Composition II -- Activities for Week 4-- Feb. 8-12, 1999

Monday:

• Quiz over "Addicted to Day Care"
• Discussion and comparison/contrast over "Day Careless" and "Addicted to Day Care"
• Homework -- Read the following two essays for Wednesday.  Go to Microsoft Explorer. Be sure to bump the font size down to the smallest setting on your browser.  When you go to the Print Command, print only 3 of 4 pages for the first article.
  • "'Ally McBeal': Woman of the 90s or Retro Airhead?"
  • "Pass the Midol"

Wednesday:

• Finish comparison/contrast of  "Day Careless" and "Addicted to Day Care"
• Quiz over "'Ally McBeal': Woman of the 90s or Retro Airhead?" and "Pass the Midol"
• Check out some sites on Ally McBeal and discuss possible research ideas related to topic.
• Homework: Read the following two essays for Friday.  They make up the final two choices for your comparison/contrast essay.  You will have a quiz over them as well.
  • "All for the Good: Why Genetic Testing Must Soldier On"
  • "Who Gets the Good Genes?"

Friday:

• Quiz over "All for the Good: Why Genetic Testing Must Soldier On" and "Who Gets the Good Genes?"
• Comparison/Contrast essay assigned and discussed.
• Prewriting activities for comparison/contrast essay.
• Homework: Begin writing a draft for Peer Review Workshop on Wednesday.

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