Syllabus
All activities, including grammar, reading and assignments must be completed
and submitted via e-mail to shaber@njcu.edu
during the week they are assigned or before their due dates. If you need extra
time or are having difficulty using e-mail, see me.
WEEK 1
Complete the Student Information Form and submit it (form to contain soc sec #,
phone, address, language, nationality, major, etc.)
Please familiarize yourself with the rules for the use of the Computer Lab during class
sessions.
Student Writing Read the two student essays
Quake
and
First Kiss and do the study
questions
Internet Activity 1 Due Tues. Jan 24
WEEK 2
Do Grammar activity on
Experience
Do Grammar activity on First Days in the USA
Read the student essays
My
Grandfather ,
My Father and
My Grandmother. Do the activities for them.
Read about the Mexican-American writer Sandra
Cisneros
Internet Activity 2
Due Tues. Jan
31
WEEK 3
Do the grammar activity on an
Influential Person
Read the student essay
Obesity and do
the activities.
Go to the student writing archive and read
What is Success? And do the activities
Do the
Success Values activity.
Read about the astronaut Kalpana Chawla
Internet Activity 3
Due Tues. Feb 7
WEEK 4
Do the
Traditional
Modern grammar activity
Arranged Marriage Grammar Activity
Read Wan Lam’s
Traditional-Modern
essay in the student writing area and do the activities.
Read
Omiai and do the
activities
Read The Color of Love and do the
activities
Internet Activity 4--Interracial Marriage
Due Tues. Feb 14
WEEK 5
Do the
Single Parent Family
Grammar activity
Single Parent Article Activity
Do the reading and activities for Family
Do the
Brainstorm Single Parent
Family activity
Student Essays on Single Parenthood
How to use EBSCOHOST Academic Search Premier
Single Parent Family Internet Assignment:
Due
Tues. Feb 21
WEEK 6
Sex Education
Grammar activity
Sex Ed Interview
When Does Life Begin?
Values Clarification--Abortion
Abortion Internet Activity
Due Tues. Feb 28
Immigration Grammar
Activity
Read the student essay, A Bad Experience in the
U.S.A. and do the activities.
Read the essays on Immigration: Pro & Con
and do the activities.
Immigration Web Activity
Due Tues.
March 21
WEEK 9
Two Languages
Grammar Activity
Multicultural Essay
True Friendship
English Only in Arizona
Hate Groups Research
Due Tues. March 28
WEEK 10
Guns Grammar
The Cost of Gun Violence
Teen Crime Values
Gun control essay
Gun Control Web Activity Due Tues. April 4
WEEK 11
Making Connections
Death Penalty
Grammar
Karla’s Fate
Frontline
Death Penalty Web Activity
Due Tues. April 11
WEEK 12
Drugs
Grammar
Drug Essay
Drug Values
Drug Legalization web activity
Due
Tues. April 18
ESL Placement Exam will be administered during
class on Tues., May 2nd.
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