Judy Cormier
Judy Cormier
Professor of English
e-mail: judy.cormier@imperial.edu
Welcome!
How to use Blackboard and SafeAssign
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Miscellaneous
- The Success Equation Powerpoint
- Formatting cursive papers
- Competency vs facility in writing
- Facts vs opinions
- Giving oral presentations
- How we learn and keys to academic success
- Moby Dick film critical thinking questions
- Writing business letters
- Writing summaries for reading essays & basic MLA
Macbeth Unit Lectures and Materials
- Macbeth literary analysis lecture notes
- Macbeth background lecture notes
- Macbeth discussion questions
- Macbeth Literary Devices Charts
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- Using Language
- 110 Working with language
- 09 (Description) Descriptive language and figures of speech
- 09 Working with language (Style, Tone, Voice, Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Connotation, Denotation
- Hallmarks of informality and idioms
- Homonyms and homophones worksheet
- Logical fallacies
- Similes, metaphors, analogies, modifiers (English 08)
- Vocabulary improvement
- Working with satire
- Writing examples and powerful statements
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Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, Sentence Skills
- Parts of speech
- Clauses, sentence types and punctuation
- Punctuation errors exercise
- Pronoun case and who/whom
- Good and well
- Lie/lay - raise/rise
- Grammar errors and exercises
- Pronoun agreement errors
- Sentence combining and variety
- Sentence combining samples
- Sentence combining assignment instructions
- Forming topic sentences and instructions for exercise
- Spelling review
- Troublesome words review list
- "Sassy Sauce" Instructions
- "Procrastination" Instructions
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Writing Paragraphs
- Cause and effect paragraph student sample
- Contrast paragraph student sample (short)
- Definition vs Description Powerpoint
- Definition paragraph student sample
- Developing paragraphs
- Eliminating redundancy in paragraphs
- Evaluating paragraph quality
- Using transitions
- How to state examples
- Process analysis evaluation and samples
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Writing Essays
- Basic essay editing check list
- The writing process
- Working with outlines
- Essay conclusions and introduction samples
- Essay introductions (Powerpoint)
- Thesis statements
- Definition vs Description Powerpoint
- Argument essay (student sample) : "Television: A Misunderstood Friend"
- English 08-09 short contrast student essay sample
- Taking essay tests (English 08 & 09)
- Taking essay tests (English 110)
- Essay test terminology
- Instructions for English 110 critical thinking essay
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Research
- Sample student research paper
- Sample mini research paper
- MLA vs APA Documentation
- Easy Steps to Writing a Research Paper
- Academic article sample
- Embedding quotations in research
- Working with summaries and paraphrases in research
- Working bibliographies compared to works cited pages
- Editing checklist and works cited pages for research
- Works cited and working bibliography samples
- English 09 and 110 research essay editing
- Research card blank forms
- Research notes for English 09
- Research notes for English 110 (key)
- Research notes for English 09 (key)
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Topics for Composition Classes
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Responding to articles and readings
- Only do the topics I assign in class.
- Affirmative Action (research instructions)
- Affirmative Action articles
- Alternate Fuels (research instructions)
- Autumn (student essay sample:definition)
- Barbie
- Caveat emptor for advertising
- Charter Schools (research instructions)
- Christmas
- Diptera (student essay sample:satire)
- Electric Vehicles (research instructions)
- Hyperliving (definition sample)
- Laptops reading
- Modest Proposal, A (Jonathan Swift: satire)
- Nachos (satire)
- Nuclear energy (research instructions)
- P.E.
- Shield laws (research instructions)
- Shield laws powerpoint
- Stress essay instructions
- Success essay instructions
- System beaters (student essay sample: argument)
- Voter pamphlet
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Literature
- Working with Poetry
- Elements of fiction: Working with prose
- What is Critical Thinking Through Literature?
- Literary devices
- Critical theory, literary analysis and MLA formatting for lit. classes
- Sample Guide Questions
- English 220 Literary Era Lectures
- Colonialism and Puritanism lecture
- American Enlightenment and Revolutionary Period lecture
- American Renaissance and Romanticism lecture
Guide Questions (These authors will probably be covered in this order.)
- Native American tales, William Bradford, John Winthrop
- Anne Bradstreet
- William Byrd, Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather
- Jonathan Edwards
- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin
- James Madison, Olaudah Equiano, Philip Freneau
- Phyllis Wheatley
- St. Jean de Crevecoeur
- Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Henry David Thoreau
- Edgar Allan Poe (poetry)
- Edgar Allan Poe "Cask of Amontillado" "Ligeia"
- Edgar Allan Poe "The Purloined Letter"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown" "The Birthmark"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
- Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener"
- Herman Melville Moby Dick (film)
- Frederick Douglass
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickenson
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English 221 Literary Era Lectures
- Realism and Naturalism lecture
- Modernism lecture
- Post-modernism lecture
- Post-modernist existentialism lecture
Guide Questions (These authors may not be covered in this order. )
- Mark Twain
- Bret Harte, Joel Chandler Harris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman
- Kate Chopin
- Henry James
- Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Jack London, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hamlin Garland
- Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton
- Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
- Robert Frost
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg
- T.S. Eliot , Theodore Dreiser
- E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams
- Eugene O’Neill
- Upton Sinclair The Jungle
- Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay
- Woody Gutherie, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck
- Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea film
- Tennessee Williams
- Arthur Miller
- Martin Luther King Jr., Flannery O’Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan
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Fall 2014
ENGL110Composition and Reading
Prerequisite: ENGL 009 or ENGL 010 or ENGL 099 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Recommended Preparation: READ 019 (Formerly ENGL 019)
The standard course in freshman English. The course seeks to improve the student's ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student's ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper. (C-ID ENGL 100) (CSU, UC)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 10053 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Wednesday Friday | Start Time: 11:25 AM End Time: 12:40 PM | Building: 2700 Room: 2726 | Enrolled: 28 Available: 0 |
Class begins: 2014-08-18, Class ends: 2014-12-13
ENGL110Composition and Reading
Prerequisite: ENGL 009 or ENGL 010 or ENGL 099 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Recommended Preparation: READ 019 (Formerly ENGL 019)
The standard course in freshman English. The course seeks to improve the student's ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student's ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper. (C-ID ENGL 100) (CSU, UC)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 10055 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Wednesday Friday | Start Time: 12:50 PM End Time: 2:05 PM | Building: 2700 Room: 2726 | Enrolled: 28 Available: 0 |
Class begins: 2014-08-18, Class ends: 2014-12-13
ENGL110Composition and Reading
Prerequisite: ENGL 009 or ENGL 010 or ENGL 099 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Recommended Preparation: READ 019 (Formerly ENGL 019)
The standard course in freshman English. The course seeks to improve the student's ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student's ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper. (C-ID ENGL 100) (CSU, UC)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 10057 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Wednesday Friday | Start Time: 2:15 PM End Time: 3:30 PM | Building: 2700 Room: 2726 | Enrolled: 28 Available: 0 |
Class begins: 2014-08-18, Class ends: 2014-12-13
ENGL110Composition and Reading
Prerequisite: ENGL 009 or ENGL 010 or ENGL 099 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Recommended Preparation: READ 019 (Formerly ENGL 019)
The standard course in freshman English. The course seeks to improve the student's ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student's ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper. (C-ID ENGL 100) (CSU, UC)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 10058 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Wednesday Friday | Start Time: 3:40 PM End Time: 4:55 PM | Building: 2700 Room: 2726 | Enrolled: 28 Available: 0 |
Class begins: 2014-08-18, Class ends: 2014-12-13
ENGL110Composition and Reading
Prerequisite: ENGL 009 or ENGL 010 or ENGL 099 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Recommended Preparation: READ 019 (Formerly ENGL 019)
The standard course in freshman English. The course seeks to improve the student's ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student's ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper. (C-ID ENGL 100) (CSU, UC)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 10064 | ALLS | ENGL | Tuesday Thursday | Start Time: 3:05 PM End Time: 5:10 PM | Building: 2700 Room: 2751 | Enrolled: 28 Available: 0 |
Class begins: 2014-08-18, Class ends: 2014-12-13
Summer 2014
ENGL009Basic English Composition II
Prerequisite: ENGL 008 or ENGL 097 or ENGL 098 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Preparation for ENGL 110. The course seeks to facilitate the student's mastery of the short essay at the college level. The course follows in sequence from ENGL 008 (ENGL 098). (Nontransferable, nondegree applicable)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 30004 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday | Start Time: 10:45 AM End Time: 1:35 PM | Building: 2900 Room: 2900 | Enrolled: 24 |
Class begins: 2014-06-16, Class ends: 2014-07-23
ENGL009Basic English Composition II
Prerequisite: ENGL 008 or ENGL 097 or ENGL 098 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement.
Preparation for ENGL 110. The course seeks to facilitate the student's mastery of the short essay at the college level. The course follows in sequence from ENGL 008 (ENGL 098). (Nontransferable, nondegree applicable)
| Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
| 30006 | ALLS | ENGL | Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday | Start Time: 2:00 PM End Time: 4:50 PM | Building: 2900 Room: 2900 | Enrolled: 26 |
Class begins: 2014-06-16, Class ends: 2014-07-23
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