Week
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Date
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Main Topic
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Content and Reading Assignment
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Teaching Activities and Homework
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Student Workload
(In/Out-class Hours)
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-
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2/27
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Course Orientation
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In Class: Syllabus Announcements
Warm-up activity
Assignments: Vocabulary List 6
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2
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2
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-
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3/6
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Paragraph & Essay
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Paragraph & Essay Structure Review
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In Class: Paragraph structure
Essay structure
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2
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2
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-
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3/13
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Common Problems
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Writing Problems
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In Class: Vocabulary List 6 Quiz
Sentence Fragment, Choppy Sentence, Comma Splice, Run-on, Stringy Sentence, Parallelism
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2
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2
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-
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3/20
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Summary & Paraphrasing
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Writing summaries and paraphrases
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In Class: Summary techniques and practices
Paraphrasing techniques and practices
Assignments: Vocabulary List 7
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2
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2
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-
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3/27
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Argumentative Essays
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Structure of Argumentative Essays
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In Class: Argumentative Essay structure analysis
Debate demo and techniques
Assignments: Group Debate
Argumentative Essay Outline
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2
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5
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-
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4/3
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Argumentative Essays
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Peer Review
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In Class: Vocabulary List 7 Quiz
Peer review of Outline
Assignments: Group Debate
Due: Argumentative Essay Outline
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2
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5
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-
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4/10
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Argumentative Essays
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Structure of Argumentative Essays
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In Class: Argumentative Essay structure analysis
Assignments: Group Debate
Vocabulary List 8
Argumentative Essay Draft
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2
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5
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-
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4/17
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Group Debate
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Group Debate
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In Class: Group Debate
Assignments: Group Debate
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2
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5
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-
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4/24
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Group Debate
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Group Debate
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In Class: Group Debate
Assignments: Due: Argumentative Essay Draft
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2
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2
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-
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5/1
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Classification Essays
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Structure of Classification Essays
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In Class: Vocabulary List 8 Quiz
Classification Essay structure analysis
Assignments: Argumentative Essay Final Version
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2
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4
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-
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5/8
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Classification Essays
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Structure of Classification Essays
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In Class: Classification essay structure analysis
Assignments: Vocabulary List 9
Due: Argumentative Essay Final Version
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2
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4
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-
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5/15
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Magazine Articles
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Magazine Structure & Outline
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In Class: Analyze Magazine structure & brainstorm
Assignments: Class Magazine Plan
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2
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4
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-
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5/22
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Class Magazine Articles
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Class Magazine Articles
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In Class: Vocabulary List 9 Quiz
Class Magazine Article Writing
Assignments: Due: Class Magazine Article Draft
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2
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4
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-
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5/29
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Class Magazine Ads & Others
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Class Magazine Ads & Others
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In Class: Class Magazine Ad &Other Designs
Assignments: Vocabulary List 10
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2
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4
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-
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6/5
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Class Magazine Editing
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Class Magazine Editing
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In Class: Edit Class Magazine
Assignments: Due: Class Magazine Other Designs
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2
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4
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-
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6/12
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Class Magazine
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Class Magazine Finalize
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In Class: Vocabulary List 10 Quiz
Assignments: Due: Class Magazine Final Version
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2
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5
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-
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6/19
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Class Magazine
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Present Class Magazine
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In Class: Collect & present Class Magazine
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2
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2
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18.
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6/26
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Individual Consultation
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Individual Consultation
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In Class: Individual Consultation
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2
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2
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