[Teaching_Composition] syllabus and pacing

[Donna Reiss]

Hi Kristina,

I've taught lots of once-a-week 3-hour classes over the years, including 
1st year comp although not during the last decade. One semester I taught a 
summer accelerated class that met 5-10 p.m. every Monday!

Varying the pace of each class was most important. For instance, 
alternating individual and group activities; alternating oral, written, and 
computer activities; getting students up and about such as mini-field trips 
to the library or the snack bar or in fine weather outdoors to observe, 
take notes, read, and write. An online writing workshop can be varied to 
include some in-person components: 
http://wordsworth2.net/writing/writingworkshop.htm.

I'm interested in the Society for early Americanists syllabus exchange. Do 
they have a Website? I'm not teaching American lit and would welcome that 
resource.

Best wishes,
Donna

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Department of English, Clemson University, dreiss@clemson.edu
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Professor Emeritus, English-Humanities, Tidewater Community College
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At 11:28 AM 12/11/2005, Kristina Lucenko wrote:
>Hello,
>Hope the semester is beginning to wind down for everyone out there.
>I've been assigned a Writing 101 course that will meet each Saturday
>for 3 hours over a period of 14 weeks. I've taught courses that meet
>for 50 minutes 3x a week or 120 minutes 2x a week, but was wondering
>if anyone out there can offer advice on the obviously quicker pacing
>and other challenges of teaching a course that meets only once a week.
>To this point, I'm wondering if someone could recommend composition
>teaching resources on the web that might help me with this issue (for
>example, the Society for early Americanists has a syllabus exchange
>that's really useful for help in teaching early American lit--maybe
>there's something similar that could help me with my Saturday
>composition/writing course?).
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Sincerely,
>Kristina Lucenko
>SUNY Buffalo
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