Wk

Subject

Assignments

1-1* 7/5,

1. Self-Introduction & Course Introduction;
2. Brain-storming for letter-writing

* Letter (to a Student or a Parent) due 7/8

1-2

A Video on Writing & Dead Poet Soceity

* Assignments 7/10

2-1* 7/12

Writing Basics: Grammar and Online Resources
Peer Response --the Art of Sharing and Responding

 Peer Response
7/15

2-2

Individual Conferences (1)

3-1* 7/19

Text Analysis (1) form and content: Stories about Children or Children’s Books and Films

Cinder Edna & Cindy Ellie

3-2

"The Street" & "Sound Collector"

Analysis (1)

4-1* 7/26

Text Analysis (2) Connotation and Denotation, literal and symbolic meanings;
Outlining and Quotation Practice

4-2

Text Analysis (3): working out a thesis

Ref. topic sentence, paragraph, outlining: a review

Analysis (2)

5-1* 8/2

Argumentation (1) How to be persuasive?  A pattern for Argumentation

Brain-Storming for Possible Topics

5-2

Other People’s Money

Argumentation (1)

6-1* 8/9

Argumentation (2): in-class debate 
Argumentation: Outlining and Logic

6-2

Reading and Peer Response
Argumentation: Cause and Effect
Individual Conferences (2-1)

Argumentation (2)

7-1* 8/16

Problem Solving (1): Defining the problems and their related areas.
Reading and Brainstorming

7-2

Online Research
Individual Conferences (2-2)

Problem Solving (1)

8-1* 8/23

Problem Solving (2): Observation and Data Collection, Making a Plan
Peer Response

8-2

Language Review

Problem Solving (2)

9-1* 8/30

Individual Conferences (3)

9-2

Final Exam