Course Syllabus
Syllabus for ESL 781 Transitional Reading, Writing, & Grammar
Santa Rosa Junior College
Fall 2021
Teacher: Beth Power
Section #0607
Email epower@santarosa.edu
Office: by appointment
Aug 16-Dec 9
MWTh 6:30-8:30
Zoom, Canvas & independent homework
Welcome to class! This is the transition from non-credit to credit classes at Santa Rosa Junior College. We will practice academic reading, developing clear organized sentences into meaningful paragraphs, learning specific skills and grammar in context. For each hour of class, there will be an equal amount of homework. You will have tests, homework, and vocabulary journal for each unit in the text. The 2 required texts are Pathways 1 Reading, Writing & Critical Thinking, 2nd edition and Azar, Fundamentals of English Grammar Student Book A, 5th ed. We will also read a novel, Seedfolks. Your final grade will be based on your class participation, writing assignments, tests including final, homework completion, and vocabulary journals. It is your responsibility to come to each class prepared and ready to learn. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to complete assignments before the next class. To learn a lot and pass the class: do your homework and don't be absent!
Study buddies to call to review class work:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Take responsibility for own learning
- Apply critical thinking skills to respond to adapted selections of fiction and nonfiction
- Apply the writing process to produce organized paragraphs that reflect critical thinking, incorporate academic content and demonstrate grammatical control at an appropriate level.
- Comprehend low intermediate reading passages by identifying organizational strategies, summarizing and using main ideas and details to support writing assignments
- Word-process paragraphs and access information on the Internet
- Utilize meta-cognitive thinking skills in learning and studying processes
- Utilize SRJC resources and services to realize academic goals
- Employ the writing process to produce multi-draft paragraphs that consist of a clear topic sentence, supporting details and a concluding sentence on relevant topics covered in class
- Recognize and produce different genres of academic writing, such as descriptive/narrative, compare/contrast and expository modes
- Utilize level-appropriate critical thinking skills in developing and supporting a topic sentence
- Complete in-class, timed paragraphs in response to a reading
- Edit papers for specific grammar points
- Integrate academic language into paragraphs
- Demonstrate some sentence variety in writing
- Demonstrate level-appropriate control of sentence structure and boundaries
- Demonstrate level-appropriate control of verb tenses, spelling and punctuation
- Avoid plagiarism