Lesson Plan Über Alles

Books to Consider

The Rose Project

My Age of Anxiety

Married Past Redemption

On Immunity

Meat Racket

Limbo by Alfred Lubrano

Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado

New English 1A Writing Schedule for Fall and Spring Semesters

Word Total for Semester 8,000 words

Five in-class bluebook essays at 500 a piece for 75 points each for 375 points

Three 1,000-word typed essays with 3 sources for 100 points for 300 points

One Final 1,500-word typed essay with 5 sources for 150 points

Annotated Bibliography and Outline for 1,000 words and 100 points

Point Total is 925 points

Assign a short book that will give you four lessons.

At end of Week 3 you will have a 500-word in-class and a 1,000-word typed essay. 

At end of Week 7 you will have a 500-word in-class and a 1,000-word typed essay from composition text. 

At end of Week 11 you will have a 500-word in-class and a 1,000-word typed essay from composition text. 

At end of Week 14 you will have a 500-word in-class essay. 

At end of Week 15 you will have a annotated bibliography and outline due for a total of 1,000 words. Or make due at beginning of Week 16. Or eliminate. 

During Week 16 you will have a 500-word in-class essay and Final 1,500-word essay due. 

Argumentative Essay Topics for Research Grading

Students Have to Cite at Least One Essay from the Book

Should we abolish standardized testing from the public schools?

Does Alfie Kohn make a convincing case for "de-grading"?

Support, defend, or complicate the notion that Hooks, Kozol, Rose, and Gatto make a convincing case that education is class biased in a way that is harmful to the working class and reinforces class inequality. You might consult Dana Goldstein's YouTube presentation. 

Support, refute, or complicate the notion that Barbara Ehrenreich, Anthony DePalma, and Louis Uchitelle have written about the working poor in a way that should alarm us in terms of the forces that are killing America's middle class and anyone trying to make a living wage. 

You might consider Linda Tirado's famous blog post "Why I Make Terrible Decisions". And you might consider consulting Linda Tirado's book Hand to Mouth. 

Acting Out Culture Third Edition edited by James S. Miller

Weeks 1-3: In-class essay #1 based on 4 lessons from Chapter 6: How We Connect

Weeks 4-6 In-class essay #2 and typed essay #1 based on lessons from Chapters 4 and 5: How We Learn and How We Work

Weeks 7-10 In-class essay #3 and typed essay #2 based on lessons from Chapter 3 How We Eat and Chapter Chapter 1 How We Believe. 

Weeks 11-12 In-class essay #4 based on Chapter 2: How We Watch

Weeks 13-16 Five lessons, Outline and annotated bibliography, in-class essay #5 and Final essay

For Chapter 1, you might have an essay topic like this:

Defend, refute, or complicate the notion that essays from Chapter 1 teach us that tribalism is a sort of cultural race that is the real tribe from which we form bonds and prejudices and that the myth of race is that race is biological when in fact it is cultural and psychological. 

Summer is a different animal

Four in-class essays 500 for 2,000

Four typed essays for 1,500 a piece for 6,000

 

Link to a Site a Student Plagiarized

Here's a site a student used on the Man's Search for Meaning essay.