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American Experience: Term 3 Archive of Weekly Syllabi
Below is a list of assignments and assessments completed thus far in the current marking period.
If you missed a class or an assignment, this archive, along with your X2 online grade report, will give you the opportunity to discover what you missed. It will also provide with the resources to complete all the work that can possibly be completed outside of class.
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Weekly Syllabus
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This syllabus is from the week of...
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Spring Semester Starts
- Introduction to multi-genre writing in the "real" world.
- Begin by exploring a "text" connection: view Road Runner episode
- Read "Coyote vs. Acme" by Ian Frazier (p. 1148 - 1152 in lit. book) and complete an open reader's response to hold your thinking.
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Check and prep. spring semester portfolios (digital and 3-ring)
- Review multi-genre papers and explore multi-genre writing resources
- Draft a proposal for your multi-genre paper. (You may use Inspiration(R) for the brainstorming part of your proposal.)
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Create a rough draft of two genres (rough draft # 1 and # 2) for your multi-genre paper.
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Create a rough draft of two genres (rough draft # 3 and # 4) for your multi-genre paper.
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Create a rough draft of two genres (rough draft # 5 and # 6) for your multi-genre paper.
- Complete work not completed in class.
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1/23/12
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1/27/12
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Tracking Thoreau
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Create a rough draft of two genres (rough draft # 7 and # 8) for your multi-genre paper.
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Create a rough draft of two genres (rough draft # 9 and # 10) for your multi-genre paper.
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Writer's conferences.
- Review and discuss multi-genre paper scoring rubric.
- Use this scoring rubric as a guide and begin creating a full rough draft. Follow these steps:
- Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
- Click here to set-up spring semester digital portfolios.
- Learn how to save a file as a PDF.
- Peer writing conferences:
- With peer comments and rubric score as a guide, begin work on final draft.
- Complete work not completed in class.
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1/30/12
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2/3/12
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