| english326 | grammar 4 teachers | fall2010|

• Syllabus
• How to set up your blog
• Scrapbooks: some examples
  

Purchase book.

Create blog with blogger.com

Send URL of your blog to Barbara via personal email at bjmonroe@wsu.edu

• Income Level and knowledge of conventions and grammar
• Rhetorical punctuation

Self-Assessment Blog DUE by noon, Sunday: write about 500 words (one page, single-spaced, with line breaks between paragraph, for readability on the web) in a word document on this topic: What grammatical and mechanical issues do you, as a writer, need to focus on this semester? Please, no more than three issues. Be as specific as possible: e.g., "I want to really get a handle on using semicolons and colons; "I know how to use commas, generally, but in some sentences, I'm just not sure. For example, . . . " Do cite examples from any of your written work to SHOW us what you mean; otherwise, make up example sentences to illustrate your points. Remember: at the end of the semester, you'll be writing a blog reflecting back on what you said in this blog.

Post to your blog. Then double-space your wordprocessed blog, print it out, put in a folder, and tuck the folder into your Course Pack for future workshops.

Bring print-out of your self-assessment blog.

• Apostrophes

• Getting started with our scrapbooks: House Style, Part 1
  

Weekly Blog due Sunday, noon: write up to 500 words in a word document, double-spaced, on this topic: What have you learned so far in terms of grammar and punctuation?

At the end,write one question about what you don't yet fully understand about the concepts we have studied so far.

Also, try to incorporate this Pattern of the Week:

You are KIND, GENEROUS, THOUGHTFUL.

Please put your pattern-of-the-week sentence in ALL CAPS, so we can find it. Your responder will tell you whether or not you have successfully imitated the pattern.

Print out your word-processed document, put in your folder, and tuck in your Course Pack for future workshops.

Drop your document to single space, and then post to your blog.

Response due Sunday, midnight: Read others' blogs, and answer one person's closing question, provided it hasn't already been answered adequately.

• How to Bartle Puzballs
• Word classes: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.
  

• prepositions
• S-V-0 (in newspaper headlines)/ transitive/intransitive verbs
• personal pronouns
  

SCRAPBOOK CHECKPOINT: Complete scrapbooking House Style first 5 questions,and bring to class. Your scraps must be pasted and your explanation written up to get full credit for this checkpoint. Only two daily grades possible: completed = check-plus; not completed = zero.

Weekly Blog due Sunday, noon: write up to 500 words in a word document, double-spaced, on this topic: What have you learned so far in terms of grammar and punctuation?

At the end,write one question about what you don't yet fully understand about the concepts we have studied so far.

Also, try to incorporate this Pattern of the Week:

AND I HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE SIDE-TRACKED.

Print out your word-processed document, put in your folder, and tuck in your Course Pack for future workshops.

Drop your document to single space, and then post to your blog.

Response due Sunday, midnight: Read others' blogs, and answer one person's closing question, provided it hasn't already been answered adequately. Also, correct or clarify any explanation in the blog that you think was wrong or poorly explained enough to suggest the writer doesn't fully understand a concept we've studied so far.

• Scrapbook checkpoint (daily grade taken): turn in your completed House Style, Part 1.
• 3 sentence patterns (coursepack, pp. 6-7), or The Verb Is Driving the Bus
• magnetic sentences
  

• compounding any element
• simple vs. compound sentences
• FANBOYS
• student writing: "Death," "Greed"

Weekly Blog due Sunday, noon: write up to 500 words in a word document, double-spaced, on this topic: What have you learned so far, and what concepts discussed in class this week don't you fully understand?

At the end, specify one question about anything we've studied so far, especially from this week, that you need clarification

Also, try to incorporate this Pattern of the Week:

Bill Gates didn't earn his money; he stole it.

. Please put your pattern-of-the-week sentence in ALL CAPS, so we can find it. Your responder will tell you whether or not you have successfully imitated the pattern.on.

Print out your word-processed document, put in your folder, and tuck in your Course Pack for future workshops.

Drop your document to single space, and then post to your blog.

Response due Sunday, midnight: Read others' blogs and answer one person's closing question, provided it hasn't already been answered adequately.

• WORKSHOP: bring ALL your blog printouts and your coursepack (daily grade taken for coming to class prepared)
  

• Workshop: debrief
• conjunctive syntax: "First Day of Kindergarten"
• AAAWWUUBIS clauses

NO BLOG THIS WEEK.

[note to self: House Style should have been due today... or perhaps another checkpoint?]

• relative pronouns, relative clauses (who, that, which)
• restrictive/nonrestrictive
• interruptors/asides
• ,EXTRA,
• workshop: ,though and broad-reference/vague reference pronouns ,which and this
  

Read the first half of "Dora Learns to Write and in the Process Encounters Punctuation" by Pat Cordeira, pp. 39-50 in Lessons to Share. 1) Besides your usual markings, be sure to also mark every thing the teacher does, even if her actions are just implied.2) Think about this question as you read: so how does Dora's experience relate to teaching secondary school students punctuation?

Bring your marked book to class.

• Socratic circle on first part of Cordeira, pp. 39-50

Weekly Blog due Sunday, noon: write up to 500 words in a word document, double-spaced, on this topic: What concepts in the "Dora" reading did you not understand or wish we had discussed further in Thursday's seminar?

Print out your word-processed document, put in your folder, and tuck in your Course Pack for future workshops.

Drop your document to single space, and then post to your blog.

Pattern-of-the-week: AAAWWUBBIS..., [sentence]

Response due Sunday, midnight: Read others' blogs and answer one person's closing question, provided it hasn't already been answered adequately.

• another pedagogical tool: literature/professional writing as mentor texts: which and this
• NOTE TO SELF: SHOULD DO THIS FOR THE REST OF THE SEMESTER WITH CORDEIRA ARTICLE
• indefinite pronouns and more on pronoun antecedents and agreement: "Etiquette in the Wilderness" (course pack)
  

Finish reading the "Dora" article. Focus on this question: Why is it so hard to master punctuation?

Also mark any punctuation or grammar in Cordeira's own writing that you wondered about or would have written or punctuated differently.

• Socratic circle, "Dora Learns to Write..." pp. 51-63 [the rest of the article]

Complete the HOUSE STYLE section of your scrapbook. [NOTE TO SELF: this should be finished a couple of weeks ago.ALSO, WAY TOO THOROUGH; PUT LIMITS ON AMOUNT OF TIME TO USE ON THIS--MAYBE 1 HOUR BEYOND THE CLASS TIME? DUNNO]

NO BLOG THIS WEEK.

• Scrapbook checkpoint: Turn in House Style section of your scrapbook: check-plus or zero based on completion.
• Getting started on the other sections of our scrapbooks: Errors in Print, Breaking the Rules on Purpose, and Gems
• Scrapping session
  

[note to self: DO 'cover' appositives and four ways to punctuate them... but then do STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS assignment]

• appositives, colons, and dashes--oh my!
• NOTE TO SELF: don't do this lesson. BUT DO DO APPOSITIVES AT THIS POINT...RATHER THAN A BRUSH STROKE

NO BLOG THIS WEEK

[NOTE TO SELF: incorporate appositives in blogs, punctuated 4 ways.]

• [NOTE TO SELF: START STUDENT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT--5 groups/ 5 days to explain, complete preparation, and do five report-outs, with closure]
• Image grammar: appositives, revisited.
  

• Image grammar: participles

YES, BLOG THIS WEEK on BRUSH STROKES. Details posted to yoteach email list.

NOTE TO SELF: DON'T DO ADJECTIVES OUT OF ORDER

• Image grammar: noun absolutes

Scrap 10 examples across three sections of Scrapbook: Errors in Print, Breaking the Rules, and Gems.

• Scrapbook Checkpoint: completed = check-plus; not completed = zero
• Revising prose: The Lanham Method (26 min. film) NOTE TO SELF: DON'T USE. STUDENTS ALWAYS THINK IT'S ABOUT LARD FACTOR AND SIMPLE SYNTAX
• active/passive voice

YES, BLOG THIS WEEK. Revise the blog you wrote/revised last week. Correct any of the brush strokes you got wrong last week; add an example of an absolute phrase; and change all passive voice verbs into active voice.

• The Lanham Method, cont'd
• Student Writing Analysis assignment
  

[note to self: STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS DUE]

• in-class study time to prepare for student writing analysis

EXTRA CREDIT BLOG: DUE SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:

Starting with a fresh piece (not the one you've been working on for the past two weeks), revise an 'old' piece of your prose of about 500 words, using the Lanham method to craft sentences with strong, action verbs in active voice. FIRST, copy/paste the old piece in first; THEN, copy/paste it in again, this time revising the VERBS/SENTENCES. Please put all revisions in ALL CAPS.

No response necessary.

• Student Writing Analysis - group report
• Bring coursepack to class

• VETERANS DAY - NO CLASS

NO BLOG THIS WEEK

• scrapbook checkpoint
• Student Writing Analysis- group reports
• Bring coursepack to class
  

• Student Writing Analysis - group reports

[note to self: have final reflection due no later than today. .. so students can focus on scrapbooks for last two weeks.

NEW NOTE TO SELF: OR HAVE THE FINAL REFLECTION DUE DURING FINALS WEEK. ALSO, COUNT IT 10% RATHER THAN A DAILY GRADE OR BLOG GRADE]

DUE Tuesday, 11:59 pm: Turn in STUDENT WRITING ANALYSIS (in Rich Text Format) via email attachment to Barbara bjmonroe@wsu.edu

Name your file "firstnamelastinitial.rtf"

• Student Writing Analysis due
• "The Story of English," part 1. "Mother Tongue" NOTE TO SELF: DON'T SHOW THIS. INSTEAD, USE REMAINING TIME TO DO SIE. AND MAYBE SHOW AAE CLIPS FROM "DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?"

• "The Story of English," part 2. "Black English" DO SHOW THIS, IF TIME.

Final Reflection: To what degree have you met your goals (as you discussed in your first blog)? Cite specific examples from your blogs and any other writing you've done this semester to support your claims. And what else have you learned this semester about your own writing that you will take with you?

THEN, mark in italics any sentences where you experimented with new-to-you syntactic structures and/or punctuation.

Send this "paper" to me personally as an email attachment.

THIS PIECE IS WORTH 2 BLOG SCORES: one grade for content, one grade for taking risks and showing growth by varying your sentence structure and length.

• scrapbooking
• NOTE TO SELF: NAWH--TOO MANY PEOPLE CAN'T SCRAP DURING CLASS.

• SCRAPBOOKS DUE
• NOTE TO SELF: OR MAKE IT DO FINALS WEEK?
• Course evaluations