Late Assignment Policy: Assignments can be turned in during class periods only. A one-week late assignment is docked one full letter grade or 10 out of 100 points; a two-week late assignment is docked two letter grades or 20 out of 100 points. Work not turned in two-weeks after the due date will receive a grade of 0.

Drop Policy: To avoid getting an F on your transcript for a class you have dropped, you need to notify registration and your teacher as soon as you decide to drop a class.

Attendance Policy: If you miss 1 month of class (4 weeks or 4 classes), you will be dropped or fail the course.

Cheating: If you use another person's ideas or words without saying that the ideas or words are not yours, you are cheating. You will receive an F for the assignment and can receive an F for the class if the cheating is wide spread and malicious.

Discrimination: The school forbids students to harass other students on the basis of "race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age or sexual orientation" (Chaffey College Catalog 1994-95) 25). Note that the inclusion of "sexual orientation" means that no anti-homosexual or anti-heterosexual comments are permitted in class!

Grading Policy
Ten Writing Assignments (see class schedule for specifics) 60%
Other Work and Class Participation 30%
Final Exam 10%

Class Schedule
Classwork listed in the class schedule is to be collected for a grade and should be handwritten on looseleaf. If you miss a class, this work is to be turned in at the next class. The late assignment policy applies to both classwork and homework, unless a serious emergency has occurred to you. Unless "typed" is specified, you can handwrite on looseleaf all homework.

9/5 "Important Factors in Writing" (pp. 11-42); "The First and Second Steps in Writing" (pp. 43-71)
Classwork: pp. 61-2, 63, 64, 67

Homework due 9/12: (typed) "Helping a Parent in College" p. 68 (4% of final grade); read pp. 1-67; Activities 1-3, pp. 26-29

9/12 "The Third and Fourth Steps in Writing" (pp. 72-91)
Classwork: pp. 86, 87, 90

Homework due 9/19: read "What it Means to be Young Today" pp. 543-547; reading comprehension questions pp. 547-8; read pp. 68-91

9/19 "Four Bases for Evaluating Writing" (pp. 92-118); "Providing Examples" (pp. 127-130); "What it Means to be Young Today" (pp. 543-547)
Classwork: In-class Writing p. 131 "A Selfish Person" (4% of final grade); pp. 104, 106-7, 109

Homework due 9/26: read pp. 91-118; (typed) Examples Paragraph (do 1 of 2-5) pp. 131-135 (5% of final grade)

9/26 "Subjects and Verbs" (pp. 231-235); "Sentence Fragments" (pp. 236-252)
Classwork: pp. 240, 249, 250; handout

Homework due 10/3: read "The Tryout" pp. 440-448; reading comprehension questions pp. 449-450; handout

10/3 "The Tryout" (pp. 440-448); "Examining Cause and Effect" (pp. 143-147); "Run-ons" (pp. 253-267)
Classwork: In-class Writing p. 451, #2 (4% of final grade), pp. 260, 266
Homework due 10/10: (typed) Cause-and-effect Paragraph (do 1 of 1-5) pp. 148-151 (6% of final grade); handout

10/10 "Standard English Verbs" (pp. 268-276); "Irregular Verbs" (pp. 277 284); "Subject-Verb Agreement" (pp. 285-289); "Consistent Verb Tense" (pp. 290-293)
Classwork p. 284 #2, p. 289

Homework due 10/17: read "People Need People" pp. 535-539; reading comprehension questions pp. 539-540; handout

10/17 "People Need People" (pp. 535-539); "Comparing or Contrasting" (pp. 152-159); "Commonly Confused Words" (pp. 396-407); "Effective Word Choice" (pp. 408-415)
Classwork: In-class Writing p. 541 #2 (5% of final grade); p. 406, review test 2, p. 407, pp. 413-414, 415

Homework due 10/24: (typed) Comparison or Contrast Paragraph (do 1 of 1-5) pp. 160-164 (6% of final grade)

10/24 "Comma" (pp. 361- 370); "Other Punctuation Marks" (pp. 371-375)
Classwork: review test 3, p. 370

Homework due 10/31: read "How to Think Clearly" pp. 514-518; reading comprehension questions pp. 518-9, handout

10/31 "How to Think Clearly" (pp. 514-518); "Dividing and Classifying" (pp. 172-176); "Adjectives and Adverbs" (pp. 308-312); "Misplaced Modifiers" (pp. 313-316); "Dangling Modifiers" (pp. 317-321); "Faulty Parallelism" (pp. 322-325)
Classwork: pp. 314-315, 319-320
Homework due 11/7: read "Let's Really Reform Our Schools" pp. 476-479; reading comprehension questions pp. 479-480; (typed) Division or Classification Paragraph (do
1 of 1-5) pp. 176-179 (6% of final grade)

11/7 "Let's Really Reform Our Schools" (pp. 476-479); "Arguing a Position" (pp. 198-201); "Apostrophe" (pp. 344-352); "Quotation Marks" (pp. 353-360)
Classwork: pp. 348, 355-356

Homework due 11/14: (typed) Argument Paragraph pp 202-206 (do 1 of 1 5) (10% of final grade); handout

11/14 "Writing the Essay" (pp. 209-222); "Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View" (pp. 294-301); "Pronoun Types" (pp. 302-307)
Classwork: pp. 301, 307

Homework due 11/21: read "Power Learning" pp. 483-489; reading comprehension questions pp. 489-490; handout

11/21 "Power Learning" (pp. 483-489); "Capital Letters" (pp. 331-340); "Editing Tests" (pp. 426-431)
Classwork: review test 2, p. 340, pp. 430, 431

Homework due 12/5: (typed) Essay pp. 222-228 (do 1 of 1-10) (10% of final grade)

11/28 Happy Thanksgiving! No class!

12/5 Review Class

12/12 Final Exam