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Details about daily assignments will be posted here and announced at class on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Check the website as you prepare for each upcoming class period. See the schedule posted in the syllabus for the tentative course outline.
Assigned August 30
1.
Create your field
notebook research team and e-mail me your proposal by 8 am Tuesday (see step
1 of the instructions). [Yes,
this is later than the original due date.]
2.
As you read Kolln
& Gray Ch. 1, “An Introduction to Words and Phrases,” note the form class
definitions of noun, verb,
adjective, and
adverb. Other terms to define (and to identify examples of within
sentences): noun headword,
determiner,
preposition, prepositional
phrase, adjectival, adverbial,
form class,
structure class.
3.
Complete the
even-numbered problems for Exercises 1-3 in Chapter 1.
Some notes about this process:
4. Find your share of the mentor texts to be used along with your field notebook (see step 2 of the instructions, and create MLA works cited entries for those texts to share with your team. Remember that beginning Friday, September 3, you should always have photocopies of at least one of the mentor texts (or excerpts) with you at class.
Assigned August 27 1.
Read (actively!) the following texts.
Note the various definitions of grammar that are presented.
How do they relate to each other?
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Kolln & Funk, “The Study of Grammar” (coursepack pp. 23-36 or Courses@Dordt) 2. Create your field notebook research team and e-mail me your proposal by 5 pm Monday (see step 1 of the instructions). Start looking for mentor texts for step 2.
Assigned August 25
1.
Read Ray, “The Craft
of Writing” (coursepack or Courses@Dordt) to gain more insight about what it
means to approach grammar as a resource or as a tool for crafting writing.
As always, read actively: add your margin notes
about the connections you make, about the questions you have, and about the
ideas that you find especially interesting, insightful, confusing, or
debatable.
2.
Try Ray’s
approach to careful reading. Read Meachem, “Don’t Wait for a Thank You, Mr.
President.” Choose five notable aspects of Meachem’s grammar. For each, name
the technique (use the technical name if you know it), provide an
example(s), and explain the effect that the writer achieves by using this
technique.
3.
Review the syllabus and read the
instructions for the Field Notebook
assignment.
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