Classroom Stewardship (Team Rotation)

Each week, the team on duty will help out with the running of the class. Routine duties include:

1. Audio-visual equipments preparation and operation: operate the computer, overhead projector, adjust microphone volume, and ready the screen.
2. Environment management: make sure the lights, temperature, air flow, student seats and the writing board are all in proper working order for the class.
3. Paperwork management and assistance in coordination of class activities.
4. For special tasks, the instructor will meet with responsible team members ahead of the class.

Syllabus

English Composition (II) 下

New text :

Keywords in Science and Technology

New Features for this semester:

Suren Chat Room (Wednsdays 8-9 PM)

Team project for extended reports

Proposed Grade Composition

Negative Letters 14%

Reports: 35% (Proposal 10, Progress 10, Final 15) (Team project)

Oral Presentation of Final Report (5%) (Team)

Year End Report (10%)

Keywords (24%)

Contribution (12%)

Proposed Course Schedule

	Date	Major Content	Notes
1	2/28	Return material from previous semester, Plan for new semester, Writing Improvement suggestions, Begin Chap 8 Negative Message	New Text
2	3/6	Q1, Chap 8 Negative Message
3	3/13	Chap 8 Negative Message	Letter 1 due 3/11
4	3/20	Q2, Chap 9 Persuasive Message
5	3/27	Chap 9 Persuasive Message	Letter 2 due 3/27
6	4/3	No class
7	4/10	Q3, Chap. 10: Planning Reports & Proposals
8	4/17	Chap. 10: Planning Reports & Proposal
9	4/24	Q4, Chap. 11 Report Writing	Proposal due 4/22
10	5/1	Chap. 11 Report Writing
11	5/8	Annual Play Week
12	5/15	Q5, Chap 11: Report Writing	Progress Report due 5/13
13	5/22	Special arrangement
14	5/28	Q6, Chap. 11: Report Writing
15	6/5	Final Report, Oral Presentation
16	6/12	Year End Report	Due 6/10

校定期中考週 4/24

Extra classes will be arranged when necessary.

如何在網頁中立即查詢英文生字?

本學期的課程中，同學每週都可能要閱讀New York Times、BBC的文 章。這是一件很好的事，希望你能以此養成閱讀英文新聞的習慣。但是閱讀英文網頁時，常碰到查生字的困擾。其實Google 的 [文字翻譯器] 目前已經能立即為你提供字典翻譯的服務（雖然很艱澀的生字仍無法顯現），只要你將滑鼠指到不認識的字，它就會有窗口顯示其中文的對照翻譯，非常方便。此功 能最好能使用Firefox(火狐狸)瀏覽器，但微軟的(IE)瀏覽器也可使用。其安裝與設定的步驟如下：

A. 安裝工具列(若出現英文顯示，可在右上角更改為中文)。
B. 設定翻譯器

第一堂課時間更改

第一次上課改為2/28日（四）507教室上課