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ALL PORTFOLIO WRITING ACTIVITIES NOT COMPLETED DURING CLASS WILL BE COMPLETED AT HOME 

Ice-Breaker

Portfolio Writing Activity #1

Assignment: Read SGW, 429-434 and prepare portfolio piece #2 (Letter to me)

Course Assumptions, Objectives, and Procedures

Portfolio Writing Activity #3: Mapping strategies for possible essay

Assignments for next class: Read SGW, 18-30.

Prepare 1 page (hand written) response to each essay by writing responses to some of the following questions: What did you find effective or powerful about each piece? Point to specific places. What questions do you have about the effectiveness of some choices each writer made? What do you think worked particularly effectively for you as a reader in each piece? Point to specific passages. What do you think didn't work very well for you as a reader? Be specific. Label responses as Portfolio Piece #4. 

 9/1

Small Group Discussion of Assigned Essays

Portfolio #5: Write a brief narration or jot down notes about an event in your life to share with other students. Ten minutes

The Basic Features of the Personal Reflection Essay on an Event

Assignments for next class: Read SGW, 31-41.

Prepare 1 page (hand written) response to each essay. Consider how well each one fulfills the basic features of a personal reflection essay on an event. What do you find effective or powerful about each one? Point to specific passages. What questions do you have about the effectiveness of some choices each writer made? Label responses as Portfolio Piece #6.

Prepare Portfolio #7: Addressing different audiences

 9/3

Small Group Discussion of Assigned Essays

Portfolio Writing Activity #8: Free-writes and loops

Assignment: Complete Invention for Essay #1 by writing responses to suggestions in SGW, 44-46; Review SGW, 39-41 on audience, purpose and the basic features of a personal reflection essay.

 9/8

Invention for Essay #1 Due

Writing Group: Discussion of Invention for your piece (collaborative activity, pg. 45)

 Portfolio Writing Activity #9: Creating Description

Portfolio Writing Activity #10: Creating Dialogue

Moving from Invention to a Draft: Defining your Purpose and Audience; Setting Goals (47-49)

Assignment: Read SGW, 47-49, write your own goals, and then begin first draft of Essay #1 (hand-written, every other line on one side of paper, or typed).

Workshop: Responding Constructively to Writing in Peer Groups (Critical Reading Guide, 49-50).

Assignment: Complete First Draft of Essay #1

First Draft of Essay #1 Due. Bring typed, double-spaced draft and three Xerox copies

Writing Group: Peer Responses to Drafts

 Assignment: Using the constructive responses you've gotten from your group, prepare a substantive revision of the first draft. You should make significant revisions

Second Draft of Essay #1 Due (typed, 3-5 page). Include all invention, first and second drafts, workshop letters, and writing process letter in your manila folder when you submit second draft.

Workshop: Grammar Review; Sentence Level Revision--Chopping out Dead Wood, Hammering Down with the Verb, Building onto the Basic Sentence

Portfolio Writing Activity #11: Sentence Revisions

Portfolio #12: Peer Group Assessment

Assignment for next class: Read SGW, 64-87. For any two of the essays, write a 1-page (hand written) response (2 pgs. total). What did you find effective or powerful about each one? What worked for you as a reader? Be specific. What questions do you have about the effectiveness of some choices each author made? What didn't work for you? Be specific. Label Portfolio #13

 Discussion of Assigned Essays

 Basic Features of Reflective Essay on a Person

Portfolio Writing Activity #14: Invention Writing to Choose Subject: Listing, Clustering, Freewriting, Looping (Invention, pg. 88-91)

 Assignment: Finalize your selection of a subject for Essay #2 and define the person's significance by writing responses to invention writing in SGW, 91-92 (write out responses to all the prompts and questions in the section titled, "Defining the Person's Significance"; you should have at least 5 pages). Label Portfolio #15

 Guided freewriting to create description of character, narration of incidents or anecdotes, and dialogue (portfolios #16, 17, 18). See SGW, 89-90 ("Describing the Person") if you get stuck.

Moving from Invention and Discovery to a Draft: Purpose, Audience, Setting Goals (pg. 93-94)

Assignment: Complete First Draft of Essay #2. Must be typed, double-spaced. Please bring 3 Xerox copies for your group.

9/29

First Draft of Essay #2 Due. Three Xerox copies and original.

Writing Groups: Peer Responses to Drafts

Assignment: Complete Second Draft of Essay #2. Typed, 3-5 pages. In manila folder include all invention and discovery writing, first draft, workshop letters, and writing process letter to me.

10/1

Second Draft of Essay #2 Due. Keep a Xerox copy if you think you might revise this essay for a grade.

Selection of Essay to be Revised and Submitted for Grade

 Workshop: Grammar Review; Sentence Level Revision; Cumulative Sentences

Assignment: Prepare typed conference draft of the essay you are working on to revise for a grade. In addition to any suggestions from your group or my comments, give consideration to sentence level revisions in the draft you bring to conference. You must bring to your conference a typed conference draft, one Xerox copy, and your written responses on the conference preparation sheet. After your conference on the draft, you will prepare a final version of the piece and submit it for a grade. See checklist for submission of final typed version of essay.

10/6 Class rescheduled for conferences

10/8 Class rescheduled for conferences

10/13

Final Typed Version of First Graded Piece Due

 In a manila folder, include all those materials specified on the checklist for submission of final typed version of essay

Mid-Term Writing Assessment (In-class required writing assignment. Attendance required.)

Portfolio Due. You must bring all your portfolio pieces to class (see syllabus for required pieces)

Portfolio Activity #19: Self-Assessment of Portfolio

Assignments for over break:

1) Read SGW, 108-132. For any two of the essays, write a 1-page (hand written) response (2 pgs. total). What did you find effective or powerful about each one? What worked for you as a reader? Be specific. What questions do you have about the effectiveness of some choices each author made? What didn't work for you? Be specific. Label Portfolio #20.

2) While you're on Fall break, browse through some newspapers and magazines to find an article that you think is an effective profile. Write a 1 page analysis of why you think it is an effective profile. Label Portfolio #21. These will be collected on the day we return from Fall break. No late work accepted. Missing portfolios will be graded as "zero."

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