• Course Overview

• Schedule 1

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 3

• Schedule 4

• Schedule 5

• Essay Topic 1

  • Example #1 - Tobacco Farm

  • Example #2 - Genny

  • Example #3 - Season of Birds

• Essay Topic 2
  • Web Exercise
  • Sample Outline
  • Handout on Quoting
  • Handout on Works Cited
• Essay Topic 3

• Sample Essay

• Sample Outline

Textbook Website

Summary of Aviles This I Believe

• Excerpt from Angela's Ashes
• "Once More to the Lake"
• "How to Mark a Book"
• On the Writing Process (from MIT):
  • #1: Understanding An Assignment
  • #2: The Writing Process
  • #3: Introduction Strategies

• "Culture Shock"

• "Hell-Heaven"

• "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?"

• NPR - Immigration Study: "Second Generation" Has Edge

• Lucky Child: NPR Interview with Loung Ung

• Loung Ung Interview with Vermont Public Radio

• "Serving the Goddess"

• "The Declaration of Independence"
• "I Have a Dream"
• "Statement by Alabama Clergymen"
• "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• "A Soldier's Legacy"

• Personal Argument--School Prayer

• Handout on Summarizing
• Handout on Evaluating Evidence
• Handout on Avoiding Fallacies

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