English 52—These are due dates. The assignments are due on these dates.

August
18: Intro to course
20: Read The Wife of His Youth--Brainstorming.

25: Write a paragraph defining how you think a role model should behave, and identify someone in your life who fits your definition.
27: Write an expository paragraph that supports your opinion that this person behaves as a role model should. The paragraph should have a topic sentence and two details. There should be a transition between the two details.

  1: Write two more expository paragraphs that support your opinion that this person behaves as a role model should. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence and two details. There should be a transition between the two details and between the paragraphs.
  3: Revise the first two paragraphs.

September
  8: Revise the last two paragraphs and write a conclusion.
10: Final Draft of Paper 1 Due. Read “The Sheriff's Children.”

15: Write a descriptive paragraph of a person, who looks and acts like a role model, but who is in reality not a role model but someone to be avoided.
17: Write one expository paragraph that supports the idea that this person is someone who should be avoided.

22: Write two expository paragraphs that support the idea that this person is someone who should be avoided.
24: Revise the first three paragraphs.

29: Revise the fourth paragraph.
  1: Final Draft of Paper 2 Due. Read “Her Virginia Mammy.”

October
  6: Write the introduction to an essay that identifies a significant trend in your life and explores the causes and effects of that trend.
  8: Write one cause paragraph

13: Write the second cause paragraph.
15: Rewrite the cause paragraphs.

20: Write second cause paragraph
22: Write first effect paragraph

27: Write second effect paragraph, transition between paragraphs, and sections and conclusion
29: Final Draft Due. Read "Cicely's Dream." Write an essay that answers the following question: Should John have married Cicely or Martha and why?

  3: First body paragraph Due
  5: Second body paragraph Due

10: Third body paragraph and conclusion Due
12: Introduction

17: Revision
19: Final Draft Due; MLA

24: Copies of two articles explaining the extent of your social trend and copies of two articles explaining the causes of your social trend
26: Thanksgiving Holiday

December

  1: Copies of two articles explaining the two different solutions to your social trend
  3: One paragraph explaining the extent of your social trend

  8: Two paragraphs explaining the causes and one paragraph explaining one solution to the social trend
10: One paragraph explaining the second solution to the social trend

19: Introduction to Course
21: Read The Wife of His Youth; Using Details

26: Writing generalizations
28: Supporting Generalizations with details

September

  2: Context
  4: Context

  9: Rough draft due
11: Rough draft due

 16: Two paragraphs Due; each paragraph must have three details and each detail consists of context and quote; Read Her Virginia Mammy;
18: Analysis

23: Analysis
25: Analysis

30: Rough Draft Due
  2: Rough Draft Due

October

  7: Essay on Clara Due; essay must have a thesis statement and two body paragraphs. Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence that supports the thesis statement and three details that support the topic sentence; each detail must have context, quote, and analysis. Read The Sheriff's Children;
  9: Thesis Statement; Topic Sentences, Supporting Details

14: Thesis Statement; Topic Sentences, Supporting Details
16: Rough Draft of essay on Sherriff’s Children

21: Rough Draft of essay on Sherriff’s Children
23: Rough Draft of essay on Sherriff’s Children