Expos 1 homework archives

Week 1

Wednesday, 8-18-10

Activities: Discuss credit, hand out book, introduce parent letters, review on-line syllabus, see on-line examples of Mark and Brady. Homework: Read ABGW ch. 1 and take notes or outline the chapter; write for an audience of your peers a closed-form paragraph of approximately 250-300 words explaining the closed to open continuum which is discussed on p. 19 of the text. Due Friday.

Friday, 8-20-10 Discuss ch. 1; read paragraphs aloud and discuss; hand out guide sheet for parent letter and discuss.

Homework: Read ch. 2 and take notes for Friday. Finalize closed to open paragraph for Monday. Plan your parent letter.

Week 2

Monday, 8-23 Focus on Mark's open form and Brady's closed-form letters. Outline your parent letters and begin writing. HW (due Friday): Read and take notes on ABGW ch. 2. Parent letter rough (typed) due end of Wednesday's class.

Tuesday 8-24 and Wednesday 8-25 -- KSU rep at SES to help you enroll.

Wednesday, 8-25 KSU rep ); hand back closed to open continuum paragraphs and revise if you choose (Highlight changes and turn in rough and final copy Friday.); compare parent outlines; continue writing rough parent letter. Rough letter due end of class.

HW reminder: Parent letter peer edit due Friday; revision of closed to open paragraph, too. Read and take notes on ABGW ch. 3 for Monday.

Friday, 8-27 (create Eid) Turn in final draft of closed to open continuum paragraphs. Peer edit parent letters.

* HW: Read and take notes on ch. 2 and ch. 3. Revise parent letter as per peer recommendations.

Week 3

Monday, 8-30 Discuss ch. 2 and ch. 3; do UR Riddle recommendation assignment (ABGW pp.82-83) in class. Turn in parent letter revisions to me to evaluate.

* HW: Read and take notes on ch. 4.

Wednesday, 9-1 Discuss ch. 4. Review ch. 1-4 ABGW using review handout. Revise parent letter and turn it in to me by the end of class. HW: Study for test 1-4.

Friday, 9-3 Test ch. 1-4 HW: Finalize parent letter.

Monday, 9-6 and Tuesday, 9-7 Vacation

Wednesday, 9-8 Final of parent letter due. Discuss tests. Discuss UR Riddle. Hand out angle of vision pages. Concurrent credit students: Complete KSU enrollment if you haven't already done so.

*HW - For Friday, read and take notes on chapter 5 . Also read A or V handout and be ready to ask questions about the A of V assignment.

Week 4

For Monday, Bring your final version of your parent letter in an addressed envelope. Do not seal the envelope but do address it in advance.

Monday, 9-13 Turn in parent letters. Examine guide sheet and sample descriptions for A of V. Go outside to work on descriptions. Write description 1 for Angle of Vision in class. Due end of block.

Wednesday, 9-15 Connotation and denotation work-coursebook. Revise and turn in both descriptions.

*HW: Read Max's and John's sample A of V analyses here and write first paragraph of your analysis.

Friday, 9-17 Overhead work (showing, tightening, precise diction, fluency such as fragments and run-ons)

*HW - Using this Grading Guide, evaluate either you positive or negative paragraph, and then rewrite it, using the techniques we discussed in class Friday.

Week 5

Monday, 9-20 Second revision of descriptions due. More projector work on individual paragraphs. Turn back positive and negative paragraphs. Compare your improved descriptions with the ones I'm handing back today. Revise again. Turn in revision end of class.

* HW: Revise second version of A ov V

Wednesday, 9-22 . Coursebook. "There is no frigate like a book." Using examples on the web site, discuss text structures for analyzing angles of vision. Work on analyses.

HW: Finish the rough draft of your analysis.

Friday, 9-24 Peer edit analysis and revise.

*HW --

Finish 2nd draft of analysis portion of angle of vision -- turn in your positive and negative paragraphs, your peer edited version (with evaluation sheet) and your revised draft at the beginning of Monday's class.

Week 6

Monday, 9-27 1. Turn in all A of V materials as noted on Friday homework. Read text ch. 6 (Summary and Strong Response) for Wednesday -- fill in the practice test; Introduce KSU data bases and summary writing. Discuss "On Teens and Tattoos" and its summary.

*HW -- Choose an opinion piece to summarize. See the guide sheet for details. See the expos 1 page for other helpful info.

Wednesday, 9-29 -- Chapter 6 practice test due. Discuss ch. 6 practice test.

See summary/response samples. Show me three opinion pieces you are considering. Choose one.

* HW: Summary portion of Summary/Response due Monday, ready for peer editing.

Thursday and Friday, 9-29 and 9-30 No school. PT conferences Thursday eve

Monday, 10-4 Turn in data base worksheet. Discuss Andres Martin's "On Teens and Tatoos" and examine the formula for writing a summary. Return summary/response. Continue revising it.

*HW - finalize angle of vision for portfolio. Complete coursebook work for angle of vision.

Wednesday, 10-6 Final Angle of vision (all parts) due. Turn in first completed folder portfolio. Practice together a summary of an editorial, "Another Mac Attack."

Friday, 10-8 Summary of "Another Mac Attack" due begging of class. Read a few on overhead and revise one together. Show me the editorial you plan to use.

*HW -- Finalize your choice of your opinion article. Underline and label the thesis and the main points. Then paraphrase the thesis and each main point. Summary of your chosen opinion article due Monday by end of class.

Monday, 10-11 Trade editorial with a partner and read each other's editorials. Ask your partner to read your article and your paraphrases to check your understanding of your chosen editorial. Then write your summary and peer edit again. Summary portion of summary/response due in box by beginning of next block. Read the rest of the "Tatoos" strong response (pp. 132-134) and analyze its structure.

*HW: Summary of your article

Wednesday, 10-13 Write together in class the beginning of a rough draft of a strong response to "Another Mac Attack."

HW: Revise your summaries, and outline your strong responses. Write your introduction to the response and write the transition to connect it to your summary. (See the sample outlines on the Expos 100 web page and Jena and Patrick's sample papers.)

Friday, 10-15 Mid-term reminder. Write your strong response. Due Tuesday/Wednesday.

*HW Finish summary/response. Outline mid-term so you are ready to write when you come to class.

Monday, 10-18 No school.

Tuesday, 10-19 Summary and strong response rough due. In-class mid-term.

Wednesday, 10-20 Summary/strong response rough due. In-class mid-term.

*HW: Read and take notes on ch. 9 (Informative and Surprising Essay)

Friday, 10-22

1. Self edit summary/response by filling in the new self-editing handout (7 minutes) that then writing a paragraph explaining your improvement plan for the summary/response paper. (7 minutes) 2. Ask questions. Revise. (12 minutes)

3. Next, peer edit summary/strong response. (20 minutes) Revise again until end of block.

4. Turn in revised paper by end of block.

*HW: Reminder - ch. 9 notes due Monday.

Monday, 10-25 Summary/response teacher-edited draft to be returned to you at beginning of class. Discuss organization modifications (see online outline templates).

Notes 9 due. Discuss reasearch paper and get coursebook materials.

*HW: Choose research paper topic. Write FINAL DRAFT of summary/response.

Wednesday, 10-27 Review citations. Get approval for research paper topic and begin research.

* HW: Do coursebook pp. 102 and 103 all except the group work.

Friday, 10-29 Summary/response final due at beginning of class but use first 15 minutes to put items in folders. 6th block read "When It's all too much" together and compare answers to questions; then do the group work on p. 103 of the course book packet. 1st block- do "group work" on p. 103 of course book packet.

Open time to clarify how to cite the source(s).

* Homework: Create a word document of annotated URLs that pertain to your topic. Come to class Monday wi

Schedule for college comp – from Nov. 1 -- Block 1

Monday, Nov. 1 – Assign Ch. 20 notes – continue to find sources

for research paper – discuss course book materials, particularly annotated bibliography and color-coded note-taking. Annotated bib of 3 sources due.

Wednesday, Nov. 3 -- Ch. 20 notes due

Quiz 20 – open notes; introduce comp 1 wiki for runons etc.; hand out, read and discuss “Brown Recluse Spider”; Work on research paper (informative and surprising essay) –

*HW- Ch. 21 notes; put a run-on or fragment on the sescomp1 wiki. Your username is sescomp1@gmail.com and you password is expos100.

Friday, Nov. 5 -- Ch. 21 notes due (just pages 611-615, 624-631, and 639-642); Group quiz ch. 21 - due end of block. Show me your annotated bibliographies and coursebook page answers if you haven't already.

Block 1 - alternative day evaluation

* HW Redo questions on 102 - 103 of coursebook; continue your annotated bibliography; plan a notetaking system and provide the key.

Monday, Nov. 8 – Show note-taking system and work on “informative and surprising essay” Plan and write surveys and interviews.

*HW-- Interview questions if you haven't already had them approved. Use your notetaking plan with at least one article and show me how your system works.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 – Open for research and writing (Surveys and interview q’s due.)

Read Ch. 22 – (pp. 643-686 -- “Cite and Document Sources”)

-- no notes required but turn in at least three source citations with your revised research paper by end of block to demonstrate understanding of MLA style

Friday, Nov. 12 – Continue improving research paper – finish source citations

Sunday, Nov. 14 Last performance of Wizard of Oz

Monday, Nov. 15 – NO SCHOOL – STAFF IN-SERVICE

Tuesday, Nov. 16 and Wednesday, Nov. 17 – ROUGH RESEARCH PAPER DUE – PEER EDIT IN CLASS; edit sophomore character sketches

Friday, Nov. 19 -- Do this interactive MLA review , take the quiz on page 9 of the review and show me your quiz score on your computer screen. Sign up for edmodo. Then polish source citations. Research paper draft 2 due to teacher.

Monday, Nov. 22 – Assign reading of image analysis and autobiographical narrative online materials. Are all research papers in?

*HW: See below -- 11 and 7

Wednesday, Nov. 24 – Sunday, Nov. 28 THANKSGIVING BREAK

Thanksgiving break homework

*Read and take notes on chapter 11, image analysis

*Read and take notes on chapter 7, autobiographical writing

Monday, Nov. 29 Ch. 11 and ch. 7 notes due (Research papers back to students)

*Introduce image analysis and autobiographical paper – You’ll write the autobiography if your angle of vision is weaker and the image analysis if the summary/response is weaker.

(Assignment: Find images to analyze or choose an autobiographical topic.)

Wednesday, Dec. 1 – Final draft of research paper due (informative and surprising essay)

Revise essays for portfolio

*Show me the images you plan to analyze for the image analysis paper or autobio topic

* Work on image analysis or autobiographical essay

Revise paper 1 for portfolio; Assign ch. 25 notes.

Friday, Dec. 3 – Work on narrative or image analysis.

Narrative writers - show me web and in medias res beginning by end of block

Image analysis writers - show me intro and ad descriptions by end of block

Ch. 25 notes due – pp. 727 – 742 (“Assembling a Portfolio and Writing a Reflective Self-Evaluation”)

Monday, Dec. 6 Open to work on image analysis or autobio essay

Wednesday, Dec. 8 *Rough draft of image analysis or autobiographical essay due

Discuss final in-class essay; Peer edit narrative or image analysis.

Friday, Dec. 10 * Turn in revised image analysis or personal experience narrative; write outline for final in-class essay.

Monday, Dec. 13 & Tuesday, Dec. 14 * FINAL IN-CLASS ESSAY (letter to portfolio reader)

Revise third portfolio piece, assemble portfolios and make any other desired revisions

Wednesday, Dec. 15 Final draft of image analysis or autobio due end of block

Portfolio construction – rewriting and gathering - KSU rep to visit about 2nd semester

Friday, Dec. 17 Portfolio construction -- rewriting and gathering

Monday, Dec. 20 Course evaluation, turn in portfolios

Wednesday, Dec. 22 Noon dismissal. End of semester. Tie up loose ends.

th at least three sources found and URLs copied into a Word document.

Monday, 10-29 Discuss ch. 9; Discuss page 122 of coursebook - a notetaking system for the photocopy age - my method (slugs in margins) and maybe color by subtopic or by question. Begin research.