This schedule is tentative and subject to change in order to meet the needs of the class.
Week 1
Writing Sample
Introduction
Ice-breaker
Week 2
Your Favorite Childhood Toy
Homework: List of childhood toys
Pre-writing - clustering, brainstorming, lisitng, freewriting
Homework: Read p.21 - 33; Write a thesis statement for Favorite Toy essay
Week 3
How to write a thesis statement
Review thesis statements written for homework
Homework: Read online essay "Our Barbies, Ourselves" and answer questions.
Revision: Peer review Favorite Toy essay
Homework: Final Draft of Favorite Toy Essay
Week 4
Final draft of Favorite Toy essay posted to WebCT
Defining Cool
What we think is Cool
Homework: Read online essays "Concept of Cool" and "The Coolhunt" and answer response questions.
Discussion of essays read for homework
Assignment #2 Your Definition of Cool handed out and posted on WebCT.
Week 5
Types of sentences
Avoiding fragments
Using the comma correctly
Avoiding run-on sentences and comma splices
Homework: read online essay "The Cool Hunt" and answer questions
Week 6
Discuss results of individual coolhunts
In-class team magazine project
"Horizons" Presentation
Homework: Thesis statement for Gender Role posted to WebCT
Week 7
Homework: Homework: Chapter 26 Practice #1, #4, #5
Discuss giving an informed opinion
Homework:
Week 8
Look at current issues in Horizons
Choose an issue in Horizons to respond to
Write Editorials and email to Horizons during class.
Homework: Read online essays "Women's Magazines" and "Sex, Violence, and Advertising" and answer questions.
Wednesday, October 17 Midterm Grades Due
Discuss Society's definition of masculine and feminine
Homework: Read essay online "Pondering Manhood's Price" and "Starve and Binge" and answer reponse questions
Week 9
Continue Discussion of Gender Roles - How gender roles cause self-inflicted wounds
Discuss Manhood's Price" and "Starve and Binge"
Week 10
Look at current issues in Horizons
Choose an issue in Horizons to respond to
Write Editorials and email to Horizons during class.
Homework: Chapter 27 Exercises #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and thesis statement/intro paragraph for gender role essay posted to WebCT.
Review Homework
Homework: Rough Draft of Gender Role Essay posted to WebCT
Week 11
Homework: Online Peer review of Gender Role Essay
Homework: Final Draft of Gender Role Essay
Week 12
Essay #3 Gender Roles Due
Look at current issues in Horizons
Choose an issue in Horizons to respond to
Write Editorials and email to Horizons during class.
Discuss Film's role in portraying history, scoiety and culture
Homework: Read Essays "Why We Crave Horror Movies" and "Film: Movies and Modern America" and answer response questions. List your top ten films
Week 13
Disucss Homework essays.
Assign Essay on American Film
No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Week 14
Continue discussion of American films
Discuss Essay #3 What Film Syas About History, Society, or Culture?
Homework: Practice #9 Chapter 12
Read essay "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies" and answer 5 reading questions.
Thesis statement for essay #3 posted to WebCT
Week 15
Discuss final portfolio guidelines
In-class group assignment The Next Blockbuster
Homework: Rough draft of Film Essay posted to WebCT
Homework: Online Peer review of Film Essay
Week 16
Final Draft of Film Essay posted to WebCT
Portfolio Conferences
Final Exam
2:00 class
3:30 class
5:00 class