ELI Advanced Reading Spring II 2025

Location: Library Room 205

Meeting Days: Monday-Thursday

Meeting Times: 11:00am-12:30pm

Text: The Advanced Reading-Writing Connection Plus John Langan, Townsend Press

Course Description: This course is designed to improve advanced students' reading skills using interactive technology, current evens periodicals, advertisements, blogs, websites, and additional texts. The goal is to improve comprehension skills and vocabulary. The reading focus is on identifying main idea, supporting details, comparing and contrasting, cause and effect, making inferences, and summarizing text.

Category                                    Weight

Textbook 30%

Vocabulary 30%

Participation 40%

                                     

Participation Grade is calculated by beginning with 100 points.  Five points are deducted for each absence, therefore you can be absent 2 times and still receive an "A" for participation.  Two points are deducted for being more than 1 minute late or being out of the class more than 10 minutes.  (Exceptions are made for special cases approved by Professor Seal.)

Late Work Policy:  

https://www.savannahstate.edu/academic-affairs/academic-information/academic-policies.shtml

A student assignment is considered late if it is turned in after 11:55 on the Sunday that ends that week. Three points are deducted for each day the assignment is late.

Course Outline:

	Instructional focus	Assignments
Week 1:  3/10-3/14	Course Overview Review Annotation Review of Textbook (Chapters 1-10)	Exercise 1 of Chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, 9 & 10
3/17-3/21	No school Spring Break
Week 2: 3/24-3/28	Townsend Press, Reading Selection 1 p. 281  “Growing Less Dumb” Figurative vs. Literal Metaphors	Annotate in Online textbook Vocabulary Check & Reading Check p. 286-288 in Online textbook
Week 3: 3/31-4/4	Townsend Press, Reading  Selection 1, Online Assignment “The 2000-year-old Wonder Drug”	Socratic Seminar ON WEDNESDAY Comprehension Questions
Week 4: 4/7-4/11	Townsend Press, Reading Selection 2, p. 291 “College Athletes Should be Paid”	Annotate in Online textbook SOAPSTone document SOAPSTone Padlet Vocabulary Check & Reading Check p. 295-298 in Online textbook
Week 5: 4/14-4/18	Townsend Press, Reading Selection 2, Online Assignment “Child Rearing Styles”	Socratic Seminar or SOAPSTone Comprehension Questions
Week 6: 4/21-4/25	Townsend Press, Reading  Selection 3, p. 302 “Life Isn’t Fair”	Annotate in Online textbook Vocabulary Check & Reading Check p. 307-310 in Online textbook
Week 7: 4/28-5/1	Townsend Press, Reading  Selection 3, Online Assignment “Here’s to your Health” Research Document	Socratic Seminar or SOAPSTone Comprehension Questions
Week 8: 5/5-5/8	Review & Exams Socratic-style Review	Combined Reading Exam Selection 4 Online