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Mrs. Lesley Murphy

English Teacher

Parker High School

(608)743-5739

lmurphy@janesville.k12.wi.us

mrsmurphysrc@gmail.com

Senior Composition

Senior Composition

Class expectations: Please see syllabus attachment on bottom of this website

Week 1: lesson 1-writing process overview/technology set up

lesson 2-formal essay--"How to Say Nothing in 500

words or Less"/thesis writing

Week 2: lesson 3-Thesis writing and persuasive essay

http://www.essaywritinghelp.com/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/1/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/01/

Week 3: lesson 4-resume writing

Have you taken your ACT/SAT? Still need to register? go to http://actstudent.org to register-- Parker's school code is 500 953

Tips for resumes and cover letters http://wiscareers.wisc.edu/

Tips for writing cover letter http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/639/01/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/527/01/

Format of a cover letter http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/723/03/

Tips for writing business letter http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/01/

Week 4: lesson 5--application essay--both scholarship and application essay

Tips for writing application essay http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/642/01/

Application Essay Questions for U.W. System

1. The University values an educational environment that provides all members of the campus community with opportunities to grow and develop intellectually, personally, culturally, and socially. In order to give us a more complete picture of you as an individual, please tell us about the particular life experiences, perspectives, talents, commitments and/or interests you will bring to our campus. In other words, how will your presence enrich our community?

2. Please share additional information you would like us to consider in reviewing your application. This is your opportunity to tell us things about yourself that have not been asked elsewhere, if you believe they will help us become acquainted with you in ways different from courses, grades, and tests.

U.W. application portal: http://uwhelp.wisconsin.edu/index.aspx

Blackhawk Technical College: http://www.blackhawk.edu

Week 5: lesson 6- grammar/editing

Monday: proofreading http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/561/01/

*****************read all of the tabs in the proofreading area on the left side of the page

editing and profreading: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/proofread.html---make sure to read through complete

Monday and Tuesday: Read this link: adjective or adverb http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/2

***********Complete exercises linked below for the left hand side of the the page

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/2/8

Read this link: Appositives http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/4

**********Complete this exercise: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/4/11

Read this link: Punctuation http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/16

************Complete this exercise: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/16/14

Wednesday: sentence clarity http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/600/01/

spelling http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/4/

words often confused http://www.davidappleyard.com/english/vocabulary.htm

**Complete ALL exercises under each tab at the left of the page. Also type in the score correct out of the total on the document. When ALLLLLLLLLL exercises are complete, send them as ONE attachment to mrsmurphysrc@gmail.com

Week 6: lesson 6-mooooooreee grammar

Monday: pronouns: Look over handout regarding subject and object pronouns--Complete

Look over second handout "How many is one?" complete pronoun exercise

pronoun usage http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/595/01/

relative pronouns http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/645/01/

lesson 7: technical writing Tuesday, W ednesday, and Thursday- work on pronoun

handouts along with technical writing directions

Friday: vocabulary quiz on vocab 1B

--technical writing--writing directions--get handout and legos from instructor--read directions and start activity with partner

Week 7: lesson 8-Personal Narrative

Discuss writing your personal narrative

We are watching Rabbit Proof Fences in class and writing our own personal narrative

Week 8: lesson 9-literary analysis-- short story

review of literary terms: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/575/01/
what is a literary analysis? and example analysis: http://www.goshen.edu/english/litanalysis.html
can find short stories here : http://www.classicreader.com OR http://www.classicshorts.com

ALSO seven short stories attached at the bottom of this page

Week 9: lesson 10-introduction to research/research process/ gathering information/note taking

search for three research topics that you may want to do your paper on
create thesis statement with handout
make sure to have sources to support your thesis
read an example research paper with works cited and parenthetical notation

Week 10: lesson 11- notetaking/gathering information

Tips for Note taking http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html

create create outline from the MEL-Con link http://whs.d214.org/library/melconwriting.aspx
continue to add sources to noodletools project as needed
Outline needs to be save to word
noodletools project needs to be exported to word, saved to V drive, edited for spacing, and printed out with outline

Week 11: lesson 12--organizing information/Outlining

read sources, articles, webpages to find support for body points of paper
look over how and when to site sources with parenthetical notation in the research paper

Week 12: lesson 13-- works cited page in noodletools/writing introduction and conclusion research paper

write introduction and conclusion--turn in rough draft of introduction and conclusion to Mrs. Murphy
create account and set up workscited page for research paper. Pay attention to parenthetical notation tab within citation

lesson 14--writing body rough draft research paper with parenthetical notation

write the body of the research paper using parenthetical notation in the MLA form Make sure to document within the paper
turn in as much of body done as possible for me to look over this week
keep adding sources to Noodletools as they are used within paper

Week 13: final draft of research paper