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December 13, 2013 Final Papers Due. In Class Work: TBD December 11, 2013 TBD December 9, 2013 5 page Rough Draft Due December 6, 2013 Bring 2-3 pages HARD COPY to class to be Peer Reviewed. December 4, 2013 Annotated Bib DUE Thesis and Drafting Process MLA Overview December 2, 2013 Bring Completed Works Cited Electronically Annotated Workshop November 25th, 2013

Choose a Research Question Answer That Question to Form a Hypothesis Find: Two Books, One Journal, One Magazine, and One Newspaper. Put them Into a Works Cited Page. November 22, 2013 No Class. Cause and Effect Papers to be uploaded before your class time.

November 20 2013 Chapter 12-Argument Explain 1020 Similarities "Reply to the US Government" by Chief Seattle

November 18, 2013 Read "Cancer's Oddest Effect" by Dan Barry "Analyzing the Marriage Gap" by Hal R. Varian November 15, 2013 Cause and Effect Paper Assignment Lab Day [|MLA Citation Information]
 * Pre Writing Exercise: Think of an event in your life that has caused you to see the world differently. Write about it. You have ten minutes.**

November 13, 2013 Finish Chapter 11 Notes Read: Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "The Way to Reduce Black Poverty in America" and Henry L. Roediger III's "Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?" [] November 11, 2013 Complete MLA Worksheets Chapter 11 Notes November 8, 2013

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 * Jack Horner, Thinking Outside the Box: The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dyslexia


 * Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country

November 6, 2013

Chapter 10 Notes

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

November 4, 2013

No Class BUT YOUR PAPERS ARE DUE TO THE WIKI

November 1, 2013 Read "But What Do You Mean?" by Deborah Tannen and "Her Kind" For Writing #1 (370) In Class Free Write

October 30, 2013 Read "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson (336) and "People Like Us" by David Brooks (352)

October 28, 2013

Read "Food for the Soul" by Nicolas D. Kristof (303) and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" (Translate to Modern English) Now that we all have our essay topics and thesis statements, we are going to put together a Venn diagram.

October 25, 2013 Lab Day. Compare/Contrast October 23, 2013 "The Meaning of Life" by Cohen "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" by Catton

October 21, 2013 "The Way I read a Letter's --this-- " by Dickinson (Exercise on the dash) Chapter 8 Notes 285 #2

October 18, 2013 "How to Pull an All-Nighter" by Borgenicht "I Will Survive...Or at Least Be Delayed" by Barry

October 16, 2013 Explaining a process visually p. 231 Student example In-Class Process Analysis

October 14, 2013 Read "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" by Ulrich and "Ritual Acts" by Rich Start Chapter 7 notes

October 11, 2013 "Piling on the Cookies" by David Barboza "Happy Meals and Old Spice Guy" by Joanna Weiss Discussion about Marketing ploys: Let's develop a list of examples. October 9, 2013 Chapter 6 Notes *What is a For Instance? *Why do we cite examples? "All Seven Deadly Sins at a Church Bake sale" *What is your point?p. 177 State your point and provide sufficient examples. *Your examples must be REPRESENTATIVE. We are going to read the Student Example on p 183 and go through some follow up questions as a class.

October 7, 2013 "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" by Hurston

October 4th, 2013 NO CLASS October 2nd, 2013

“More Room” Judith Ortiz Cofer “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston


 * a waiting room
 * a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket
 * a cell phone
 * a treasured belonging
 * a laptop computer
 * a favorite restaurant
 * your dream house
 * your ideal roommate
 * a closet
 * your memory of a place that you visited as a child
 * a locker
 * an accident scene
 * a city bus or subway train
 * an unusual room
 * a child's secret hiding place
 * a bowl of fruit
 * an item left too long in your refrigerator
 * backstage during a play or a concert
 * a vase of flowers
 * a rest room in a service station
 * a street that leads to your home or school
 * your favorite food
 * the inside of a spaceship
 * the scene at a concert or athletic event
 * an art exhibit
 * an ideal apartment
 * your old neighborhood
 * a small town cemetery
 * a pizza
 * a pet
 * a photograph
 * a hospital emergency room
 * a particular friend or family member
 * a painting
 * a storefront window
 * an inspiring view
 * a work table
 * a character from a book, movie, or television program
 * a refrigerator or washing machine
 * a Halloween costume

September 30, 2013 __//** Free Write: Page 145, For Writing #1: **//__** Write several paragraphs describing your childhood home. Try to capture the dominant sense--of stability, bewilderment, or some other feeling-- that living there gave to your childhood (or a part of it). ** Chapter 5 continued

“Little House in the War Zone” by Zainab Salbi

“Perfection in the Horseshoe Pit” by John Branch

September 27, 2013

“Longing to Belong” by Saira Shah
 * //__Final Draft of Narrative on Wiki by Thursday__//**

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September 25, 2013

Start Chapter 5 “Render Unto Larry’s” by Phil Holland Picture and Description [|Picture 1] [|Picture 2]

September 23, 2013 Peer Review "Strangers" by Toni Morrison September 20, 2013 Workshop on Turning Point Doc Picture and Explanation [|Picture 1] [|Picture 2] [|Picture 3] [|Picture 4] September 18, 2013 "The Sanctuary of School" by Lynda Barry RC and SS (88) [|Page 65 Excerpt from The Autobiography of BF=Success Story] September 16, 2013 Chapter 4 Notes on Narrative Discuss BF Success Story="Turning Point" Composing a Narrative Notes Template on p. 69 Transitions, Verb Tenses, Plot, **//Dialogue(75)//** License Plate and other pictures [|Jedi] [|Corvette] September 13, 2013 Read “Dog” by Richard Russo p. 113-118 RC, SS Quiz September 11, 2013 Agree, Disagree, Both, and Who Cares? In class prompt on your research. September 9, 2013
 * //__Rough Draft to be uploaded before class begins__//**

Chapter 3 worksheet Sample topics include: PED use, Global Warming, Oil Spills and other related topics. Develop a question, i.e.: Should athletes be allowed to use steroids?, Should their be stricter laws on emissions?, Should oil companies be forced to perform maintenence every two weeks? September 6, 2013 //**1. Rough Draft Must be Uploaded before Class begins!**// //**2. Chapter One Notes and Reading exercise on p. 7**// //**3. Reading Closely Q's 1-3 and SS Q's 1-4.**// //**4. Book Cover on p. 6**// //**5. [|Other Cover]**// //**6. [|Cover Three]**//

September 4, 2013 1. Make sure everyone has uploaded their one page draft to the wiki or has a hard copy. 2. Notes on Literacy Narratives+ Chapter 2 notes 3. Literacy Narrative Organizational Exercise 4. One page Rough Draft Peer Editing Session

August 30, 2013 The Dead White Guy-Benjamin Franklin