Schedule of Task Three

English 100:  Introduction to College Writing

Task Three

Homework for Oct. 18:

Read “Children Left Behind” by Hilary Whitfield (296) and Chapter 24 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.

To your blog, draft a self-evaluation about Task Two. These questions are listed below and can be found on the class blog.

• What is the thesis for your paper?
• List the main points you make in your paper.
• What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?
• What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?
• How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?
• What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?
• What are most pleased with about this paper?

Week Eight

Oct. 18 -- What is summary? How do I summarize an essay?

Introduce Task Three.

Discuss “Children Left Behind” by Hilary Whitfield (296) in connection to Task Three.

Homework for Oct. 20: 

Respond to the class blog, a summary of Whitfield (at least 3-5 sentences).

Read “Where College Fails Us” by Caroline Bird (195). Respond to your blog, a response to the first question outlined in Questions for Reading and Writing.

Oct. 20  -- What is summary? How do I summarize an essay?

Writer’s Workshop:  Workshopping summary and/or quotes.

Homework for Oct. 22: 

Respond to the class blog, a summary to Bird’s essay listed below (at least 3-5 sentences).

Read “Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood” by Leon Botstein (205). To your blog, respond to one of the questions outlined in For You To Analyze (207).

Oct. 22  -- What is summary? How do I summarize an essay?

Writer’s Workshop:  Workshopping summary and/or quotes.           

Homework for Oct. 25:

Read Kozol’s “Savage Inequalities:  Children in America’s Schools” (ix-7).

Respond to your blog, a response to one of the questions that is asked of you in regard to Task Three.

• Why did you decide to come to college?
• What does a college degree mean to you and to American society?
• What is your definition of learning and education?
• Is your definition of learning and education the same as other people’s definitions?
• What is the role of student and teacher?
• Do you ever reflect upon your experiences to high school and college?
• Do you think your experiences in high school and college are similar or different from other people’s experiences?
• Do you think our education system is effective or do you think changes need to be made?
• What do you think about testing, grading and funding in your schools?
• Would you like to explore the problems in our educational system and provide your own opinions and solutions? 

Week Nine

Oct. 25 -- What is analysis? How do I analyze an essay?

Homework for Oct. 27:

To your blog, draft an analysis to one aspect that Kozol examines.

Read “Save Inequalities:  Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol (40-53).

Oct. 27 -- What is analysis? How do I analyze an essay?

Homework for Oct. 29:

Read “School vs. Sanctuary” by Russell Baker (188), “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman (209) and “In Praise of the F Word” by Mary Sherry (215).

To your blog, draft a reflection of Task Three including what your focus is and which essay you are contemplating on using. An example: 

Unlike Barbara Jordan, I have not encountered quite the same circumstances as she, a young African American womyn in 1959. While I have endured sexism in the workforce, not in the academy, I certainly appreciate her hard work and determination. When I was 18, education was not as important to me as it is now. While I was an A/B student, I worried more about what was happening in my social circle than my professors’ critique. Now, I am a M.A. student working toward my master’s in Written Communication. My future may include a PhD program. And like Jordan, I will have to work hard as I do now, perhaps harder. Jordan writes, “I became familiar with the process of thinking. I learned to think things out and reach conclusions and defend what I had said” (213). Because Jordan, an African American womyn, was a minority at Boston University in 1959, she had to work five times harder than the majority—the white man. While I may not encounter such discrimination, I do have to work five times harder to succeed, because if I fail, than I will not be given a second chance.

Oct. 29  -- What is analysis? How do I analyze an essay?

Homework for Nov. 1:

Respond to the class blog, an analysis of one of the three essays you read for Friday.

Read “Save Inequalities:  Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol (57-67).

Week Ten

Nov. 1 - Writer’s Workshop:  Creating a Works Cited page.

Homework for Nov. 3: 

Read Chapters 29 and 30 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

To the class blog, upload a citation to the essay you are including in Task Three. 

Nov. 3 – Workshop:  Bring in all of your materials which may include notes, your texts and any prompts that you have worked with to class. We will spend this time working on our drafts for Task Three.

                       

Homework for Nov. 5:

Prepare rough drafts of Task Three for peer critique.

Nov. 5 - Rough drafts of Task Three due/Peer Review

Review Chapters 9, 10 and 13 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

           

Homework for Nov. 8:

Review Chapters 18, 19 and 25 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

Week Eleven

Nov. 8 – Peer Review

Homework for Nov. 10:

Prepare final drafts of task three for evaluation

Nov. 10 - Task Three due

Homework for Nov. 12

Read “Understanding the Importance of Reading” by Natalie Fitzgerald (286).

To your blog, draft a self-evaluation about Task Three.

• What is the thesis for your paper?
• List the main points you make in your paper.
• What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?
• What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?
• How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?
• What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?
• What are most pleased with about this paper?