Week 2 Syllabus: August 28-September 1

SO FAR YOU HAVE COMPLETED THREE assignments: a survey about yourself that includes a story about an animal, a paragraph about “About Competition” posted to our squarespace blog, and a signed course expectations sheet submitted to Canvas via Scan Genius. On top of that, you have annotated the poem, participated in a group discussion, and turned those in stapled to a printed copy of your paragraph on the competition poem. If ANY of these are incomplete, do those TODAY. This week we will practice re-annotating the first 75 pages of the summer reading, and write answers to a series of questions about those same pages. BRING YOUR COPY OF CURIOUS INCIDENT EACH DAY.

TUESDAY, August 29

  • Review of syllabus and homework submitted.

  • Cheating: a how-to guide compliments of NT Board of Education

  • Selecting the three BEST paragraphs posted on squarespace blog.

  • HW: Re-read an annotate pages 1-10 in Curious Incident: circle vocab words, write out your questions as a reader, and add notes on what type of person Christopher is.

Wednesday, August 30 (BSAD)

  • We will use the audio from the novel (click here) to listen to while re-reading an practice annotations.

  • HW: Re-read an annotate the NEXT ten pages from the novel (from where ever you get to in class). Your revision of the poem is due in class on Friday.

Friday, September 1

  • Reposting your revised as a comment to your original post on squarespace. This is the draft I will grade in Canvas.

  • Small group work on the student paragraphs selected Wednesday by the OTHER class. You will practice discussing writing using our two pronged method: What did the writer do well, and where do you see that? And what could the writer do better, and how?

  • Crossword!

  • HW: Finish re-reading The Curious Incident, up to page 74, for class on Wednesday