Schedule

Timeline for Class Reading 90

Tuesday, June 26   Assigned Reading... First 45 pages in Monster and Pages 76-78 in Reading and All that Jazz
                             Turn in assigned exercises...Monster, by Walter Dean Myers:
                              Interviews with the Author... see handout

Tuesday, July 03 Turn in assignments...

Tuesday, July 10 Class will be held outside, weather permitting.

Tuesday, July 17 Final Class...

Timeline for Class Writing 90

Thursday, June 28      Our in-class writing will be examined one-on-one with individual students. (issue topics)
                                  Any who did not participate in this exercise will be given an opportunity to do so.
                                  During the first portion of class, students will read pages 55-72 on
                                                                     Rules for Clear Sentences:
                                         Most sentences have a subject, verb, and object. All have a verb.
                                         You can write sentences that flow if you follow four specific rules.
                                    1. Use strong action verbs and avoid there is, it is, and the passive voice.
                                     2. Communicate your ideas in as few words as possible.
                                     3. Alternate long and short sentences.
                                     4. Write complete sentences that adhere to the rules for grammar and spelling.

                                   After completing the reading. Please write one or more of the following compositions.
                                    (two to three pages, double spaced) Focus on creating clear, concise, and direct sentences.
                                    see page 74 in your text.

Thursday, July 5 We will spend this day in the Computer Resource Center doing a specific writing assignment.

Thursday, July 12 Library

Thursday, July 19 Collect Homework and Papers, Quiz, Exercise, Final Exam

Timeline for Class Research B

June 28, Thursday         Collect assignment from last week. You must turn in a completed first draft of your
                                     autobiography. Then we will go to the library to research the person whose biography
                                     you will write.

June 29, Friday Mr. Flanagan may miss part of this combined class, but Emily will be here...

July 5, Thursday You will have chosen the person you will write about, and we will do research
in the Computer Resource Center.

July 6, Friday

July 12, Thursday Class will be held outside during the second hour, weather permitting.

July 13, Friday Computer Resource Center

July 19, Thursday Last Day of Class, Visit the Multicultural Center
July 19 is the Last Class... Must Attend last class to receive credit, unless prior arrangements are made.

June 29, July 5, July 12, and July 19... Optional Individual Tutoring is available between 3pm and 3:30 pm in ST101...,

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The information and activities below this line are from 2006... We may or may not do all of these this year, but the resources remain.... regards, Tim

Subjects, Verbs, and Prepositions
verbals and gerunds.
Writing an Essay: Rhetoric

Study Skills Effective Study Techniques
Personal Study Skills Survey: Interactive Learning Styles Test -
We can begin to write by using various techniques including brainstorming,
clustering, meditation, free-writing, cubing, listing, creating analogies, answering questions,
or the journalistic method.
See Page 26 in Eleven Essentials.
The active voice is preferred to the passive voice. We can communicate best with as
few words as necessary in complete sentences. (SVO vs OVS) Effective grammar and
corrected spelling are essential.
Study guides and strategies: http://www.studygs.net/

Sentences
Sentence Structure
Sentence Clarity and Combining
Sentence Structure and Patterns
Sentence Patterns
Grammar
Prepositions
grammatically correct
Propaganda Paper
Final Paper   Three to five pages long. Your name, Writing & Reading 80,
and the date will be at the top right side of the page. The first page will not
be numbered, but other pages will have your last name, a comma, and a page
number at the top right. The pages should be in 10 or 12 point type and double-spaced.

In this paper you will be expected to clearly state a thesis on an appropriate topic.
You will then present evidence to support your thesis, show how the evidence
supports your main idea, and illustrate why opposing views are contradicted by the
evidence. You will be expected to write at a college level. After your first draft, you
will be expected to Fine-Tune Your Essay. Your submitted paper should be clear,
coherent, and grammatically correct. It would be good to begin Planning and starting
to write this assignment this week.   Here are some Practical Writing Tips
and suggested readings: Rhetoric...What is it? Rhetoric

Look up these seven words in the dictionary and or thesaurus
Use each word in a sentence..
DUPLICITY
DURESS
EBULLIENT
ECLECTIC
ECSTATIC
EFFERVESCENT
EFFRONTERY

Essays
Planning and starting to write
Basic Guide to Essay Writing
Choosing a Topic, Guide to Library Research
Topic Sentences
Paragraph (basic structure)
Argumentative Topics
Paragraphs and Transitions
Fine-Tune Your Essay

Punctuation

Guide to Apostrophes	Apostrophes...	Apostrophes	Apostrophe Quiz
Apostrophe Catastrophe	The Apostrophe and possessives	The Apostrophe	Quiz #2 Apostrophe Quiz 3

Commas Play game

Three comma rules! All commas rules

Quiz Quiz 2 quiz 3

Commas

Conquering the Comma

Capitalization Rules	Capitalization Guidelines		Capital Letter - Quiz
Capital Letters Capitalization Quiz English: Capital Letters When and where to use caps

Colons and Semi-colons

Colons and semicolons

colons

semicolons colon

Period PowerPoint

Punctuation

Proofreading

          Proofreading and rewriting your work:
          Have you accomplished your purpose?
          Is the writing appropriate for your audience?
          Who can read your work to give you feedback for rewriting it?
          Will a tutor help?
          Is the essay organized appropriately?
          Is your tone suitable for the subject, purpose, and audience?

        Tone refers to the emotional quality of a piece of writing. It reveals an
         author's attitude towards his or her writing and audience.
         If you write an angry letter to a company when you are unhappy, you may
         be less likely to get the result you desire. You should modify your tone
         from anger...to a more respectful attitude. Expressing your frustration
         in anger or sarcasm may do more harm than good. Appropriate tone
         matters.

          When there is a contrast between what people say and what they mean,
          this is called Irony.

IRONY is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
Three kinds of irony:

         Satire is a type of writing which uses ridicule to create awareness of
         flaws. Satire relies on exaggeration and distortion and may have a
         humorous effect. According to
       Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its
               subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means
               of provoking or preventing change.

Videos from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Web definitions for satire

Propaganda, what is it?

Propaganda Paper

Rhetoric Rhetoric Outline for communicating ideas

Organization

Transitions

Voice and Mood, write

Review Prepositions, Sentence Structure, Sentence Patterns, and Articles
Library Locator: Portland, Oregon

Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives
             Gerunds vs. Infinitives Quiz 1

Final Paper