“On Dumpster Diving” (in LP) Suggested Student Essay: “What Kinds of Videos Go Viral?” (p. 3 06) ______________________________________________________________________________ WEEK 11: Launchpad: Assign “Commonly Confused Days One & Two: Both Subjects: Argumentation Discussion of the argumentative essay assignment *Refer to the suggested essay topics Suggested Student-Reading: “Increase Grant Money for College Students,” p. 266 Reading: Possible Readings: “In Praise of the F Word,” p. 269 “Obligation to Endure” (LP) “Ain’t I a Woman?” (LP) “I Want a Wife,” p. 606 Writing: Commonly Confused Words, p. 466-471 _____________________________________________________________________________ WEEK 12: Argumentative Essay is Due Launchpad: “Pronouns” and “Commas” Day One: Writing: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, p. 385-391 Both Subjects: Classification Suggested Readings: “The Ways We Lie” (LP) “How is Facebook Making Friending Obsolete,” p. 233-234 “The Seat Not Taken,” p. 613-616 Day Two: Both Subjects: Timed Classification Essay *Instructors: refer to the suggested essay topics. *Remember to tell students to bring two readings to class. Writing: Commas, chapter 26 ______________________________________________________________________________ WEEK 13: Launchpad: Capitalization; Quotation Marks; Italics
Narration Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” Focus NO Unavailable Description Rachel Carson’s “A Fable for Tomorrow” Focus NO Unavailable Exemplification Angier’s “One Thing They Aren’t” Maternal LP NO 1200 Exemplification Richard Rodriguez’s “Around the World, Women Are on the Move” NO Unavailable Exemplification Zinsser’s “Clutter” LP NO 1030 Process Goodman’s “Spring Cleaning Our LP NO 910 Process Kotz’s “How to Boost Your Willpower” LP NO 1170 Process Amy Ma’s “My Grandmother’s Dumpling” Focus NO Unavailable Process Adam Goodheart’s “How to Mummify a Pharaoh” Focus NO Unavailable Classification Lutz’s “World of Doublespeak” LP YES, the essay is under the title “Doublespeak” 1240 Classification Ericsson’s “The Ways We Lie” LP NO 1000 Classification Scott Russel Sanders’ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” (It also be a comparison of men’s and women’s views of each other according to their social class) Focus YES Unavailable Classification Carolyn Foster Segal’s “My Dog Ate My Flashdrive, and Other Tales of Woe” Focus NO Unavailable Definition Julia Avarez’s “What is a Quinceanera?” Focus NO Unavailable Definition Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife” (This is also clearly an argument) YES Unavailable Definition Joshuah Bearman’s “My Half-Baked Bubble” Focus NO Unavailable
and Effect Julia Angwin’s “How is Facebook Making Friending Obsolete” Focus NO Unavailable and Effect John Wideman’s “The Seat Not Taken” Focus NO Unavailable Comparison and Contrast Seattle’s “Address” LP NO 1070 Comparison and Contrast Dodds’ “Beautiful Teenage Brains” LP NO 1160 Comparison and Contrast Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River” LP YES, under the title “Two Views of the Mississippi” 1210 Comparison and Contrast Steven Conn’s “The Twin Revolutions of Lincoln and Darwin” Focus NO Unavailable Comparison and Contrast Russel Sanders’ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” (This might also be a classification of the types of images we have of men and women according to general and social class) YES, and the department has a “practice exam” that you may assign as a major quiz to prepare students for EXAM TWO. Just don’t teach the essay until after students take it. Unavailable Comparison and Contrast John Gray’s “Men are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” NO Unavailable Argumentation Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language” LP NO 1360 Argumentation Brownmiller’s “Let’s Put Pornography Back in the Closet” LP NO 1260 Argumentation Carson’s “Obligation to Endure” LP NO 1270 Argumentation Etzioni’s “Working at McDonald’s” LP NO 1170 Argumentation Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics” LP NO 1170 Argumentation Kaminer’s “War on High Schools” LP NO 1350 Argumentation “Case for Torture” LP NO 1140
Argumentation Scholosser’s “Most Dangerous Job” LP NO 1020 Argumentation Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” LP NO 1030 Argumentation Mary Sherry’s “In Praise of the F Word” NO (This used to be in the old Portfolios book). Unavailable Argumentation Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife” (Also a definition piece) Focus YES Unavailable Argumentation D. B. Grady’s “Why Women Soldiers Don’t Belong on the Front Lines” Focus NO Unavailable Argumentation Bob Herbert’s “Tweet Less, Kiss More” Focus NO Unavailable Argumentation Adam Winkler’s “The Guns of Academe” Focus NO Unavailable Argumentation Richard Lederer’s “The Case for Short Words” Focus NO Unavailable Strategy Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” LP YES 1140 SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR REVISED ESSAYS: Narration:
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