ESSAY 3:  GROWING UP FEMALE (OR MALE) AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
 
Requirements

Essay 3 Assignment Sequence
Date Homework Due In-Class Work
Day 19 Feb. 26 Essay 2, final draft. Introduction to Essay 3.
Day 20
Feb. 28		 Read Fraker in Speculations (527) and write a 3-4 sentence summary that is both elegant and inclusive.  Then write a detailed response to one passage that seems particularly important to the author and one passage that seems particularly important to you. In each case, do not leave the text behind too quickly.  (One page total.) Discuss summaries and discuss the ideas in Fraker. 
Day 21
Mar. 2		 Mid-term self-assessment.  Read Sanders essay (handout) and annotate margins (1) to label the parts of the essay, (2) to raise questions about something you don't understand or wish you could ask the author, and (3) explain to the author why you disagree with him. In discussion, identify what Sanders' confusion is and what his hopes are.  Discuss what it's like to annotate something you read.
Day 22
Mar. 5		 Read Wolfe in Speculations (354).  Read the first time just to understand what bugs Wolfe and what her main argument is.  Read a second time to pick out the main parts of her argument.  Annotate the margin.  Summarize her argument first; then write a response to it. Talk about how to approach an essay that is difficult to read.
Day 23
Mar. 7		 Read Lyman (Speculations 386)or Tannen handout, depending on your interests.  Write a summary of the one you choose and pick 2 or 3 passages that you make you want to respond to them and write for a page.  
Day 24
Mar. 9		 Thinkpiece on one of the essays in this unit.  
  Spring Break Mar. 11-17
No Classes		  
Day 25
Mar. 19		 Because of the snow day, Charter day, and my illness, our schedule has been thrown off.  Therefore the Thinkpiece for Essay 3 is due today, not the first draft, as originally planned. The thinkpiece should start with a summary of an idea from one of the four essays we've read in this unit and then extend that idea in some way, possibly using the strategies I presented in class on Friday.  2 pages, in Learning Space. Full-class and small-group work responding to thinkpiece.
Day 26
Mar. 21		 Essay 3, first draft, with metatext, in Learning Space two hours before class begins.  See me in conference some time this week. Full-class and small-group work responding to first draft.
Day 27
Mar. 23		 Essay 3, second draft, with new metatext and Works Cited page, in Learning Space two hours before class begins. Editing work.
Day 28
Mar. 26		 Extra day for completing final draft.  
Day 29
Mar. 28		 Essay 3, final draft, with new metatext, in Learning Space plus final printout for class. Begin Essay 4.