COURSE SCHEDULE: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
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 and portfolio deadlines:
Here are our formal assignment and portfolio deadlines:
- Formal Assignment #1: Digital Portfolio Project due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10 (Week 4).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.24 (Week 6).
- Midterm portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.3 (Week 7).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10 (Week 8).
- Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Thursday, 4.18 (Week 13).
- Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 5.5 (Week 16).
- Final portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 4.28 (Week 15).
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:
- Begin working on blog posts #1 and #2. Save your work in a Word or Google document. No work is due next week.
Week 2
- Tuesday, 1.22
- Explore multimodal writing and website design.
- Weebly workshop. Click this link for Weebly resources.
- Work on your Weebly websites at home.
- Thursday, 1.24
- Explore multimodal assessment.
- Weebly workshop.
- Work on blog posts #1 and #2.
- Work on Weebly websites at home.
- Select a personal physical object that evokes emotion in you and bring to class on Tuesday, 1.29.
- Weekly Readings
- All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton)
- It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners)
- Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University)
- 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)
- Weekly Writing Process:
- Blog posts #1 and #2 are due at the end of class on Tuesday, 1.29.
- Create website content: author-identity theme, home page, about page, narrative project page, research project page, contact page, blog page. Click here for the digital portfolio web design assignment sheet.
Week 3
- Tuesday, 1.29
- In-class commenting on group blog posts.
- Explore narrative writing and emotion.
- Explore writing process using a personal physical object that evokes emotion.
- Thursday, 1.31
- Explore creative nonfiction.
- Explore how to compose a scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #3 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.3.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 2.4. Please use "Where's DAT scene?" to respond.
Week 4
- Tuesday, 2.5
- In-class drawing of a scene from My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
- Explore literary devices: literary conflict, themes, motifs, and symbols.
- Thursday, 2.7
- In-class performance of Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway).
- Explore literary analysis: context, text, and subtext.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #1 Deadline: Digital Portfolio Project (website content for author-identity theme, home page, about page, narrative project page, research project page, contact page, blog page) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10.**
- Blog post #4 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 2.11. Please respond with: 1) I see this [emotion] in your text. 2) This is how your scene made me feel:
Week 5
- Tuesday, 2.12
- In-class retrieval via re-genre for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- In-class writing session: memoir draft #1.
- Thursday, 2.14 (No Class: Faculty Professional Development)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Revise web pages and blog posts.
Week 6
- Tuesday, 2.19
- In-class writing workshop: draft #1 of memoir.
- Thursday, 2.21
- In-class writing workshop: draft #1 of memoir.
- In-class game show.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #2 Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.24.**
- Blog post #5 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 2.25.
- Comment on group classmate blog posts and the corresponding group in the other ENG 100 section by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 2.26.
Week 7
- Tuesday, 2.26
- In-class presentation of memoir.
- Thursday, 2.28
- In-class presentation of memoir.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Exploring Genre: How to Write a Fairy Tale (Kim Kautzer)
- Reflective Writing
- Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection
- Silent Third-Person Self-Talk Facilitates Emotion Regulation
- How to Embed a YouTube Video on Weebly Blog
- How to Upload a Video to YouTube
- How to Upload a Video to YouTube From your Phone
- YouTube Video Editor
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Midterm portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.3.**
- Blog posts #6 (optional) and #7 are due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.3.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 3.4. Consider using I Heard, I Noticed, I Wondered to respond.
Week 8
- Tuesday, 3.5
- In-class presentation of memoir.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317.
- Thursday, 3.7
- No class today.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Glen Gould in Rapture (The 'Flow State')
- Punch the Keys! (Finding Forrester)
- Retrieval Process: Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Retrieval Process: Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- Retrieval Process: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #2 Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10.**
- Blog post #8 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10.
Week 9: Spring Break: 3.11 - 3.17
- Enjoy your break!
Week 10
- Tuesday, 3.19
- In-class being, doing, and knowing.
- Thursday, 3.21
- Are We in Jeopardy? A game show about rhetoric, composition, and the ancient Greeks.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #9 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.24.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 3.25.
Week 11
- Tuesday, 3.26
- In-class presentation of Miss Representation.
- Double-entry notes.
- Thursday, 3.28
- No class today.
- At home, please watch The Mask You Live In.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog posts #10 and #11 are due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.31.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 4.1.
Week 12
- Tuesday, 4.2
- Plato's Cave...and the stories we tell ourselves.
- In-class exploration of research process.
- Co-authoring assignment sheet for research project.
- Thursday, 4.4
- In-class research for project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #12 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 4.7.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 4.8.
Week 13
- Tuesday, 4.9
- Thesis statement writing.
- In-class op-ed about research project position.
- Thursday, 4.11
- In-class writing session: draft #1 of research project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #3 Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Thursday, 4.18.**
- Blog post #13 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 4.15.
Week 14
- Tuesday, 4.16
- Return to Aristotle's rhetorical triangle.
- In-class workshop: research project.
- Thursday, 4.18
- Logical fallacies.
- In-class workshop: research project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Revise and edit formal assignments #1, #2, and #3.
- Blog post #14 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 4.21.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 4.22.
Week 15
- Tuesday, 4.23
- Logical Fallacies Contest.
- Sign up for final portfolio conference.
- Thursday, 4.25
- Sign up for final portfolio conference.
- Work on final portfolio.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Retrieval Process: All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton)
- Retrieval Process: It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners)
- Retrieval Process: Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University)
- Retrieval Process: Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Retrieval Process: Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- Retrieval Process: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Final portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday 4.28.**
- **Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 5.5.**
- Blog post #15 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 4.28.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 4.29.
Week 16
- Tuesday, 4.30
- In-class workshop.
- Thursday, 5.2
- In-class workshop.
- Final portfolio conferences on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in room 4317.