ESL 21B, Spring, 2005 Syllabus: K. Sucher

 

WC = Writing Clearly                             LA= Looking Ahead 4   
 Booklet= 21B Handouts Booklet

 

All homework is due at the next class meeting, unless otherwise stated.
Online Forums  are due each Sunday before midnight.

DATE

ASSIGNMENTS

Week 1

2/14

1. Student Introductions, Course Information, Homepage Orientation.
2. Diagnostic Testing: Essay

Read the “Psychology Today” article.  Write for 50 minutes on ONE of the following topics:

1. Relate a recent incident when you became angry.  Analyze your behavior. Did you behave effectively?  Would you do something differently next time?

2. What was the article about?  Respond to the article.  What is your opinion?

3. Do you think it’s healthier to vent anger or to suppress it?

4. How do people deal with anger in your culture?  Is it different from how people deal with anger in L.A.?
 
HW:
1. Buy all books and materials.
2. Complete Homepage Orientation.

3. Scan WC: (1) “Preface to the Student” pp. xiv-xxiii.  What kinds of errors do you make when writing in English?  Do you make more global errors or more local errors? (2)  “Expanding  Vocabulary”, p. 271-3.  What specific strategies will you use this semester to expand your vocabulary?

4. Online Forum #1: Post your response by midnight, Sunday, Feb 20th .

5. Bring $10 to our next class meeting to buy 21B Handouts Booklet.

6. Read LA, p. 152: “Final Writing Assignment”.  What film, TV show, or commercial might you like to evaluate?

You do not need to write any essay on this topic AT THIS TIME. I am asking simply

that you begin to make a choice about what film, TV show, or commercial you'd like to work on.

This will be an oral and written assignment due in May, 2005.

7. Re-read the “Anger Collocations” handout that I gave you in class.  Choose 8 expressions using the word “anger”.  Write 8 true sentences using these new expressions. Due 2/28.

week 2
2/21

No class

Washington’s Birthday – SMC closed.
HW:

1. Read your classmates’ posts to Online Forum #1. Which of your fellow classmates might you like to join with to form a study group?  Post a reply to at least 3 of your classmates.  Don’t forget to read replies to your own post.

2. Online Forum #2: Post your response by midnight, Sunday Feb 27th.
3. Bring $10 to our next class meeting to buy 21B Handouts Booklet.

week 3
2/28

Blue Bookmark | Online Forum | 21B Handbook Sale

Film Choices for Oral Presentation

21B Bingo: Finding your study buddies

Turn in homework “Anger Collocations” 8 expressions

LA, Chapter 1
Editing Diagnostic Test | Reading your teacher’s editing symbols – Writing Diagnostic

 

HW: 

1. Verb Tense Review: W.C. – Unit 1: Verb Tense, pp 1-16. 

2. Diagnostic Essay Rewrite: Use LA pp 3-9 to guide your rewrite.  Also, be sure to heed my grammar corrections.

3. LA, Chapter 1.  Page 10-11: Activity 1-1, 1-2.

4. LA, Chapter 1.  Read “The Anger Factor”, pp 13-14.  Complete Activity 1-4.

5. LA, Chapter 1.  Read “Strategies for Academic Reading, pp 15-17.

6. LA, Chapter 1.  Jot down a few sentences for each entry of the Learner’s Notebook on pages 7, 10, 12, 17.
7. Online Forum #3

8.  Form your Study Group by Monday, March 7th.  Be prepared to tell me who will be in your group.

 

 

WEEK 4
3/7

1. LA, Chapter 1: “The Anger Factor” à
2. Review of Online Forums 2 & 3

       4 problems : boring topic sentence, specific examples, generalizations, tense shifting
3. WC: Verb Tense Shifting
4. Verb Tense: Anger exercise

Grades PIN # | Establish Study Groups| Diagnostic Essay Rewrite Due | Survey

 

HW:
1. LA, Chapter 1 pp 15-28.

2. Online Forum #4

3. WC pp 16-21 (study tense shifting passages)

4. WC pp 22-25 (complete exercises)

5. Correspond via email or phone with your Study Group partners. 

week 5
3/14

Guest Teacher: Liz Galvin
LA, Chapter 1 – finish

         Discussion of articles, “The Catharsis Debate” and “Manners, Emotions, and the American Way”.

         Complete Discussion worksheets and vocabulary quiz.

         Sentence Variety p. 28

         Past Tense Narratives p. 31

WC – Unit 1: Verb Tense – finish

HW:
1. Online Forum #5 (use handout from class)

2. ESL 21B Handbook – Review paragraph and summary criteria:  pp. 9, 12, 13, 17-21.

3. LA, Ch. 1 pp 29-30 (sentence variety):complete exercises

4. LA, Ch. 1 pp 31-33 (past tense narratives): complete exercises

5. LA, Ch. 1 pp 33-37: Read about the Final Writing Assgnment and complete the exercises to help you prepare for next week’s in-class writing.

6. Check your answers to WC, Unit 1.

NOTE: Bring a blue book to class next week | Check in with your study group this week.

 

week 6
3/21

 

Quiz: Verb Tenses

Essay #1 : In-class

HW:
1. Don’t forget to come to your conference at the time you signed up!  Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early so you can take a look at your essay before your conference.

2. Be sure you have watched the film “West Side Story” (I will be showing it next week in ESL 125 from 6:45-9:00pm.  If you don’t see it then—or if you miss part of it due to your conference—you may view the film at the SMC Library, or you may rent it from most video rental stores to watch at home.

3. Meet with your Study Group (in person, via email, or via phone) to talk about Verb Forms, your essay revision, and the new topic in L.A. chapter 4.

4. WC, Unit 2: Verb Forms.  Complete the chapter preview, pp 28-32.  Take the pre-test.

5. Online Forum #6: Due 3/27 CANCELLED. You do not need to write it...

6. Online Forum #7: Due 4/3

7. Read the persuasive/expository essays in the ESL 21B Handbook, pp 25, 29-30, 33, 34-5.

8. Revise Essay #1 (Anger) and TYPE IT!.  Due at the beginning of class on April 4th.

week 7
3/28

 

1. Individual Conferences: Come 15 minutes before your appointment to pick up your essay and read my comments.

1. Be sure you have watched the film “West Side Story” (I will be showing it next week in ESL 125 from 6:45-9:00pm.  If you don’t see it then—or if you miss part of it due to your conference—you may view the film at the SMC Library, or you may rent it from most video rental stores to watch at home.

2. Meet with your Study Group (in person, via email, or via phone) to talk about Verb Forms, your essay revision, and the new topic in L.A. chapter 4.

3. WC, Unit 2: Verb Forms.  Complete the chapter preview, pp 28-32.  Take the pre-test.

4. Online Forum #6: Due 3/27 CANCELLED. You do not need to write it...

5. Online Forum #7: Due 4/3

6. Read the persuasive/expository essays in the ESL 21B Handbook, pp 25, 29-30, 33, 34-5.

7. Revise Essay #1 (Anger) and TYPE IT!.  Due at the beginning of class on April 4th.2. Online Forum #7

week 8
4/4

1. Essay #1 Revision Due

2. Critiquing 2 student essays – Use LA, p. 36.

3. West Side Story – Use the handout to initiate a discussion with your Study Group.

4. Board of Trustees meeting: F-1 Tuition Hikes & Chung Ho Lee

Thank you for attending the meeting to support F-1 Visa students.  If you’d like to e-mail  the Corsair (student newspaper) reporter, you can find her at Diana Guillen  corsairnews@yahoo.com

HW:
1. WC – Unit 2 (Verb Forms) Read and understand about the Seven Problems that ESL Writers Commonly Encounter with Verb Forms, pp 32-36.

Have a great vacation….

Spring Break: April 11-17

 

week 9
4/18

April 6 Corsair: See article about Board of Trustees meeting

Essay Models (making transitions to establish coherence): classmates’ writing

Examining Draft 2 (Anger): Selected Corrections

LA, Chapter 4 – Evaluating Reality in Film & TV: Establishing criteria, Noun Forms.
WC – Unit 2 (Verb Forms – what are the 3 problems?)

 

HW:

1. LA: Transitions/Coherence, pp 355-359.

2. LA: Unit 4 pp. 121-134. Ready, study, and complete exercises.

3. WC: Unit 2: Memorize verbs that take gerunds/infinitives.  Complete exercises for Unit 2.

4. Anger Essay: Draft 3 (for an optional 5 points added to your revision score) – due next Monday.  Please staple Draft 3 on top of Draft 2 before you turn it in.

week 10
4/25

1. Turn in Anger Essay: Draft 3 (optional)
2. LA, Chapter 4  - criteria, tone, judgement, examples, academic vocabulary
3. WC – Unit 2 – share answers with partners.  Check answers online during the week.
HW:

1. L.A. p 135-151.
 NEW:  Check here for selected answers to exercises in  Looking Ahead 4, pages 140-153
2. Write an outline of Essay #2 for next week. (See L.A. p. 152-3)  Complete the chart of page 153.  Bring your onne-page outline to class next week.  It will be the only “notes” you will be allowed to use while writing your essay.

3. Read some Student papers for examples of how to prepare for Essay #2.

4. Check answers to WC Unit 2 online.

5. Online Forum #8

week 11
5/2

1. The Corsair: Junko’s article

2. Common Essay Article & Memo distributed
3. Analyzing a student model.
4. Peer Feedback on Outline
5.Essay #2 In-Class

HW:

1. Prepare for Common Essay as directed in the Memo to Students.  You may also wish to consult the red ESL 21B handbook, pp 36-59 for insight into how student essays were evaluated last semester.

2. Study for Verb Forms Quiz

3. Continue preparing for your oral presentation in 2 weeks.

week 12
5/9

1. Return of Essay #2 (First Draft)  & Final Draft (Essay #1)

2. Oral Presentations – check equipment, identify your needs, confirm your film, review criteria (clipboard, media cart, OHP)
3. Practice Quiz – Verb Form

4. Quiz: Verb Form

5. COMMON ESSAY – bring a blue book.
HW, due May 16

1. Revise and type Essay #2 (Film Evaluation) for next Monday.

2. Prepare Oral Presentation for next Monday; bring any materials you will need. CRITERIA

week 13
5/16

Oral Presentations – Make a class presentation in which you explain the basic elements of the evaluation you wrote in Essay #2.  Be sure to use a film clip and any other visual aids you might need.  See List of Films.
HW:

1. Complete “Clause Errors” Worksheet.
2. WC Unit 6 Clauses:  Study  pp 103-122.
3. Online Forum #9

week 14
5/23

Oral Presentations
WC Unit 6 -- Clauses
LA – Chapter 6: Privacy

    Take the Privacy Quiz (LA p. 200)

Common Essay

Return of Essay #2 (final draft)
HW:
1. Complete WC Unit 6, all exercises.

2. Check your answers to the Clause Exercises (yellow handout) we completed in class:

    WC Unit Six: Relative Clauses | More Clause Errors | Noun Clause Quiz

3. Complete exercises in LA p. 200-210.

4. Write a study summary for both articles in LA, Chapter 6 utilizing at least four of the new vocabulary words from each article.

5. How will you approach your revision of the Common Essay? Consult the Expository Essay Checklist on p. 13 and the rubric on p. 59 of the ESL 21b Handbook (red).  What specific grammar errors will you look for in your own writing?

week 15
5/30

Memorial Day: No class

 

week 16
6/6

WC Unit 6 –Clauses – Go over answers in WC Unit 6, all exercises.
LA – Chapter Six: Privacy – NYT article: Cell Phone Phonebook?  What’s the problem? What are solutions? 
Essay #3 Revising the Common Essay – in class

HW:

Study for Clauses Quiz.  Check your answers for Chapter 6.

Prepare for in-class writing next week.  Bring a blue book.

week 17
Finals:

6/13

Clauses Quiz

Final Exam – Privacy – In-class writing.

 

I’ll leave your graded final essays in a box outside my office door.  Please pick them up by June 24, 2005.
I will post your final grades in the usual location on or before June16, 2005.

NO HOMEWORK!  Have a happy and safe summer…

This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
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