Tentative Class Schedule
English 111 (Vavra) Spring 2010
evavra@pct.edu
Pennsylvania College of Technology
The Seven P's --
Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
-- Courtesy of my next-door neighbor.

     Note: This is a tentative list of assignments. You may, if you wish, work ahead, but assignments may be changed. As of Monday morning of one week, the assignments for the following week become active. That means that you can stop by a lab any time during one week and get the assignments for the next.
Click on the Week Number for the Assignments for that week.
WWWebster Dictionary (on-line) Practice Exercises on Syntax
@rgue
Note: Resubmission of MP # 2
     You may resubmit MP # 2 for a grade (or a better grade) no  later than March 22 (W11A). Include everything that was required for the original submission, plus a clean copy of the grading sheets, and submit a new electronic copy.
Week Monday Wednesday Friday
1 Jan 11
Welcome
The WWW & This Course		  Jan 13
Prep for MP # 2 +
Syllabus 		 Jan 15
They Say/I Say, pages ix - 27 (through Chapter 1)
Introduction
to Syntax
2 Jan 18
Writing as a Process & Product
(Whimbey)		 Jan 20
They Say/I Say, pages 28 - 38 (Chapter 2)
Discuss MP 2 +
(SA #1  S/V/C)		 Jan 22
They Say/I Say, pages 39 - 48 (Chapter 3)
Grading Two Essays
(SA #2 Complements)
3 Jan 25
Prep for MP #1
Intro to Fallacies		 Jan 27
They Say/I Say, pages 49 - 63 (Chapter 4)
Fallacies Ex # 1
 (SA #3 4 complications)		 Jan 29
They Say/I Say, pages 64 - 73 (Chapter 5)
 (SA # 4-PPhrase)
4 Feb 1
Fallacies Ex # 2
 (SA #5 Modal Verbs)		 Feb 3
ICE on fallacies
They Say/I Say, pages 74 - 87 (Chapter 6)
 (SA #6 Helping Verbs)		  Feb 5
Intro to Library Tutorial
They Say/I Say, pages 88 - 98 (Chapter 7)
Syntax Test # 1
5 Feb 8
They Say/I Say, pages 99 - 114 (Chapter 8)
(SA # 7 Appositives)		 Feb 10
Basic Documentation
Doc. Exercise #1
Org Ex # 2; 
Library Tutorial Due
(SA # 8 Prep Problems)		 Feb 12
Major Paper # 1 Due
Library Orientation
6 Feb 15
They Say/I Say, pages 115 - 133 (Chapters 9, 10 & Appendix ) 
(SA # 9 Verbals - 1)		 Feb 17
(SA # 10 Verbals - 2)
KISS Grammar Game		 Feb 19
Individual Conferences
Annotated WC for MP2
7 Feb 22
MP #2 Workshop
(SA #11 Main Clauses)		 Feb 24
(SA #12 Sub Clauses - 1)		 Feb 26
Snow Day
8 Mar 1
MP # 2 - Workshop
(SA # 13 Sub Clauses - 2)		 Mar 3
Prep for MP # 3
Mark Twain,
"Corn-pone Opinions"
(SA #14 Sub Clauses - 3)		 Mar 5
Major Paper # 2 Due
Syntax Test # 2
9 Mar 8
Spring Break		 Mar 10
Spring Break		 Mar 12
Spring Break
10 Mar 15
Discuss MP # 2
(SA # 15 Embedded Clauses)		 Mar 17
William Golding, 
"Thinking as a Hobby"
(SA # 16 CMC Logic)		 Mar 19
Plato, 
"The Allegory of the Cave" 
11 Mar 22
MP # 2 Resubmissions
William Perry, 
"Examsmanship and
the Liberal Arts"		 Mar 24
In-class essay
on MP 3		 Mar 26
(SA # 17 MC Errors)
(SA # 18 Fragments)
12 Mar 29
Major Paper # 3 Due
(SA # 19 Conjunctive Adverbs)		  Mar 31
Prep for MP # 4
(SA # 20 Semicolons)
Syntax Test # 3		 Apr 2
Easter Break
April 16 = Last Day for "W" grade
13 Apr 5
Easter Break		 Apr 7
(SA # 21 SC to MC)
(SA # 22 MC to SC)		 Apr 9
MP 4 Workshop
14 Apr 12
MP 4 Workshop
(SA # 23 Style W.MC)		 Apr 14
MP 4 Workshop
(SA # 24 SC - Texture)		 Apr 16
Major Paper # 4 Due
15 Apr 19
Prep for MP #5
(SA # 25 SC - Logic Hume)		 Apr 21
(SA # 26 Analyzing My Own Writing)		 Apr 23
Work on MP 5
(SA # 27 SC Focus)
16 Apr 26
Prep for ICE
(SA # 28 MIMC - Alicia)		 Apr 28
(SA # 29 - Gerundives)
In-Class Essay		 Apr 30
MP # 5 Workshop
Syntax Test # 4
Final Exams: (Spring 2010) 
MP # 5 Due
Sec  5: 11 - 2, May 7 in ACC 305
Sec 13: 11 - 2, May 3 in ACC 419
Sec 35: 8 - 11, May 3 in ACC 305