Freshman English Reading

NEN10803

103b (Spring 2015) Schedule and Homework

Wk	Tue	Reading to do BEFORE class	Reading Skills and due dates
1	2/25	Introductions
2	3/4	Article 1: The Test	Reading Skills: Efficient Reading
3	3/12	AW 8: Ethnic and Racial Diversity Bridge to Terabithia chs 1-2 (p 23) Presentation 1	Paper 1 due: Your Book
4	3/18	Article 2: Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgement Bridge to Terabithia to ch. 5 (p 71) Presentations 2 & 3	Efficient Reading practice
5	3/25	AW 9: Education in the United States	Reading Skills: Analytical Reading Reading Journal due (first time)
6	4/1	Holiday Please answer these survey questions related to childhood in Taiwan.
7	4/8	Article 3: Lamb to the Slaughter Bridge to Terabithia to ch. 10 (p 130) Presentations 4 & 5	Analytical Reading continued Tell me what book your group plans to start reading after the midterm.
8	4/15	Bridge to Terabithia to ch. 13 (p 163, end) Presentation 6
9	4/22	Midterm (Midterm Review)
10	4/29	Article 4: Senior Payroll	Reading Skills: Critical Reading TAYB 1: Planning
11	5/6	AW 10: How Americans Spend their Leisure Time	TAYB 2: Characters and Setting
12	5/13	Article 5: Sleeping and Dreaming	Reading skills: Fact & Opinion Reading Journal due (second time) TAYB 3: Conflict(s)
13	5/20	Read-a-round	TAYB 4: Inference, topics, themes, issues
14	5/27	AW 11: The American Family	Reading skills: Bias Paper 2 due: Reading advice TAYB 5: Critical Reading
15	6/3	Article 6: Milgrim's Experiment	TAYB 6: Prepare for Presentation
16	6/10	Review and prepare for book presenations
17	6/17	Book Presentations 1-5	Reading journal due (last time)
18	6/24	Reading Final Eam (Final Review)

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