Course Essentials
ESL 75 DAYAMUDRA DENNEHY
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In ESL 75 we will focus on academic writing, editing, and proofreading skills and strategies, with a number of individual and collaborative assignments to support your mastery.
As a fully online class, we will practice writing clear, coherent paragraphs every week.
There will also be vocabulary and grammar activities and quizzes to support your mastery of the English language and you will keep a Learning Reflection Journal.
There is no textbook for this course. All materials will be accessed on-line. At the end of the 6-week course, you will design a digital portfolio as a final project to demonstrate mastery of everything you have learned.
COURSE GOALS
At the completion of this course students will:
Compose a variety of basic and complex sentences with a range of grammatical structures following standard academic writing conventions at an intermediate ESL level.
Apply editing/proofreading skills and strategies to locate and correct errors in intermediate ESL for pre-college writing
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
There are no required books for this course. All materials will be provided in Canvas.
WORK & COMMUNICATION
CLAD is for you!
What is CLAD?
CLAD is The Center for Language and Academic Development
Have questions about grammar, writing, reading, pronunciation, or just want more practice time?
Need help with an ESL assignment, like an essay or presentation?
CLAD has highly trained one-on-one tutoring and professional ESL workshops to help you succeed in your ESL class.
The ESL Department suggests one hour each week of independent learning (tutoring or workshops) at the CLAD in MUB 149 or online.
You will learn faster and be more successful in this class, but it is NOT required. CLAD is for you!
3 CLAD options:
Tutoring: Meet in person or online with a tutor individually for 30 minutes. Bring some of your own writing, a presentation or reading, vocabulary, and grammar-related topics.
Workshops: Attend a 50-minute in-person or online workshop on a topic where you need some extra help.
Online grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing activities: Self-paced activities designed to hone your skills in all areas.
Enroll in CLAD!
You can enroll in CLAD in Canvas to access all CLAD services.
REQUIRED HARDWARE
Computer/laptop or smartphone
Ideally, you should have access to a laptop or desktop computer to complete this course. However, I have taken care to design a course that can also be completed from a smartphone. If you intend to complete this course on a phone, please let me know and inform me if there are any problems that arise. Your feedback will help me improve our learning environment to support more students.
Recording Equipment
You will record voice or video comments in this course on various platforms. To do this, you will need either a microphone or webcam connected to your computer or you may record using a smartphone.
REQUIRED SOFTWARE
You will use Canvas, which is accessed through your MyCCSF account for this course. You won't need to create and account or download anything unless you are using a phone as your course access method.
Canvas Student App (recommended for all, required for those who use a phone)
I strongly recommend that you download the free Canvas Student App before course starts you can stay more connected with our course. When prompted to find your school, enter CCSF and then select our ESL 75 course from your Dashboard.
Other Mobile Apps (recommended for all, required for those who use a phone)
Throughout the course I will introduce other tools to support your learning, such as Flipgrid, Padlet, JamBoard, Google Slides, and Adobe Spark Pages. You will be able to access these apps directly from our Canvas course. I'll tell you more before we use them and I will provide plenty of support so that you will be successful using these tools.
IMPORTANT DATES
Monday August 28, 2023: The first day of our online class
Monday September 4: Labor Day
Tuesday October 9th: Indigenous Peoples' Day
Friday November 10th: Veterans' Day
Thursday November 23rd to Sunday November 26th: Thanskgiving Holiday
Tuesday December 19: Last Day of our class. ESL 75 locks at 11:30pm.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
