Reading Math/Solving Writing:  Power, Patterns, and Problems
Winter, 2008
MATH 112 (5 units)/ EWRT 100 (5 units)
EWRT 101 (0.5 units)/ COUN 080X-02D (1 unit)

	MATH 112-06D (#2756)	EWRT100-05D (#2757)	
Instructor	Kathy Plum	Ken Weisner	
E-mail	plumkathryn@deanza.edu	weisnerken@fhda.edu, gyre@cruzio.com	
Office	S76d	Forum 2C	
Phone	408-864-8255	408-864-5797	
Office Hrs	8:30 – 9:20 PM MTTh
1:00 -1:20 PM T	12:30 – 1:30 Mon & Thurs (in Forum 2C)
12:30-2:00 in WRC, Tuesdays	
Web site	http://faculty.deanza.edu/plumkathryn 
	http://members.cruzio.com/~gyre/ken/
http://faculty.deanza.edu/weisnerken 	

	COUN 080X-02D	EWRT 101	
Instructor	Kevin Glapion	Jean Miller	
E-mail	glapionkevin@deanza.edu	millerjean@deanza.edu	
Office	SCS130	LC138	
Phone	408-864-8955	408-864-5530	
Office Hrs			
Web site		RTAs: Polly Widen, Amy Leonard	

WELCOME TO THE WINTER, 2008 “READING MATH/ SOLVING WRITING” LEARNING COMMUNITY—“POWER, PATTERNS, AND PROBLEMS.”

This course combines, in addition to lab, tutorial, and counseling components, two wonderful but unlikely bedfellows:
MATH 112: College Math Preparation Level 2: Elementary Algebra (Kathy Plum)
EWRT 100: Preparatory Reading and Writing Skills (Ken Weisner)

Our goal is to use teamwork, camaraderie, integrated support, and linked course materials & assignments, to increase the quality of your experience and your ability to succeed in both courses.  Kathy and Ken will spend time in one another’s classes—learning, teaching, and helping out. Math assignments will draw from English course readings and themes, and analytical and critical thinking topics in English will connect with math-related themes, texts, and articles.  English essay, homework, group work and vocabulary assignments may ask students to exhibit math literacy and reinforce math learning.  Students and instructors will explore together relation between math and English analytical and critical thinking skills and discourses.  So—welcome to CREM!  We are truly excited about this link and the opportunity to work with all of you. Your feedback throughout the quarter will be very important to us.  	—Kathy and Ken

COURSE TEXTS and SUPPLIES
•	Blitzer. Intermediate Algebra for College Students. 4th edition, 2006.
•	Supplemental math materials
•	Levitt, Stephen and Dubner, Stephen. Freakonomics, William and Morrow, 2006.
•	Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation.  Harper Perennial, 2005.
•	Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference.  Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
•	TI-83 graphing calculator (or at least a scientific calculator); small stapler; pencil; paper

ATTENDANCE
You have signed up to be in class from 9:30 am – 12:20 pm M-Th, so please plan accordingly.  Mathematics tutoring on Wednesdays, although optional, is highly recommended.  Lab and counseling components are required.

Missing more than three full days, for any reason, during the quarter will likely result in your being dropped from the learning community.  Please communicate in a timely way with instructors regarding any missed classes by sending an e-mail or leaving a phone message explaining your absence.  Classes will meet during the following times, with some variation and overlapping to be announced:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY*	THURSDAY	
9:30–10:50 MATH 112
11:00–12:20 EWRT 100
	9:30–10:50 MATH 112
11:00–12:20 EWRT 100	9:30 – 10:20   EWRT 101
10:30 – 11:20 COUN 080
11:30 – 12:20 Math Tutorial	9:30–10:50 MATH 112
11:00–12:20 EWRT 100	

FINAL EXAM TIMES (note special times)
Math Exam:  	 	Wednesday, March 26, 9:15-11:15 AM
English Consultations:   Thursday, March 27, 11:30-1:30 PM

EWRT 100

EWRT 100 is a class designed to prepare students for EWRT 1A and other writing courses across the curriculum.  The main focus of the class will be on written analytical responses to course readings. We will emphasize attaining and honing various college level writing skills including strategies for prewriting, in-class writing, paragraph and essay development, drafting and revision, and editing effectively for organization, grammar, and punctuation. Students will:

1.   Read, analyze, and write at the college level.
2.   Organize, focus, and develop ideas.
3.   Generate drafts effectively.
4.   Use specific and concrete details to support ideas.
5.   Consistently create focused, well-developed paragraphs.
6.   Manage writing process sensibly including attention to prewriting, rough drafts, and revision.
7.   Edit work effectively for punctuation, grammar, diction, spelling and other conventions.
8.   Adopt and practice skills for in-class writing.
9.    Engage sources responsibly. 
10.  Demonstrate growth in vocabulary and word usage.
11.  Determine controlling & supporting ideas within paragraphs & course readings.
12.  Apply critical reading skills to interpreting and writing.

Each CREM student enrolled in EWRT 100 must be concurrently enrolled in EWRT 101, a 1/2 unit, small group “lab” that will take place during class time on Wednesdays in our regular (E-36) classroom. Lab attendance is essential in order to pass on to EWRT 1A.  EWRT 101 curriculum complements and reinforces the work you do in EWRT 100, focusing on paragraph and sentence level writing.

Students enrolled in EWRT 100 are expected to attend all classes.  Four absences create a likelihood of termination from the class (instructor discretion).  In case of emergencies that will prohibit class attendance, instructor should be notified during office hours or by telephone message or e-mail.  Any work that is missed must be made up.

The texts for the class include Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics, Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, and Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference. These books are available at the college bookstore. Your math text, Freakonomics, and A Writer’s Reference are also used in the spring, 2008 CREM link taught by Marilyn Patton and Lisa Markus. So don’t sell back those books!

EWRT grades will be determined by quality of essays (take home and in-class); reading and grammar quizzes; assignments & in class projects; and participation in discussions and activities.  

EWRT 100 Grading Scale:

Attendance and participation				 	 200			200
In-Class Writings (1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/28, 3/11)			  20 each		100
Revision of first in-class essay (1/17)				  50			  50
Four revised analytical essays (1/28, 2/21, 3/13, 3/20)		100 each		  	400
Three peer-reviewed drafts (1/24, 2/19, 3/10)		  		  20 each	  	  60
Portfolio on time, with revisions			             	  40			  40
Five Quizzes				  			  20 each		100
Grammar Exam						 	  50		 	  50	
				(*700 is passing)		                                  1,000*

Portfolios are due on the last day of class, Monday, March 24th.  Portfolios are evaluated during finals week by other De Anza English faculty as a way to establish student readiness for EWRT 1A.  The portfolio will contain your best in-class and revised essays from the quarter in addition to a reflective essay assessing your progress and as a writer.  The portfolio is evaluated during exam week and is used instead of a final exam for EWRT 100 (you do however have a final in math on Wednesday, 3/26).  We will discuss portfolios in greater detail as the quarter progresses. Each student must pass EWRT 100, the portfolio evaluation process, and the EWRT 101 lab in order to go on into EWRT 1A.  For further information, consult:  http://group.deanza.edu/english/stories/storyReader$16.

Form on EWRT papers: When you hand in final drafts, always include previous drafts and any prewriting including peer feedback stapled behind final drafts. This creates a record of your writing process.  Ensuing revisions are added to the top of this stack and the whole thing is stapled together and turned in.  Don’t discard returned papers or paper comments—and always keep a personal copy of anything you hand in. Please double-space everything, including indented quotations. This goes for hand-written work and in-class writing too. Drafts for in-class peer review should also be typed and double-spaced.  Always bring three copies of drafts—and be prepared to read aloud in small groups.

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Writing Assignment Calendar

1) Initial Assessment and Revision:
Tuesday, January 8th: in class essay (1) on topic TBA
Thursday, January 17th: hand in typed, revised paper #1

2) Freakonomics:
Tuesday, January 22nd: in class essay (2) on Freakonomics theme, in ATC lab
Thursday, January 24th: turn in-class essay into typed rough draft for peer review
Monday, January 28th: Freakonomics paper due in class

3) California Primary Election Unit:
Tuesday, February 5th: In class essay (3) (in support of candidate or issue)

4) Response to Short Story:
Tuesday, February 19th:  Short story responses due in draft form
Thursday, February 21st (midnight, by e-mail): short story response papers due.

5) Fast Food Nation:
Thursday, February 28th:  in class essay (5) (Fast Food Nation)
Monday, March 10th:  Fast Food Nation paper due in draft form for feedback.
Thursday, March 13th (midnight, by e-mail): Fast Food Nation paper due in final form.

6) Reflective Essay:
Tuesday, March 11th: in-class writing (6): reflective essay for portfolio.
Thursday, March 13th: work on reflective essays in class.
*Typed final version of reflective essay due during final conference with instructor.

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Two individual conferences with writing instructor are required (a third is optional).

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Plagiarism: Never plagiarize. Plagiarism will give you an automatic “F” on the assignment and will put your status in the course in jeopardy. If you use the ideas or words of others, simply give credit immediately, in writing. Correct forms for acknowledging and citing sources can be found in Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference.

Math 112:  Prep for College Math:  Beginning Algebra – Winter 2007

Required materials:  Intermediate Algebra for College Students 4th edition by Blitzer, TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator (TI-86 okay), pencil, paper (math cannot be done without paper and pencil), ruler, graphing paper. 
class.

Homework:  Homework is assigned daily and due per the attached schedule.   Math cannot be mastered without working problems.  There are far more problems at the end of each section than are assigned.  If you are not sure that you know how to do the problems, do more problems than are assigned.  Each assignment will be collected and 4 problems randomly selected for grading.  Each homework assignment is worth 6 points (1 point for each problem graded and 2 points for completing the assignment.

Quizzes:  Quizzes will be given on the dates assigned on the calendar.  You are allowed one page of notes (8.5 x 11 inches, both sides) to use during the quiz.  Each quiz is worth 10 points.  Your lowest quiz will be dropped when calculating your final course grade.  There are no make-ups for missed quizzes.

Exams:  Three one-hour exams will given on the dates listed on the calendar.  You are allowed one page of notes (8.5x11 inches both sides) to use during the exam.  There are no make-ups (except by prior arrangement with the instructor and the exam MUST be taken BEFORE the scheduled exam).  

Final Exam:  A two-hour comprehensive exam will be given as listed on the calendar.  A student who does not take the final exam will receive an F in the course.  If your final exam score is higher than any one of your exam scores it will replace that exam score as well as count once on its own when calculating your course grade.  Two pages of notes (each 8.5 x 11 inches, both sides) are allowed to be used for the final exam.

Projects/In-class exercises:  Projects will be done on the days indicated on the calendar.  Some can be completed during class time.  Others will require out-of-class group work.

Grading	Grade Scale (in percent)	
3 exams @ 100 pts each             300	Above 96.9  A+	
Final Exam                                 100	94 – 96.9      A	
Quizzes  @ 10 pts each                40	90 – 93.9      A-	
Homework                                 150	87 – 89.9      B+	
Projects/In-class exercises         100                                     	84 – 86.9      B	
TOTAL                                     690	80 – 83.9      B-	
	77 – 79.9      C+	
	70 – 76.9      C	
	60 – 69.9      D	
	Below 60      F	

Other:  
•	Talking and other disruptions during class, such as beepers and cell phones, will not be tolerated.  De Anza will enforce all procedures set forth in the Student Standards of Conduct.
•	Students are encouraged to form study groups and work outside of class together whenever possible.
•	Anyone caught cheating on a test or quiz will receive an automatic 0 for that assignment and be reported to the PSME Dean.  Those caught twice will be dropped from the class with a grade of F.

Homework assignments (due dates subject to change as needed)

Assigned  
Date	Section	Problems	Due date	
1/8/08	1.1	2, 8, 12, 16, 24, 26, 30, 34, 44, 52, 60, 76, 80, 82, 94, 100, 104	1/10/08	
1/8/08	1.2	2, 12, 20, 24, 43, 48, 43, 46, 48, 52, 58, 60, 62, 72, 76, 78, 82, 88, 90, 118, 
122, 128, 136, 140, 146, 148, 166	1/10/08	
1/8/08	1.3	2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 22, 40, 42, 52, 60, 64, 66	1/10/08	
				
1/14/08	1.4	2, 8, 12, 20, 24, 26, 30, 36, 40, 42, 52, 56, 60, 70	1/15/08	
1/14/08	1.5	4, 8, 10, 18, 22, 24, 30, 32, 36, 38, 48, 54, 72, 82	1/15/08	
1/15/08	1.6	2, 8, 10, 16, 24, 28, 30, 38, 38, 46, 52, 56, 62, 68, 72, 78, 88, 100, 110	1/17/08	
1/15/08	1.7	1 – 30 evens	1/17/08	
1/17/08	2.1	2, 4, 5, 10, 16, 20, 22, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 72, 
82, 88, 92, 96	1/22/08	
1/17/08	2.2	1-10	1/22/08	
				
1/22/08	2.3	2, 6, 12, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 62, 68, 42, 52, 74, 78, 84	1/24/08	
1/24/08	2.4	6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 40, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 70	1/28/08	
				
2/4/08	3.1	2, 4, 10, 16, 26, 28, 30, 44, 50, 52, 60, 70, 76, 88, 94, 104	2/5/08	
2/5/08	3.2	2, 4, 12, 14, 20, 22, 26, 30, 38, 40, 42, 44, 50	2/7/08	
				
2/11/08	4.1	2, 6, 12, 14, 20, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36, 42, 48, 50, 52, 60, 62, 72, 80, 84, 86	2/12/08	
2/12/08	4.4	2, 6, 18, 20, 24, 30, 38, 40, 64	2/14/08	
				
2/19/08	5.1	8, 12, 18, 30, 38, 40, 44, 50	2/21/08	
2/21/08	5.2	2, 8, 10, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 36, 40, 56, 64, 84, 94, 100, 116	2/25/08	
2/21/08	5.3 (GCF)	1 – 44 even	2/25/08	
				
2/25/08	5.3 (Fact)	46 – 68 even, 82, 86	2/26/08	
2/25/08	5.4	1 – 38 even	2/26/08	
2/26/08	5.4	46 – 82 even	2/28/08	
2/26/08	5.5	2, 8, 14, 24, 30, 42, 50, 56, 66, 70, 76, 78, 84	2/28/08	
				
3/3/08	5.6	2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 28, 37, 38, 42, 50, 60, 68, 86	3/4/08	
3/4/08	5.7	2, 6, 12, 16, 24, 30, 36, 38, 44, 66, 68, 76, 82	3/6/08	
3/4/08	7.1	2, 4, 6, 18, 22, 28, 30, 44, 48, 54, 62, 68, 90, 94, 98, 102	3/6/08	
3/6/08	7.7	2, 6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 34, 38, 44, 56, 64, 74, 86, 98	3/10/08	
				
3/14/08	8.1	2, 6, 8, 16, 22, 24, 28, 36, 40, 46, 56, 76, 84	3/17/08	
3/17/08	8.2	4, 8, 10, 32, 38, 44, 48, 52, 79, 82	3/18/08	
3/18/08	8.3	2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 18, 22, 28, 36, 38, 46, 58, 64, 68	3/20/08