Timeline

Rht 102
Fall 2007
TIMELINE

R 9/6
Introduction to course.

T 9/11
Quiz #1, syllabus.
Reading due: Blood (linked in Blog).

R 9/13
Discuss Blood and Tannen essay.
Reading due:

T 9/18
Quiz #2: thesis
Reading due:

R 9/20
Discuss Helen Keller and Langston Hughes.
Reading due: Langston Hughes “Salvation” and Helen Keller “The Day Language Came into My Life.”

T 9/25
Quiz #3.
Reading due: Links about THESIS on blog (three).


R 9/27
Discuss thesis statements, blogging, and reading.
Reading due:
-Dan Kurland’s “Critical Reading”
-“Critical Reading towards Critical Writing”
-“Active Reading”

T 10/2
Quiz #4.
Reading due:
-UNE “Active Reading”
-Two students write about college purpose:
http://www.deltacollege.edu/org/deltawinds/DWOnline00/thetruepurposeofcollege.html
http://tuftsprimarysource.org/?p=204

R 10/4
Discuss: Aaron, thesis, purpose, audience, tone.
Reading due: Jane Aaron, The Little Brown Handbook, chapters 1-3 (1-16).
Purpose, all the links on the page, http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/purpose/
Audience, all the links on the page, http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/audmod/
Tone http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/tone.htm
Draft of first abstract due: Keller or Hughes.

T 10/9
Quiz #5: Aaron.
Reading due: Jane Aaron, The Little Brown Handbook, chapters 8-10 (69-89).
Revision of first abstract due.

R 10/11
Reading due: Aaron, chapters 4-6 (21-52).

T 10/16
Quiz #6.
Reading due: Aaron, Part III (141-74).
Select remaining four paragraph topics in class.

R 10/18
ELECTRONIC CLASS (Sharon's funeral)
Reading due: Are you caught up with all the links?
Read the preface/prologue for your book?
ALL seven paragraphs are due.
Online writing and editing that I will post.
FINISH ALL OF THIS BY 8PM.

T 10/23
In class activities.
Collage essay draft DUE.

R 10/25
ELECTRONIC CLASS
Reading due: Aaron, the remaining chapters/pages in Parts I, II, III.
Collage essay draft due electronically. Put the seven paragraphs together with transitions.

T 10/30
Class CANCELLED due to illness.


R 11/1
"Day with the Grizzlies" writing.
Writing Workshop on Collage Essays and Abstracts.


T 11/6
Quiz #8 on your chosen book, first fourth.
Discussion: Boyle, Jamison, Trimble.
Collage essay DUE.
LAST DAY OFFICIAL WITHDRAWAL

R 11/8
Preparation for "A Day with the Grizzlies."
Second and third abstracts drafts DUE.
-Abstract #2: Nguyen or Sinatra.
-Abstract #3: a chapter from your book.

T 11/13
Quiz #9: Part II of your book reading.
Reading due: your chosen book.
Preparation for "A Day with the Grizzlies."


R 11/15
"A Day with the Grizzlies."

T 11/20
Reading: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/RESEARCH/WritingaReasearchPpr.htm
Visit Oakland University Art Gallery. RESCHEDULING.
http://www.oakland.edu/ouag/exhsched0708.htm
In class/gallery writing assignment.

R 11/22
Thanksgiving Recess begins 11/21 at 10 p.m. and ends 11/26 at 7:30 a.m.

T 11/27
Quiz #10: Part III of your chosen book.
Quiz is cancelled in place of Aaron exercise.
Reading due: chosen book.
Writing Workshop about Collage Essays and Abstracts.

R 11/29
Reading due: article. And be sure you have read Aaron, Parts 1, 2, and 3. Also, review part 7 on Research.
Writing Workshop: Abstracts and Final Essay.

T 12/4
Finish your chosen book.
Draft of final due.
Sharing and discussion of papers, research, and writing.

R 12/6
Final paper due.
Wrap up semester.

Fall classes end December 8th.
Study day: December 9th
Exams: December 10th-15th