COURSE SCHEDULE: ENGLISH 050
Please review our course schedule to stay current on class discussions, course texts, and writing assignments. This schedule is subject to change. Here is the DCCC Academic Calendar.
Here are our formal assignment deadlines for weeks 1-8:
Here are our formal assignment deadlines for weeks 1-8:
- Formal Assignment #1: Narrative Project (Memoir) Draft #1 due on Thursday, 2.28 (Week 7).
- Midterm Portfolio due at midterm conference on either Tuesday, 3.5 or Thursday, 3.7 (Week 8).
- Formal Assignment #2 Research Project (Op-Ed) Draft #1 due on Tuesday, 4.9 (Week 12).
- Formal Assignment #3: Reflective Letter Draft #3 due on Tuesday, 4.16 (Week 13).
- Final Portfolio due at final conference on either Tuesday, 4.30 or Thursday, 5.2 (Week 16).
Week 1
- Tuesday, 1.15
- Introduction to course
- Review my website
- Check that you can log into a campus computer and into Delegate. For assistance, review our Information Technology course page.
- Thursday, 1.17
- Q&A about course.
- Process of getting to know each other.
- Check student email for course update.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process:
- No work is due.
Week 2
- Tuesday, 1.22
- Murray word cloud
- Review how to access Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr) and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) to prepare for next class.
- Thursday, 1.24
- Explore writing process: draw main ideas in Karr and Lamott pieces.
- Work on informal assignments #1 and #2.
- Review how to access To You, I Belong and College Writing Tips: How to Write a Good Literacy Narrative to prepare for next class.
- Select a personal physical object that evokes emotion in you and bring to class on Tuesday, 1.29.
- Weekly Readings
- Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- College Writing Tips: How to Write a Good Literacy Narrative
- Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
- Weekly Writing Process:
- Informal assignments #1 and #2 are due on Tuesday, 1.29. Omit your name on your literacy narrative (informal assignment #2) so you can share your work anonymously during next week's in-class gallery walk.
Week 3
- Tuesday, 1.29
- Explore narrative writing and emotion.
- Explore writing process using a personal physical object that evokes emotion.
- Thursday, 1.31
- In-class gallery walk.
- Explore creative nonfiction.
- Explore how to compose a scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Informal assignment #3 is due on Tuesday, 2.5.
Week 4
- Tuesday, 2.5
- In-class drawing of a scene from My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
- Explore literary analysis: context, text, and subtext.
- Explore literary devices: literary conflict, themes, motifs, and symbols.
- Thursday, 2.7
- In-class performance of Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway).
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Informal assignment #4 is due on Tuesday, 2.12
Week 5
- Tuesday, 2.12
- In-class interpretation of What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang)
- Thursday, 2.14 (No Class: Faculty Professional Development)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Informal assignment #5 is due on Tuesday, 2.26.
Week 6
- Tuesday, 2.19
- In-class interpretation of Chef's Table Franic Mallman (trailer)
- Thursday, 2.21
- In-class retrieval via re-genre for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Formal Assignment #1: Narrative Project Process Packet (draft #1 and assignment sheet) due on Thursday, 2.28.
- Informal assignment #6 due at our midterm conference. This is an optional assignment.
Week 7
- Tuesday, 2.26
- In-class presentation of informal assignment #5.
- Thursday, 2.28
- In-class gallery walk for Formal Assignment #1: Narrative Project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Midterm Portfolio due at midterm conference.** Please include the following materials in a pocket folder:
- Informal assignment #7
- Formal Assignment #1 Narrative Project Process Packet (draft #1 and assignment sheet stapled to the back of draft)
- Each informal assignment you have completed for this course.
- **Midterm Portfolio due at midterm conference.** Please include the following materials in a pocket folder:
Week 8
- Tuesday, 3.5
- No class today.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317.
- Thursday, 3.7
- No class today.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- No formal or informal assignments are due over spring break.
Week 9: Spring Break: 3.11 - 3.17
- Enjoy your break!
Week 10
- Tuesday, 3.19
- In-class being, doing, and knowing.
- Watch Miss Representation.
- Thursday, 3.21
- Watch Miss Representation.
- In-class writing response to the film.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Revise and submit process packet for Formal Assignment #1: Narrative Project (Memoir).
Week 11
- Tuesday, 3.26
- In-class being, doing, and knowing.
- Watch The Mask You Live In.
- Thursday, 3.28
- No class today.
- At home, watch The Mask You Live In.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Informal assignment #8 is due on Tuesday, 4.2.
Week 12
- Tuesday, 4.2
- In-class discussion about the films.
- Thesis statement writing.
- Thursday, 4.4
- In-class writing session for Formal Assignment #2: Research Project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Formal Assignment #2: Research Project due on Tuesday, 4.9
- Informal assignment #9 is due on Tuesday, 4.9.
Week 13
- Tuesday, 4.9
- Review Formal Assignment #3: Reflective Letter.
- Thursday, 4.11
- In-class writing session for Formal Assignment #3: Reflective Letter.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Formal Assignment #3: Reflective Letter due on Tuesday, 4.16.
- Informal assignment #10 due on Tuesday, 4.16.
Week 14
Week 15
- Tuesday, 4.23
- Sign up for final portfolio conference.
- Review of rhetorical situation.
- Revise final portfolio.
- Thursday, 4.25
- Sign up for final portfolio conference.
- In-class game show.
- Revise final portfolio.
- Weekly Writing Process
- Final portfolio due at final portfolio conference.
Week 16
- Final portfolio conferences in room 4317.