Language Arts: College Composition Lesson Plans for week of 4/3/2006
    Monday
    1.  revision of cause-effect practice essay #3
    2.  assign final cause-effect essay
    -choose one of the three cause-effect essays we have written
    -revise it, making any changes that you feel necessary
    -write a brief description of your revision process: give specific examples of what
    changes you made in your final essay and explain why you made those changes
    -due Friday, April 7
    Tuesday
    descriptive writing
    1.  have students read "Fat" by Spencer Nadler, pages 266-273
    2.  ITA: begin discussing "Fat"
    Wednesday
    1.  finish discussion of "Fat"
    2.  brief introduction to A Brave New World
    3.  ITA: read chapter one
    Thursday
    A Brave New World
    1.  finish introduction to the novel if necessary
    2.  discussion of chapter one
    3.  students read chapter two
    Friday
    1.  final cause-effect essays are due
    A Brave New World
    1.  discussion of chapter two
    2.  class time to begin reading chapters three and four
    Outcomes Met:
    12.1.2 make optimum use of grammar and spell checking applications
    12.2.3 at a level appropriate for college, become proficient at proofreading and revising
    12.2.3 at a level appropriate for college, identify, evaluate, and create various rhetorical
    patterns
    12.2.3 at a level appropriate for college, produce essays that are absolutely free of
    mechanical errors (or revise papers until they are free of mechnical errors)
    12.2.4 at a level appropriate for college, use appropriate techniques in writing essays of
    description, narration, exemplification, process analysis, satire comparison, and cause
    effect
    12.1.7 at a level appropriate for college, appraise and critique a variety of literary forms     from a variety of cultures

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