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 Jan 2019.

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 7 - 9
- 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 14 - 16
- Mon: Introductions,
- Mon: review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Wed: Overview of Sustainability
- Wed: Discuss Preface to Sustainablility
- Wed: Watch and discuss Royte video - footprint assignment (HO)
- Web: Set up Journals (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Jan 21 - 23
- Mon: MLK holiday
- Wed: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Wed: Review summary writing/ signal phrases (HO)
- Web: Progress report due (HO) Set up mahara page for footprint assignment (HO)
Last day to drop without a W is Jan 28.
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Jan 28 - 30
- 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 4 - 6
- Review footprint assignment
- Wed: CLASS CANCELLED - today only
- Web: Carson and Suzuki S&R due
Week 6 (revision)
Feb 11 - 13
- Mon: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Wed:: Discuss Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Wed: Discuss student choice article
- Wed: Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Web: Progress report due/ Diamond S&R and student choice S&R due
Week 7 (research)
Feb 18 - 20
- Mon: Pres day holiday
- Wed: timed writing - proposal
- Wed: Discuss topics for research
- Wed: workshop footprint (vague pronouns HO)
- Wed: Choose novels (tentative)
- Web: Student choice S&R due / publish footprint
Week 8
Feb 25 - 27
- Mon: workshop research proposal / turn in timed writing with self-eval
- Mon: Assign annotated bibliography
- Mon: planning groups
- Wed: planning group
- Wed: workshop abib (one full source)
- Web: Set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 9
Mar 4 - 6
- Mon: report writing / group
- Mon: workshop abib (one full source)
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
- Web: PR due
Week 10
Mar 11 - 13
- Mon: workshop
- Mon: review research paper assignment
- Wed: Print out, read, bring to class to discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Web:
Week 11
Mar 18 - 20
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Web: PR due
Spring Break
March 25 - 27
Week 12 (Science and Literature)
April 1 - 3
- Mon: Animatrix, novel groups
- Mon: workshop field report / research paper
- Wed: Final edit for research collection
- Wed: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Apr 8- 10
- 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 15 - 17
- 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 22 - 24
- 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: Class cancelled - today only
- Web: PR due / set up last collection
Week 16
Apr 29 - May 1
- 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 6 - 8
- Mon: Workshop 2nd draft and biography
- Mon: Check collections for readability
- Mon: Final edit for paper #3
- Wed: 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, May

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