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.
Week 1
- Tuesday, 8.28
- Introduction to course
- Review my website
- Check student email for course update
- Check that you can log into a campus computer and into Delegate. For assistance, review our Information Technology course page.
- Thursday, 8.30
- Q&A about course.
- WOOP Steps
- 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, 9.4
- Continue process of getting to know each other.
- Weebly workshop. Click this link for Weebly resources.
- Continue working on blog posts #1 and #2.
- Work on your Weebly websites at home.
- Thursday, 9.6
- Weebly workshop.
- Work on Weebly websites at home.
- Weekly Writing Process:
- Blog posts #1 and #2 are due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.10.
- Create website content: writerly theme, home page, about page. Click here for the student website project requirements.
Week 3
- Tuesday, 9.11
- In-class commenting on classmate blog posts.
- Explore Marcel Proust and the madeleine scene.
- Explore writing process.
- Thursday, 9.13
- Explore creative nonfiction.
- Explore how to write a scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #3 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.17.
- Website content for writerly theme, home, about, contact, and blog is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.17. Click here for the student website project requirements.
Week 4
- Tuesday, 9.18
- 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, 9.20
- In-class performance of Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway).
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #4 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.24.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.24.
Week 5
- Tuesday, 9.25
- In-class interpretation of What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang)
- Thursday, 9.27
- In-class writing session: narrative project web page content | composing a past scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #5 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.1.
- Narrative project web page content (introduction, links, header image, etc.) due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.1. Click here for the student website project requirements.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts and three blog posts in another ENG 100 section (6 total) by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.1.
Week 6
- Tuesday, 10.2
- In-class writing workshop: present your scene to class.
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD).
- Thursday, 10.4
- In-class writing workshop: present your scene to class.
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD).
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #6 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.8
- Comment on three classmate blog posts and three blog posts in another ENG 100 section (6 total) by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.8.
Week 7
- Tuesday, 10.9
- In-class writing session: Draft #1 of narrative project.
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD)
- Thursday, 10.11
- In-class writing session: Draft #1 of narrative project.
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Draft #1 of narrative project is due on your assignment web page by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.15.
- Blog post #7 is due at 11:59 pm by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, 10.17.
Week 8
- Tuesday, 10.16 (No Class. DCCC Faculty In-Service).
- Thursday, 10.18
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD)
- In-class game show
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #8 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.22.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.22.