English M01A Tentative Schedule Spring 2018

English M01A Tentative Schedule

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 April 2018

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 8 - 10
- Mon Syllabus/ SWP
- Mon: set up interview partners
- Wed: in-class timed-writing
- Wed: review help files for account set-up
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page (HO)
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Jan 15 - 17
- Mon: MLK holiday
- Wed: Introductions, review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Wed: Overview of Sustainability / assign preface from SUS
- Web: Set up Journals (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Jan 22 - 24
- Mon: Discuss Preface to Sustainablility
- Mon: Watch and discuss Royte video - footprint assignment (HO)
- Wed: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Wed: Review summary writing/ signal phrases
- Web: Progress report due (HO) Set up mahara page for final footprint assignment (HO)
Last day to drop without a W is Jan 28.
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Jan 29 - 31
- Mon: Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring. (SUS)
- Mon: Review purpose for response writing
- Wed: Discuss Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Wed: Review expectations for footprint assignment
- Web: Leonard S&R due
Week 5 (Sustainability)
Feb 5 - 7
- Mon: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Wed: Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Wed: workshop footprint (vague pronouns)
- Web: Carson and Suzuki S&R due
Week 6 (revision)
Feb 12 - 14
- 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: assign short write Varda video - article
- Web: Progress report due/ Diamond S&R due
Week 7 (research)
Feb 19 - 21
- Mon: Pres day holiday
- Wed: timed writing - proposal
- Wed: workshop Varda assignment
- Wed: Assign annotated bibliography
- Wed: Choose novels
- Web: Hardin and Student choice S&R due / publish footprint w Varda assignment on footprint
Week 8
Feb 26 - 28
- 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: Set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 9
Mar 5 - 7
- Mon: report writing / group
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: review research paper assignment
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
- Web: PR due
Week 10
Mar 12 - 14
- Mon: Development /organization workshop paper
- Mon: assign presentations / group review and revision of collection
- Wed: Print out, read, bring to class to discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Web:
Week 11
Mar 19 - 21
- Mon: The Matrix
- CLASS CANCELED
- Web: PR due
Spring Break
March 26 - 28
Week 12 (Science and Literature)
April 2 - 4
- Mon: The Matrix
- Mon: Novel groups
- Wed: Animatrix, novel groups
- Wed: Final edit for research collection
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Apr 9- 11
- Mon: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Mon: paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- Mon: FULL RESEARCH COLLECTION DUE
- Wed: workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- Web: publish in-class essay on a mahara page
Week 14
Apr 16 - 18
- Mon: Discuss Pariser- Watch video in class
- Mon: Workshop org/dev
- Mon: discuss 1st timed writing on social media
- Wed: Discuss Rettberg Researchers on Snapchat Print out, read and bring to class.
- Wed: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Web: Novel collection due online 4/23. Self evaluation due in class 4/23.
Week 15
Apr 23 - 25
- Mon: Class cancelled.
- Wed: 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
- Web: PR due / set up last collection
Week 16
Apr 30 - May 2
- Mon: in-class writing
- Mon Paper assignment
- Mon workshop topics for last paper
- Wed: Workshop first draft
- Wed: start audience biography
- Web: PR if needed
Week 17
May 7 - 9
- Mon: Workshop 2nd draft and biography
- Mon: Check collections for readability
- Wed: 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.
FINAL EXAM

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