Going the Distance:
Reading
Course
Syllabus
The syllabus below outlines a timetable for the semester,
including the due date for credit assignments. For each
unit, you will submit your comments to Brainstorming
assignments by the date indicated, and you will receive the
comments of other course participants.
As you work through the website, you will also have a
written assignment due for each course unit, due on the date
indicated. The assignments work parallel to the website,
guiding you to work up a curricular unit on foreign-language
reading to use in your own instructional context and
teaching situation(s). That unit may also be written up as a
demonstration unit for in-service presentations, for
conventions, or for school boards looking to implement the
Standards for Foreign-Language Learning into their
curricula and classrooms.
To make sure that the developmental arc that the
Standards are based on are upheld, the assignments for the 8
units should all be completed with reference to the same
longer reading text or cluster of shorter reading texts.
Unit 1 will start you off by asking you to chose a text; by
the time you work through the successive units, you will
have the chance to develop a coherent sequence of exercises
leading your students from comprehension to production at
any given learning level -- or even between levels within a
coherent curriculum.
SYLLABUS
Week 1
Read through Unit 1, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Week 2
Submit written work on UNIT
ONE
Week 3
Read through Unit 2, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Week 4
Submit written work on UNIT
TWO
Week 5
Read through Unit 3, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Week 6
Submit written work on UNIT
THREE
Week 7
Read through Unit 4, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Submit written work on UNIT FOUR
Week 8
Read through Unit 5, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Submit written work on UNIT FIVE
Week 9
Read through Unit 6, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Submit written work on UNIT SIX
Week 10
Read through Unit 7, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Submit written work on UNIT SEVEN
Week 11
Read through Unit 8, submitting comments to the
Brainstorming Forums you encounter.
-submit all comments by DATE X; class comments available by
DATE Y
Submit written work on UNIT EIGHT
Week 12
Final Projects Due
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