Expository Reading and Writing Course
Introduction
The Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) is an English course focusing on doing the kinds of analytical reading and expository writing students will encounter at University. The course was created by the California State University system and teachers Denise Smith and Adam Williams were at the vanguard of ERWC training, adding it to the district course offerings, and helping other teachers in our department receive training. Now in it's sixth year at San Marin we continue to offer multiple sections and continue to better prepare students for reading and writing at the college level better than ever. The course reading focuses on contemporary issues and offers a wide variety of recent non-fiction.
Assignment
Choose one text from the nonfiction reading list and write ten dialectical journals. for the second book choose a title from the teen book list and complete an SSR one pager.
Part 1.
NON-FICTION LIST
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Into Thin Air by Jonathan Krakauer
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History Amer. West by Dee Brown
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
War OR The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
There Are No Children by Alex Kotlowitz
PART 2:
Read any book on the teen book list and complete an SSR one pager. For the second book, pick a book that looks interesting to you. Ask a friend, a parent or a teacher if there is a book that you might like.
TEEN BOOK LIST
SSR one pager. Complete this handout as it relates to your second book.
SSR one pager-- web version
The Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) is an English course focusing on doing the kinds of analytical reading and expository writing students will encounter at University. The course was created by the California State University system and teachers Denise Smith and Adam Williams were at the vanguard of ERWC training, adding it to the district course offerings, and helping other teachers in our department receive training. Now in it's sixth year at San Marin we continue to offer multiple sections and continue to better prepare students for reading and writing at the college level better than ever. The course reading focuses on contemporary issues and offers a wide variety of recent non-fiction.
Assignment
Choose one text from the nonfiction reading list and write ten dialectical journals. for the second book choose a title from the teen book list and complete an SSR one pager.
Part 1.
NON-FICTION LIST
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Into Thin Air by Jonathan Krakauer
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History Amer. West by Dee Brown
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
War OR The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
There Are No Children by Alex Kotlowitz
PART 2:
Read any book on the teen book list and complete an SSR one pager. For the second book, pick a book that looks interesting to you. Ask a friend, a parent or a teacher if there is a book that you might like.
TEEN BOOK LIST
SSR one pager. Complete this handout as it relates to your second book.
SSR one pager-- web version