Schedule of Assignments and Due Dates

This schedule may be adjusted as we progress through the semester.

Due dates, however, will not be changed.

Schedule of Assignments English 471G - Grammar for Teachers, Fall 2003
	Tuesday	Thursday
Week 1 Multiple Intelligences	Aug 19 Get acquainted; Intro to course Last 15 minutes with grad students	Aug 21 Have read: Smagorinsky at least to p 20. Bring to class: A list of 5 prefixes, 5 roots, and 5 suffixes to use for the activity he describes on p. 20, top of column 1. If possible, bring them in a file on an pc-compatible disk (mac disks won=t work). If you know how to save as an .rtf file (Arich text format@), please do so. If not, don=t worry. In Class: Logging into Blackboard & uploading your roots and affixes. You must know your ecom login name and student id number before class time. Do over the weekend if you don=t get it done in the lab.
Week 2 MI & Language Acquisition	Aug 26 Have read: all of Smagorinsky Select any of the intelligences - except linguistic. Use #19 in the appendix (64-5) to generate questions about it, substituting where necessary terms more appropriate to nonfiction reading (e.g. in #2 - substitute Aideas@ for Acharacters or events@). In class - You will meet with those who have selected the same intelligence and prepare to lead a class discussion about it. Not all groups will do so.	Aug 28 Have logged on to Blackboard on your own. Go to AExternal Links@ and explore what is there. Go to some of the sites. Send me email from the bb site telling me the name of one of the sites that catches your attention - & why it does. Have read: Language ch 41, 529-54 and Lessons to Share, ch 1, 1-15. Note that there is a glossary on page 763 of Lg. Have written: In Language 554-5 #1, #2, #3, #6. Make sure to answer all parts of all questions. Not every question requires a full prose answer - some can be as well or better answered with lists or tables.
Week 3 Language Acquisition	Sept 2 Have read: chs 43 (560-77) & 44 (580-87). Have written: p. 579 #4, #5, #6, #7, & # 9 & p. 587 #3, #5, & #7	Sept 4 Have read: ch. 45, 588-603 & 605-6. Have written: p. 607 #7, #8, #9 In class: Film on Genie Get exam review sheet.
Week 4 Language Acquisition & Writing/ Grammar	Sept 9 6 - 6:20 Exam review. 6:25 - 7 :15 Exam: Language Acquisition	Sept 11 Complete the SLATE Assignment from BB site. (Start in the AAssignments@ area.) Bring to class: Your copy of the Illinois State Standards for teachers of English Language Arts (purple book)
Week 5 Writing/ Grammar	Sept 16 Undergrads: Draft of Essay for Teacher Ed Portfolio Due. (Diversity or Development) Grads: Written statement of the topic of your evaluative bib. In class: Small groups (one grad and 2 undergrads per group) to review essays. Last 15 minutes: Meet with grad students.	Sept 18 Have read: BtheR: Intro, xi-xix; ch 1-3, 1- 88 Presentation: Some basic Principles of Learning usage/mechanics. Some basic principles for teaching usage/mechanics.
Week 6 Writing/ Grammar	Sept 23 Undergrads: Revised copy of Portfolio essay Due. (Counts in your homework component.) In class: Play Vocab Game from affixes and roots posted the first week.	Sept 25 Have read: LtoS: ch 2, 18-38; ch 6, 100-109; ch 8, 120-136
Week 7 Writing/ Grammar	*Sept. 30 Have read:BtR: chs 4 & 5, 89-192* **Long reading assignment!	Oct 2 Have read: Lessons to Share: ch 9, pp. 137-54. Presentation: Error Analysis Select a rule from any usage handbook - not too obscure a rule. Use Schuster for help interpreting a rule if he talks about it, but get the rule itself from a traditional handbook. Post your rule to the discussion board for that purpose. Listen and watch for how educated speakers and writers observe or don=t observe the rule. Keep a log. (See Oct 9.)
Week 8 Writing/ Grammar	Oct 7 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #1 Due (Use one the lessons Schuster describes or alludes to, developing any handouts, overheads or other materials you need. Script how you will open the lesson.)	Oct 9 Write one to three pages explaining the results of your usage rule observations - be sure to include the rule! In-class: Discussion of the results of usage rule observations
Week 9 Writing/ Grammar	Oct 14 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #2 Due (Geared to writers like the writer of the essay used in the Oct 2 presentation)	Oct 16 Write one to two pages explaining how you will approach one handbook rule in the classroom. You may use the rule you observed or a rule observed by anyone else.
Week 10 Writing/ Grammar	Oct 21 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #3 Due (Select the usage/mechanics to focus on based on your own sense of what students should be able to do.)	Oct 23 NO 471 Class Meeting
Week 11 Style/ Grammar	Oct 28 Have read: LtoS: chs 10-12, 155-208	Oct 30 Presentation: Generative Rhetoric
Week 12 Lg Arts/ Grammar	Nov 4 Rubric and Edit Sheet Due	Nov 6 Demonstration: Beloved: Possessive Pronominal Adjectives (huh?), Themes, and Voice
Week 13 Lg Arts/ Grammar	Nov 11 Have read: LtoS: chs 13-4, 209-243	Nov 13 Have scanned the notebook of lessons on paper reserve at library. Have read at least two with care.
Week 14 Lg Arts/ Grammar	Nov 18 Demonstration: Teaching How to Punctuate Quotations. Please bring a novel or short story - one with dialogue.	Nov 20 Lg Arts & Grammar/Lg Lesson Plan Due You are welcome to turn in early or to submit via bb from a remote site but it must be in by 7:15 pm.
Nov 24 - 28 Thanksgiving Break
Week 15	Dec 2 Bring Dictionary: Using Dictionary Diacritics (Pronunciation Marks)	Dec 4 Bring Dictionary: What=s in the Dictionary besides Pronunciations and Definitions?
Finals Week	It looks like we have a choice of T or Th at 6. Due: Final Submission Grads - Annotated Evaluative Bibs

Schedule of Assignments

English 471G - Grammar for Teachers, Fall 2003

Tuesday

Thursday

Week 1

Multiple

Intelligences

Aug 19 Get acquainted; Intro to course

Last 15 minutes with grad students

Aug 21 Have read: Smagorinsky at least to p 20.

Bring to class: A list of 5 prefixes, 5 roots, and 5 suffixes to use for the activity he describes on p. 20, top of column 1. If possible, bring them in a file on an pc-compatible disk (mac disks won=t work). If you know how to save as an .rtf file (Arich text format@), please do so. If not, don=t worry.

In Class: Logging into Blackboard & uploading your roots and affixes. You must know your ecom login name and student id number before class time. Do over the weekend if you don=t get it done in the lab.

Week 2

MI &

Language Acquisition

Aug 26 Have read: all of Smagorinsky

Select any of the intelligences - except linguistic. Use #19 in the appendix (64-5) to generate questions about it, substituting where necessary terms more appropriate to nonfiction reading (e.g. in #2 - substitute Aideas@ for Acharacters or events@). In class - You will meet with those who have selected the same intelligence and prepare to lead a class discussion about it. Not all groups will do so.

Aug 28 Have logged on to Blackboard on your own. Go to AExternal Links@ and explore what is there. Go to some of the sites. Send me email from the bb site telling me the name of one of the sites that catches your attention - & why it does.

Have read: Language ch 41, 529-54 and Lessons to Share, ch 1, 1-15. Note that there is a glossary on page 763 of Lg.

Have written: In Language 554-5 #1, #2, #3, #6. Make sure to answer all parts of all questions. Not every question requires a full prose answer - some can be as well or better answered with lists or tables.

Week 3

Language

Acquisition

Sept 2 Have read: chs 43 (560-77) & 44 (580-87).

Have written: p. 579 #4, #5, #6, #7, & # 9 & p. 587 #3, #5, & #7

Sept 4 Have read: ch. 45, 588-603 & 605-6.

Have written: p. 607 #7, #8, #9

In class: Film on Genie

Get exam review sheet.

Week 4

Language Acquisition & Writing/ Grammar

Sept 9 6 - 6:20 Exam review.

6:25 - 7 :15 Exam: Language Acquisition

Sept 11 Complete the SLATE Assignment from BB site. (Start in the AAssignments@ area.)

Bring to class: Your copy of the Illinois State Standards for teachers of English Language Arts (purple book)

Week 5

Writing/

Grammar

Sept 16 Undergrads: Draft of Essay for Teacher Ed Portfolio Due. (Diversity or Development)

Grads: Written statement of the topic of your evaluative bib.

In class: Small groups (one grad and 2 undergrads per group) to review essays.

Last 15 minutes: Meet with grad students.

Sept 18 Have read: BtheR: Intro, xi-xix; ch 1-3, 1- 88

Presentation: Some basic Principles of Learning usage/mechanics. Some basic principles for teaching usage/mechanics.

Week 6

Writing/

Grammar

Sept 23 Undergrads: Revised copy of Portfolio essay Due. (Counts in your homework component.)

In class: Play Vocab Game from affixes and roots posted the first week.

Sept 25 Have read: LtoS: ch 2, 18-38; ch 6, 100-109; ch 8, 120-136

Week 7

Writing/

Grammar

Sept. 30 Have read:BtR: chs 4 & 5, 89-192

**Long reading assignment!

Oct 2 Have read: Lessons to Share: ch 9, pp. 137-54.

Presentation: Error Analysis

Select a rule from any usage handbook - not too obscure a rule. Use Schuster for help interpreting a rule if he talks about it, but get the rule itself from a traditional handbook. Post your rule to the discussion board for that purpose. Listen and watch for how educated speakers and writers observe or don=t observe the rule. Keep a log. (See Oct 9.)

Week 8

Writing/

Grammar

Oct 7 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #1 Due (Use one the lessons Schuster describes or alludes to, developing any handouts, overheads or other materials you need. Script how you will open the lesson.)

Oct 9 Write one to three pages explaining the results of your usage rule observations - be sure to include the rule! In-class: Discussion of the results of usage rule observations

Week 9

Writing/

Grammar

Oct 14 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #2 Due (Geared to writers like the writer of the essay used in the Oct 2 presentation)

Oct 16 Write one to two pages explaining how you will approach one handbook rule in the classroom. You may use the rule you observed or a rule observed by anyone else.

Week 10

Writing/

Grammar

Oct 21 Grammar and Writing Mini-Lesson #3 Due (Select the usage/mechanics to focus on based on your own sense of what students should be able to do.)

Oct 23

NO 471 Class Meeting

Week 11

Style/

Grammar

Oct 28 Have read: LtoS: chs 10-12, 155-208

Oct 30 Presentation: Generative Rhetoric

Week 12

Lg Arts/

Grammar

Nov 4

Rubric and Edit Sheet Due

Nov 6 Demonstration: Beloved: Possessive Pronominal Adjectives (huh?), Themes, and Voice

Week 13

Lg Arts/

Grammar

Nov 11 Have read: LtoS: chs 13-4, 209-243

Nov 13 Have scanned the notebook of lessons on paper reserve at library. Have read at least two with care.

Week 14

Lg Arts/

Grammar

Nov 18 Demonstration: Teaching How to Punctuate Quotations. Please bring a novel or short story - one with dialogue.

Nov 20 Lg Arts & Grammar/Lg Lesson Plan Due You are welcome to turn in early or to submit via bb from a remote site but it must be in by 7:15 pm.

Nov 24 - 28 Thanksgiving Break

Week 15

Dec 2 Bring Dictionary: Using Dictionary Diacritics (Pronunciation Marks)

Dec 4 Bring Dictionary: What=s in the Dictionary besides Pronunciations and Definitions?

Finals Week

It looks like we have a choice of T or Th at 6. Due: Final Submission

Grads - Annotated Evaluative Bibs