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