Week Six	October 2	October 4	October 6
Class Topic	Reading Workshop: All That Readers Bring	Understanding Conventions; Writing Workshop: Revising Essay Two	Reading Workshop
Mini-lesson	Sentence move 4: Adjectives out of order	Topic sentences and paragraphing	Editing unpunctuated paragraph
Writing assignments		First Draft of Essay Two due
Reading assignments	Rowling, Chapters 7-11	Ede, 66-81	Rowling, Chapters 12-15
Week Seven	October 9	October 11	October 13
Class Topic	Reading Workshop	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes
Writing assignments	Midterm Essay Due with Midterm Learning Goals	Revised Draft of Essay Two	Revised Draft of Essay Two
Reading assignments	Rowling, Chapter 15-17	McPhee	McPhee
Week Eight	October 16	October 18	October 20
Class Topic	Reading Workshop: Self-Evaluation of Essay Two	Reading Workshop	No class
Mini-lesson	Poetry and Emotion	Metaphor and Simile
Writing assignments	Final Draft of Second Essay Due	Essay Three Assigned: Rhetorical Analysis
Reading assignments	Hesse, 1-51	Hesse, 55-149
Week Nine	October 23	October 25	October 27
Class Topic	Invention Strategies; Writing Workshop: Strategies for In-Class Essays	Writing Workshop: Strategies for In-Class Essays	Writing Workshop; Writing to Learn; Planning and Drafting Essay Three
Mini-lesson	Invention strategies		Logical connectors
Writing assignments		In-Class Essay on Out of the Dust
Reading assignments	Ede, 111-124 Hesse, 153-227		Ede, 136-151
Week Ten	October 30	November 1	November 3
Class Topic	Writing Workshop: Revising Essay Three	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes
Mini-lesson	Creating titles
Writing assignments	First Draft of Essay Three Due	Revised Draft of Essay Three Due	Revised Draft of Essay Three Due
Reading assignments	Ede, 155-166	McPhee	McPhee

Week Eleven	November 6	November 8	November 10
Class Topic	Writing Workshop: Self-Evaluation of Essay Three	Reading Workshop; Writing to Argue and Reader Expectations	Reading Workshop
Mini-lesson	Sentence move 5: Parallel structures	Common organizational structures for essays	Empty words
Writing assignments	Final Draft of Essay Three Due	Essay Four Assigned: Argument
Reading assignments	Ede, 178-198	McGraw, Introduction	McGraw, Chapter 1
Week Twelve	November 13	November 15	November 17
Class Topic	Reading Workshop	Writing Workshop: Planning and Drafting Essay Four	Writing Workshop: Revising Essay Four
Mini-lesson	Using numbers	Transitional words and phrases	Emotionally charged words
Writing assignments			First Draft of Essay Four Due
Reading assignments	McGraw, Chapter 2	McGraw, Chapter 3	McGraw, Chapter 4
Week Thirteen	November 20	November 22	November 24
Class Topic		No class	No class
Writing assignments	Sentence move 6: Active and passive voice
Reading assignments	McGraw, Chapter 5
Week Fourteen	November 27	November 29	December 1
Class Topic	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes	No class: Individual conferences by appointment: 20 minutes	Writing Workshop: Self-Evaluation of Essay Four
Mini-lesson			Sentence-combining
Writing assignments	Revised Draft of Essay Four Due	Revised Draft of Essay Four Due	Final Draft of Essay Four Due
Reading assignments	McPhee	McPhee	McGraw, Chapters 6-7
Week Fifteen	December 4	December 6	December 8
Class Topic	Writing Workshop: Collecting and Reviewing Final Portfolio	Writing Workshop: Planning and Drafting Final Self-Evaluation	Writing Workshop: Revising and Editing Final Self-Evaluation
Mini-lesson	Critical Thinking and Writing	Editing unpunctuated paragraphs	Mission statement
Writing assignments
Reading assignments	McGraw, Chapters 8-10	McGraw, Chapters 11-12	McGraw, Chapters 13-14
Week Sixteen	December 11	December 13	December 15
Finals Week 10am class			10am Final Portfolios Due
Finals Week 1pm class			1pm Final Portfolios Due