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This seminar is designed for high school faculty who plan to teach dual enrollment sections of English 110, Critical Reading and Writing, for the University of Delaware. These sections offer high school seniors the chance to take a college-level course in academic writing as part of their regular schedule of classes. If students pass the course with a C– or higher, they not only earn three credits toward graduation at the University of Delaware but also fulfill the first-year writing requirement.

The challenge of teaching such a course is to address the needs and interests of high school seniors while at the same time introducing them to the demands of college-level writing. You know your students, what they can do as writers and what they need to learn. My aim is to help you design a course for them that also meets the goals we’ve set for first-year undergraduates in English 110 at UD. Your final project for this seminar will thus be a complete and revised set of materials for the English 110 course you will teach next year at your school.

We will do much of the work of this seminar online. I will ask you to post responses to our readings to this website, and also to comment on the responses of your colleagues. But it will also be useful for us to meet a few times in person—once near the start of the term to make sure you feel confident about the work I have set out for you, then a few weeks later to workshop the first drafts of your course materials, and then once more at the end of the term to review the (near-) final versions of those materials. I will also be happy to meet with you individually if you feel that would be helpful.

I am proud of the UD English 110 in High School Program, and I am excited that you are interested in contributing to this project.  I look forward to working with you this summer, and to forging a connection between UD and your school in the coming years. Good luck!