Assignment Schedule: March/April

March 2:  Class 11

Journal: Did your family expect that you would attend college? Was this goal encouraged within your schools?  What would people who knew you in your earlier life say if they knew you were in college?

Novel Prep: Discussion of the Holocaust and the novel Night by Elie Weisel

Essay Workshop: Peer critique  & Modes of Description

Homework: Read Novel to page 40 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Revise your essay-- 3rd draft due March 4

March 4: Class 12

Journal: Discuss a time when you were wrong for something you did, said, or thought. How did this situation come about and what was the end result for you?

*Essay 1 drafts 1-2-3 due

The 5-paragraph essay format

Lab: Draft 1 of Essay 2

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 40 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Draft 1 of Essay 2 due March 11

March 9th: Class 13

Journal: Discuss a time when you stood by and did nothing.

Novel Discussion pages 1-40

Writing Workshop: Intros & Conclusions

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 65 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 11th: Class 14

Journal: Discuss an event in your life that has caused a change in you. 

*Essay 2 draft 1 due

Lec: Intros & Conclusions Cont'd/Thesis Statements

Lab: Writing intros & conclusions with thesis statements

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 65 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 16th: Class 15

Journal: If you could do whatever you wanted to right now, what would you do? 

Novel Discussion to page 65

Writing Workshop: Essay 2 Critique

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 97 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Essay 2, draft 2 due next class (March 23^rd)


March 18: No Class

March 23rd: Class 16

Journal: No Journal

*Essay 2, draft 2 due

Practice Placement Exam

March 25th: Class 17

Journal: You're at the gates of heaven and you have to talk your way past the velvet ropes. Go.

Lec: NYT Article

Lab: Blog

Homework: Read Novel to page 112 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 30: Class 18

Journal:
Essay 2 Discussion & model texts

Homework: Read Novel to page 112 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Essay 2, draft 3 revisions due next class (March 30)

April 1: Class 19

Journal: A time you thought you had lost something/someone forever...

Novel Discussion to page 112

Movie viewing: God on Trial

*Essay 2, drafts 1-2-3 + Rubric due today

April 2-11

Spring Break- No Class