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, 9.22 (Week 4).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 10.6 (Week 6).
- Midterm portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 10.13 (Week 7).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 10.20 (Week 8).
- Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 11.14 (Week 12).
- Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.8 (Week 15).
- Final portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.8 (Week 15).
Week 1
- Tuesday, 8.27
- Introduction to course
- Review my website
- Check that you can log into a campus computer and into Delegate. For assistance, review our information technology links located on our course resources page.
- Thursday, 8.29
- 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, 9.3
- Explore multimodal writing and website design.
- Weebly workshop. Click this link for Weebly resources.
- Work on your Weebly websites at home.
- Thursday, 9.5
- 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 Thursday, 9.12.
- 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 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 9.10.
- 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.
- Select a personal object of emotion for our in-class writing session.
Week 3
- Tuesday, 9.10
- Explore writing process
- Explore narrative writing and emotion.
- Reminder: For next class, bring an object of emotion for our in-class writing session.
- Thursday, 9.12
- In-class commenting on group blog posts.
- Explore creative nonfiction.
- Explore writing process using a personal physical object that evokes emotion.
- Explore how to compose a scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #3 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 9.15.
Week 4
- Tuesday, 9.17
- In-class blog comments.
- In-class drawing of a scene from My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
- Explore literary devices: literary conflict, themes, motifs, and symbols.
- Thursday, 9.19
- 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, 9.22.**
- Blog post #4 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 9.22.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 9.23. Please respond with: 1) I see this [emotion] in your text. 2) This is how your scene made me feel:
Week 5
- Tuesday, 9.24
- In-class retrieval via re-genre for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- In-class writing session: memoir draft #1.
- Thursday, 9.26
- In-class writing session: memoir draft #1.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Revise web pages and blog posts.
Week 6
- Tuesday, 10.1
- In-class writing workshop: draft #1 of memoir.
- Thursday, 10.3
- 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, 10.6.**
- Blog post #5 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.7.
- Comment on group classmate blog posts and the corresponding group in the other ENG 100 section by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 10.8.
Week 7
- Tuesday, 10.8
- In-class presentation of memoir.
- Thursday, 10.10
- 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, 10.13.**
- Blog posts #6 and #7 are due by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 10.15.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Wenesday, 10.16. Consider using I Heard, I Noticed, I Wondered to respond.
Week 8
- Tuesday, 10.15
- No class (Faculty Professional Development)
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317.
- Thursday, 10.17
- 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, 10.20.**
- Blog post #8 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 10.20.
Week 9
- Tuesday, 10.22
- In-class being, doing, and knowing.
- Thursday, 10.24
- 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, 10.27.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.28.
Week 10
- Tuesday, 10.29
- In-class exploration of research project.
- Thursday, 10.31
- No class today.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Genre Explained
- What is an MLA Research Paper?
- What is an Op-Ed article? | Submit to The Op-Ed Project
- What is a Multigenre Project?
- What is a Documentary? | Step-By-Step How to Make a Documentary | Informed Consent Form (Sample)
- 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)
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog posts #10 and #11 are due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 11.3.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.4.
Week 11
- Tuesday, 11.5
- Plato's Cave...and the stories we tell ourselves.
- In-class exploration of research process.
- Co-authoring assignment sheet for research project.
- Thursday, 11.7
- In-class research for project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #12 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 11.10.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.11.
Week 12
- Tuesday, 11.12
- Thesis statement writing.
- In-class op-ed about research project position.
- Thursday, 11.14
- 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 Sunday, 11.17.**
- Blog post #13 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.18.
Week 13
- Tuesday, 11.19
- Return to Aristotle's rhetorical triangle.
- In-class workshop: research project.
- Thursday, 11.21
- 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, 11.24.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.25.
Week 14
- Tuesday, 11.26
- Logical Fallacies Contest.
- Sign up for final portfolio conference.
- Work on final portfolio.
- Thursday, 11.28
- No class (Thanksgiving)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- 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
- Enjoy the Thanksgiving break.
Week 15
- Tuesday, 12.3
- In-class workshop.
- Thursday, 12.5
- In-class workshop.
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Final portfolio due at 11:59 pm on Sunday 12.8.**
- **Formal Assignment #3: Research Project (Web Page and Research Project Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.8.**
- Blog post #15 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.8.
- Comment on group blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 12.9.
Week 16 (Finals Week)
- Final portfolio conferences in room 4317.