English M01A Tentative Schedule Spring '21

English M01A Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Norton Field Guide AKA NFG
Sustainability AKA SUS

Please check back for changes and updates. Changes announced in class will be noted here, so be sure to refresh the page. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses of 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 on mahara.

Last revised March 2021

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 11 - 17
- Syllabus/ SWP / contract
- set up interview partners
- in-class timed-writing
- review help files for account set-up (HO)
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page
Week 2: (Course requirements /Introductions)
Jan 18 - 24
- Introductions
- Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Discuss Rettberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Print out, read and bring to class.
- review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Web: Rettberg S&R due. Set up Journals on mahara(HO)
Week 3: (Social Networking)
Jan 25 - 31
- Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday
- Discuss Pariser- Watch "Beware Online Filter Bubbles" video in class
- HO for progress report assignment.
- Web: Progress report and Pariser S&R due.
Week 4 (Social Networking)
Feb 1 - 7
- 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.
- discuss topics and key features of argument (bring NFG)
- in-class essay
- paper assignment
- Web: Bruckman S&R due
Week 5 (Revision)
Feb 8 - 14
- topic / development workshop paper #1
- bring NFG
- Workshop org/dev paper #1
- audience biography assignment
Week 6 (Sustainability)
Feb 15 - 21
- read preface from SUS for discussion
- Assign footprint - due for workshop
- Royte HO & video clip
- Editing workshop paper
- Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Web: Leonard S&R and progress report due
Week 7 (Sustainability: theory)
Feb 22 - 28
- Pres day holiday
- Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure." (SUS)
- Web: Set up mahara page for publishing footprint assignment (HO)
- Web Carson S&R due.
Week 8 (Sustainability theory)
March 1 - 7
- Discuss Diamond (SUS)
- Sign up for novel choice. Finish reading movel by week 13
- Discuss Suzuki (HO)
- peer revision workshop footprint
- Web: Footprint assignment due
Week 9 (Sustainability Issues)
March 8 - 14
- Discuss Hardin
- Discuss student choice article (SUS)
- Web: Hardin and Student choice S&R due. Progress report due.
Week 10 (Sustainability - research writing)
March 15 - 21
- Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I"
- review topics for research
- In-class essay (proposal)
Week 11 ()
March 22 - 28
- workshop Varda paper
- assign annotated bibliography
- workshop research proposal / turn in timed writing with self-eval
- research planning
- Web: Set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Spring Break March 29 - April 4
Week 12 (Writing about Science and Literature)
April 5 - 11
- review and discuss report writing / ethnography / interviews
- research planning and workshop abib source 1
- review and discuss research paper assignment
- research planning and workshop abib source 2
- Web: PR due
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
April 12 - 18
- Abib (3)
- research planning and workshop abib source (4-5)
- Novel groups
- turn in hard copy of a-bib
Week 14 (Science Fiction)
April 19 - 25
- group review and revision of research
- Discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- 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.
- Web: LeGuin and NPR blog S&R due.
Week 15
April 26 - May 2
- The Matrix
- discuss topics for analysis paper
- turn in self-evaluation sheet for research collection.
Week 16
May 3 - 9
- In class essay on novel and The Matrix
- paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- presentations
- Web: Set up last collection
Week 17
May 10 - 12
- Workshop org/dev sci-fi paper
- presentations
- Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading
- Web: publish final collection: in-class, rough, final draft, self evaluation due in class. No late work can be accepted.
Final Exam days
May 17

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