Course Outline:

Writing

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

1/26

Session Topics: Diagnostic, Syllabus

Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: /

Session Topics: Basic writing structure

revision: Effective introductions & conclusions, the hook, topic sentences, and
thesis statement
Readings Due : /
Assignments Due : /

Session Topics: Mini-lecture on

Narrative writing: Descriptive writing

Session Topics: Transitions, Paragraph

Organization, Conference time for the
first drafts
Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: exercise on the
handout, first drafts of the narrative essay

Session Topics: In-class Narrative

writing workshop
Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: Narrative Essay
Due

2/2

Session Topics: Formal vs informal

writing styles and vocab
Readings Due: P.40 - 44
Assignments Due: Journal

Readings Due: textbook P.9 12

Assignments Due: Preview questions on p.9; Exercise on P.11 - 12

2/9

Session Topics: Mini-lecture on Compare & Contrast, Parallelism

Readings Due: textbook P. 66- 68
Assignments Due: Journal, Preview
questions on textbook P. 68

Session Topics: Writing Concisely

Readings Due: P.68 - 69
Assignments Due: Exercise on P. 6972

Session Topics: Superstitions;

Grammar and vocabulary workshop
Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Handout

2/16

Session Topics: Compare & Contrast

grammar structures & Vocabulary
Readings Due: textbook p. 78-79,
handout
Assignments Due: Journal
*First drafts of the compare/contrast es-

Session Topics: Venn Diagram &

graphic organizer
Readings Due: handout
Assignments Due: handout,

Session Topics: In-class Compare/Contrast writing workshop

Readings Due: Outside essay provided by the instructor
Assignments Due: Compare/Contrast Essay

say
2/23

Session Topics: Mini-lecture: Cause &

Effect
Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Journal

Session Topics: Focus-on-Causes

method
Readings Due: textbook P.91 92
Assignments Due: textbook P.92 93 ,
handout

Session Topics: Focus-on-Effects

method, Grammar: advanc prepositions
Readings Due: textbook P. 94,
P.100 - 102
Assignments Due: textbook P. 96 99

3/2

Session Topics: AWL List & Verb subj

agrmnt
Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Journal, Handout

Session Topics: In-class Cause & Effect writing workshop

Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: First drafts of the
cause & effect essay

No class

3/9

Midterm (Timed writing)

Assignments Due: Journal

Session Topics: Teacher students

conference

Session Topics: Vocabulary & Idiom

Readings Due: Handout, textbook
P. 183 - 184
Assignments Due: Cause & Effect
essay

3/16

Session Topics: Mini-lecture on Problem solving

Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Journal, a problem
that you have noticed in this class/at
school

Session Topics: Critical thinking and

writing
Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Problem solving
checklist

Session Topics: Solutions, Citation

& Plagiarism
Readings Due: Handout, textbook
P. 181 - 182
Assignments Due: Handout

3/23

Session Topics: Peer editing

Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: Journal, first drafts
of the problem-solving essay

Session Topics: Grammar points and

academic expressions for problemsolving essay
Reading Due: Handout

Session Topics: In-class problemsolving writing workshop

Reading Due: /
Assignments Due: Problem-solving

Assignments Due: /

essay

3/30

Spring

Break

Week

4/6

Session Topics: Other Forms of Academic writing_1

Readings Due: textbook P. 138 - 145
Assignments Due: Journal, article for
the Media Report due on 4/13

Session Topics: Other Forms of Academic writing_2

Readings Due: textbook P. 147 - 151
Assignments Due: textbook P. 152 153

Session Topics: Grammar section:

adverb clauses, noun clauses
Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: /

4/13

Session Topics: Argument: Local &

Statewide issues_1
Readings Due: Handout, textbook P.
114 - 115
Assignments Due: Journal, first draft of
the Media Report

Session Topics: Local & Statewide issues_2

Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: KWL worksheet,
textbook P. 116 - 118

Session Topics: Peer Editing

Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: Media Report

4/20

Session Topics: National & International inssues_1

Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Journal

Session Topics: National & Internation- Session Topics: In-class argument

al inssues_2
writing workshop
Readings Due: Handout
Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: KWL worksheet, textAssignments Due: /
book P. 118 - 122

4/27

Session Topics: Peer editing

Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: Journal, first draft of
the argument essay

Session Topics: Persuasion & Discussion

Readings Due: Handout
Assignments Due: debate topics

Session Topics: Debate

Readings Due: /
Assignments Due: Argument essay

5/4

Final Exam (Timed writing)

Potluck

Graduation