Essays
and BNW worksheets should be delivered to each instructor by
E-mail by attachment (preferred method, saved as Word document.
If you do not have Microsoft Word, save as Rich Text File—RTF—before attaching
and sending):
Fax is second choice if students do not have access to
e-mail or have word processing programs not compatible with Word.
Fax
with name-on-each-page to Christine Monnier at 630-778-6820.
Fax with name-on-each-page to
Hand delivery is also possible to Christine’s Mailbox,
IC1028, Thursday by
For
Sociology:
In Andersen/Taylor Essentials,
read and take tutorial quiz:
Chapter 1: Sociological Perspectives and Social
Research
Chapter 2: Culture
Chapter 3: Socialization
In Stark, complete Exercises 1, 2, & 3
For Social
Psychology:
In Aronson’s Social
Psychology, read and take quiz:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
Chapter 2: Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research
Chapter 5: Self-Knowledge: How we come to understand
ourselves
Chapter 6: Self-Justification and the Need to Maintain
Self-Esteem
In Ayers, complete exercises 1 and 2
For English:
All students:
Read LBH 5 and note specific points
you’d like to discuss in class. Use the LBH Response form for this and for any
points you wish to make about your level assignments below.
Write: Compare the principles in this
chapter to the thinking of the characters in Brave New World, chapters 1-4; jot
down what principles of critical thinking they violate or fail to live up to
and then give 3 examples from the novel.
Attach this to the end of your essay as
a separate sheet; the writing style can be in note format and use phrases
rather than complete sentences.
101: Read LBH chapter 1, and 2
Do:
Chapter 1:
a)
Write out
Exercise 3, following the directions
to choose only three of the assignments listed. (You are to narrow
topics only. Do NOT write the essays for the topics.)
b)
Make special note
of “Writing academic papers” and jot down how this should affect your first
paper. You may use the last question of the LBH Response form for this.
Chapter 2:
a)
In addition to
what the essay assignment below asks of you, select one or two “Techniques
for developing a topic” (see page 19 box) to use as idea gathering for your
first essay and turn it in Saturday morning with other non-essay
assignments.
b)
Read the rest
carefully, paying attention to your thesis in your essay and your organization.
Chapter 4a: review paragraph structure as a
preparation for writing your essay.
In your
essay, I will be looking for where
your skills lie in putting something like this together. I will expect an
attempt at an introduction with thesis, a body of the paper with paragraphs
organized around clear points, and a conclusion. You will have plenty of
changes to develop your skills, so do the best you can on this, and we’ll go on
from there. Take a chance!
102 and 103:
a)
Review the ideas
in Chapters 1 and 2 of LBH
b)
Study Chapter 3
on process and revising.
c)
Keep track of
your methods of drafting your first paper, jotting down what is asked below and
submitting on the 1st Saturday of class for instructor review:
·
Use one or two
pre-writing techniques from Chapter 2a and be prepared to submit this on the 1st
Saturday of class along with other
notes as specified next.
·
Select what seems
to apply to you from Chapter 3 and discuss what techniques of drafting and
revising that you used as you went along (such as how did you get
started—and keep yourself going? how did you “gain distance” for revising? how
did you go about editing? And finally, what do you think are the strengths and
weakness of your approach and your paper?
d)
In your essay, I will look for your skills in putting
an essay together. 103 students should also use the documentation system you
learned in your 102 class; I will evaluate for this, but mostly it is to show
me how much work we have to do. You may use MLA in this paper, but in future
papers for this class, we will learn the APA documentation system; you may try
it if you wish.
ESSAY
ASSIGNMENT: After reading the
sociology and social psychology texts and filling in the Response form for the
first 4 chapters of Brave New World,
write an essay on the following topic: Discuss how Brave New World illustrates
the social science concepts relating to culture and self-formation.
This is a complex first essay, so we are going to help
you out. Your discussion should include the following in the following order:
Hints for
making this a good essay:
To arrive at that idea, think about (brainstorm) what
you have learned by doing this assignment. What have you discovered or been
made aware of that you may not have noticed before? What have you learned about
culture and how it shapes the individual? Or the power of
language?
A
conclusion is the SO WHAT of the paper. It tells the reader why you and she
have bothered with it. With what are you trying to enlighten the reader?
A final note: The essays due each weekend will help
you pull together the relationship between the classes as well as help you to
make application of the ideas to the world we live in. Because of this, they
will be complex and require puzzling over material and forming thoughts about
it that you can support. This kind of activity is the basis of college level
learning.
Therefore, you may expect to struggle a
bit, but with our accessibility, feedback, and opportunities for making
assignments stronger, your struggle will pay off handsomely.