• Answer the questions on the questionaire page in an email to amills@ccsf.edu.
• Read the course description online. You may want to print it and annotate it.
• Download, print, and complete the course description worksheet.
• Visit the Writing Lab and staple a Writing Lab flyer or bookmark to the worksheet for full credit!

Discuss Affluenza

Explanation of the Degrees of Reading Power test

Complete the self-assessment and practice questions handouts to prepare for the Degrees of Reading Power Test

Write one to two paragraphs explaining why you chose the reading level you did as your prediction. Discuss the books you looked up on Amazon and what made the excerpts you read easy or difficult. Reflect a little on your own reading process. What tends to slow you down? Is vocabulary a major barrier for you? Long and complicated sentences? Subject matter? Background knowledge? Focus? Lack of confidence? Speed? On the other side, what are your strengths as a reader? What is the hardest thing you've read and understood? What do you think will help you be a better college reader?

• Read pages 346-349 on annotation in Rules for Writers (the intro to section 46 and then section 46a) and the section on annotation on page 12 of Rules for Writers
• Annotate the introduction to Affluenza, pages 1-8.
• Read the handouts on summary and paraphrasing and the first essay assignment.
• Complete the paraphrasing worksheet.

• Humor: how NOT to do a summary: watch this summary of the Star Wars plot by a woman who hasn't seen the films.
• Read pages 350-352 on summaries in Rules for Writers and "The Art of Summarizing," pages 28-38 in They Say I Say.
• Make an outline of the introduction to Affluenza like the outline on page 350 in Rules for Writers.

Read "The Iron Maiden" pages 211-217 in Reading Culture

Grammar version of the summary

Read "Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals" by Jib Fowles

Read "Images" (198-205 in Reading Culture)

Answer the study questions on "Images"

Reread and annotate "Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals"

Read the second essay assignment . Choose an advertisement that interests you, an advertisement with appeals you would like to examine and understand in more depth. Brainstorm about the visual syntax of your ad and your ad's appeals. What cultural trends or attitudes does your ad encourage or reflect?

Download and complete the Reading Ads worksheet for your advertisement

Read the first three chapters, pages11-30 in Affluenza.

Outline your essay (You may want to download and fill in this outline worksheet)

Read chapters four and five, pages 31-46 in Affluenza.

3 copies of your Rough Draft

Read chapters six through eight, pages 47-71 in Affluenza.

Grammar workshop

Introduction of the midterm essay topic

• Final Draft in a folder with the rough draft, outline, ad worksheet
• One extra copy of the final draft to write on in class and take home
• Bring your graded previous essay (the one with the handbook codes on it)
• Bring Rules for Writers
• Read chapters nine through eleven, pages 72-99 in Affluenza.

• Grammar version
• Error logs for the summary essay
• Read chapters twelve through fourteen, pages 100-124 in Affluenza.
• Read 51-71 in They Say I Say. You may also want to review or reread 28-38 on summaries.
• Read the midterm essay instructions. Choose the chapter you want to summarize and discuss for your midterm.

Prepare for the midterm.

Bring any sheets of extra credit Writing Lab or reading tutoring stamps

Bring a print card with money on it so you can print your midterm

Connecting sentences with connecting words

Discussion of the causes of Affluenza

Advertising essay error logs: Fill in new error log sheets for this essay as you did for the previous one. You must turn in completed error logs before I will grade your midterm for grammar.

Read 127-145 in Affluenza

• Grammar editing exercise: find and fix the errors on the handout. (1 homework credit)
• Read and annotate for credit chapters 18-20 (146-170) in Affluenza and the chapter on transitions, 101-113 in They Say I Say. (1 homework credit)
• For your assigned chapter of Affluenza only, underline the sentence that gives the main idea of each sub section.  Underline the sentence or sentences that give the main idea of the chapter (thesis).  On a separate sheet of paper, paraphrase the thesis and topic sentences for each section. Your group of 3 will present to the class on the main ideas of the chapter. (1 homework credit).

The chapters are assigned alphabetically. To find your chapter, look below.

Chapter // Last Name

• 9   A-C
• 14   F-Garner
• 15   Girley – Hauser
• 16   He-Hill
• 17   Hoang-K
• 18   Luong-McGriger
• 19   P-Ye
• 20   Yi=Z

Read 268-273 in Reading Culture on the ipod. Think about how Sullivan and Walker agree, disagree, or partly agree and partly disagree with each other and with Affluenza.

On your last essay, underline all the transitions you used. Did you use enough? Did you repeat any one phrase too many times? Add transitions that fit the meaning and make the essay smoother for the reader. If you have too many, change some of them to alternate transitions that also make sense. Resource: Refer to the back of They Say I Say.

*New: grammar handouts available online on subject-verb agreement, fragments, run-ons, and transitions*

Read and annotate for credit "No Logo" and "Who's wearing the trousers?" (274-297 in Reading Culture )

Write, in your own words, what you think the thesis and the three or four most important supporting points are from each of the essays. Start to think about where the two writers agree and disagree.

Midterm error logs

Print and read Am I Still Here? and iPod Culture

Is the iPod/iPhone a good thing? Fill out the iPod/iPhone worksheet by downloading it, typing directly into it, and then printing it out to bring to class. You will need four quotations from each of the articles we read. You'll paraphrase each quotation and add your comments.

Outline: Download the outline worksheet and type directly into it.

Read Chapters 21-24, pages 173-196 in Affluenza.

Take the affluenza quiz on page 174. Using the code that came with Rules for Writers, log on to CompClass and register for our class's website. Click on the messageboard link. Post to the messageboard about your affluenza score and how accurately you think it describes your life. Do you think you have affluenza? Do you think you have been affected by the social forces described in the book? Negatively or positively? Do you disagree with the book that there is a problem?

Bring They Say I Say

• Final draft in a folder with the grade sheet, rough draft, outline, and iPod/iPhone worksheet.
• 1 extra printout of your final draft for you to proofread in class and take home so you can work on your grammar version.
• Watch "The Story of Stuff" with Annie Leonard
• Go to MyFootpring.org and calculate your ecological footprint
• Post your reactions to the CompClass messageboard or write them by hand:

What are your reactions to "The Story of Stuff"? 
How is her presentation different from Affluenza?  
Which is more convincing?  
What objections could someone make to "The Story of Stuff"?  
What solutions does Annie Leonard mention?  
What did you think of the MyFootprint quiz?  
Did you learn anything in the process of taking it?  
Does it seem more or less accurate than the Affluenza quiz?  
What solutions to affluenza and environmental destruction does the MyFootpring.org website suggest?

Closed book Affluenza and "The Story of Stuff" quiz

Discussion of Affluenza and "The Story of Stuff"

• Grammar version
• Read the fifth essay assignment and browse the links to organizations you could write about.
• If possible attend the Earth Day events on campus. For homework credit, print out and complete the Earth Day passport and get it stamped. Look for an organization to focus on in your essay and pick up literature on organizations that interest you. If you cannot attend the Earth Day events, research four organizations online and write three sentences about the mission and activities of each one for homework credit instead.
• Read Affluenza 197-220 (Chapters 25-27). Be ready to answer questions about the main ideas of the chapters on the quiz.
• Review The Story of Stuff for the quiz. You may want to look at the annotated script to clarify anything that went by too fast when you watched it.

Choose and research an organization. This could be the organization you learned about at Earth Day or one you found in another way.

Find two documents (webpages, newspaper articles, or printed material) that describe the philosophy and work of your organization. Bring printed copies of your two sources to class

Download and complete the organization essay worksheet by typing into the document.

Closed book Affluenza reading quiz

Discussion of Affluenza

Outline: Download the outline worksheet and type directly into it.

Read Affluenza 221-247. Be ready to answer questions about the main ideas of the chapters on the quiz.

Work on the organization essay

Bring the iPod essay if you got it back already and also your draft of the organization essay

• Final draft/grammar version (one copy of the essay only--no separate grammar version this time) in a folder with the outline and rough drafts and printouts of your sources on the organization.
• Watch Obama's address to the Joint Session of Congress
• Print out, read and annotate the text of Obama's address for homework credit. Think particularly about connections to Affluenza.

Final exam outline (Use the outline worksheet)

Bonus homework credit: Error logs for the iPod/iPhone essay

Bonus homework credit: Download, fill out, and print this reflection worksheet on your grammar progress. Alternately, you can email me an electronic copy of the worksheet if you would like me to email back a response.

3:30-5:30 Final Exam --Meet in Cyberia (ARTX 265)

Prepare for the final exam. Make sure to bring all the required and suggested materials.

Final homework credit: Download and fill out the anonymous 93 evaluation form. Print it out without your name. You will submit it anonymously and I will check off that you put a form into my folder.

Note: You can still turn in the error logs and bonus grammar reflection on the day of the final exam.