Dual-Credit ENG 102 Syllabus

L. Borger Phone: 618-983-8638, ext. 4114 Office Hours: M-F by appointment Email: lborger@jcindians.org Course Website: D2L & mamaborg.wordpress.com

ENG 101 – English Composition I Section: TBA MTWTHF Dual Credit through JALC & JCHS Credit hours: 3 Lecture hours: 5

“If you are used to whipping off papers the night before they’re due, running them quickly through the computer’s Spellchecker, handing them in full of high-school errors and sentences that make no sense and having the professor accept them ‘because the ideas are good’ or something, please be informed that I draw no distinction between the quality of one’s ideas and the quality of those ideas’ verbal expression, and I will not accept sloppy, rough-draftish, or semiliterate college writing. Again, I am absolutely not kidding….[This] is not just a Find-Out-What-The-Teacher-Thinks-And-Regurgitate-It-Back-at-[Them] course.  It’s not like math or physics—there are no right or wrong answers (though there are interesting versus dull, fertile versus barren, plausible versus whacko answers).”[1]

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Course Textbook & Materials:

Aaron, Jane. LB Brief. 6th Ed., Pearson, 2016. ISBN: 9780134595108

Course Prerequisites:

ENG 101 – English Composition 1-C1 900R or ENG 113 – Professional Technical Writing 0 CI 900R (with a grade of “C” or higher)

LAST WEEK / META-REFLECTIONS / HOMEWORK

Final Meta-Reflections are due no later than 4:30 pm on Friday 12/18. NO LATE META-REFLECTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AND FINAL GRADES WILL BE SUBMITTED TO JALC AT 5:00 PM, FRIDAY 12/18. 

META-REFLECTIONS ARE WORTH 150 POINTS (15% of your overall semester grade). Turn SOMETHING in vs. taking a zero.

Outstanding Annotated Bibs are due no later than Monday 12/14 at 4:30 pm

Outstanding Personal Statements and revisions are due by Wednesday 12/16 at 4:30 pm.

Homework is worth 200 points total (20% of your overall semester grade). Each week / assignment has been worth 10 points. I am changing the point total in TeacherEase to reflect that (from an average of homework out of 100% to your total points out of 180 – end of week 17 – it will be 200 points after Thursday 12/17).

Here is what you have earned homework points for this semester:

• Week 1: Complete the “Back to School” survey in Google Classroom (completion)
• Week 2: Send Borger an email: (+, check, – grade)
• Week 3: Login to D2L and add a profile pic or image (10 folks are still missing this as of 09/06/2020) (completion)
• Week 4: Upload meta-reflection in Dropbox (completion, timeliness, formatting)
• Week 5: Literacy Narrative Draft / Discussion Post: 5 pts. completion for each=10 pts for the week. Only 16/34 total students completed the discussion post; 6/34 failed to submit a literacy narrative draft. 4/34 failed to submit any work for the week.
• Week 6: notes & discussion post ratings (due in D2L by Fri. 09/25 @ 4:30 pm)
• Week 7: email Borg your self-evaluation for the literacy narrative.
• Week 8: Submitting a midterm meta-reflection
• Week 9: Taking the SAT
• Week 10: Submitting an annotated bib draft on 10/19 in D2L
• Week 11: Quiz Grade 1984: Part One (% converted to 10 pts. i.e. 92% = 9/10; 73% = 7/10)
• Discussion Post: 1984: Part One
• Week 12: Quiz Grade 1984: Part Two (% converted to 10 pts)
• Week 13: Quiz Grade 1984: Part Three (% converted to 10 pts)
• Week 14: One-on-one conference with Borg over 1984 essay
• Week 15: Grade your 1984 essay
• Week 16: Send Borg your Meta-Reflection Word count survey
• Week 17: End of the Semester survey
• Week 18: submitting meta-reflection
• Bonus: 10 pts to round up to 200 pts in D2L

Guided Research: Post-High School & Career Planning

Click on the College Readiness link in the menu above for more resources. 

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Educational Research Essay: Use data from your annotated bibliography to write a 500-750 word essay.

Guided Research Post-High School College & Career Planning  Use the articles below to create an annotated bibliography & compose an essay (100 pts) Check D2L and weekly posts for homework and final due dates for work.

Pushing Beyond the Idea That College is Always the Answer by Susie An

Why Go To College? by Glenn Geher from Psychology Today

Should Everyone Go To College? by Natalie Proulx, Student Opinion in The New York Times

Not Every Student Should Go to College by Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta from Education Week

Why You Should Go to College by Fred Dews of the Brookings Institution

The Rising Cost of Not Going to College from the PEW Research Center
(Summary of PEW findings by Alexandra Raphael)

What is a Gap Year? by The Gap Year Association

Unprecedented Numbers of Students are Taking a Gap Year. What Should They Do With the Time? by Michael B. Horn of EdSurge

Gap Year Basics from New York University. Note the reasons listed for taking a gap year.

Time Out or Burn Out for the next Generation by William Fitzsimmons of Harvard

Privilege of the Rich Gap years to travel internationally have traditionally been a privilege of the rich. Delaying college can have negative consequences too. by Lilah Burke from Inside Higher Ed

The Stigma of Choosing Trade School Over College by Meg St -Esprit from The Atlantic

(Here’s a PDF of The Stigma of Choosing Trade School Over College in case the link to The Atlantic fails to connect or is locked on Chromebooks)

Apprenticeship Program in Southern Illinois Schools by Brad Palmer, WSIU Radio

Mike Rowe Works Foundation information on the need for people to go into the trades

How Career and Technical Education Can Help Students Be College and Career Ready by Betsy Brand, Andrew Valent, and Andrea Browning for American Institutes for Research

The ASVAB Test, this is a test you have to take to join the military. Like any test, it’s best to take LOTS OF PRACTICE TESTS to see what this test is testing you for. 

Today’s Military Branches of the military offer training in almost 1,500 different occupations. Many of these are similar to occupations found in civilian life. If you are considering the military as an option after high school, approach this decision in the same manner as college
selection. 

Unit 3: Personal Statements

Unit 3: Personal Statement Prompts from Scholarships – write a personal statement or potential scholarship essay. Keep it between 250-500 words (preferably 300 words or less) (worth 100 points)

You can also use the Common App Scholarship Prompts or use your own.

Add this to your Personal Portfolio for post-high-school life:

• Include a personal resume which lists all extra curriculars, work, volunteer experiences, etc. over the course of your high school career
• Include a list of references with contact info
• Include letters of recommendation – give your letter writers a form which states information about you – do not expect them to write a letter blind!
• Multiple personal statement prompts
• General Scholarship App info / Job App info