Day 5 (Friday, 31 January 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. What are some important things you know about thesis statements? (5 minutes)
2. Thesis Statement Review (40 minutes) 
• In groups
• Show me what you know! 
• Sample Introductions
• What makes a good thesis statement? 
• Sample Theses
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
3. Writer's Help Talk (5 minutes)

Homework: 

• Do 1 of the Writer's Help Diagnostics

Day 4 (Wednesday, 29 January 2013)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Attendance (5 minutes)
• Alliterative Attendance Name Game
• Not naming yourself, try to name one person in the class with their adjective
2. Soda Tax Debate 
• Powerpoint Set Up (10-15 minutes)
• Split into two sides
• Group brainstorming (10-15 minutes)
• What are some points or arguments you could use? 
• What is a good, working thesis statement you could draft? 
• Pair compare (5-10 minutes) 

Homework: 

• Tell me what you're thinking about for your argumentative essay.  (Participation Grade) 

Day 3 (Monday, 27 January 2014)

Schedule of Events:

1. Icebreaker: What is your favorite season? 
2. Attendance (5 minutes) 
• Alliterative Adjective Name Game
3. Writer's Help instructor change (5 minutes)
4. Intro to how we will use Writer's Help this semester (20 minutes)
5. Review of Rhetorical Situations: Audience and Tone (20 minutes)
1. Review of the triangle
2. In this class, who is normally your audience? 
3. Tone activity
6. Assignment Prompt (remainder of time)

Homework: 

• (Optional-Not for a grade) Review the Assignment Prompt
• (Optional-Not for a grade) Review the suggestions on Writer's Help that I made to your diagnostic essay.  If you would like, you can email me an explanation of how the blue highlighted portion(s) could have been improved and how you would improve them.  

Day 2 (Friday, 24 January 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Attendance (<5 minutes)
2. Explanation of class and homework for new students (<5 minutes)
3. Explanation of diagnostic (remainder of class time)

Homework: 

• First day handout
• First day handout quiz
• Please submit by placing in your Google Drive folder
• Introduction form 

Welcome to ESL 112

Hello, class! 

Welcome Message: 

I'm so glad that you're in my section of ESL 112!  We're going to have a great semester!  This course will stretch you, challenge you, be difficult, but it will be worth it.  If you work hard in this course, commit to our team of writers, I am confident that you will improve even more in your English writing.  You will show your academic writing skills by completing a final academic research paper for this course.  Above all, I am confident that if we meet the expectations, the paper will be a remarkable success.  

Expectations: 

For the class and instructor: 

• You can expect me to give you the best instruction I can. 
• You can expect me to try to challenge each student in unique ways to help each student improve.  
• You can expect the class to be engaging.  
• You can expect the class to be hard.
• You can expect a lot of group work.
• You can expect useful feedback on your writing.  
• You can expect me to be committed to each one of my students.    
• You can expect the class to be fun.  

What is expected of you: 

• I expect you to give me the best work you can.  
• I expect you to challenge yourself to become the best writer you can be.  
• I expect you to choose to be engaged and attentive.  
• I expect you to work hard.  
• I expect you to stretch yourself in working in groups.  
• I expect you to give each other useful feedback on your peers' writing.  
• I expect you to be committed to the class--your classmates, me, and our writing.  
• I expect you to have fun and relax sometimes. 

I fully believe that together we can make this the most successful class you have ever taken and I have ever taught.  Are you with me?