Amy M. Hundley

Department:
English


Contact Info:
Phone: (209) 384-6315
E-mail: hundley.a@mccd.edu
Office: IAC 263


Currently (*) and Previously Taught Courses:
English 84*(Learning Community)
English A
English 1A*
English 41
English 1B


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"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
--George Orwell

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           English 1A
            Fall 2008
    
Composition and Reading 1

Semester Themes:
“Dancing Along the Border between Turbulence and Order”
Knowledge and Choice
The Self and the Other 


English 1A is a  transfer-level college freshman composition course that stresses critical readings, scholarly compositions, and research applications.  Students write exploratory and argumentative essays—at least one of which is fully annotated—based on class readings and discussions.  

Upon entering the course, students are expected to understand basic 
English skills (including but not limited to the following: an understanding 
of sound grammatical principles, the ability to make and support a 
claim/thesis, the ability to develop a multi-paragraphed essay, and the 
proper use of MLA format and documentation) and are expected to 
acquire more sophisticated reading and composition skills throughout 
the term.  Students apply matters and measures of critical thinking skills 
to their assignments.

Click here to go to the English 1A Syllabus

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Click here to go to the English 1A Assignments

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
--Gustave Flaubert

“Part of me wanted to do whatever I could to take care of Mom and Dad, and part of me just wanted to wash my hands of them.”
--Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle

"It was not an easy life those first weeks in Jeronimo. It was no coconut kingdom of free food and grass huts and sunny days, under the bam, under the boo."
--Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast

             
Bamboo, National Tropical Botanic          Opaekaa Falls, Kauai, 6/08
Gardens, Kauai 6/08                           

Last updated August 14, 2008 by Amy Hundley