Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
2 Basic Grammar (Parts of Speech, Parts of Sentences, and Sentence Types)
3 Logical Connectors / Connectives
4 Adjustments in Connected Speech
5 Interaction Gambits

Adverb Clauses
6 Reducing Adverb Clauses
7 Adjective Clauses Appositives
8 Participal Phrases Progress report memo #1 due
9 Correcting Dangling Modifiers

Noun Clauses
10 Essay Organization Quiz #1
11 Paraphrase
12 Word / Sentence Stress
Debate Gambits
Short essay due
13

Gerunds and Infinitives

Debate #1

14 Jigsaw Puzzle: A Doctor's Dilemma
15 Order of Cumulative Adjectives

Articles
16 Article Usage with "Last" and "Next"
17 Thought Group / Prominence
18 Review of Verb Tenses
Tense Shift in Oral Narratives
19 Conditionals
20 Jigsaw Puzzle: Soft Power

Presentation Gambits
21 Debate #2 Progress report memo #2 due
22 Quiz #2
23 Presentations
24 Presentations (cont.) Final essay due
25 Course Wrap-Up