Week 1:
- Schema: Background knowledge
- Active Reading: Writing with a pen or pencil in your hand
- Reading response: Asking questions as you write
- Short-term goals:
- Long-term goals:
Week 2:
- Narrative: A story with a point
- Situation: Situation is the background for the action. The situation may be described only briefly, or it may even be implied.
- Conflict: Conflict is friction, such as a problem in the surroundings, with another person, or within the individual. The conflict, which is at the heart of each narrative, produces struggle.
- Struggle: Struggle, which need not be physical, is the manner of dealing with conflict. The struggle adds action or engagement and generates the plot.
- Outcome: Outcome is the result of the struggle.
- Meaning: Meaning is the significance of the story, which may be deeply philosophical or simple, stated or implied.
Week 3:
- Description: Translating an image into words
- Dominant impression:
- The main idea of a description
- Like your first impression, you take in all the details and make a snap judgment:“Do I want to go on a second date with him?” “Would I hire him?”
- Objective Description:
- A fact. You record the image as if you were a video camera.
- You say what anyone else could see, hear, touch, smell, or taste—The description should be the same for multiple viewers.
- As close to “the truth” as we can get.
- Subjective Description:
- An opinion
- Your feelings and attitude towards what you are describing
- These will be different for every person
Week 4:
- Imagery: Description that you can see, hear, smell, and hear.
- Point of view:
Week 5:
- Revision:
- General vs Specific
- Show don’t tell
Week 6:
Week 7:
Week 8:
- PIE Paragraphs
- Main Point: Topic + Opinion
- Supporting Information:
- Is it vivid? Can I picture it?
- Is it specific? Does it refer to one thing, or to many things?
- Is it representative? Does it fit the topic?
- Explanation:
- So what? Connect the supporting information to your opinion
- Outlining
- Grammar:
- Identifying subjects and verbs
- Phrase vs Clause
- Independent clause vs Dependent clause
Week 9:
- Thesis statement
- Peer Review
Week 10:
Week 11:
- Panel Discussions:
- Asking Questions
Week 12:
- Double-entry journal
- Quote sandwich
Week 13:
- Compare/contrast
- Points of comparison
Week 14:
- Game design
Week 15:
- Introductions
- Conclusions
Week 16:
