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Syllabus
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Writing Lab
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Reading Lab
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Week 0: Getting Started
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8/20
Saturday
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7:00 p.m. Informal reception with parents, Noyce Science Center Atrium |
8/21
Sunday
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12:00 p.m. Your Liberal Arts Education, Harris Center
1:00 p.m. First tutorial meeting, Noyce Science Center, Room 331
Notes: In our first meeting, we will focus on getting ready for registration and cover a few nuts-and-bolts issues related to academic culture. You will sign up for advising meetings with Karen (your tutor) on Monday and Tuesday.
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8/22-8/23
Monday
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Tuesday
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Before your first individual advising meeting, read the following:
Think about the information on these pages as you contemplate what you want to do at Grinnell, not just in your first term, but over four years.
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For your advising meeting, bring a tentative first-term schedule with alternates.
For example, you are shut out of Math 133 at 9:00. You are forced into Math 133 at 11:00, but this conflicts with your planned History 112 at 11:00. What are you going to do instead? Prepare three alternates (using classes you have chosen which have several sections) for discussion in our meeting.
In addition, go to Blackboard and find the link Search Schedule of Courses. (On my Blackboard page, it appears under the "Services" tab at the top.) This search page can help you find courses by subject, level, and time of day. The Available/Capacity information is also quite valuable: if you really, really want to get into a course which has only 3 available seats, you will want to go to that table first at registration.
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8/24
Wednesday
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1:30 p.m. Registration, Harris Center
Notes: Pay attention to the number (somewhere between 1 and 10, inclusive) on the upper right-hand corner of your registration material. Students will be allowed into registration depending on their group numbers over a period of 45 minutes.
You can find Karen at the MATH/CS table.
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8/25
Thursday
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Zero
- Kaplan, Ch. 0, Ch. 1
- Seife, Ch. 0, Ch. 1
Writing
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Write one paragraph with about your earliest remembered encounter with counting. Your paragraph should have a clearly identifiable thesis sentence. Bring your paragraph to class to read aloud.
As with every other assignment for this class, you should type your paragraph, double-spaced, with generous margins.
Try submitting this paragraph using the Digital Dropbox feature in Blackboard. (Log in to our class on Pioneerweb and successively click on Course Tools, Digital Dropbox, Add File.) With this first try, save your work in rich text format (.rtf), and I'll see how it works on my end with Open Office.
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Class 8/25
- Brief chat: registration issues
- Paragraphs and thesis sentences: what makes a paragraph good?
- Read paragraphs out loud; identify thesis sentences.
- Discuss Seife and Kaplan. Find some of Seife's and Kaplan's thesis sentences.
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