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  • This assignment calendar is updated frequently. The date and time of the last update will always be posted at the top of the page in red.
  • Sometimes I will add new assignments; sometimes I will delete or cross out assignments; sometimes I will postpone assignments.
  • The exact assignment due next meeting will always be given in class.
  • Next week's assignments may be changed in class. If you are absent, call or e-mail for the assignment!
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  • Past weeks' assignments are placed at the bottom of this page.
Week
#17

Monday 12/15 Tuesday 12/16

NO CLASS: STUDY!

Wednesday 12/17and Thursday 12/18

FINAL EXAM

Final Exams Week:

No class on Monday or Tuesday:

study and show up five minutes early for your scheduled exam:

Section #13558 (M/W 9:00 A.M.)

Wednesday, December 17, 8:30 A.M.-10:20 A.M
Section #32656 (T/Th 12:00 P.M.)

Thursday, December 18, 9:30 A.M.-11:20 A.M

What to review for the final:

You are ready for this.

It won't be hard.

You can do it.

You've already done it.

 

"My hope [is] that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason." --Thomas Jefferson

Additional possible assignments:

BSCR 6: "Seven Steps to Safer Sunning," pages 171-177 and all Exercise 7 questions 1-10.

BSCR 7: p. 203-205, exercise 4.

 

Want to start over? Go ahead:

Week
#1

Monday 8/25 and Tuesday 8/26

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wednesday 8/27 and Thursday 8/28

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted...
but to weigh and consider." --Francis Bacon

PVCC Student Life Calendar

Homework due:

  • First Day: No homework is due today

In-Class Activities:

  • Syllabus: Intro to course procedures and requirements.
  • Preview "Secrets of Straight A Students"
  • Student introductions.

Homework due:

  • Buy Textbooks and get other course materials.
  • Send me your e-mail address(and tell me who you are and your class section).
    thomas.butler@pvmail.maricopa.edu
  • Read the Syllabus and turn in Student Information Sheet (last page of Syllabus)
  • Read Secrets of Straight A Students ( pink handout available in class or online)
  • Textbook reading due: Building Strategies for College Reading (BSCR):
    • Preface, pages vi-vii
    • Chapter 1, pages 1-8

In-Class Activities:

Week
#2

Monday 9/1

Tuesday 9/2

Section #32656

Wednesday 9/3

Section #13558

Thursday 9/4

Section #32656

Labor Day


NO SCHOOL

(campus closed)

Why do we celebrate
Labor Day, anyway?

Homework due:

In-Class Activities:

  • Go over BSCR 2: exercises 1 and 2
  • Quiz on Parts of Speech
  • Intro BSCR: pages 39-45
Student Life Newsletter
(if you are interested)

Homework due:

In-Class Activities:

  • Begin slide show on 3 Levels of Reading
  • Go over BSCR 2: exercise 1 and 2
  • Intro BSCR: pages 39-45
Student Life Newsletter
(if you are interested)

Homework due:

  • Study for Parts of Speech Quiz
  • BSCR: pages 39-45, exercise 3, typed

In-Class Activities:

  • Quiz on Parts of Speech
  • Begin slide show on 3 Levels of Reading
  • Go over BSCR 2: exercise 3
  • Dictionary worksheet

 
Week
#3

Monday 9/8 and Tuesday 9/9

Wednesday 9/10 and Thursday 9/11

Homework due:

  • BSCR: pages 39-45, and exercise 3, typed (Monday only).
  • Finish Dictionary worksheet
  • Bring your College Dictionary

In-Class Activities:

  • Slide show: reading process
Homework due:
  • BSCR: Preview the Selection on pages 9-11 according to the directions to Exercise #1 on page 8 (Do not actually read all of the selection on pages 9-11). Then type answers to all seven questions on page 12 (Questions # 1,2,3, and 4, and the following questions # 1,2 and 3) about your preview.

In-Class Activities:

How to convert a .wps or .wpd word processing file to a
universal .rtf (rich text format) file

for sharing with people whose computers can't open
.wps or .wpd.

Watch the 3 minute video.

 

Week
#4

Monday 9/15 and Tuesday 9/16

PVCC Student Life Calendar

As Thomas Jefferson said: "A nation that is ignorant and free, is a nation that never was and never will be."

Wednesday 9/17 and Thursday 9/18

 
Homework due:
  • BSCR: pages 45-54, and type the answers to the following:
    • exercise 5, page 47
    • exercise 6 page 48-51
    • Chapter Review Questions, page 52

In-Class Activities:

Homework due:

WEDNESDAY CLASS ONLY:

Explain the figures of language according to the directions on the
Figurative Language Worksheet handed out in class,
and based on the Figurative Language website, which you should use as a guide.

Thursday ONLY:

  • BSCR: pages 54-56:
    • answer "Use your Strategies 2 Questions" on p. 56
      • Define the words as they are used in their contexts in the essay.
    • Write a single sentence to summarize each of paragraphs 3, 4, 5, and 6 on page 55. A summary sentence would contain the most important point of the paragraph and maybe a supporting detail, written in language that is understandable to yourself.
In-Class Activities:
  • Review figures, pp. 47-8
  • Review: Summary paragraphs of page 55 (link)
  • Introduce chapter 3, Main ideas
    • groups do exercise #1 pp. 65-66
  • Do pages 52-54 in class
    • What is the main idea?
    • What details support it?
    • EXPLAIN the figures of language?
    • Use Your Strategies 1 Questions, page 54
Week
#5

Monday 9/22 and Tuesday 9/23

Please remember that if you are absent, the homework is still due on time unless previous arrangements are made with the teacher. Tests and quizzes cannot be made up unless previous arrangements are made.

Wednesday 9/24 and Thursday 9/25

Finding the author's main idea, whether literally stated or implied,
is the foundation of every act of reading. All other acts of comprehension are secondary to this purpose.

Homework due:

  • BSCR: Study read pages 63-72, and type the answers to the following:
    • exercise 2 pages 67-68
    • exercise 3 pages 69-70
    • exercise 4 pages 70-72

In-Class Activities:
  • chapter 3, Main ideas
    • Review homework

Homework due:

  • BSCR: Study read pages 72-78, and type the answers to the following:
    • exercises 5 and 6

In class activities:

  • review homework
  • 4-Question Strategy: How to find the main idea
  • Implied main ideas: pages 72-74: begin exercise #5

  • Vocabulary study method:

Vocabulary Study Method for
To Kill a Mockingbird (TKM)

  1. Use the Vocabulary Card study method of learning words.
  2. Select 25 words from the TKM glossary (blue handout) that you do not know and would like to learn. Try to select words that would have a wide application in your life and reading. ("Scuppernongs," for example, a type of Southern flower, is not a term you will likely need to remember for any other college work, so don't select that one. "Venerable," however, is indeed a venerable word worthy of your attention.)
  3. For each word you choose, write out a vocabulary card according to instructions, except that you should be prepared to write down context sentences from three different works in which you have found the words. One of those works can, of course, be TKM, so you will have to find the word in two other sources. So make sure you have enough room on the back of the vocabulary card for three different context sentences and the citation for where they come from. You may wish to use 4 x 6 inch cards, if you write large.
  4. You will be required to submit 10 index cards at the time of the midterm, and 20 the week before the final exam, so get started now and keep reading and adding to your list.

 
Week
#6

Monday 9/29 and Tuesday 9/30

Literacy is POWER!

Wednesday 10/1 and Thursday 10/2

Don't forget to create 20 vocabulary cards to add citations to!
Homework due:
  • Chapter 3 Review Questions, page 78
  • BSCR, Use your Strategies 1, pages 78-80

In-Class Activities:

  • Review: Parts of Speech; What is a sentence?
  • Correct Strategies 1 before submitting
  • Take Notes:
    • Learn: Why is a summary important?
    • Learn: How to Write a Summary: 4 Qualities, 3 things in first sentence.
  • Introduce What is Intelligence?

 
Homework due:
  • "What is intelligence?" (Asimov handout) 20 points
    • Use context clues to determine the meanings of the words
    • Type answers to all the questions, #1-13; #14 on a separate page

In-Class Activities:

  • Preview Chapter 4 (start with PDR)
  • Practice with Main Idea statements: Asimov and Sohn.

Extra Credit: 10 points (today only)

Write a one paragraph summary of "What is intelligence?", following the advice on How to Write a Summary.

Or:

Write a journal entry (your own reaction) to his essay (see Question #14 on the assignment).
Week
#7

Monday 10/6 and Tuesday 10/7

 

Wednesday 10/8 and Thursday 10/9

Please remember that if you are absent, the homework is still due on time unless previous arrangements are made with the teacher. Tests and quizzes cannot be made up unless previous arrangements are made.
Homework due:
  • BSCR, chapter 4: pages 87-104, and exercises 1 and 2 (Be prepared for a quiz on the highlighted terms on pages 88-89 and 94-95, and different text structures).

  • Your answers to EXERCISE 1 (p. 92-94) will look like this:
    • Note: For EXERCISE 1, paragraphs #1-10, you will only need to use the three labels "Main," "Major," and "Minor."  Do not worry about the other labels suggested in the textbook directions for this exercise--they will not be the answers.
    • "Paragraph #1:
      • Sentence 1: Main
      • Sentence 2: Major
      • Sentence 3: Major
      • Sentence 4: Major
      • Sentence 5: Major
    • "Paragraph #2:
      • Sentence 1:  (Main?) (Major?) (Minor?)
      • Sentence 2:  (Main?) (Major?) (Minor?)
      • (Only one of the paragraphs in this EXERCISE has Minor details...)
  • Your answers to EXERCISE 2 (p. 102-104) will look something like this:
    • Paragraph #1:
      • a. Main Idea: Although many North American Indian tribes were skilled with many handicrafts, some lived very simply, with few artifacts.
      • b. Signal Word: however
    • Paragraph #2:
      • a.------------(follow the instructions for each paragraph)
      • b.----------------

        In-class Activities:

  • Quiz on highlighted terms and text structures in chapter 4
  • Go over answers to 87-104, exercises 1 and 2

    • Homework due:

    • Write (type) a Summary of "Hummingbirds," page 53: Create a first sentence with author, title, and main idea, and then no more than 4 detail sentences. Summarize the article in about 80 to 120 words. Do not write a response.

    • BSCR, chapter 4: pages 104-107, exercise 3: follow the directions.

    In-Class Activities:
    • Go over answers to exercise 3
    • Go over Hummingbird summary
    Week
    #8

    Monday 10/13 and Tuesday 10/14

    PVCC Student Life Calendar

    "Reading aloud is the best advertisment for learning to read and write."

     

    Wednesday 10/15 and Thursday 10/16

    Some of my fondest memories are of sitting with mymother's arm around me,listening to her read. Little did I know that she was doing much more than providing comfort and entertainment. She was paving the way for learning and for success.

    --First Lady, Laura Bush

    Homework due:

    • BSCR, chapter 4:
      • CHAPTER 4 REVIEW QUESTIONS on page110
      • USE YOUR STRATEGIES 1, pages 110-113. Answer all questions. (Review your answers to EXERCISE #3, p. 104-107,before doing STRATEGIES 1.)
    • Turn in 10 vocabulary cards done according to the study method instructions with a rubber band. (10 points--no makeup--zero if you forget) Include an 11th card on top, with your name and an alphabetical list of each of the 10 words. (Doesn't need to be typed.)

    In-Class Activities:

    Homework due:
    • Last chance to bring 10 Vocabulary cards
    • Bring novel to class, To Kill A Mockingbird (TKM), by Harper Lee
    • Write two summaries:
      • "Running the Small Business: Reasons for Successes and Failures," pages 113-114. (original article about 320 words).
      • "The Early Romantics," page 115. (original article about 350 words).

        Note: Use the "Strategies" questions after each article to guide you in preparing a one-paragraph summary of each article. You should answer those questions to yourself before writing the summary. Do not turn in the answers to the questions--just the two well-written summaries.

    In-Class Activities:
    • Review "Story of an Hour"
    • Go over two summaries
    • Review for midterm exam
    • Introduce TKM
    • Read aloud first chapter

     

     

    15 point Extra Credit Opportunity!

    Attend one of the daytime or evening Grammar Workshops, presented by an experienced English professor, take notes, pick up handouts, and write a summary of what you learned. Your paper must be word-processed and free of grammatical and spelling errors.

    OR

    Attend one of the Life Long Learning Seminars, take notes, pick up handouts, and write a summary of what you learned for 15 points extra credit.

    10 point Extra Credit Opportunity!

    Read an article from the "New Student LYNX" newspaper of Fall 2008 and summarize it it one well-written paragraph (150-250 words).

    The article you select must be related to college success (as opposed to food, sports, entertainment, etc.). Your summary must be word-processed and free of grammatical and spelling errors. Follow the suggestions for writing a summary here. Copies of the paper available from Dr. Butler or around campus.

    Due date: any time.
    Week
    #9

    Monday 10/20 and Tuesday 10/21

    Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason
    --Richard C. Trench
    Wednesday 10/22 and Thursday 10/23

    "All generalizations are false, including this one."--Mark Twain

    Homework due:

    • Read TKM chapters 1-5
    In-Class Activities:
    • Midterm Exam (Don't be late!)
    Homework due:
    • TKM chapters 1-8

    In-Class Activities:

    • Introduce BSCR: Chapter 5
    • Midterm Review and grade sheets
    Week
    #10

    Monday 10/27 and Tuesday 10/28

    "The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
    — Allan Bloom
    Wednesday 10/29 and Thursday 10/30
    Homework due:
    • BSCR: Chapter 5, pages 120-130, and exercises 1and 2 (exercise 1 requires only one or two words--one or two purposes for writing; exercise 2 requires complete sentence explanations.)

    I Killed the Mockingbird!
    Squashed mockinbird, under car tire

    People were getting tired of its song!

    Yep. It sang one song too many. So we will not be reading it this semester after all. I will, however, be providing a series a interesting short stories (well, I think they are interesting), that will represent a number of the skills we will be covering in the remainder of the semester.

    The 20 vocabulary cards for self-study will continue. You may choose 10 more words from the blue TKM vocabulary list or you may choose 10 vocabulary words from any of the essays and short stories that we will be reading. You will still be expected to find two other sentences using those words from additional readings on your own.

    In-Class Activities:
  • Review midterm exam answers (Reviewing the exam is a LEARNING activity)
  • BSCR: Chapter 5, pages 130-140 review and correct

  • Homework due:

    • BSCR: Chapter 5, pages 130-140, and exercises 3, 4 , 5, all questions, and the review questions on page 140. Remember to preview the exercises and all their questions to determine your purpose in doing them. (20 points, complete and accurate)

    In-Class Activities:

     

     

    15 points Extra Credit:
     Read"Happiness is First Things First" again (pages 133-134 of BSCR)

    • Summarize the article in one paragraph. Remember the criteria for writing a good summary.
    • Then, in a second paragraph, identify and explain the terms of the analogy employed in the article.
    • Then, write a third paragraph about yourself: How well do you organize your time?
    • (1-2 pages total)

     
    Week
    #11

    Monday 11/3 and Tuesday 11/4

     

    Wednesday 11/5 and Thursday 11/6

    PVCC Student Life Calendar

    Homework due:

    • Answer ALL the Using Your Strategies 2 Questions on p. 146. (10 points); THEN:
    • Write a Summary of "Glittering Alice; Sad Eleanor," pages 144-146 (10 points)

    In-Class Activities:

    • Review Homework
    • Intro pages 146-150
    • Groups compare summaries and decide which is the best one and why. If I agree (best and why), the group gets an additional 5 points.
    • Review The Story of an Hour: irony and character

    20 points Extra Credit:

    Copy and paste into your own document the 10 study strategies on pages 409-410 of the BSCR website. For each strategy, write a paragraph about yourself: do the suggested activity and report on it. How you did. Whether you will do it again on your own. Why you might not do it again. (250 words minimum)

    Project Read Aloud Resource Page

    A collection of short stories
    (Mostly for adult and young adult audiences)

    online short stories for young readers

    15 points Extra Credit:

    Read pages 416-418 of the BSCR website. Analyze your use of time and make a plan. Write a page (200 words minimum) explaining what you learned from this activity.

     

     
    Homework due:
    • Project Read Aloud "Partner Page 6" due (10 points)
    • BSCR: Chapter 5, pages 146-150, read the essay and Answer ALL the Using Your Strategies 3 Questions (5 points)
    • Write a one paragraph summary of "Alcohol and Other Drugs" (10 points)

    In-Class Activities:

    • Review Homework
    • Short story: Eveline

     

    10 points Extra Credit, Figurative Language:

    1. Find and QUOTE (by page number) two different figures of language in TKM.
    2. LABEL the figure employed by the author and
    3. EXPLAIN its meaning, including what is being compared to what and why

    Typed, two full paragraphs.

    Here's an example of how to do it, from another novel:

    • QUOTE: "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult." (Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, page 4)
    • LABEL:This is a metaphor
    • EXPLAIN:in this metaphor the triple dangers and pains of being Black and female and living in the South are compared to the danger of a razor at the throat. And the additional awareness of being displaced is compared to the rust which makes the razor even more dangerous:and it just makes life that much harder.

     

     

    Week
    #12

    Monday only
    11/10

    Tuesday only
    11/11

    Wednesday only
    11/12
    Thursday only
    11/13

    Homework due:

    In-Class Activities:

    • Group work
    • Introduction to BSCR: Chapter 6

    For 20 points of extra credit
    Compare/contrast Eveline's character and situation to that of Louise in The Story of an Hour. 200-300 words.

    OR

    For 15 points extra credit:
    Compare the two authors' symbolic/stylistic use of a window in each story.
    150-200 words.

    No School

    Honor those who

    have served.

     

    A good read aloud story for adults and young adults: The Monkey's Paw (W.W. Jacobs, 1902)

    Homework due:

    • BSCR: Chapter 6: Read all pages 154-64 and answer all questions in the following:
    • Exercise 1 (page 159)
    • Exercise 2 (pp. 160-161)
    • Exercise 3 (page 162)
    • Exercise 4 (pp. 163-164)

    In-Class Activities:

    • Read Aloud Progress
    • Introduce "The Necklace"
    • BSCR:Chapter 6: pp. 154-64: groups reconcile answers

    Regarding the lively Monday discussion of whether to put punctuation inside or outside of a closing quote:

    A guide to punctuating short quotes

    Another good read aloud story: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy, 1886)

    Homework due:

    In-Class Activities:

    • BSCR: Chapter 6: pp. 154-64 and all questions in Exercises 1,2,3 and 4.
    • Introduce "The Necklace"

    Week
    #13

    Monday 11/17 and Tuesday 11/18

    Wednesday 11/19 and Thursday 11/20

     

    Homework due:

    • Read The"Necklace" and answer 5 Questions (25 points):
      • Answer two of Questions #1-4, and three of Questions#5-10 Explain each answer in a complete paragraph. (5 pargraphs total)

    In-Class Activities:

     

    For 20 points of extra credit

    Read the short story, "Good Country People"and answer some Questions: answer 2 Questions of Style (#s 1-6) and 2 Questions of Meaning (#s 7-14) for this story. Four paragraphs, about 200 words.

    This is a good read, with a surprise, but it is hard. If, after reading it, you don't feel you understand it, don't do it.
    Homework due:
    BSCR, chapter 7: 191-203 and exercises 1 and 3.

    NOTE: For each paragraph in Exercise 1, page 195-196, McGrath first asks what the author's point of view is. She is NOT asking, is it first person point of view, or second person point of view, etc. What she's really asking is, what's the author's attitude toward the topic? Or, better, what is the author's main idea about the topic.

    The second question for each paragraph in Exercise 1 asks you to identify/label the tone the author creates, and then explain how the author creates that tone. That is, what words/ideas/sentences in the paragraph create the tone you identify?

    (Don't do Exercise 2--we will do it in class.)

    For each selection in Exercise 3: For each SENTENCE in each PARAGRAPH, decide whether it is fact, opinion, or reasoned judgment. That's ten asnwers for the 10 sentences in paragaph 1, three answers for the three sentences in paragraph 2, etc.

    Also, read this document on tone.

    • Submit a second list of the other 10 vocabulary words you have been studying. (I have your first 10, and I will be testing you on the final exam on any of the 20 total words you have been studying, including the ones I have already tested you on at Midterm.)

    .

    In-Class Activities:
    • Groups analyze Montini article for tone: what statements are meant literally, and which are meant ironically or sarcastically (at the interpretive level of reading)?
    • Review BSCR 7, ex. 1-3
    • .

    Read to us for Extra Credit!
    15 points

    • Let me know by today if you plan to read so I can approve it and fit it in our schedule.
    • Prepare and read aloud a story or essay 4-6 minutes in length.
    • Practice it ahead of time.
    • Introduce what you will read to us (and why you think it is good for us)
    • Provide copies for each person in the class.
    • After the reading, answer questions.
    Week
    #14

    Monday only
    11/24
    Tuesday only
    11/25

    Wednesday only

    11/26

    NO CLASS!
    Thursday only

    11/27

    NO CLASS!


    Homework due:

    Read Aloud Project Report Due

    30 points, well written and thorough
    (2 full pages, 400-500 words)

    + 20 points for the well-done, completed Reading Log

    Now that you are done reading to your partner, its time to write a report and also give a brief oral report. (Oral reports (10 points) will be given, five a day, during the last three weeks of class.)

    For the written report, answer the following questions in separate typed paragraphs.

    1. What was the age and relationship of your reading partner to you? What did you read to them? Describe the typical meeting: Where did you read, when, how long?
    2. How did your relationship change as you went along? What did you learn about that person that you didn't already know? Has your Partner's attitude toward reading changed?
    3. What did you learn about yourself that you didn't already know? How has your attitude changed toward reading, especially reading aloud?
    4. What was the best thing you experienced about this Read Aloud Project?
    5. What surprised you about this project?
    6. Explain why you will or will not read aloud again.

    Attach your read aloud log to the back of this paper.

     

    In-Class Activities:

    Definition of Satire:
    Poking fun at a problem by offering a ridiculous solution or situation that actually further exposes the real problem.

    Here is an example of political satire as a response to the perceived BIAS of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in favor of the Palestinians and against the Israelis:

    Sarchasm • \SAR-cha-sym\ • noun : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

    Homework due:

    • Read Aloud Project (see Monday)
    • BSCR 9: p. 262-269, and all questions for exercise 1

    In-Class Activities:

    • Intro chapter 9
    • Students' oral reports on Read Aloud Project

    Did you know there is a specific area in your brain
    to detect and interpret sarcasm?
    Is your saracasm detector working?

    EXTRA CREDIT Opportunity
    15 points, one full page

    1. Reread page 193 of the textbook BSCR (the section on "Knowledge and Reliability."
    2. Find two different websites on the internet that are devoted to the same topic--one that is credible, reliable and reasonably neutral, and the other that is of questionable value--it seems to be unreliable and highly biased--maybe even inaccurate..
    3. Show by reference to the pages how the one is good, the other not so good.
    4. Submit your paper online with a link provided to each website so that I may easily visit myself.

    Homework due by email:

    • BSCR 9: p. 262-269, and all questions for exercise 1 via email

    EXTRA CREDIT:
    15 points

    1. Find a current newspaper column/opinion piece that has irony or satire in it. Here's a great source for lots of newspaper opinion pages. (Make sure you are getting an opinion piece, not a news piece.

    (No credit for a news article without irony/ satire)

    2. Copy the article and underline the satire and irony, and write a paragraph explaining it. Include the URL.

    (PRIOR to attempting this assignment,
    it is recommended you explore all the links below,
    which define and contrast news and opinion articles.)

    In-Class Activities:

    NONE!  No Class.