Week 1

8/21 (S): Intro to class and to one another.

8/22 (L) Block B OR 8/23 (L) Block G:

• Familiarize yourself with English 1 materials on website ("Policy on Plagiarism," "Odyssey Materials," "Grammar Info," "Helpful Tips on Writing," "Handouts")

  • Make sure to read "Policy on Plagiarism"

    • • Please bring to class any questions you have about this policy and/or what plagiarism is.

  • Please read and do the following assignment:

  • For the book you read this summer, we asked you to:

• • • mark your favorite passages

      • track repeated images and ideas

      • circle & look up unfamiliar words and place names

• • Select one (1) of your favorite passages from the book you read this summer

  • Type it out in a Word document

  • In a single detailed, well-organized paragraph, explain what you find so compelling about this particular moment in the text.

• • • Direct our attention to whatever it is that grabs yours.

      • Is it something admirable or moving that a particular character says or does?

      • An arresting image or piece of eloquent phrasing?

      • Some combination of these, or something else altogether?

• • Both the passage you select and the paragraph you write should fit on a single page.

• • • You may single-space your selected passage if you wish, but please double-space the paragraph you write in response.

Fri 8/24 (S): Please do the following:

Bring to class the book that you read over the summer