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RS Composition
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-ACT VOCABULARY (always handwritten for your assignment)
-MLA RESOURCE
-MLA EXAMPLE ESSAY for citation and formatting examples (download the PDF from the website/link)
- SYLLABUS
-Daily: notes, freewrites, activities, essay drafts, peer review, and ACT Vocabulary (20%)
-Three Essays, 20% each
1. Techne
2. Epistemology and Identity, Community, and Purpose
3. Research Project
-Semester Test: Essay Test (10%) and Multiple Choice (10%). Multiple Choice Test includes ACT vocabulary and all readings and notes, class discussion, and the writing process, etc.
-All typed essays will be 12 point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, MLA 9 format, and will include the word count on the last page prior to the works cited page. The works cited page is not included in the word count. (There will be additional requirements for the various essays.). All final essays must be submitted to turnitin.com.
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-Semester schedule for RS Comp, and overview of RS Literature
-RS Goals are to become better thinkers, listeners, and writers, and college preparation
-Reading materials/photocopies
-start assignment together
ASSIGNMENT
1) Read and annotate in your reading packet handed out in class (10pts): "The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth"
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-Discuss
-"The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth"
-Start assignment
ASSIGNMENT
-Read Plato's Apology
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Groups complete Apology questions and then discuss
Plato's Apology: skepticism, wisdom, pursuit of virtue; Plato and "true knowledge"
-Is wisdom a "skill"? What is skill and how do we acquire it?
-discuss various areas of skill: physical, intellectual, artistic, social
ASSIGNMENT
1) One page on two skills you have developed in your life. What were the keys to devoping each of these skills?
2) Read and summarize writing main idea of each paragraph and recording two specific details per paragraph for Moonwalking with Einstein excerpt and the complete one page handwritten freewrite on assigned prompt: What was the most surprising idea presented in the reading?
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-FW Choose one of the skills and one sentence from it, and then FW, 10 minutes)
-Discuss assignment, share ideas in groups
-Annotating: start on "Talent is NOT the Answer" together
ASSIGNMENT
-ANNOTATION! To annotate is to record your thinking as you read. What's important? What's interesting? What questions do you have? Is there vocabulary you aren't familiar with? Other connections?
1) Read and annotate "Talent is NOT the Answer" (reading packet)(10pts). Handwrite one page applying one of the ideas from the article to one of the skills you wrote about for your previous assignment.
2) Define ACT words 1-10 by handwriting definition (copy the one listed) and then creating your own sentence using the word in context ACT VOCABULARY. You may be called on next class to share your sentence with the class. (10pts)
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SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER
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-Questions/comments concerning schedule
-Vocab, 1-10, sentences aloud
-"Talent is NOT the Answer": review annotations; FW: Choose one idea, fact, example that you marked and write about that. (10pts)
ASSIGNMENT
-Read and annotate "The Two Year Window" and make a list of the five most important ideas in the article. Choose one idea from the article and write a page exploring that idea.
-ACT Vocabulary 11-20. (10pts)
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-11-20 ACT vocab
-discuss reading: "The Two Year Window" and two FW's.
-Discussion and further brainstorming: clustering!
ASSIGNMENT
For 1-3, write your three bullets for each article on a separate piece of paper so that they are all on the same page.
1) Read and annotate "Dunning-Kruger Effect," (reading packet)and then summarize in bullet points three key ideas from the article. (10pts)
2) Read and annotate "Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Summarized" (reading packet) and "Multiple Intelligences: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood" (reading packet) (10pts)
3) ACT Vocabulary 21-30. Handwritten. (10pts)
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-Review annotations for "Dunning-Kruger" article and mark one idea per page
-FW: What connections can you make between the ideas presented in the "Dunning-Kruger Effect" and "Multiple Intelligences: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood" (10pts)
-discuss
-brainstorming: list a skill you have developed in each of the following areas: intellectual, emotional, artistic, social, technical, physical)
-Now go through your freewrites, notes, and articles and make a list of the five most interesting ideas you have discovered so far this semester.
Choose one of those ideas and apply the MODS to it. MODs (- Methods of Development)
ASSIGNMENT
1) ACT Vocabulary 31-40. Handwritten. (10pts)
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-MLA RESOURCE
-MLA EXAMPLE ESSAY for citation and formatting examples (download the PDF from the website/link)
-Research Notes Day: quotes, paraphrases, summaries, and page numbers
ASSIGNMENT
ACT Vocabulary 41-50. Handwritten. (10pts)
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Essay Rubric and Drafts Description
ESSAY 1: outline day. Basic Outline Format
Prompt: TBA
ASSIGNMENT
ACT Vocabulary 51-60. Handwritten. (10pts)
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Outline Day 2 and writing draft
--Check structure and relationship of ideas
-*Outline analysis; consider structure before starting to write. What is the overall organization pattern?
-Writing time: the goal is to simply write your essay from beginning to end. Think of this as an organized, focused freewrite.
-start on moodle draft
ASSIGNMENT
ACT Vocabulary 61-70 Handwritten. (10pts)
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-Minimum 1500 words
-Finish Moodle Draft 2
ASSIGNMENT
ACT Vocabulary 71-80. Handwritten. (10pts)
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Print Draft 2 from Moodle
-structure and development check, revision
-note your thesis
-Add further references from our readings
-Hand in draft 2
ASSIGNMENT
ACT Vocabulary 81-100. Handwritten. (20pts)
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Sentence revision on draft 2
Sentence level work
-Examples of sentence level work
Sentence work and revision:
-lead-in. detailed, specific, visual, directly connected to thesis
-thesis: placement, idea, word choice, wordiness, specificity
-sentences: wordiness, diction, sentence combining, punctuation
-Transitions between paragraphs and within paragraphs.
-Transitions Resource
*Make sure to rewrite sentences on the paper copy of your draft. We need to document the changes. -EXPERIMENT!!!!! This is practice!
1) Rewrite most sentences!!!! Wordiness, diction, sentence combining, punctuation; must be rewritten in pen or pencil on your draft!!! Then make the changes in word for next class.
2) Experiment with punctuation
3) Make sure you bring your first draft 4 back with you next class! We will need it for comparison!!!!!
*Get rid of "you/I/we", "things," "stuff", "it was," "it is," and other extraneous words or constructions. General proofreading. Punctuation Basics
ASSIGNMENT
Make sentence changes as per notes on Draft 2, which then becomes Draft 3 and is due next class for peer review.
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After receiving the reviews of your essay, annotate draft 3 hardcopy with the recommendations, suggestions, and ideas from your group members. It's nice to have everything in one place. Then work on revising. Remember that your groups' observations and recommendations are things to consider, but you, as the writer, make the final decision of how to revise.
ASSIGNMENT
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-PEER REVIEW
-ESSAY RUBRIC
Peer review continued
After receiving the reviews of your essay, annotate draft 3 hardcopy with the recommendations, suggestions, and ideas from your group members. It's nice to have everything in one place. Then work on revising. Remember that your groups' observations and recommendations are things to consider, but you, as the writer, make the final decision of how to revise.
-After that, do sentence revision again.
Type changes in class for next class. Due today.
ASSIGNMENT
Draft 4 with feedback incorporated, etc., and sentence revision done again, due next class for peer editing.
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Peer Editing
ASSIGNMENT
-Final essay and draft materials due next class. 20% of total grade. You must turn in your handwritten outline, draft 2 that was printed from Moodle and that has your sentence revision and notes on it, as well as draft 3 used for peer review with notes, draft 4 with your changes and handwritten sentence revision, and Final Draft 5.
1) Final Essay (DRAFT 5), drafts 1-4, Rubric and Self-evaluation. See Essay Rubric and Drafts Description . Self-evaluation must be articulate, analytical, and specific. Must use MLA format for final essay. Must have word count at the end of your essay and at the end of your self-evaluation. The word count does not include works cited page. ESSAY RUBRIC.
2) Make sure that you also turn in a copy of your final essay to Turnitin.com.
3) Put materials in the following order and do everything listed below:
2) Self-evaluation Essay based on ESSAY RUBRIC
3) On Draft 5, the final draft, mark the below with a pen
a. underline your thesis
b. underline your best transitional sentence
c. underline your most detailed sentence
d. Mark in the margin the best example/illustration that you used
e. Number with a pen or pencil your references on your Works Cited page. Then, write those numbers where that reference was used in the main body of your essay.
6) make sure that essay has been submitted to turnitin.com.
Final Essay (DRAFT 4), and must include your outline, draft 2 with sentence revision on it, draft 3, and final draft, and self-evaluation
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Essay 1 Due:
-self-evaluation and then drafts from newest to oldest. Be sure to mark Draft 5 as required.
-must turn in outline, draft 2 with handwritten sentence revision, draft 3 with peer review notes, draft 4 with changes made and handwritten sentence revision, and Final Draft 5.
ESSAY 2: persuasive
-Work on assignment
ASSIGMENT
1) Read and annotate "Say Goodbye to the Information Age," (reading packet) Write one page on the following:
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-Activity on and discussion of "Say Goodbye to the Information Age"
-Work on reading assignment
ASSIGNMENT
1) Read and write a one sentence summary of each paragraph and also include two specific details from each paragraph. Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? and write one page on the following:
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Class discussion and analysis of readings, and FWs
-Limits of Reason Vocab and "The Limits of Reason" (both in reading packet)
ASSIGNMENT
1) Complete reading terms (Limits of reason vocab handout) (reading packet) (25pts) for "The Limits of Reason" (reading packet) article before reading the article. Then, as you read the article, underline the sentence where the vocab word appears, and check off each term as you come to it. Note the context of the word. (25pts)
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Work on Limits of Reason article
-Get group numbers, divide up by page on essay and choose one idea from your page to write about: FW on "The Limits of Reason" (10pts)
-Then go to group and decide on a question to research and answer (five bullets for your response) and then present to the class
-Questions about any other terms/concepts from "The Limits of Reason"
Ethos, Pathos, Logos review
ASSIGNMENT
Read and annotate "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (reading packet) by Martin Luther King, Jr. Note 2 examples each of ethos, pathos, logos that we didn't note together in class, and then choose the passage/paragraph in the essay that you thought was the most persuasive.
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Discussion and analysis
Ethos, Pathos, Logos review
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (reading packet)
-Apply identity, community, and purpose to the reading
ASSIGNMENT
-One page handwritten about yourself on each of the following (that's 3 pages total):
Identity, Community, and Purpose
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-ICP
-Freewrites and brainstorming
-quotes, paraphrase, notes, etc.
ASSIGNMENT
-categorization of ideas and references
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Essay Rubric and Drafts Description
Essay 2 Basic Outline Format
Prompt: TBA
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Draft 2 on Moodle
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Draft 2 on Moodle
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Sentence Revision
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PEER REVIEW
-ESSAY RUBRIC
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PEER REVIEW
-ESSAY RUBRIC
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Peer Editing
ASSIGNMENT
Essay 2 due next class:
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Essay 2 due
-Library and Peer Reviewed articles
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-Library research
ASSIGNMENT
Four peer reviewed articles. Write a three sentence summary of each article and apply CARS to each article. One sentence for each letter of CARS. The CARS page is in your reading packet. That's seven sentences total per reference (40 pts). CARS references evaluation: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support
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-peer reviewed articles research, paraphrase and quoting notes, HANDWRITTEN and turned in
-CARS references evaluation: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support
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Essay 3
-Essay Writing Process Grading and Drafts Description
-research notes and brainstorming
-possible main ideas
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-handwritten outline
-Basic Outline Format
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(35) Moodle draft 2
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Finish Moodle draft 2
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Sentence Revision of draft 2 after printing from Moodle and thesis, development, organization
ASSIGNMENT
-revise draft 2 and bring draft 3 next class for peer review
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peer review
PEER REVIEW (10 pts)
-ESSAY RUBRIC
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peer review
PEER REVIEW (10 pts)
-ESSAY RUBRIC
ASSIGNMENT
-revise in response to feedback and then do sentence revision again. Make changes and that's Draft 4 for peer review next class.
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(40) peer editing
ASSIGNMENT
Essay 3 due next class
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-work on semester test essay reading
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(42) semester test prep
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Semester Test
3.5% Rule
-reading 2: read and annotate "What’s the Secret to Happiness? These Researchers Have a Theory." Then make a list of the five most important ideas in the article. Choose one idea from the article and write a page exploring that idea.
-return essays/conferences and revise
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