A Sample Calendar for English 110

Here's a sample calendar. Some of it is a bit cryptic but it'll give you a general idea of the pacing of the course. At first glance, you'll see that this course is sort of organized around teaching "big stuff first" (structure, order) and little stuff last (style, punctuation, etc.), though that's not entirely true. Actually, I try to teach both at the same time--because writing is neither all big stuff or all small stuff and the small stuff always affects the big stuff and vice versa. Of course, this system of doing things at the same time requires some front-loading. I end up giving a lot of information early--and that's sometimes hard on students who want to master everything all at once, who believe in perfection in five weeks, who see learning as linear and incremental (instead of circular, repetitive and often indirect). (I figure once students understand that I'm not out to bury them and that we'll come back to things over and over again, things get easier. Some of them even relax.)

Also keep in mind that any calendar is just a calendar and doesn't really explain what we do in class. (For instance, we spend a fair amount of time in class reading/sharing what we have written and we work with a lot of in-class materials.)

                      CALENDAR--ENGLISH 110
                          Spring, 19--

Week 1.

W  January 22: Introduction, course requirements

F  January 24: Warm-up #1 due.  Initial problems.  
     Introduction to academic thinking.
     Truths, laws, rules
     Microwave ovens


Week 2.

M  January 27: Warm-up #2 due.
     Introduction: thesis statements
     Initial Problems
     list-making.

W  January 29: old bananas
     Academic moves
     Introductions One-Page #1 due

F  January 31: One-Page #2 due.
     Highlighting, other academic moves
     Study Guide for first Small Exam

Week 3.

M February 3: One-page #3 due.
     Notebook assignment (extra credit)
     Harry's Bar and Grill

W February 5: One-page #4 due. 
Paraphrasing

F  February 7: Small Exam #1: worth 50 pts.
     

Week 4.  

M February 10: One-page #5 due.  Study Guide, 2nd small exam.
     Documentation

W  February 12: One-page #6 due.  
     End-notes, ellipses, etc.

F  February 14:  One-page #7 due.  Introduction to simple transitions


Week 5.  

M February 17: Washington's Holiday--No classes

W February 19: One-page #8 due.  

F February 21: Notebook extra credit due.  
     Using quotations, reference lists.  (Parentheses, semicolons, italics,
underlining,
     etc.; the words "for example")
     One-page #9 due.


Week 6.  

M February 24: Second small exam. (50 pts) 

W February 26: One-page #10 due.  Style: be-verbs, passives

F  February 28: Style: nominalizations, abstractions


Week 7.

M March 3: Optional one-page (Nominalizations)

W March 5: modifiers, prepositional phrases 

F March 7: 4-page paper #1 due


Week 8.

M March 10:

W  March 12:
     midsemester class evaluations

F  March 14: 4-page paper #2 due.  

 
Spring Vacation March 15-March 30.


Week 9.

M  March 31: commas

W  April 2: colons, semicolons

F  April 4:  4-page paper #3 due. 
      Punctuation: dashes, parentheses, brackets, ellipses, etc.

Week 10.

M April 7: One-page paper #11 due.    Parallel constructions

W April 9:  One-page #12 due.  Noun phrases, restatements, repetitions.

F  April 11: One-page paper #13 due. Verb phrases


Week 11.


M April 14: One-page paper #14 due.  Absolutes

W  April 16: Extra credit assignment due.

F  April 18: One-page paper #15 due.

Week 12.


M April 21: 
Preregistration this week.
W April 23:  

F  April 25: Four-page #4 due.  

Week 13.

M  April 28: 
critiques

W  April 30: Practice criticizing the way(s) people write

F  May 2: Four-page #5 due.(Note: this paper is worth 200 points and you
can't  
rewrite it if you get a bad score on it.)

Week 14.


M May 5: 

W  May 7: In-class writing; discussion of next paper.  Class evaluations.  

F  May 9: 4-page #6 due. (Note: this paper is worth 200 points and you
can't 
rewrite it if you get a bad score on it.)

Week 15.

M May 12:  Last day of class
     Grade tallies, score checks, final exhortations, rocks.













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