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English
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Course Information |
Jenny
Tashjian Netto
(209) 575-7822
nettoj@mjc.edu
Sierra 253
Section #1027: Mondays and
Wednesdays from 9:30-10:50 am in Founders 223
Required Texts and Materials |
For
this course, you will need three books and a reader.
The
required texts are available in the student bookstore.
If you have difficulty obtaining these books in the student bookstore,
it is your responsibility to acquire them by other means:
A
Rulebook for Arguments (isbn
0-87220-552-5)
The
Kite Runner (isbn 1594480001)
The Least You Should Know
About English (Form A—isbn 1413008941)
Also,
at a later date in the semester, you will need to purchase our course reader
from Laser Graphics on 571 Tully (at Tully and Coldwell across the street from
the track). They accept only cash
and checks (they do NOT accept credit cards).
This reader will be tailored to our needs as a class and will not be
available until we have completed some activities.
Please wait until the announcement is made in class that it is ready to
be purchased.
It
will also be necessary for you to xerox research materials and purchase
supplies for your projects. Lastly, you may wish to purchase one (or more)
book(s) for this project. You should plan for these additional expenses
accordingly.
You
are ultimately responsible for holding on to any materials I distribute in
class; I will not provide duplicate copies of course materials. You
will also be responsible for keeping track of your own progress in this course
by referring to graded assignments.
Coursework |
Your
grade in this course will be determined by the points you earn on the
following assignments. All homework and papers, including the research paper,
will be collected at the beginning of class on the due date. Any papers which
are not promptly turned in at these times will be considered late. ABSOLUTELY
NO LATE PAPERS will be accepted, no exceptions.
Kite
Runner
Essay
(10% of final grade): you will write a five-page, argumentative essay on our
novel.
Notebook
(10% of your final grade): you will complete a series of quizzes, assignments,
and activities. These will be
kept in your notebook which will be collected and scored.
Each assignment will be checked in when it is due.
Late assignments will not be scored.
Lost assignments will not be scored.
It is your responsibility to keep your course-work bound in a binder as
described above.
Position
Papers
(50% of your final grade): you will write five two page position papers (for
10% each) employing an assigned argumentative strategy.
Papers must be typed or word processed and stapled. They must be
double-spaced, left-justified, printed in Times 12 point font, and aligned
with one inch margins on all sides of the page. Make sure your
ink/toner/ribbon is black and adequately dark. I will not grade papers that I
cannot read.
Research
Paper
(20% of final grade): you will write one eight-page paper synthesizing all of
your argumentation techniques and demonstrating your mastery of the topics we
have covered.
Final
(10% of final grade): you will
take a final during the scheduled final exam session for your section.
Class Procedures |
Attendance
is crucial.
Any student who fails to attend class regularly or during the first session
may be dropped; however, it is the responsibility of the student to
complete the course or to officially withdraw from a class.
Although your grade will not be docked for absences, make-ups will not
be given and late work will not be accepted. Excessive absence will therefore
adversely affect your grade.
Participation
is essential.
Students are expected to participate in all classroom exercises and
activities. Non-academic and/pr
disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. Per
college policy, cell phones and pages must be turned off during class time.
Deadlines
are absolute.
All papers and assignments are due on the date designated by the course
outline. No late papers will be accepted and no make-ups will be given on any
quiz or activity. Everything distributed in class, hand-outs and returned
work, will only be distributed once. If
you are absent, it is your responsibility to acquire distributed materials
from a classmate.
Plagiarism
is illegal.
A word about plagiarism: don't do it. Students are regularly caught and
punished for it. If caught, students will fail this course and their cases
will be reported for appropriate discipline.
Again, if you plagiarize—at any time and on any assignment—you will
get an F in this class. If you
are at all unsure about what constitutes plagiarism, you must ask me before
you submit an assignment.
Your
instructor is available.
If you run into a problem with a particular reading or writing assignment,
please take the time to talk to me about it.
Course Outline |
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Monday,
January 9: Introduction |
Wednesday,
January 11: Class:
Kite Runner Grammar:
Words Often Confused (Set 1) (p 4) |
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Monday,
January 16: Holiday |
Wednesday,
January 18: Quiz
on Section I in Rulebook Class:
The Lit Essay Grammar:
Words Often Confused (Set 2) (p 14) The
Eight Parts of Speech (p 23) |
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Monday,
January 23: Kite
Runner Paper
Due Class:
Introduce Topic #1 Grammar:
Adjectives and Adverbs (p 29) |
Wednesday,
January 25: Quiz
on Section II in Rulebook Class:
Introduce Groups Grammar:
Contractions (p 36) |
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Monday,
January 30: Position
Paper #1 Due Class:
Introduce Topic #2 Grammar:
Possessives (p 42) |
Wednesday,
February 1: Quiz
on Section III in Rulebook Class:
Group Conferences Grammar:
Words that Can Be Broken into Parts (p 50) |
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Monday,
February 6: Class:
Background Presentations Topic #2 Grammar:
Unit #1 Mastery Test |
Wednesday,
February 8: Quiz
on Section X in Rulebook Class:
Topic #2 Continued Grammar:
Finding Subjects and Verbs (p 63) Locating
Prepositional Phrases (p 69) |
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Monday,
February 13: Position
Paper #2 Due Class:
Introduce Topic #3 Grammar:
Understanding Dependent Clauses (p 75) |
Wednesday,
February 15: Quiz
on Section IV in Rulebook Class:
Group Conferences Grammar:
Correcting Fragments (p 82) |
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Monday,
February 20: Holiday |
Wednesday,
February 22: Class:
Background Presentations Topic #3 Grammar:
Correcting Run-on Sentences (p 89) Identifying
Verb Phrases (p 97) Using
Standard English Verbs (p 102) |
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Monday,
February 27: Position
Paper #3 Due Class:
Introduce Topic #4 Grammar:
Using Regular and Irregular Verbs (p 108) |
Wednesday,
March 1: Quiz
on Section V in Rulebook Class:
Group Conferences Grammar:
Maintaining Subject-Verb Agreement (p 118) |
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Monday,
March 6: Class:
Background Presentations Topic #4 Grammar:
Avoiding Shifts in Time (p 125) Recognizing
Verbal Phrases (p 127) |
Wednesday,
March 8: Class:
Topic #4 Continued Grammar:
Correcting Modifiers (p 133) |
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Monday,
March 13: Position
Paper #4 Due Class:
Introduce Topic #5 Grammar:
Following Sentence Patterns (p 137) |
Wednesday,
March 15: Quiz
on Section VI in Rulebook Class:
Group Conferences Grammar:
Avoiding Clichés (p 144) |
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Monday,
March 20: Class:
Background Presentations Topic #5 Grammar:
Correcting for Parallel Structure (p 148) |
Wednesday,
March 22: Quiz
on Appendix in Rulebook Class:
Topic #5 Continued Grammar:
Using Pronouns (p 154) |
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Monday,
March 27: Position
Paper #5 Due Class:
Introduce Research Paper Grammar:
Avoiding Shifts in Person (p 162) |
Wednesday,
March 29: Quiz
on Section VII in Rulebook Class:
Regrouping Grammar:
Unit #2 Mastery Test |
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Monday,
April 3: Research
Materials Due Class:
Instructor Conferences Grammar:
Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, etc. (p 167) |
Wednesday,
April 5: Quiz
on Section VIII in Rulebook Class:
Research Grammar:
Comma Rules 1, 2, and 3 (p 174) |
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Monday,
April 10: Research
Outline Due Class:
Instructor Conferences Grammar:
Comma Rules 4, 5, and 6 (p 181) |
Wednesday,
April 12: Quiz
on Section IX in Rulebook Class:
Polishing Grammar:
Quotation Marks (p 189) Capital
Letters (p 195) |
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Monday,
April 17: Research
Paper Due Group
Final Conferences Unit
#3 Mastery Test |
Wednesday,
April 19: Group
Final Conferences |
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Final
Exam: Scheduled Final Time |
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