Snake River Opportunities High

Dual Credit Writing and Rhetoric (ENG 101)

Course Description

English 101 emphasizes the process and strategies of writing academic essays with critical attention to purpose and audience, focus and development to support a thesis, and organization and coherency. Students write essays and presentations based on readings, observations, and idea, develop various strategies to respond to different rhetorical situations, and edit for style, voice, and conventions of standard usage.

Why are You Here?

Learn this: I will think about my expectations when experiencing some of life's transitions: graduation from high school, starting my first job, or obtaining my driver's license. I will compose a piece of writing in response to writing prompts.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Minding the Gaps - Mastering Writing

Learn this: I will spend some time thinking about my relationship with writing. What were my experiences - good and bad? What are my gaps, in terms of writing? What does mastery, in terms of writing, look like in practical terms?

Do this: I will create a piece of writing that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Personal Essay

Learn this: I will brainstorm life events and personal experiences and write about them in a personal essay.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Grounded in Place

Learn this: I will consider the ways in which we both connect and disconnect with the places surrounding us. In particular, I will explore places considered natural or wild. How does the world appear to me? How do I engage with it? Where are the places that get most of my attention?

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Paying Attention to our Attention

Learn this: I will consider the ways I use technology, particularly my cell phone.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Personality Paragraph

Learn this: I will take a personality quiz and reflect on the results.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Personality Analysis Essay

Learn this: I will consider my personality type and write an essay reflecting on the components that make me who I am.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

Social Media/Screens

Learn this: I will argue a relevant point about social media's/screen time's impact on our lives.

Do this: I will create a project that demonstrates what I have learned and shows I know how to write and express myself well.

Grow from: I will respond to teacher feedback.

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