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On English and Writing: Leon Lanzbom |
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M 8:00-9:20 R402 Disclaimer: You may find the language, or the sexual or violent content of some of the material submitted or assigned in this class offensive. I generally do not censor class reading material. Please see me if you feel offended. I will offer alternatives for any assignment. ASSIGNMENT REVIEW GRADING OF ASSIGNMENTS __________________________________ A 90—100% Credit: Grade of A, B, or C Daily Menu Introduction to class, first-day writing; paper format Tuesday 6.12 Wednesday 6.13 Langan: capitals p. 490-96 Essay #1 due on my desk in the by lab’s end. Thursday 6.14 Langan: Chapter 24 fragments 416-429 Assign Essay #2 Week 2 Monday 6.18 Come into class having read and reviewed the following:
Lab : Work on essay 2: “Cause and Effect.” Write about an incident, an accident, a break-up, a book, a movie, that had a powerful effect on you. Tuesday 6.19 Come into class having read and reviewed the following: Langan: chapter 4: 76-100 Langan: Read and do exercises, chapter 26: 444-52 (Argumentation p. 319-25) (avoiding clichés p. 549) Wednesday 6.20 Come into class having read and reviewed the following: Continue and catch up from Tuesday Chapter 5: Parallelism Consistent Point of View Use Specific Words Use Active Verbs Use concise words Vary Your sentences. Thursday 6.21 Essay #2 due on my desk at beginning of class Come into class having read and reviewed the following: Continue chapter 5: 115-134 Chapter 27: 453-62 Come into class having reviewed the following: parallel format p. 123 complex sentences p. 115-116; grammar website compound sentences. p. 113-114; grammar website simple sentences: grammar website avoiding fragments, 416-26 subject-verb agreement, 453-62 Review and catch up __________________________ Assign essay #3 Un Chien Andalou  This classic film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, circa 1928, was made to attract the attention of the Avant Garde movement. These two mad artists wanted to create a film whose "only rule was very simple: no idea or image that might lend itself to rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." Buñuel took stones to the premiere to toss at the critics. But something more bizarre than the film itself happened. The critics and bourgeoisie loved it! Buñuel and Dali were puzzled. Buñuel wrote: "What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?" "A movie like this is a tonic. It assaults old and unconscious habits of movie going. It is disturbing, frustrating, maddening. It seems without purpose (and yet how much purpose, really, is there in seeing most of the movies we attend?). There is wry humor in it, and a cheerful willingness to offend." - Roger Ebert  ____________________________________ Please note! This film may have subject matter that some students find offensive. Please see me, and I will offer you an alternative assignment. ______________________________ Third essay assignment: Due Thursday 6/30: Click the picture to the right to see Un Chien Andelou! Draw what you view to be the most memorable or confusing image from Dali and Buñuel's UN CHIEN ANDALOU. You are to use as much detail as possible. Use your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch to help you. On another piece of paper attached to that drawing, write a short essay that describes the details and complexities of the particular image you selected, offering three points of observation and a thesis. You may find it adventageous to make believe you are part of the film crew, or you are in the drawing. Write as much detail as possible. As in the picture, use your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. Click HERE to see the movie (or the picture above)> ______________________________ Alternate Essay: You may do this essay in place of the Un Chien essay: For this, your first piece of word art, you will describe your favorite food. You will write a essay that describes the image of this food, offering your thesis sentence and three points of observation. You are going to use your five senses to paint the most wonderful specific details in words, sight, smell, taste, touch, and maybe even hearing. To make your words as vivid  as possible, use strong verbs and colorful nouns. The kinds of words that appeal to the reader’s senses. Keep away from the “to be” verbs (be, is, are, was, were, been, being). Here is an example of description with almost no appeal to the senses: My mother has brown hair. Here is an example rich in description: My mother’s hair reminds me of the soft brown leaves of fall. You may even want to take your essay a step further. Make believe that you are one of the ingredients in your favorite meal and comment on the other ingredients that surround you. Tell me what the french fries look like and smell like from the hamburger's point of view! Or make believe you're a fly, or maybe a person from another country who has never seen this kind of food before. You get the idea, right? Week 3 Monday 6.25 Review: Catch up Hand out: MLA worksheet Chapter 28: Verb Tense, helping verbs Lab: Work on your Un Chien Andalou essay. Tuesday 6.26  Ch 29 Pronoun agreement and reference 463-68Ch 30 Pronoun types: 469-74 Review anything missed parallel format p. 123 complex sentences p. 115-116; grammar website compound sentences. p. 113-114; grammar website simple sentences: grammar website avoiding fragments, 416-26 subject-verb agreement, 453-62 ________________________________ Wednesday 6.27 CH 6 four bases Any questions on the following: avoiding fragments p. 416-26 subject verb agreement, review 453 verb before subject 454 compound subjects 455 indefinite pronouns 456 Lab: Essay 3 _________________________________ Final Paper Assignment!  This paper will be a five-paragraph essay with at least two (2) works cited. The topic for this paper should be handed in to me by Monday 7.2. You must hand in the topic or lose 10 points. The sooner you can develop an idea the sooner you can begin your paper. We will discuss topics in class.download your final paper packet HERE __________________________________ Thursday 6.28 Essay 3 Due: Hand in Un Chien Andalou detail paper Hand out MLA worksheets: Due Monday 7.2 using pronouns p. 463-66 Argumentation p. 319-25 using quotations p. 512-13; adjectives & adverbs p. 475-79 Read: "In My Day," Russell Baker 628 Essay 4: Compare and Contrast: Magritte/Stevens  First, read “Is Sex All That Matters” by Joyce Garity 717. Garity accuses the advertising, film, TV, music and fashion industries of contributing to our sex-saturated society by parading “sexuality at every turn.” She focuses on potential dangers to young women. In what similar ways are boys and men affected by “sexuality at every turn?” In what ways are males affected differently? Think of some commercials that “use sex” to see products. Compare and contrast ads that target women with ads that target men.Also read, “Born to be Different?” By Camille Lewis. How does the author present her evidence, one side at a time or point by point? Be ready to discuss the following paragraphs and what each one represents: 1-5/ 6-7/ 8-9/ 10-11/ 12 What three contrast signals are found in paragraphs 7, 9, and 11. What method is used for the introduction? What method of conclusion does Lewis use? (Broad statement, opposite statement, etc.) What you must do for Essay 4: first read and examine the following: Réné Magritte, Ceçi n'est pas une pipe (1926)
For this essay, you are going to compare OR contrast Magritte's painting, This Is Not a Pipe, to Wallace Steven's poem, "Anecdote of the Jar." Find similarities or differences, either one or the other, and in two pages express your findings. We have images here, one a jar, one a pipe, each representing other notions. What are these notions? Can we find a similar message in painting as we do in words? Both, words and illustrations, are a facade or doorway that lead us to new perceptions, presumptions, and understandings. We are working with two different mediums of communication that reach far beyond the pen and the pallet. Nota Bene! You must hand in the compare-contrast outline sheet, filled out, with this assignment. Click here to download your compare-contrast outline sheet. Week 4 Hand in topic for final essay or lose 10 points.
Tuesday 7.3 CH 33 Dangling Modifiers
Week 5 __________________________ Put away your toys kids, and start studying. We've got our first huge exam. You are responsible for everything we've covered up to this point.
Reference Section From MLA links to grammar tips, below are the references that you will use throughout our class.
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Basic outline form for most essays, click here Essay review, click here MLA exercise sheet: download here
Use the following essays to learn your writing "licks." Click here for "English Works" five paragraph essay example
Here's the grading rubric that I will use to grade your papers: Click here |
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Startle-response quizzes and missing class: There will be 5 in-class Startle-Response quizzes, otherwise known as "check that you did the reading carefully and on time quizzes." You can expect these quizzes from time to time, and they will come unannounced throughout the semester. The quizzes will primarily focus on the reading assignments, providing me with a chance to see how well you are doing with the readings and documentation technique, though any area of the course may provide material for quizzes. The whole point of these quizzes is to help us work together, to convert what might be a boring classroom into a chaotic, unpredictable and exciting intellectual laboratory. 
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