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Week Date Activities/Lecture Readings Due Assignments Due
Mon 10-20 Assignment for Essay 3 Essay 2
9
Wed 10-22 Analysis & Discussion from An American Childhood NR 132-37 Analysis 5
Fri 10-24 Analysis & Discussion “My Father: Leslie Stephen” NR 137-41
Classic Prose
Imitation*
Mon 10-27 Analysis & Discussion “Yeager” NR 148-57 Analysis 6
10
Wed 10-29 Analysis & Discussion “George Washington” NR 142-44
Poor Richard’s
Almanack*
Fri 10-31 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 3
Mon 11-3 Concision “Why We Crave Horror Movies” (on-line) Analysis 7
11
Wed 11-5
Shape
• “The Shape of Sentences”
• “Sentence Fragments & Run-ons” SFW
chps. 9 & 31
“The Pyramids”
Fri 11-7 Analysis & Discussion “Abraham Lincoln” NR 145-48 Return Peer Critiques
12
13
14
Mon 11-10 Assignment for Essay 4 Essay 3
Wed 11-12 Analysis & Discussion “Consider the Lobster” NR 75-87 Analysis 8
Fri 11-14 Analysis & Discussion “The Beatles Now” NR 1115-20 Analysis 9
Mon 11-17 Analysis & Discussion “The Sound of Music” NR 1108-14 “To Write Well”
Wed 11-19 Analysis & Discussion “Java Man” NR 329-34 Analysis 10
Fri 11-21 Peer Critique Workshop Draft of Essay 4
Mon 11-24
Analysis & Discussion
“‘This Is the End of the World’: The Black
Death” NR 779-91
“Of Youth and Age”
Wed 11-26 Elegance “I Have a Dream” NR 907-10 Analysis 11
Fri 11-28
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
15
Mon 12-1
Wed 12-3
Quotations
Revision Workshop
• “Using Quotations Effectively”
• “Quotation Marks and Ellipses” SFW
chps. 25 & 40
Creative Imitations
Portfolio
Rhetorical Analyses
Portfolio
Fri 12-5 Essay 4
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