Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

Textbooks and Supplemental Readers: - The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing 11 th Edition, by Rise Axelrod and Charles Cooper - Sticks and Stones 9 th Edition, edited by Rise Axelrod and Charles Cooper - The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien - * The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot *All books are provided by BHS except for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , which students will need to purchase themselves. This is the book used for the DCB campus book read this semester. Course Requirements: Written revised essays Peer revision Usage and process exercises Reading assignments Class discussion and activities (including discussion board) Assorted short writing assignments Quizzes/tests Midterm and Final Exam Tentative Course Outline: English 110 (Fall 2019) Note: Grammar instruction and exercises will be incorporated as needed. Areas addressed will include sentence structure, usage, and mechanics, and will be determined by student need. Grammar instruction will occur on a weekly rotation. W (8-28) Introduction to course Student Preference Survey The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing : “Understanding the Rhetorical Situation” p. 2 Discussion Board Practice Assignment - Literacy Overview of the writing process Pretest – Mechanics F (8-30) The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing : “Arguing” pp. 582-594 Assign Persuasive Paragraph Chp.11 “Catalogue of Invention Strategies” pp. 488-499 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Prologue – pp. 1-8 Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure, Usage, and Mechanics M (9-2) – No Class - No School at DCB or BHS (Labor Day) W (9-4) – The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing : Chp. 13 Cueing the Readers pp. 524-535 Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure, Usage, and Mechanics