R. Dollieslager's Weekly Schedule Fall 2019 English 111 T-Th, 12:30 Thomas Nelson Community College Prof. D's email address: dollier@tncc.edu

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Grading Criteria for all Essays and projects, and the course syllabus

Week One

• Compose three paragraphs (appx. 1 and 1/2 pages typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman) for the Pre-semester Reading Literacy Narrative diagnostic writing prompt. Use either M.S. Word or Google Docs.Save the document to Google Drive if you use Word
• Read and take notes on these articles about the impact of cell phone use during class and study times:
  • "Research: College Students More Distracted Than Ever" Campus Technology, 1/20/16
  • "Why Phones Don't Belong in School" Huffington Post, 4/12/16
  • "Texting and Tweeting in the Classroom: How Do They Impact Student Learning?" Science Daily, 4/6/15
  • "The Student Cellphone Addiction Is No Joke." Education Week, 4/16/16
  • *Note taking from cell phone articles: For each article, paraphrase the writer's thesis, and under that list the most important evidence he or she provides for making that recommendation (which is the thesis statement).

Week Two

Thursday 8/29/19
In-class activities: 1] Registration and introduction to the Little Seagull Handbook/InQuizitve lessons (class set # is 184676) and the Norton Write lessons (class set # will be provided upon purchase of the Little Seagull)

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 9/3/19:

• Compose and post to Canvas a two-paragraph composition about your personal policy for cell phone use during class and during study. (Paragraph one) Begin with highlights from the readings which show the impact cell phone use has on college grades and course outcomes. (Paragraph 2) Then, based on class discussion about the research we read, describe what your personal cell phone use policy will be--during classes and during study.
• Purchase Little Seagull Handbook with InQuizitive and Norton Write lessons
• InQuizitive: Finish lesson #2, "Editing the Errors that Matter"

Week Three

Tuesday 9/3/19
In-class activities: 1] Introduction to Norton Write handbook lessons. Please add yourself to this class set: 193114 and work the Tutorial called Avoiding Plagiarism. 2] Introduction to essay #1, Communicating as a Professional. "Phase One" Paraphrasing from two sources in one paragraph.

Homework assignment for Thursday, 9/5/19:

• Finish the Tutorial on "Avoiding Plagiarism from Norton Write
• Complete the first part of the essay project #1, (Communicating as a Professional) which answers the age old question, "Why do I have to take all of these stinking English and speech classes in college?!"
• Purchase Little Seagull Handbook with InQuizitive and Norton Write lessons
• InQuizitive: Finish lesson #2, "Editing the Errors that Matter" if you have not already done so.

Thursday 9/5/19
In-class activities: 1] Complete "Phase One" of essay #1, (Communicating as a Professional)--documenting, revising, polishing the paragraph which paraphrases from the Adams and Weins articles. Run it through the Assistive Technologies, post it to Canvas, and use the TurnitIn plagiarism tool to ensure you have not unintentionally plagiarized. 2] Discuss and begin "Phase Two," exploring and extrapolating information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 9/10/19:

• View Steve Piscitelli's video on SQ4R note taking
• View this Video on how to write Cornell notes
• Cornell notes format for lectures and reading.
• Complete the first draft of the "Phase Two" paragraph, exploring and extrapolating information from the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Note: In class, I will collect your Cornell-formatted notes for this phase of the process and will return them to you.

Week Four

Tuesday 9/10/19
In-class activities: 1] Tweaking the Adams and Weins paragraph for attribution and W.C. section. 2] Re-capping "Phase Two"

Homework assignment for Thursday, 9/12/19:

• Complete research on and drafting the "Phase Two" paragraph for class discussion

Thursday 9/12/19
In-class activities: 1] Discuss "Phase Two" paragraph. 2] Begin "Phase Three" of research on communicating as a professional, Critical Application and brainstorm together.

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 9/17/19:

• View these videos on introductions, thesis statements, and conclusions
  • The 5-pararaph essay (10 min.)
  • Introductory paragraphs video (4 min.)
  • Thesis statements video (4 min.)
  • Concluding paragraphs--what to do.
  • Concluding paragraphs--what NOT to do.
• Complete the essay on Communicating as a Professional following the instructions on the Grading rubric webpage.

Week Five

Tuesday 9/17/19
In-class activities: Register for your free access to the New York Times: https://libguides.tncc.edu/newyorktimes. You will have to separately register for access to both of the following. The instructions are on that previous link to the TNCC Library Guides

• New York Times in Education.
• New York Times newspaper.
• View/Read e mail ettiquette and protocols:
  • Prof. Richardson's advice. (2:30 mins.)
• Professor DeCoster's advice (10 mins.)
• E-mail Do's and Don't's poster created by Eng 111-03 Fall 2015. Follow this ettiquette and these protocols when emailing your professors and everyone.

Thursday 9/19/19
In-class activities: 1] Discuss vocab and notes from the instructions for researching and writing the Adams and Weins paragraph.2] Group activity: Starting SQ4R for "Battle of the Ants"

Week Six

Tuesday 9/24/19
In-class activities: Open-notes test on "Battle of the Ants." What's the essay really all about? "Deep reading" is much like reading entries in the Wikipedia: there are tons and tons of hot links in their articles which take you to other sources with ancillary information to aid in understanding what may seem to be a very short article. In texts that pre-date the Internet, we have to be our own hot-linkers and dig deep frequently in order to ferret out meanings and connections.

Homework assignment for Thursday, 9/26/19:

• In New York Times in Education select the "Psychology" section and scroll to the article titled "Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)." You will need to go several screens back by clicking on ***LOAD MORE at the bottom because the article was published on 30 Mar. 2019.
• Read: For this article, read the summary, discussion prompts, and the "digging deeper" questions as ways of previewing the article, so that you know what to look for.
• Take notes when you read the article because we will be writing about this topic, and you will use a significant amount of information from it. Remember to use Speechnotes to paraphrase from it--or otherwise distance yourself from the text by closing it before recording your paraphrases. If direct quotes stand out for you, don't forget to put them inside of quotation marks in your notes so that you know what is paraphrased and what is quoted verbatim, to help you avoid unintentional plagiarism.

Thursday 9/26/19
In-class activities: 1] Discuss "Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)" 2] Begin SQ4R note taking on "Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate" (I suggested that you take a picture of our pre-reading notes from yesterdy's class instead, ince we didn't have enought time to do that activity today).

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 10/1/19:

• Take copious SQ4R notes on "Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate" and Your Best Tips for Beating Procrastination
• You will be writing about the topic of procrastination, next week, so take deep SQ4R notes to get to the deep meanings, and use Cornell notes format to pakage your notes so that you can use them "as is" in your essay.

Week Seven

Thursday 10/3/19
In-class activities: 1] Discuss the readings "Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate" and "Your Best Tips for Beating Procrastination." 2] Research and note-taking workshop. Problem/solution essay on procrasination. In addition to the linked articles in the NYT, more resources are below:

• James Madison University's Learning Toolbox. This website includes tools to help you improve in the eight academic areas of Math, Organization, Study Skills, Test Taking Skills, Note Taking, Reading, Writing, and Advanced Thinking.
• Study Guides and Strategies cover "how to's" like managing time and class projects, and "what to's" with study outlines, procedures, and summary infomation for subjects in English, math and science, social sciences, etc.
• "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator" a Tim Urban Ted Talk

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 10/8/19:

• First, research and take notes from the three NYT articles: "Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)," "Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate" and "Your Best Tips for Beating Procrastination." Develop plenty of notes that you will be able to use in a problem/solution essay on the topic of procrastination.
• Then write: Draft a paragraph (appx. 150 words) which moves from general to specific about your own experiences with procrastination. General: Are you a chronic procrastinator, a situational procrastinator, or maybe (like Adam Grant) a pre-crastinator? Or are you somewhere in between all of these? Or have you never given any of this a thought? Specific: Once you have established that generalization, focus on a specific time/event/occurrence/situation that illustrates it. For example, Grant illustrates his own situation by showing himself as a college student: he submitted his dissertation two years before it was due and his master's thesis four months early, worked on college papers for 12 hours at a stretch, and even worked through a party his roommates threw without even realizing there was a party going on.

Week Eight

Tuesday 10/8/19
In-class activities: 1] Return and discuss open-notes test on "Battle of the Ants."

Thursday 10/10/19
In-class activities: 1] Research and writing workshop: "Battle of the Ants" or Critical Thinking Journal #1.

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 10/15/19:

• Finish "Battle of the Ants"and Critical Thinking Journal #1.

Week Nine

Tuesday 10/15 In-class group project: Making sense of comma uses and teaching your colleagues how to use them correctly. "Comma Conventions: A Handbook Scavenger Hunt."

Homework assignment for Thursday, 10/17/19:

• Work on your comma group assignment for a presentation and assessment method to present in class.
• Extra credit: Poetry Coffeehouse, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. on Weds. Theme is "The Supernatural." One point for attending, another for reading a poem relevant to the theme.

Tuesday 10/15 In-class: Group project workshop: Add me to your Google doc and your presentation material so that I can view your progress and Making sense of comma uses and teaching your colleagues how to use them correctly. "Comma Conventions: A Handbook Scavenger Hunt."

Homework assignment for Tuesday, 10/22/19:

• Work on your comma group assignment for a presentation and assessment method to present in class.

Week Ten

Tuesday 10/22 In-class group project: Making sense of comma uses and teaching your colleagues how to use them correctly. "Comma Conventions: A Handbook Scavenger Hunt."

Homework assignment for Thursday, 10/24/19:

• Work on your comma group assignment for a presentation and assessment method to present in class.
• Extra credit: Poetry Coffeehouse, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. on Weds. Theme is "The Supernatural." One point for attending, another for reading a poem relevant to the theme.

Tuesday 10/24 In-class: Group project workshop, synchronous or asynchronous. Finish your plans for how to present, and who will present what. "Comma Conventions: A Handbook Scavenger Hunt."

Week Eleven

Tuesday 10/29 In-class: 1] Begin group presentations. Let's take another look at the Learning Pyramid, atop the class page. You will have a VERY difficult test on commas, based on comma purposes for making meaning and conventional place holding uses. I will be taking copious notes from each presentation and the test will be derived in large part from the presentations themselves, and it will include a comma purposes application component. If you are not, likewise, taking copious notes, expect to be dead in the water when you take the test. Engage. Interact. Question. Learn!! "Comma Conventions: A Handbook Scavenger Hunt."2] Introduction to researching/writing/thinking for Critical Thinking Journals.

Homework assignment for Thursday, 10/31/19:

• Compete work on your group presentation

Thursday 10/31 In-class: Group Presentations  

Week Twelve

• Revise and edit CTJ#1, per my suggestions in Canvas, by 5:00 monday so that they can be graded before class on Tuesday.
• Sentence patterns and sentence punctuation activity is due by class time on Tuesday for peer review.

Week Thirteen

Tuesday 11/12 In-class: 1] Peer review sentence patterns and sentence punctuating activity 2] Discuss and begin CTJ#2.

Homework assignment for Thursday, 11/14/19:

• Preparing for mini-conferences:
  • Read about the qualities of good thesis statements.
  • Do the thesis statement activity posted in Canvas

Thursday 11/14 In-class: 1 ] Peer review CTJ#2 and sentence patterns activity.

Week Fourteen

• Class discussion will center on what you have found about Coelho that supports his quote. We well compose CTJ#3 in class following group discusions, so be prepared.
• Work all of the comma exrcises in Norton Write.

Week Fifteen

Tuesday 12/3 In-class: 1] Class discussion. What have you found about Coelho that supports his quote? 2] Compose CTJ#3 in class following group discussions.

Thursday 12/5 In-class: 1]

Finals Week, 12/10, 10:45-1:15

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