Lesson Plans

Syllabus:
2/28
SMH Online: “The St. Martin’s Tutorial on Avoiding Plagiarism: Documenting Sources.” Read tutorial and complete exercises, “MLA Documentation for In-Text Citations.” and “MLA Documentation for Works Cited.”
Draft of Essay I (One printout; one digitally accessible). You are expected to have continued to work on your draft and considered both input from the previous workshop and the response(s) to your proposal. In Class: Workshop: effective organization, analysis, and use of source materials.
3/2
Read & Blog: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives. Draft of Essay I (One printout; one digitally accessible). You are expected to have continued to work on your draft and considered both input from the previous workshop and the response(s) to your proposal. In Class: Workshop.

In Class:
Essay Review:

• Status?
• Existing Issues.
• Follow Workshop Reference
• By end of workshop should have strong responses/suggestions. Goal is to help yourself as writer by critically considering others' writing. Be civil, but don't hold back if you think that the writer has serious gaps, flaws, or errors. Tell him/her what she has done well.

Text Discussion:

• Did you know? Jael Phelps
• Shrek
• Social concerns in contemporary culture. What are threads among texts?
• Contemporary Cultural Perspectives
  "10 Myths About Priestly Homophobia" (Catholic Educators' Resource Center) See #6
  The Abel and Harlow Child Molestation Prevention Study (11-12)
  The Journal of Social Psychology, 2005, 145(1), 65–83. “The Components of Sexual Orientation, Religiosity, and Heterosexuals’ Impressions of Gay Men and Lesbians.” WAYNE W. WILKINSON and ANDREW C. ROYS. Read 65-68 (to Study I) and 78-80 (beginning with “General Discussion”). You are welcomed to read the article in its entirety
  Technical Report by the American Academy of Pediatrics: Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents
  "Will Sponge Bob Make You Gay?"
  S. Bear Bergman: "Pardon Me, Have You Seen My Sexual Orientation?"