週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
2/17 |
HOMEWORK WK1 DUE noon Feb. 20 |
Week 2 |
2/24 |
experience sharing in groups; sample lyrics plus in-class practice |
Week 3 |
3/03 |
narrative poetry: the basics; rhyming schemes: the basics |
Week 4 |
3/10 |
Song: "Vincent;" Poem: Design by Robert Frost; "Instant Intimacy" by Roxana Robinson; In-class writing practice. |
Week 5 |
3/17 |
WA1 DUE; Sentence variety REVIEW; Logical Fallacies; Writing after discussion: Report and refute; WK7 summarizing homework announcement |
Week 6 |
3/24 |
Check editing homework. Article: "Don't Blame the Eater" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/opinion/don-t-blame-the-eater.html |
Week 7 |
3/31 |
Check editing homework ('Life Is One Page at a Time'); Writing skill: Summarising; News writing; 'Don't Blame the Eater'; 'Global Warming'; |
Week 8 |
4/07 |
Summary homework due. Misplaced Participial Phrases; Parallelism; Eliminating wordiness |
Week 9 |
4/14 |
Planting a naysayer in your text; check WA2 outline. |
Week 10 |
4/21 |
writing assignment two outline; summarizing and paraphrasing; "why we crave horror movies" by stephen king |
Week 11 |
4/28 |
WA2 DUE; an excerpt from Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman; evaluative responses; |
Week 12 |
5/05 |
Peter Bradshaw's example; Einstein's Dreams and a review: http://stn.eslite.com/Article.aspx?id=2318; In-class writing pracitce |
Week 13 |
5/12 |
Preparing to write evaluation; reading sample essays; http://stn.eslite.com/Article.aspx?id=2318 |
Week 14 |
5/19 |
Presentations |
Week 15 |
5/26 |
Presentations |
Week 16 |
6/02 |
==LIBRARY HOURS==WA3 pt. 1 rough draft DUE (tutorial sessions from 5/27~6/9) |
Week 17 |
6/09 |
Closing remarks. Review. |