Vocabulary and Reading Skill fall, 2010 Patrice Yang LC306 [email protected]
Databank: www.etweb.fju.edu.tw/quantity_reading (user name & password: “think”)
Tentative syllabus
Week Date Class Activities Assignments Due
1 9/14 Orientation; grouping Intro. to reading databank
2 9/21 Skimming; essay structure Surfing worksheet 3 9/28 Holiday
4 10/5 Topic sentence exercise
5 10/12 Skimming exercise/thesis statement
6 10/19 Skimming exercise Bring 2 of your articles 7 10/26 Vocabulary in context
8 11/2 VIC exercise;
Word parts
9 11/9 VIC exercise + WP exercise;
Note-taking
10 11/16 VIC exercise + WP exercise; note- taking
Note-take 2 your articles &
bring them to class 11 11/23 Mapping
12 11/30 Mapping exercise; transition 13 12/7 WP quiz; Mapping exercise 14 12/14 Outlining
15 12/21 Oral report outlining 16 12/28 Oral report #1 17 1/4 Oral report #2
18 1/11 Oral report #3 Portfolio
Requirements:
* Students must finish reading articles of a total word count of 12000 to pass the course.
* All students are required to be in class on time.
* 2 latenesses=1 absence, 3 absences=failing final grade
* Homework should be handed in on time in hardcopy.
* Plagiarism is forbidden and the assignment will be graded “0”.
Grading policy
Exercises +quizzes 30% Oral report 20%
Portfolio 50%
