SYLLABUS CHANGES

Week Six: Expository Writing
Tuesday, 7/6: Discussion: “Adverbs” in Sin and Syntax
“I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady
“On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner
Discussion: Lead Sentences
Journal #10: Expository

Please bring any newspaper article to class.


Take Home Expository Prompt: Read at least one newspaper article, paying attention to the style of journalistic writing: straight expository information answering the questions who, what, when, where, and how. Note the "lead" sentence format: who, what, when, where, and how all answered in the first sentence. Write a newspaper article about some event in your life this week or something you witness (I prefer something that just happened rather than something from the past). Give it a headline, lead sentence, etc. One page.


Thursday, 7/8: Turn in Expository Prompt in Proper Formatting
Journal #11: Expository
“Just Walk On By” by Brent Staples
“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
Discussion: Cliches and handout “How to slay a cliché”


Week Seven: Expository Writing/Persuasive Writing
*Tuesday, 7/13: Due: Rough Draft Expository with four copies
“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Journal #12: Expository
Discussion: Rhythm/Sentence Fragments
In-class Workshop
All class workshop


Thursday, 7/15: Final Expository Essay Due with all attachments
Discussion of Persuasive Writing
“The Smurfette Principle” by Katha Politt
“Thoughts Interrupted” by Amy Joyce
Journal #13: Persuasive
Discussion: Five Paragraph Essays

Take Home Persuasive Prompt: Either listen in on or begin a controversial discussion. Then write a Point/Counterpoint. OR write a review of anything: a meal you ate, a movie you rented, a date you went on, an event you attended. The purpose here is to have a strong opinion and let that come through.


Week Eight: Persuasive Writing/Satire
Tuesday, 7/20: Discussion “Are the Homeless Crazy?” by Johathan Kozol, p. 154-157
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift (handout)
Journal #14: Persuasive/Satire



*Thursday, 7/22: NO CLASS


Week Nine: Persuasive Writing/Final Portfolios
Tuesday, 7/27: Due: Persuasive Rough Draft with four copies
Discuss “The Subject and the Predicate” in Sin and Syntax
All class workshop
In class workshop
Journal #15: Process