Assignments ASTEP-English 100

Assignments In English 100 this semester students will write text-based essays—recognizing, analyzing, and critically evaluating the authors’ work from four books: Cose’s Color Blind, (two excerpts from Barnet’s Current Issues, Enduring Questions): Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream,” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again”; comparable to those excerpts is President Obama’s speech entitled “A More Perfect Union” (a handout) and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. IN-class writing assignments are scheduled every Monday, while outside writing assignments are due every two weeks. (The outside writing assignments are due on the assigned day WITHOUT exception.) Disclaimer The class assignments and the assigned writing exercises are a tentative outlay of assignments this semester. It is quite possible that those assignments may change due to unforeseen circumstances. Those changes will be announced in class. Please Note: It is to the students’ great advantage to discipline themselves in attending class regularly. Absences will cause students to miss assignments that can not be made up (such as lectures, class discussions, and some exams if those exams have been returned.) Missing such work and class assignments may weaken considerable the students’ total scores in English 100. If you know that you will be absent on the day that a writing assignment is due, they you should turn in your paper before that date. However, if you don’t know that you are going to be absent on that due date, then you should send in your assignment by someone else. Essays will NOT be accepted via email. (The final writing project is due on or before the assigned day ONLY).
Outside Writing Assignments

	*Week of January 19 – February 2, 2010* (Argumentative Essay - Please refer to Pages 6-8 in your Student Notes.) Read Cose’s Color Blind. In Chapter Five Cose discussed Dr. King’s views. Compare/contrast this statement: “The reality of King’s views is much more complicated than the “content of their character. . .” Due February 2, 2010 only. Analogy lessons 1 – 4.


	Week of February 4 – 18, 2010 Read Steele’s The Content of their Character, Chapter Five - “White Guilt,” Page 89. In an argumentative essay state your position for or against Steele’s discussion in the last paragraph concerning the pressures of ‘white guilt.” Be sure to support your argument with examples based upon the machanics of an argumentative essay that is outlined in your Students Notes. Due February 18, 2010 only. Analogies 5 – 8


	Week of February 23 – March 16, 2010 Read King’s “I Have A Dream” in Student Notes, Page 15a. Also read the handout (Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”). In Paragraph Four, Dr. King used figurative language to make vivid his meaning of injustices, etc. In Paragraph 15 Obama used anaphora to discuss injustices. In an expository essay you are to explain their meanings as you use their figurative language/literary devices adding more of your own to make clear your explanations. (Compare the two writers’ discussion using your own explanations.) Please refer to the outline of an expository essay on Pages 9-11 in your Student Notes. Due March 16, 2010 only. Analogies 9 – 12


	Week of March 18 – April 23, 2010 Read Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again,” Pages 17-17a in your Student Notes. In an expository essay discuss Hughes; meaning in Lines 31-38. Please be very thorough in your explanations and definitions as based upon the mechanics of an expository essay – Pages 9-11 in your Student Notes. Due March 23, 2010 without exception. Analogies 13 – 15


	Week of March 25 – April 22, 2010 Read Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. From this book comes your final writing project. You will be given a handout that discusses the topic that will require critical evaluation, observation, and analyzation based upon Hurston’s concepts but applied to your life. It is vital that you attend class regularly to gather as many lecture notes as possible. Please remember that essay evaluation depends upon the quality of the paper and not quantity.


	Finally, you have approximately six weeks to complete this paper; it is due on or before the assigned day without exception. It will not be accepted after the day that it is due (regardless of the circumstances.) Since it is worth 200 points, you may risk failing the class if it is not turned in on time. Due on or before April 22, 2010 *without exception.*


	Book exams are scheduled to be given on the day that the outside writing assignments are due. Please make every effort to be in class on those days, especially.

	Supplement Essay Information After essays are written, corrected, and returned to you, you may have questions regarding those corrections. We will discuss those essays containing faulty mechanics based upon the logic that is in the content of your paper via your examples and the examples given on Pages 22-23 in your Student Notes. Please take notes; those grammar errors should NOT be repeated in subsequent papers. Read the adjective and adverb phrases. Students should be able to recognize all prepositions and know the use of those prepositions We will review the mechanics of three clauses: the adjective, adverb and noun clauses The verbal phrases are equally important. Students should learn the difference between a verbal and a verb.


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