English M01A Online Schedule Fall 2020

English M01A Tentative Online Schedule: under revision

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Sustainability AKA SUS
Norton Field Guide AKA NFG

Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses of SUS readings are due online within one week of our class discussion for full credit. Readings from NFG are given as background for that week's work. "Web" designations each week below indicate what work should be completed online.

Last revised Aug 2020

Week 1 : (Course content and contracts)
Aug 17 - 23
- Syllabus/ SWP
- set up interview partners
- post introductions of partners on Canvas
- timed-writing - Canvas
- register for Mahara: the writing study account
- set up mahara accounts - report mahara profile page - Canvas
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Aug 24 - 30
- Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Discuss Pariser- Watch "Beware Online Filter Bubbles" video in class
- Complete Student Writing Profile survey form - Canvas
Week 3: (Social Networking)
Sept 31 - Sept 6
- Discuss Rettberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Read and discuss.
- : Discuss Bruckman The Next Bison: Social Computing and Culture Choose one of the blog posts that focuses on technology and culture; Read and discuss with class.
- Set up Journals on mahara(HO)
- Progress report assignment on Canvas and Mahara.
- Progress report due.
Week 4 (Social Networking)
Sept 8 - 13 labor day holiday
- paper assignment - social networking
- topic / dev workshop paper #1
- NFG readings
Week 5 (Revision)
Sept 14 - 20
- Workshop org/dev paper
- audience biography assignment
- Editing workshop paper
Week 6 (Sustainability)
Sept 21 - 27
- Paper collection due
- read preface from SUS for discussion
- Assign footprint - due for workshop DUE DATE
- Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- progress report due
Week 7 (Sustainability: theory)
Sept 28 - Oct 4
- Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure." (SUS)
- Jared Diamondd "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Set up mahara page for publishing footprint assignment (HO)
Week 8 (Sustainability theory)
Oct 5 - 11
- Discuss Suzuki (HO)
- Sign up for novel choice. Finish reading movel by week 13
- peer revision workshop footprint
- Discuss student choice article (SUS)
- Watched Leonard's "Story of Solutions" video
- Footprint assignment due
Week 9 (Sustainability Issues)
Oct 12 - 18
- Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"
- Short position paper assignment
- progress report due
Week 10 (Sustainability - research writing)
Oct 19 - 25
- workshop position paper
- review topics for research
- timed writing - proposal
Week 11 ()
Oct 26 - Nov 1
- workshop research proposal / turn in timed writing with self-eval
- assign annotated bibliography
- research planning groups
- Set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 12 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 2 - 8
- review and discuss report writing / ethnography / interviews
- research planning and workshopabib source 1
- review and discuss research paper assignment
- : research planning and workshop abib source 2
- PR due
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 9 - 15
- research planning and workshop abib source 3-4
- Novel groups
- Discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
Week 14 ()
Nov 16 - 22
- full draft copy of a-bib
- group review and revision of research
- Novel groups - discuss LeGuin "Science Fiction and the Future" panel presentation (HO)
- editing for research collection
- Novel groups
- NPR Science Blog - student choice - choose one blog from any area , print out, read for discussion.
- LeGuin S&R
Week 15
Nov 23 - 25
TENTATIVE
- The Matrix
- self-evaluation sheet due for research collection.
- Research Collection due on mahara.
- discuss topics for analysis paper
Week 16
Nov 30 - Dec 6
- timed writing essay on novelThe Matrix or other movie choice
- paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- presentations - TENTATIVE
Week 17
Dec 7 - 9
- Workshop org/dev sci-fi paper
- presentations TENTATIVE
- Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- presentations - TENTATIVE
- Progress report due. Set up last collection
- publish final collection: in-class, rough, final draft, self evaluation due in class. No late work can be accepted.
Final Exams Dec 14 - 16

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