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DATE

TOPIC

• Read The Rough Guide pages ix-x and 3-19.
• Read "The Conundrum of Consumption" and "Hooray for Global Warming" in the class reader.
  
• Register for CompClass using the access code you purchased at the bookstore. You will see a list of assignments in the top righthand corner of the main page when you log in. Complete the following two diagnostic quizzes: Basic Grammar and Punctuation.
• Read the first essay instructions and come prepared to take notes on An Inconvenient Truth

• Log in to CompClass and take the following diagnostic quizzes: Sentence Grammar and Sentence Style.
• Read pages 21-46 of From Inquiry to Academic Writing.

• Final Draft: An Inconvenient Truth response paper. Follow the essay format instruction in your course reader. Turn in the final draft in a folder with a blank grade sheet. Optional: you may want to use the outline worksheet in your course reader to help you structure the essay.
• Read pages 21-42 of The Rough Guide to Climate Change and come prepared to discuss. Review pages 3-19.

• Grammar version due (see essay instructions).
• Diagnostic quizzes due on CompClass

• Read your chapter in The Rough Guide. Email me if you are not sure which chapter you are assigned.
• Reread the chapter and annotate it. Underline main points and memorable passages.  Write notes on questions, main points, vocabulary, and/or your own responses. I will glance at your copy in class and give homework credit if you underlined and annotated throughout the chapter.
• Make a list of at least 10 main points from the chapter. Summarize each point in one sentence, and number the sentences. You might consider writing one sentence per subsection of the chapter.
• Write 5 short answer quiz questions (not yes/no or true/false) on the most important points in the chapter.

• Practice your part of your group's presentation.
• Go through the book An Inconvenient Truth and write down the page numbers of every place that talks about the issues mentioned in your chapter of The Rough Guide. For each Inconvenient Truth page number, write the corresponding page or pages in The Rough Guide that discuss the same scientific point.
• For each pairing of page numbers, write at least one sentence about the similarities and differences in the two author's treatment of the issue.

Study for quiz

Review your notes from Friday's presentations and prepare for part two of the quiz. Read the chapter headings and look for main points in the book on the last three chapters covered on Friday.

Read "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury in your course reader. Pick out 6 vocabulary words in the story that you do not know. On a separate sheet of paper write the dictionary definition of each word. Then explain what the word means in the sentence in the story.

Log in to CompClass and click on the discussion forum "There Will Come Soft Rains." Follow the directions there for homework credit.

Discussion of "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Integrating quotations

1. Corrections round one: "Fix the purple on the paper." Correct as many of the errors underlined in purple on your essay as you can on your own.
2. Write down any questions you have for me about my comments.
3. Read pages 152-159 in From Inquiry to Academic Writing + 421-430 in Rules for Writers (sections 54b and the beginning of 55a).
4. Look at your essay and find all the places where you use a quotation or a specific example from the text. Have you introduced the material correctly and cited it? Choose three sentences where you introduce a quotation or example and copy and paste them into another document. Fix any errors.

• “Critics blast Al Gore’s documentary as unrealistic” (in the reader)
• “Al Gore caught Warming Globe to Increase Box Office Profits” (reader)
• “Hooray for Global Warming” (reader)
•  “From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype”

• “An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore”

•  “The Moral Flaws of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth”

• Listen to or read NPR’s “Assessing the Art and Science of An Inconvenient Truth”

Write at least half a page in which you summarize the criticisms of Gore's film and book. Then write another half page in which you summarize the responses you think Gore and his allies would make to the criticism.

Read the second essay assignment sheet. Annotate it and identify any questions you have.

Take another look at the book version of An Inconvenient Truth, at your Rough Guide chapter, at the readings that critique Gore, and at the homework assignment you did identifying page numbers of similar points in Gore's and Henson's writing.

Do two pages of whichever kind of prewriting is most useful to you in preparing to write your essay. You may want to brainstorm, freewrite, or mindmap. Stuck? Try these strategies from Cyberia's resource page.

• First, read "How to Detect Propaganda" and the section on logical fallacies in From Inquiry to Academic Writing.
• Watch the McCain and Obama ads again. This time, look for examples of the propaganda techniques and fallacies described in the readings.
• Make a sheet of notes on the ads with at least 3 examples of propaganda techniques and 2 examples of fallacies. For each example, explain in your own words in a complete sentence why the ad fits the definition in the reading.

• Read the midterm assignment
• Choose the ad you will focus on for your midterm.
• Research any claims of fact in the ad and make a page of notes on their accuracy. List the outside sources you use.
• Write one page of typed brainstorm on the claims in your ad, the persuasive strategies, and the overall fairness and effectiveness of the ad.

• Read the Midterm Grade Sheet
• Write an outline for your midterm.
• Bring a print card with at least fifty cents on it.

• Required: grammar version of the midterm
• Works Cited page
• Turn in extra credit writing lab/reading tutor documentation

Second essay corrections round one. Try to fix the errors underlined in purple by writing directly on the paper. No error log for this round.

• In the course reader, read "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell (93-102)
• “First, Step Up” by Bill McKibben (103-105)
• “Youth Feel the Power” by Shadia Fayne Wood (106-107)

Read "Reading as an act of composing: Annotating" pages 25-27 in From Inquiry to Academic Writing

Read and annotate for homework credit the following:

• "Burlington, Vermont" by Elizabeth Kolbert (135-144)
• "Two Crises, One Solution" by Van Jones (123-125)

Next, pick out 10 vocabulary words from "The Tipping Point" or "Burlington Vermont.". On a separate sheet of paper, write the dictionary definition of each word. Then write a sentence where you explain what the word means in the sentence in the story. One way to do that is to paraphrase the sentence in the story but use another word instead of the vocabulary word.

• Midterm corrections round one. Try to fix the errors underlined in purple by writing directly on the paper. No error log for this round.
• Watch "The Story of Stuff" online
• Read "What You Can Do," pages 335-356 in The Rough Guide to Climate Change
• Go to MyFootpring.org and calculate your carbon footprint
• Post three times to the CompClass messageboard on solutions
• Bring Rules for Writers to class

Log in to CompClass and take the reading quiz

Typed rough draft of the Corrections Round Two for the second essay and midterm (Type out all the error names and sentences with the errors. Do at least half of the fixes and explanations.)

Bring Rules for Writers handbook to class

• Corrections Round Two for the second essay and the midterm
• Watch the "Integrating sources in MLA style" video on CompClass (CompClass records that you've watched it, and I give you homework credit)

• Read the independent essay instructions
• Spend at least an hour exploring possible research topics in The Rough Guide to Climate Change and through the global warming links page
• Post descriptions of two possible topics that interest you to the topics messageboard on CompClass
• Read "Thinking Like a Mountain" by Aldo Leopold (145-147) and "This Land is Your Land: Turning to Nature in a Time of Crisis" by William Cronon (149-152) and "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (155-156)
• Bring your course reader to class

Revision Plan: download the template and fill it out (Word format) (Rich Text Format )

• Read "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver and "When despair for the world grows in me" by Wendell Berry and "When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego" by D.H. Lawrence (153-154)
• Arrive on time and dress warmly for the nature walk! (If you are uncomfortable going on the nature walk or prefer not to, talk with me or email me beforehand to arrange an alternate assignment)

Complete Library Workshop B online (click "Register for an online workshop" and then enter your information and select "Workshop B"). Finish the assignment described in the workshop and bring it to a CCSF librarian for review. The librarian will give you a "proof of attendance" slip to show your completion of the workshop. Bring this slip to receive two homework credits.

A half page typed or handwritten brainstorm on your independent paper interests

Read and annotate for credit "Writing a Summary" and "Writing a Synthesis," pages 130-149 in From Inquiry to Academic Writing

• Email to yourself or bring on disk an electronic copy of the Works Cited page for the essay you are revising
• Bring your Rules for Writers handbook

• Revision final draft must include ALL of the following in a folder: 1) a blank grade sheet, 2) a completed revision cover sheet, 3) revision plan with instructor comments, 4) final draft of revision, 5)original graded paper with grade sheet, 6) One error log which compares the number of errors of each type in the three essays.
• Read the Presentation Grade Sheet so you understand what's involved in the presentation
• Bring The Rough Guide and your course reader

Revision grammar version (optional)

Read "The Predicament: can we solve global warming?" in The Rough Guide (278-285) and "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore (108-118 in the course reader)

Highly recommended: Draw a worksheet like the one on page 136 (summary) or 147 (synthesis) of From Inquiry to Academic Writing.  Fill out the worksheet based on the reading or reading you are summarizing or synthesizing. Alternately, fill out the online summary or synthesis worksheet.

Homework credit: Type up an outline for your summary or synthesis and bring an EXTRA copy to turn in.

If you missed class Wednesday the 26th, you should catch up on Luna reading and watch the videos on the Legacy of Luna page.

For your final draft of the Summary/Synthesis paper, you should bring to class a folder with the following in order:

1. Completed Feedback Request Form
2. Blank Summary/Synthesis Grade Sheet
3. Final draft of summary or synthesis
4. Works Cited page
5. Copies of any and all articles summarized or discussed in the synthesis
6. Rough draft with peer review comments or Writing Lab stamp
7. Outline

• Grammar version of independent study summary
• Read to page 96 in The Legacy of Luna
• Post three times to the CompClass messageboard on Luna

Read to page 184 in Luna

Post another three times to the CompClass messageboard

Finish Luna + Brainstorm one full typed page about the final exam topic.

Exam Topic: What is the most powerful or effective strategy Julia Butterfly Hill uses to communicate with her readers and get across her message in Luna? In your paper , describe the message she wants to send. Describe the strategy she uses (with quotes and examples). Discuss how well the strategy works on you. If her ultimate goal is to change the way her readers act as well as how we think, is she successful? Finally, in your conclusion, discuss the possible use of her strategy in the context of climate change. Can you imagine someone else using the same activist strategy to draw attention to global warming and affect readers actions in relation to global warming? What would that look like? Might it be successful? Full assignment.

8-10 AM Final Exam

Meet in Cyberia (Arts Extension 265)

Bring a print card with enough money on it to print your final.

Download the course evaluation, type directly into it, print it, circle "English 96" and fold it for homework credit. No need to write your name. I will check you off when I see you put one in the envelope on the day of the final.

If you would like feedback on your final exam, complete a Feedback Request Form and attach a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage to your exam.

Bring any extra credit Writing Lab and Reading Lab records.