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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
2/18 |
Review of "Leaf by Niggle"; Hk: Reading about "Niggle" (by looking up a few allusions) |
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Week 2 |
2/25 |
Verb Tenses in a Summary; Aristotle's Summary of the _Odyssey_; In-class Writing; HK: Reading a Few Narratives (Homer about Argos recognizing Odysseus and Hermes visiting Ogygia) and Highlighting Colorful Words and Phrases |
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Week 3 |
3/03 |
Verb Tenses in a Commentary; Review of the Niggle summary; Review of Homeric Narratives; Hk: (1). Edit / Revise the Niggle Summary in the past tense, and (2) Do Research on Foreign Plurals in pairs (plus a sidenote on research: MLA, Google Scholar and JADE) |
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Week 4 |
3/10 |
Presentations on Foreign plurals; Hk: Write a narrative with an allusion in it |
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Week 5 |
3/17 |
Review of the Niggle summary; Spotting allusions in your partner's narrative (eg. [The Second Voice] "was a voice of authority"); Sequence of Adjectives (great green dragon or green great dragon?); Review of "How to Get Ahead" (Pariticipial Phrases); Pattern of Narrative by _At a Glance_; Hk: Reading Homer's Process Analyses |
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Week 6 |
3/24 |
Adjectives joined by "and"; In-class Writing on Process Analysis (Learning from Homer et al); Hk: Read Charts on Synonyms and the Division Chapter in _AT a Glance_ |
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Week 7 |
3/31 |
Peer Review of In-class Process Analyses by Outlining; Division (Learning from Aristotle et al); Sentence Sense and Using Synonyms; Hk: Writing a Division Piece |
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Week 8 |
4/07 |
_Antigone_ in British English; Hk: Revise/edit the peer-reviewed in-class process analysis |
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Week 9 |
4/14 |
Sentence Sense continued (with handout on the semicolon, from _The Elements of Style_); Positive Statements; Peer Review on the Division Essay/Paragraph; Classification; Hk: 1.) Writing a Classification Paragraph/Essay, 2.) Find a photo of yourself, preferably under five years of age, in black-and-white or sepia if you like, but DO NOT show it to anyone in this class YET |
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Week 10 |
4/21 |
Comparison and Contrast; Definite and Indefinte Articles; Hk: A Comparison/Contrast between Me at 5 and Me at 19 |
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Week 11 |
4/28 |
Review of Classification essay/paragraph; Comparison and Contrast continued; Articles continiued |
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Week 12 |
5/05 |
Guessing Who's Who by the Self-portraits; Last Part and Review of Articles; Hk: Cause and/or Effect Essay/Paragraph about Personal Development |
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Week 13 |
5/12 |
Quiz on Articles--Society cannot permanently exist in a condition of extreme tension; Cause and Effect; etymology |
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Week 14 |
5/19 |
Definition; more etymology |
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Week 15 |
5/26 |
_The Four Loves_ by C. S. Lewis; Using Analogy |
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Week 16 |
6/02 |
Peer Review of the Definition Essay/Paragraph, paying particular attention to 1). the mode(s) of development adopted by each, and 2). the use of definite/indefinte articles; Opting for the Postitive Statement; Word Roots |
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Week 17 |
6/09 |
Review of Analogy; How to Write an Essay Test |