections in our textbook. Short written assignment on "The Qualities of the Prince" (p. 61-), Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" (starts on p. 84,) and "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Machiavelli's The Prince is here. It is not identical with our book's excerpt, but close enough. http://www.chatt.hdsb.ca/~augellos/FOV1-0011A5F3/FOV1-0011C185/S0E39BE64.1/MachiavelliThePrince.pdf
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail is here. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
King's "I Have a Dream" is here: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" can be found here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/civil.html
April 7 -- Practice exam #1. Open book. Based on "The Qualities of the Prince" and King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Prepare by reading both the Machiavelli and the King pieces, and also this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/why-machiavelli-matters.html?_r=0
April 10 -- LONGER essay #1 (1000 words) due. 12-point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced. MLA citation style.
Write your longer essay in response to ONE of these:
1. Write a thesis-driven essay in which you compare Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas about leadership with those of Machiavelli.
2. Write a thesis-drive essay in which you analyze Henry David Thoreau's motivations for acts of civil disobedience, and apply them to a possible situation today or within recent memory.
3. How valid are Machiavelli's ideas for a 21st century democracy? Defend your ideas in a thesis-drive essay.
4. Write an expository essay in which you explain and describe the influences on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his commitment to non-violent protest.
QUIZ/Short written assignment !!!!! Bring the two final exam readings. Get them here: https://sites.google.com/site/english101atbmcc/ The titles are "Only Daughter" and "Superman and Me."
Spring break!!!!
April 24 -- Preparation for longer essay #2: thesis, support, organization. Longer essay #2: Write a 1000-word thesis-driven essay on the theme of gender-based, class, racial or ethnic stereotypes. For example, you might choose to write about stereotypes about people from Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean. Even better and more interesting would be to write about Spanish-speakers from a particular social or economic class.
Or write an essay analyzing stereotypes about women, from a certain ethnic and class background.
A few hints: compare the women on a TV show such as "Housewives of Beverly Hills" with the housewives or women that you know personally. Or write an essay about the stereotype of the Latino male, and compare it to someone who know who defies and contradicts the stereotype.
These are only suggestions. Make up your own topic if you wish!
The challenge is to think of an interesting topic, and to use lots of details, description, narrative and analysis.
April 28 -- Practice exam #2 in class, based on "Civil Disobedience" (p. 84--) and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p. 113--)
Longer essay #2 due.
May 1 -- Grammar lesson.
May 5 -- Review of the two final exam reading assignments. Final exam preview and strategies.
May 8 -- Longer essay #3 due. Choose from these topics. Choose only ONE:
1. Read the story "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie and response to #1 under "Writing Topics" at the end of the story. Include a short biography of Sherman Alexie in your introduction. Here is the short story --http://www.esmschools.org/webpages/asmith/files/indian%20education--alexie.pdf
Here is one of many biographies of Alexie available online.
http://www.newpaltz.edu/studentdevelopment/orientation/alexie_full_bio.pdf
2. Read Sandra Cisneros' short story "Woman Hollering Creek." It is linked below. Write an essay comparing the depiction of men in "Woman Hollering Creek" with the depiction in "Only Daughter." Include a short biography of Cisneros in yoru introduction. You can find a lot of information online. Be sure to cite your sources!
http://teacherweb.com/IN/Burris/Comber/Cisneros-Woman-HC.pdf
Also on May 8: Exam preparation. Bring the two final exam readings. Get them here: https://sites.google.com/site/english101atbmcc/ The titles are "Only Daughter" and "Superman and Me."
Review of the two final exam reading assignments. Final exam preview and strategies.
May 12 -- Final exam -- 2-3:40.
May 15 Thursday Last day of classes at BMCC. We will NOT meet on this day.
May 19 - Monday - Our final class meeting. Yes, it's during exam week. We will meet at 2:00 but will not stay for the entire 100-minute session. ARRIVE ON TIME!! This is not a drop-in session, and if you arrive late, you may find that the rest of the class has finished with its business and that everyone has left.
May 19 will be the day that you get any late papers back. You can find out what you earned on the final exam, and we can discuss next steps for you with regard to advisement, future classes, etc.
Jan 27 - Intro to course
Jan. 30 - Discussion of "The Benjamin Franklin Effect" by David McRaney
For Feb. 3, use your "Response/Reaction Paper" handout to write a response to "The Benjamin Franklin Effect." Make this your first journal entry! Focus on the first two bullet points to guide your journal entry. One page per journal entry is good.
Ongoing journal assignment: At least three journal pages per week. Most of the time, you will be given a prompt or assignment for your journal. If not, write your entries anyway. Respond to whatever the reading assignment is at the time. Use the Writing Studio/Duke Univ. handout on Response/Reaction to guide you.
Feb. 3 - Further discussion. Developing a response, developing a thesis.
Feb. 6 - In-class writing assignment
Feb. 10 - Quiz on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part 4. Discussion of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Part 4. Review free writing. Learning more about journaling.
Helpful information on writing in your journal. http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/writing-resources/journal-writing
Feb. 13 - Revising, reworking your short paper. You will write your revision at home. (No class -- illness)
Feb. 17 - NO CLASSES -- Presidents Weekend!!!
Feb. 20 - Monday schedule. View videos. Discuss effective revision methods.
Further discussion of Autobio/Part 4.
Feb. 24 -BEGIN Frederick Douglass class discussion. Two selections in your textbook.
Feb. 27 -- "Haters" draft returned to students. Homework for this date, collected on this date, is posted in "videos" tab. Give this assignment a name: "healthy, wealthy, wise," Draft 1. Frederick Douglass discussion continued.
March 3 -- Lesson on advanced annotation.
March 6 --Quiz on "The Benjamin Franklin Effect," Franklin's autobiography selection, and the two Frederick Douglass selections.
March 10 -- "Healthy wealthy wise" draft 1 returned to students. Revision due March 17
March 13 -- Discussion of "Resurrection" by F. Douglass
March 17 -- How to develop good, effective support for your thesis. Bring "Locke and Load" to class!
March 20 -- "Argument and Persuasion," textbook, p.1. Bring "Locke and Load" to class! Bring textbook to class or get copies of Argument and Persuasion chapter and "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
March 24 -- MID-TERM! THIS CLASS WILL BEGIN AT 2:15, INSTEAD OF THE NORMAL START TIME. (THIS CLASS MEETING ONLY!) The mid-term will require you to write a short essay based on one or more of the following: "Locke and Load," "Learning to Read and Write," and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." "Locke and Load" can be found here: http://nyti.ms/1fuWeqN
Also, please read the pros and cons of the legality of carrying a concealed weapon here. PRINT this and bring to class.
http://concealedguns.procon.org/
MARCH 24: ALL REVISIONS DUE. YOU HAVE WRITTEN AN ESSAY ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT, OR WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH BF REGARDING BECOMING HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE, AND AN ESSAY ON "HOW I DEAL WITH HATERS." IF YOU WANT TO REVISE YOUR FIRST DRAFT, THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN THEM IN.
March 27 -- Improve your revision and rewrite skills. Read the chapter on description in our textbook. Grammar lesson.
March 31 -- "The Qualities of the Prince," p. 61. and the chapter on comparison and contrast. QUIZ/short written assignment!!!! This quiz will cover "The Qualities of the Prince," Argument and Persuasion, Description, and Comparison and Contrast.
Preparing to write a longer essay.
April 3 -- More on the longer essay. Read the Martin Luther King, Jr. selections in our textbook. Short written assignment on "The Qualities of the Prince" (p. 61-), Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" (starts on p. 84,) and "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Machiavelli's The Prince is here. It is not identical with our book's excerpt, but close enough. http://www.chatt.hdsb.ca/~augellos/FOV1-0011A5F3/FOV1-0011C185/S0E39BE64.1/MachiavelliThePrince.pdf
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail is here. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
King's "I Have a Dream" is here: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" can be found here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WALDEN/Essays/civil.html
April 7 -- Practice exam #1. Open book. Based on "The Qualities of the Prince" and King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Prepare by reading both the Machiavelli and the King pieces, and also this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/why-machiavelli-matters.html?_r=0
April 10 -- LONGER essay #1 (1000 words) due. 12-point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced. MLA citation style.
Write your longer essay in response to ONE of these:
1. Write a thesis-driven essay in which you compare Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas about leadership with those of Machiavelli.
2. Write a thesis-drive essay in which you analyze Henry David Thoreau's motivations for acts of civil disobedience, and apply them to a possible situation today or within recent memory.
3. How valid are Machiavelli's ideas for a 21st century democracy? Defend your ideas in a thesis-drive essay.
4. Write an expository essay in which you explain and describe the influences on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his commitment to non-violent protest.
QUIZ/Short written assignment !!!!! Bring the two final exam readings. Get them here: https://sites.google.com/site/english101atbmcc/ The titles are "Only Daughter" and "Superman and Me."
Spring break!!!!
April 24 -- Preparation for longer essay #2: thesis, support, organization. Longer essay #2: Write a 1000-word thesis-driven essay on the theme of gender-based, class, racial or ethnic stereotypes. For example, you might choose to write about stereotypes about people from Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean. Even better and more interesting would be to write about Spanish-speakers from a particular social or economic class.
Or write an essay analyzing stereotypes about women, from a certain ethnic and class background.
A few hints: compare the women on a TV show such as "Housewives of Beverly Hills" with the housewives or women that you know personally. Or write an essay about the stereotype of the Latino male, and compare it to someone who know who defies and contradicts the stereotype.
These are only suggestions. Make up your own topic if you wish!
The challenge is to think of an interesting topic, and to use lots of details, description, narrative and analysis.
April 28 -- Practice exam #2 in class, based on "Civil Disobedience" (p. 84--) and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p. 113--)
Longer essay #2 due.
May 1 -- Grammar lesson.
May 5 -- Review of the two final exam reading assignments. Final exam preview and strategies.
May 8 -- Longer essay #3 due. Choose from these topics. Choose only ONE:
1. Read the story "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie and response to #1 under "Writing Topics" at the end of the story. Include a short biography of Sherman Alexie in your introduction. Here is the short story --http://www.esmschools.org/webpages/asmith/files/indian%20education--alexie.pdf
Here is one of many biographies of Alexie available online.
http://www.newpaltz.edu/studentdevelopment/orientation/alexie_full_bio.pdf
2. Read Sandra Cisneros' short story "Woman Hollering Creek." It is linked below. Write an essay comparing the depiction of men in "Woman Hollering Creek" with the depiction in "Only Daughter." Include a short biography of Cisneros in yoru introduction. You can find a lot of information online. Be sure to cite your sources!
http://teacherweb.com/IN/Burris/Comber/Cisneros-Woman-HC.pdf
Also on May 8: Exam preparation. Bring the two final exam readings. Get them here: https://sites.google.com/site/english101atbmcc/ The titles are "Only Daughter" and "Superman and Me."
Review of the two final exam reading assignments. Final exam preview and strategies.
May 12 -- Final exam -- 2-3:40.
May 15 Thursday Last day of classes at BMCC. We will NOT meet on this day.
May 19 - Monday - Our final class meeting. Yes, it's during exam week. We will meet at 2:00 but will not stay for the entire 100-minute session. ARRIVE ON TIME!! This is not a drop-in session, and if you arrive late, you may find that the rest of the class has finished with its business and that everyone has left.
May 19 will be the day that you get any late papers back. You can find out what you earned on the final exam, and we can discuss next steps for you with regard to advisement, future classes, etc.