Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Eng 120 daily schedule

Course Schedule—subject to amending depending on the class’ progress
Week 1
Day 1
1. Introductions
2. Day 1 postings 1 and 2
3. Discuss chapbooks
4. Pretest and Exercise Central activities (at least two)

Day 2
1. Day 2 postings 1 and 2
2. Review pre-tests and do Exercise Central activities (at least two)

Week 2
Day 1
1. Day 3 postings 1 and 2.
2. Discuss argument writing and research—performing it and integrating it
3. Better vocabulary and more sophisticated writing
4. Commas, colons, and semicolons; Exercise Central activities (at least two)


Day 2
1. Day 4 postings 1 and 2.
2. Conferences (chapbooks)
3. hyphens, dashes, parentheses, brackets; Exercise Central activities (at least two)

Week 3
Day 1
1. Day 5 postings 1 and 2
2. Exercise Central activities (at least two)
3. Read samples of masterful writing; writing literary analyses

Day 2
1. Day 6 postings 1 and 2
2. Exercise Central activities (at least two)
3. Editing practice

Week 4
Day 1
1. Day 7 postings 1 and 2
2. Exercise Central activities (at least two)
3. Group work
4. Editing Practice

Day 2
1. Day 8 postings 1 and 2
2. Exercise Central activities (at least two)

Week 5
Day 1
1. Take post-tests
2. Day 9 postings 1 and 2
3. Discuss chapbooks; each student shares experiences
4. Exercise Central activities (at least two)

Day 2
1. Chapbooks due
2. No blog postings or Exercise Central activities required

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