DCHS+ENG+LANG+4

Spring 2012 Dr. Angela Gunter Phone Email: angela.gunter@daviess.kyschools.us ||
 * **ENG 4: Language **


 * Course Description: ** English 4 Language is a course in analytical reading and writing emphasizing argument and synthesis of information. Instruction and practice will focus on reading critically, thinking logically, responding to texts, developing research skills, writing substantial essays through systematic revision, addressing specific audiences and expressing ideas in standard English. A review of grammar and mechanics will also be included. **Successful completion of this course along with ENG 4 Literature satisfies DCHS Senior English requirement.**


 * Texts: **Glenn, Cheryl, Miller, Robert Keith, Webb, Suzanne Strobeck, and Gray, Loretta. //Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook.// 15th ed. Boston: Thompson, 2004.

Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. //Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings.// Brief ed. 8th ed. New York: Longman, 2010.


 * Suggested Supplies: * **Paper or Notebook *Pocket Folder or Binder *Highlighter


 * Course Objectives: **Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
 * write with a style that is clear and expressive
 * summarize main points in a text and identify their importance
 * recognize arguments through work in logic, recognize fallacies in argumentation and how to avoid them
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">synthesize information into a logical essay
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">identify personal assumptions concerning selected issues in response to those embodied in written texts, clarify those beliefs, and express them lucidly both in oral and written form
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">choose a suitable restricted topic for an argument
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">gather information appropriate to the chosen topic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">demonstrate awareness of ethical consideration in making value choices

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">interpretation of the ideas in the text. Cheating defeats the whole purpose.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Expectations: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Be respectful of me and each other.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Enter the room on time and with all required materials including books, assignments, pen, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">You may email EVERY assignment to me unless specifically instructed not to do so. If you print your assignments, print out all assignments BEFORE coming to class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Turn in assignments on due date.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Take care of personal business (grooming, restroom, phone calls) during breaks or lunch time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Food, drinks, and gum are fine until the FIRST time I have to clean up after you.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Profanity will not be tolerated.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">And woe be unto you if you decide to cheat. Refer to the student agenda regarding policy. If I catch you, you will be subject to punishment. If I don’t catch you, you could be missing out on something that will help you in life! There is a certain amount of factual information you must learn, however, I am much more interested in your original


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Policy for Make Up/Late Work: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Tests and long quizzes will be sent to the testing center to be completed before or after school. The center will be available on Monday and Wednesday afternoons as well as Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Short quizzes and homework assignments will be placed in the appropriate tray on my desk. You have __five days__ to make up assignments. **It is your responsibility to inquire about missed assignments**.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">*Late work will only be accepted one day late and given a score of no more than 50% of the original grade. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Tardy Policy: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> You are considered tardy if you are not in the room when the bell rings. The first tardy will result in a warning, the second in a DM, and the third in a detention issued by administration. See agenda book for details.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Room Exit Policy: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">No exits from the room will be allowed without **YOUR OWN** agenda book initialed by me. Take care of business during breaks because our class time is so precious.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Class Dismissal Policy: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stay seated until the bell sounds. Standing in a clump in the doorway is a fire hazard and if I die in a fire because you clogged to doorways, I will come back and haunt you.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Word of the Day (Rhetorical Terminology)/Daily Grammar Practice <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Sign up for Grammar Presentation [50] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.1 Argument: An Introduction (2-23) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Theory of Knowledge/Bias <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Assign Nonfiction Novel 1: Book of Choice from Reading List || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(2) HHH: Semicolon (Ch. 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.2 Argument as Inquiry (24-38) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">--Argument Summary (Option 1, pg. 50) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Summary Practice: Comparison of Summary with Critique (Book/Movie Reviews) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Nonfiction Novel: Discussion Board 1 Due [25] || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(4) HHH: Quotation Marks (Ch. 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.3 The Core of an Argument: A Claim with Reasons (60-71) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Documentary: Guidelines for Academic Review of Documentary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Argument Summary Due [100] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">--Assign Microtheme (Option 1, pg 104) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Grammar Section Quiz [50] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.5 Using Evidence Effectively (89-108) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Use of Online Survey Instruments to Gather Evidence <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Summary Practice <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Nonfiction Novel: Discussion Board 2 Due [25] || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(7) HHH: Sentence Fragments <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Appendix : Informal Fallacies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Fallacy Project/Presentations (Print and Video Examples) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch. 6 Moving Your Audience: Ethos, Pathos, and Kairos (109-123) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Microthemes Due [100] || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(9) HHH: Adjectives and Adverbs (Ch. 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch. 7 Responding to Objections and Alternative Views (124-144) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">--Assign Essay 1: Classical Argument (Option 1, pg. 140) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch. 8 Analyzing Arguments Rhetorically (146-164) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Argument Analysis || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(11)HHH: Agreement (Ch. 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch. 9 Analyzing Visual Arguments (163-198) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">In-Class Writing: Analysis of Visual (ethos, pathos, logos) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">In class: Read “Half-Criminals…” pg. 141 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Bring to class a visual argument you have found <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Rough Draft Classical Argument Essay 1 Due—Peer Review [25] || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(13)HHH: Capitals/Italics (Ch. 9, 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Proposal for Classical Argument Essay 1: Claim and Because Clause, In-class presentation of rebuttals <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch. 10 An Introduction to Types of Claims (200-209) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discussion Board 4 Due [25] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discussion/Recommendation for Novel 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Novel 2 (Choice from List) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Assign Book Review Review || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.11 Definitional Arguments (210-228) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">--Assign Definition Argument Essay 2 (225) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch 11 Readings (229-236) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Book Review Review Presentations Due ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Course Outline: **
 * || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spring 2012 ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Intro to Course, Diagnostic Grammar/Writing
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">HHH: Commas (Ch. 12)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 2 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(1) HHH: Unnecessary Commas (Ch. 13)
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.2 Reading to Believe an Argument’s Claims (38-58)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 3 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(3) HHH: Apostrophe (Ch. 15)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 4 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(5) HHH: Period/Other Punctuation Marks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 4 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(5) HHH: Period/Other Punctuation Marks
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WA: Ch.4 The Logical Structure of Arguments (73-87)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 5 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(6) HHH: Sentence Sense (Ch. 1)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 6 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(8) HHH: Comma Splices/Fused Sentences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 6 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(8) HHH: Comma Splices/Fused Sentences
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Nonfiction Novel: Discussion Board 3 Due [25] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 7 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(10)HHH: Pronouns and Case (Ch. 5)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 8 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">(12)HHH: Verbs (Ch. 7)
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Classical Argument Essay 1 Due—Final draft and all rough drafts [100]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Grammar Section Quiz [50]
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Proposals for Definition Argument Essay 2: In class discussion ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 10 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Research and Prep for Book Review Review ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Toulmin Schema for Definition Argument Essay 2 (217) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 11 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Rough Draft Essay 2 Due—Peer Review [25]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Week 12 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Definition Argument Essay 2 Due [100] ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">In-Class Writing: Midterm Essay [50] ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">In-Class Writing: Midterm Essay [50] ||