Weighted Grades for SA.903.728 (EAP I)

Weighted Grades for SA.903.728 (EAP I)

Speaking Wtd 30%

1. Discussion Leadership I (week 7)
2. Debate tournament! (week 8)
3. Discussion leadership II (week 9)
4. Holocaust theme presentation (week 10)
5. Presentation of Survey/Data Commentary (week 12)
   Participation Wtd 20%
6. Attendance (weekly)
7. Library orientation (week 2)
8. Frames presentation (week 4)
9. The President and the Press - Friend or Foe (week 4)
10. Evaluating Election Ads (week 5)
11. Virtual tour of the Holocaust Museum (week 9)
12. Hunger on trial or Mixer on Guatemala? (Date TBD)
    Writing Wtd 20%
13. Article analysis guidebook of the China Studies Review (week 1)
14. Stunning sentences (week 2)
15. Media sources I trust (week 2)
16. Paraphrasing Foreign Policy (week 3)
17. Extended definition (week 5)
18. The Social Dilemma – Quote, paraphrase, or summarize (week 6)
19. Cornell Notes (week 7)
20. Problem, Process, and Solution (week 8)
21. Data Commentary (week 11)
22. MyLogs of pronunciation and grammar (week 11)
    Reading Wtd 15%
    This grade includes the 4 units of our textbooks (weeks 3, 5, 8, and 11) and the quiz on Night (week 10).
    Listening Wtd 15%
    This grade includes the listening you did during presentation of your classmates, of TED talks and whatnot in preparation of your own presentations, and the notes taken using Cornell Notes. Everyone earned 100% on general listening. The only thing that could lower that grade is your score on the Cornell Notes.

Stunning sentence patterns

1. Compound sentence using a semicolon, no conjunction.
   My forefathers didn’t come over on the Mayflower; they met the boat.
   Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post; The New York Times Company owns the New York Times, which is publicly traded.

2. Compound sentence with explanatory statement (use a colon).
   Remember Yogi Berra’s advice: It ain’t over till it’s over.
   National Public Radio, while a privately and publicly funded non-profit media organization, is seen as balanced ideologically: NPR has been accused of displaying both liberal bias, and conservative bias.

3. Infinity Series, a series without a conjunction.
   She has covered the gamut of hot spots for the newspaper: Venezuela, Afghanistan, Egypt, Myanmar.

4. An introductory series of appositives.
   Hawaiians, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese – these ethnic groups make up much of Hawaii’s diverse population.

5. Repetition of a key term.
   We all have problems, but we can find a solution, a solution that works, a solution that is equitable.
   She suddenly felt filled with joy – a joy she could not explain but gladly embraced.

6. An interrupting modifier between the Subject and Verb. Use a comma if it’s common, a dash for drama, and parentheses to whisper.
   6a Fax machines, once common in schools and offices, are rarely seen or used now.
   6b Wolves –once feared and killed—are being reintroduced into the environment.
   6c American fast food has certainly taken hold, especially among young people in Singapore, and steak houses (not to mention McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken) are familiar sights along Orchard Road.