GOALS FOR WEEK 1
By the end of this week, you will:
By the end of this week, you will:
- Understand the goals and requirements of this course.
- Get to know your classmates and your teacher.
- Understand what textbooks, materials, and online systems you need to obtain for this class.
- Take a variety of diagnostic tests to make sure you are in the right level.
- Understand the expectations of an American university student.
- Learn active reading skills.
- Learn about how to write a strong summary.
- Understand simple, complex, and compound sentence structure in English and how to use this information to identify fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
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MONDAY
-Review syllabus -Welcome presentation -Review website -In-class summary writing diagnostic HOMEWORK -Buy textbooks at bookstore and MyEnglishLab access. -Review syllabus -Get a notebook for your class journal and start to write this week's entries (at least 25 sentences) |
TUESDAY
-Name game -Review correction to syllabus -Essay-writing diagnostic HOMEWORK -Print and read this article--be ready to discuss it Thursday! -Buy textbooks at bookstore and MyEnglishLab access. -Journals due Friday. |
WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up -Discuss professional communications with professors [Needed more] -Diagnostic grammar test HOMEWORK -Print and read this article--be ready to discuss it Thursday! -Buy textbooks at bookstore and MyEnglishLab access. |
THURSDAY
-Warm-up -Discuss plagiarism article and active reading -Reading diagnostic HOMEWORK -Buy textbooks at bookstore and MyEnglishLab access. |
FRIDAY
-Warm-up -Discussion of summary writing -More plagiarism: Melania Trump -Sentence structure and how to fix problems -Journal #1 due HOMEWORK -Look at your summary paragraph diagnostic and label the types of sentences you used: simple, compound, or complex. -Read and write a one-paragraph summary of "Are We Running Out of Chocolate?" for Tuesday. Use a variety of sentence structures. -Buy textbooks at bookstore and bring to class on Tuesday. |