Writing 1 Syllabus -- Fall, 2017

Writing 1 Fall Syllabus

Week	Literature	Literature Assignments Due	Writing Assignments Due	Grammar
Week 1 (8/24)	Introduction to Animal Farm
Week 2 (8/31)	Read  Introduction & Handouts	Before Reading Exercise:  “What makes a good leader?”	Descriptive Essay Rough Draft	Intro to Parts of Speech, part 1
Week 3 (9/7)	Read  Chapters I & II	3 Reader Responses 3 Vocabulary words.		Intro to Parts of Speech, part 2
Week 4 (9/14)	Read  Chapters III & IV	Take Home Quiz #1 3 Vocabulary words.	Descriptive Essay Final Draft	Intro to Parts of Speech, part 3 Parts of Speech Pre-Test
Week 5 (9/21)	Read  Chapters V & VI	3 Reader Responses 3 Vocabulary words.	Personal Essay Rough Draft	Conjunctions Presentation
Week 6 (9/28)	Read  Chapters VII & VIII	3 Reader Responses 3 Vocabulary words.		Nouns Presentation
Week 7 (10/5)	Read  Chapters IX & X	Take Home Quiz #2 3 Vocabulary words	Personal Essay Final Draft	Pronouns Presentation
Week 8 (10/12)	Character Presentations	Final for Animal Farm	Example/Illustration Essay Pre-Write	Adjectives Presentation
FALL BREAK
Week 9 (10/26)	Introduction  to A Christmas Carol		Example/Illustration Essay Rough Draft	Adverbs Presentation
Week 10 (11/2)	Read  Stave One	3 questions from the Study Guide.  4 Vocabulary words.		Verbs Presentation
Week 11 (11/9)	Read  Stave Two	3 questions from the Study Guide.  4 Vocabulary words.	Example/Illustration Essay Final Draft	Prepositions Presentation
Week 12 (11/16)	Read  Stave Three	3 questions from the Study Guide.  4 Vocabulary words.	History/Biography  Pre-Write	Interjections Presentation
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 13 (11/30)	Read  Stave Four	2 questions from the Study Guide.  4 Vocabulary words.	History/Biography Rough Draft	Review Parts of Speech Post Test
Week 14 (12/7)	Read  Stave Five	Vocabulary Quiz 4 Vocabulary words.		Word of the Day Test
Week 15 (12/14)		Final Exam	History/Biography Final Draft

Welcome to Writing 1, 2017

Greetings Parents!

Registrations have been coming in, and Kim Nelson has sent out updated class rosters to the tutors.  I'm excited to see this class fill up.  For those who are new to my classes, I will use e-mails and this blog, Writing 1, to keep parents and students informed and connected.  If you are curious about the class, feel free to peruse past blog posts, especially the Weekly Class Notes.

The students will be reading Animal Farm (Orwell) and A Christmas Carol (Dickens) this semester.  I will buy these books for the students.  I order almost all of my books from Dover Publications because they are so inexpensive.  Dover doesn't carry Animal Farm, so I get used copies at book sales, Half-Price Books, etc.  If you have a copy of Animal Farm that you would like to use, let me know.

The only items your student needs to bring to class, along with some paper and a pen/pencil, is a notebook or folder to keep track of assignments, handouts, worksheets, and class notes.  In the past, I've used Dropbox as storage for handouts for the class.  This year I am using Google Docs.  Shortly, you will receive an invitation to join the shared Google Docs folder with all of the study guides, handouts, worksheets, etc.

I use My GradeBook, an online grade book, for keeping track of assignments and grades.  You will be getting a link to that account, also. 

I'm looking forward to a new group of students and starting a fresh year of writing.  If your student has an email that I can use for the class, please send that to me.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Please let me know that you received this e-mail; you can simply hit "reply" and "send."  Also, if your student has a separate e-mail that he/she would like me to use, please send that to me.

Looking forward to the Fall classes!

Tammy Prichard

Spring 2017 Writing 1 Syllabus

Week/ Date	Literature	Assign. Due	Writing	Grammar Topic
Week 1 (1/19)	Introduction to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde			Comma:  Compound Sentences
Week 2 (1/26)	Jekyll/Hyde:  Ch. 1 – 2 (pg.1 – 11)	Answer 2 questions for Ch. 1 and 2 for Ch. 2.	Narrative Essay Pre-Write	Comma:  Complex Sentences
Week 3 (2/2)	Jekyll/Hyde:  Ch. 3 – 4 (pg. 12 – 17)	Be prepared to discuss the study questions for Ch. 3 & 4.	Narrative Essay Rough Draft	Comma:  Intro Elements
Week 4 (2/9)	Jekyll/Hyde:  Ch. 5 – 6 (pg. 18 – 24)	Answer 2 questions for Ch. 5 and 2 for Ch. 6.		Comma:  Restrictive Clauses
Week 5 (2/16)	Jekyll/Hyde:  Ch. 7 – 8 (pg. 25 – 35)	Be prepared to discuss the study questions for Ch. 7 & 8.	Narrative Essay Final Draft	Comma:  Appositives & Parenthetical phrases
February 23 – No CHAT
Week 6 (3/2)	Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 9 – 10 (pg. 36 – 54)	Answer 2 questions for Ch. 9 and 2 for Ch. 10.	Theme & Character Pre-Write	Comma:  Series
Week 7 (3/9)	Short Stories: Gift of the Magi (p. 1);  After Twenty Years  (p. 21)	2 Short Story Chart Worksheets	Theme & Character Rough Draft	Comma:  Interrupters
Week 8 (3/16)	Makes the Whole World Kin (p. 85); A The Furnished Room (p. 23)	2 Short Story Chart Worksheets		Comma: Dates & Addresses
Week 9 (3/23)	Short Stories:  Retrieved Reformation (p. 49); The Pimenta Pancakes (p. 29)	2 Short Story Chart Worksheets	Theme & Character Final Draft	End Marks & Abbreviations
Week 10 (3/30)	Short Stories:  The Ransom of Red Chief (p. 71); Poems of Robert Service (handout)	2 Short Story Chart Worksheets	News Story Pre-Write	Colon & Semicolon
April 6 – No CHAT
Week 11 (4/13)	Poetry:  Hughes (p. 51); Williams (p. 48); Frost (p. 44)	2 Poetry Analysis worksheets	News Story Rough Draft	Italics & Quotations Marks
Week 12 (4/20)	Poetry:  Wordsworth (p. 12); Browning (p. 19); Bronte (p. 24); Hopkins (p. 31)	2 Poetry Analysis worksheets		Hyphens, Parentheses & Dash
Week 13 (4/27)	Poetry:  TBD	2 Poetry Analysis worksheets	News Story Final Draft	Punctuation Review
Week 14 (5/4)	Poetry:  T.S. Eliot (Handout) Poetry Presentations		Re-Write Spring Writing Test	Grammar Test
Week 15 (5/11)	Poetry Presentations