Week 14 to the end…

COM 115:

Tuesday 04/16 SOS: Special Occasion Speeches

1. Peyton: Maid of Honor for Aubree
2. Bri: Maid of Honor for Hope
3. Aiden: Best Man for Owen
4. Cassidy: Maid of Honor for Erica
5. Megan: Eulogy for Freshman Self or Commencement Speech
6. Alizabeth: Roast of Her Dog
7. Kaylee: Acceptance Speech for Best Parking
8. Wade: Presentation Speech for Best Redneck
9. Kailor: Acceptance Speech for Best Redneck

• We will review and practice Impromptu Speeches for the final.
• You will retake the PRPSA and write a final reflection on your growth over the semester.
• You will take a final 50 question exam over the chapters in the textbook we have covered.
• We will have two days for do-over speeches.
• All revisions of written work will be due by Sunday 04/28 at 11:59 pm.

ENG 102:

• Seminar over Parts One and Parts Two 1984
• Last Discussion Post Due: Friday 04/19/24
• Quiz over Part Three: Friday 04/19/24
• Seminar over Part Three Monday 04/22
• Senior Day of Giving: Tuesday 04/23
• Watch Film Version 1984: Wednesday 04/24-Friday04/26
• ALL REVISIONS DUE SUNDAY 04/28 by 11:59 pm
• SCHOLARSHIP NIGHT MONDAY 04/29
• In-class essay exam by hand 05/01-05/02
• MetaReflection Finals: Due Friday 05/03 by 3:00 pm

Week 12: Persuasive Speeches & 1984 & No Full Weeks of Instruction During April

COM 115:

Persuasive Speeches: Outlines due Tuesday 04/02 at the beginning of class.
Reflections due Tuesday 04/09 at the beginning of class

Tuesday: 04/02

1. Wade: Tipping Culture
2. Bri: Tattoos & Professionalism
3. Alizabeth: Why You Should Travel

Wednesday: 04/03

1. Aiden: Motorcycles
2. Kailor: Hunting
3. Peyton: Pet Adoption

Thursday: 04/04

1. Megan: Paper vs. E-Reading
2. Davis: Juvenile Justice System
3. Cassidy: Drawbacks of Social Media

Read chapter 17 on Special Occasion Speeches: Quiz Friday 04/12

Eng 102:

Completed seminar on Foucault’s Panopticon.

Read Part 1 of 1984. Quiz on Friday 04/05.

Week 12: Read Part 2 of 1984. Quiz Friday 04/12.

Week 13: Read Part 3 of 1984. Quiz Friday 04/19.

Week 14: Seminar & write in-class essay by hand.

Week 10: Return from Spring Break: 1/2 Day Friday & Week 11

COM 115: 

• Quiz over chapters 15 & 16 Thursday.
• Persuasive Topics due via email.
• Reverse engineer an outline while watching a college speech on raising the driving age to 18.
• Prep for persuasive speeches.

ENG 102:

• SDR papers due Friday (final extension)
• SDR Presentations: Slides due Friday – hard deadline
• Tuesday:
  • 2nd Hour: Lilly, Arista, Riley, Sarafena
  • 6th Hour: Talyn, Kailor, Waylon, Jude
• Wednesday:
  • 2nd Hour: Keaton, Landon, Megan, Colin
  • 6th Hour: Angelice, Ryley, Carsyn, Wade, Anastacia
• Thursday:
  • 6th Hour: Kyle, Ellie, Ava, Gavin, Kaci

Week 11: Revise SDR essays & deal with SAT insanity & interruptions.

Week 7-10

COM 115
Week 7 – Conference over Declamations; quiz over chapter 4 & 14; choose topics for Informative Speeches; email Borg topics by the end of the day Friday; watch sample speeches

Week 8 – Conduct research; compose annotated bibliography for homework points; outlines due Sunday before speeches; work on slides & rehearse

Week 9 – Deliver Informative speeches (all speeches must have a slide deck, but additional visual aids are allowed); reflections due Sunday 03/10 (if you want to avoid work over spring break, submit the Friday before).

ENG 102

Week 7 – Pause for scholarships and wait for remaining Mock Essays to come in late; review citation formats; decide on MLA vs. APA format; realize we have no time for large presentations after Spring Break due to SAT / Eclipse / Senior Day of Giving / schedule insanity & revise downward on those; email Borg topics for Self Directed Research by Sunday at noon.

Weeks 8- Conduct research; annotated bibs are optional, but work on citation generation as you go; draft & conference

Week 9 – Meta-Reflections due for midterm grade (75 points); hard deadline = due by 3:00 pm on Friday 03/08. No late entries accepted

WEEK 10: SPRING BREAK!!

Weeks 5-6 02/05-02/16

COM 115:

Find, cut, and analyze a declamation speech. Analysis and clean scripts are due in D2L by Sunday 02/11 at noon.

We will deliver declamations in the reverse order of introductory speeches. Pay attention to where you prefer to speak and if certain locations within the order increase / decrease your speaking anxiety. Reflection 2 will be due Sunday 02/18.

Start reading chapters 4 & 14 for Informative Speeches, coming up next. These will be delivered right before Spring Break.

ENG 102:

Students worked in dyads to create an outline for a practice Mock Essay over “Why We Should Have Recess in High School.” We reviewed all outlines as a class. Some were so good, students decided to continue the Mock Essay project with that outline & citations: Mock Essay Outline Template.

Mock Essays are due Sunday 02/18 by noon in D2L.

Stay on top of MetaReflections: midterms are due Friday 03/08 prior to Spring Break.

Week 4: 01/29-02/02

COM 115: 

• Find a speech for Declamations (avoid video collages that aren’t real speeches)
• Quiz over chapters 3 & 10 Friday
• Group work mid-week over extemp / memorized / manuscript / impromptu

ENG 102: 

• Work with ISAC Rep on FAFSA and scholarships (Monday)
• Discussion post & seminar on “Modest Proposal”
• Start Mock Essays for Unit 2

Week 3: Essay 1 & Speech 1

COM 115: 

• Speech 1: Tuesday 01/23 (Wed. for overflow).
• Read chapters 3 & 10 in textbook.
• Write reflection over Speech 1 (Due Sunday 01/28 by noon in D2L).
• Find speech to use for Declamation: Speech 2.

ENG 102:

• You wrote in-class essays last week on Friday.
• Monday & Tuesday = revise and polish. Typed versions due in D2L by the end of class on Tuesday.
• Essay 1 = combined average of the two essay grades.
• Start Mock Essays.
• Read “A Modest Proposal” Wednesday – seminar Thursday & Friday.
• Continue working on MetaReflections.

Week 2: Speeches & Essays

COM 115:

• Quizzes over chapters 1 & 2 in textbook Friday
• Introductory Outlines due Friday by 3:00 pm (first time uploading to Dropbox for some – request extension via email if you need more time. Extensions due Sunday by noon).
• Speaking order will be posted later in the week – everyone should be ready to present on Tuesday 01/23. Wednesday 01/24 will just be for overflow if we need it.
• Be looking for Declamation Speech for Speech 2.

ENG 102:

• Seminar over annotated bibliographies
• In-class essay exam on Essay 1 Friday: Writing from Annotated Bibliographies. 
  • You can bring an outline
  • You can have annotations & notes 
  • You can use annotated bibs
  • Submit all materials with your final essay
• MetaReflection Week 2: prompt in D2L

Welcome to Spring 2024 + Week 1

This page contains some course content for both COM 115 and ENG 102 for Spring Semester, 2024. Primarily for students / parental units to access.

D2L IS THE PRIMARY GRADE BOOK AND STUDENT COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL MY  DUAL CREDIT CLASSES. LOGIN THERE FIRST AND FOLLOW ASSIGNMENT DIRECTIONS. Speech folks need to upload a picture for their D2L profile. Seniors have already done this. 

Review your course Syllabus.

English 102 will cover plagiarism on day 1 or 2 of the course. Plagiarism will warrant a zero for all future assignments for both courses. This includes “unintentional plagiarism” as defined in the JALC Student Handbook. 

You only have until the end of the school day on Monday 01/08 to change your schedule. If you do NOT think you can maintain the work required for this course or if you / parental units will be highly dissatisfied with a “B” or “C” in this course, consider dropping. “A’s” are never guaranteed in Dual Credit classes. 

Week 1:

COM 115 – Take PRPSA, read chapters 1&2 in text book, and prepare for introductory speeches.

ENG 102 – work with annotated bibliographies, take notes, prepare for an in-class essay in which you write using content only from annotated bibs. created by former students.

Weeks 17-18: End of the Semester

ENG 101

• Revisions of all essays were due Sunday 12/03 by midnight. Revisions = extra credit in college classes.
• Folks who were absent last week need to make up the last quiz over Macbeth.
• Seminar & view film versions of Macbeth. Prep for in-class essay over evil, responsibility, or which character changed the most over the course of the play.

COM 115

• Impromptu Speeches Monday: Final Exam Preferences.
• Schedule any do-over speeches for revisions. All revised written work was due Sunday 12/03 at midnight.
• Prep for Impromptu & Special Occasion Speeches.
• Special Occasion Speeches: Monday 12/11.
• Final Exam: Impromptu Speeches (100 points) & Cumulative Final (50 points) 12/19.