English M01A Tentative Schedule Spring 2017

English M01A Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Sustainability AKA SUS
Norton Filed 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 May 2017

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 9 - 11
- Mon Syllabus/ SWP
- Mon: group interview partners
- Wed: in-class timed-writing
- Wed: review instructions for online work
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page (HO)
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Jan 16 - 18
- Mon: MLK holiday
- Wed: Introductions review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Wed: read preface from SUS
- Web: Set up Journals / progress report due (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Jan 23 - 25
- Mon: Discuss Royte - footprint assignment (HO)
- Wed: Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring. (SUS)
- Web: Set up mahara page for final footprint assignment (HO)
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Jan 30 - Feb 1
- Mon: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Mon: Review expectations for footprint assignment
- Wed: Discuss Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Web: progress report due / Cason S&R due
Week 5 (position paper)
Feb 6 - 8
- Mon: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Wed: Finish Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Wed: Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Web: Leonard and Suzuki S&R due / set up mahara page for Varda assignment
Week 6 (revision)
Feb 13 - 15
- Mon: Discuss Hardin (SUS)
- Mon: Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Wed: Discuss student choice article
- Wed: Discuss topics for research
- Wed: workshop footprint (vague pronouns)
- Wed: assign short write Varda video - article
  Diamond S&R due / set up page for research proposal
Week 7 (research)
Feb 20 - 22
- Mon: Pres day holiday
- Wed: timed writing - proposal
- Wed: workshop Varda assignment
- Wed: Assign annotated bibliography
- Wed: Choose novels
- Web: PR due/ Hardin and Student choice S&R due / publish footprint w Varda assignment on footprint
Week 8
Feb 27 - March 1
- Mon: workshop proposal
- Mon: planning groups
- Mon: workshop abib (one full source)
- Wed: planning group
- Wed: workshop research proposal / turn in timed writing with self-eval for credit
- Web: PR due / set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 9
Mar 6 - 8
- Mon: report writing / group
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: research paper assignment
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
- Web:
Spring Break
March 13 - 15
Week 10
Mar 20 - 22
- Mon: Development /organization workshop paper
- Mon: assign presentations / group review and revision of collection
- Wed NO CLASS
- Web: PR due
Week 11
Mar 27 - 29
- Mon: Print out, read, bring to class to discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Wed: Novel groups
Week 12 (Science and Literature)
April 3 - 5
- Wed Animatrix
- Final edit for research collection
- Wed: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Wed: paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- WED: FULL RESEARCH COLLECTION DUE
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Apr 10 - 12
- Mon: workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- Wed: Workshop org/dev
- Web: PR due
Week 14
Apr 17 - 19
- Mon: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Mon: bring 1st timed writing on social media
- Mon: Discuss Pariser- Watch video in class
- Wed: Discuss Rhetberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Print out, read and bring to class.
- Web: Novel collection due
Week 15
Apr 24 - 26
- Mon: Discuss Bruckman The Next Bison: Social Computing and Culture Choose one of the blog posts that focuses on technology and culture; print out, read, and bring to class.
- Mon: discuss topics for analysis paper
- Wed: in-class writing
- Wed: review presenttion expectations
- Web: set up last collection
Week 16
May 1 - 3
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon workshop
- Wed: presentations of group research projects
- Wed: Workshop
- Web:
Week 17
May 8 - 10
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon: Final edit for paper #3
- Wed: Final in-class essay. Self-evaluation of social networking paper due to me.
- Web: publish final collection: timed writing, rough, final draft. No late work can be accepted.
NO FINAL EXAM

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