Faculty: Below is a streamlined schedule to share with students; it allows students to see the full semester without becoming overwhelmed. It does not include the detailed prompts students will need to complete weekly assignments. You can find details regarding all assignments and readings in the Instructor Schedule once you have cloned this course–otherwise, you can review it on the FYW Model Course Hub. You can then share these details with students in the Weekly Class Agendas. The Week 1 agenda is already published here as a model; all other weekly agendas have been labeled in drafts and are ready to be filled with the weekly assignments. If you prefer, you can change or tailor the schedule for your course. You might want to divide the work into two class meetings per week. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. You can find the Instructor Schedule listed in Dashboard > Pages > All Pages. You can find agenda drafts in Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Drafts. For help working with OpenLab Course sites, visit OpenLab Help.
Week 1: Course Overview & Discourse Communities
Texts:
- Read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 2: Understanding the term “Discourse Community” (DC)
Texts:
- Read “She’s Your Basic LOL in NAD” by Perri Klass.
- Read “Dedicatory Letter” to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Review power point: “Discourse Communities” by Carrie Hall.
- Review the resource “Double-Entry Reading Journals” (Butte College).
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 3: Choosing a Topic & Genre for Unit 1
Texts:
- Read and listen to “I am Someone’s Daughter too” by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (A.O.C).
- Read excerpts from “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass.
- Watch Lateral Reading (Stanford History Education Group).
- Review the “Quotation Handout” by Carrie Hall
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 4: Completing the First Draft
Texts:
- None for this week!
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 5: Ending Unit 1 & Starting Unit 2
Unit 1 (Speech or Letter) due.
Texts:
- Read “What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human” by Ruth Whippman.
- Watch “Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians” (NYT video op-ed).
- Review “Ethos, Pathos & Logos” (Texas A & M University Writing Center).
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 6: Reading Antigone & Developing Research Questions
Texts:
- Read Antigone by Sophocles.
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 7: Reading Antigone & Unit 2 Work Continued
Texts:
- Continue reading Antigone.
- Watch excerpts of video: PBS’s Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson.
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 8: Looking at Op-Ed/Opinion Essays
Texts:
- Read “Cops Don’t Belong at Pride” by Roxane Gay.
- Review “How to Write an OP-ED or Column” (Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program).
- Review“Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks” (The Op-ed Project).
- Review “Developing Strong Thesis Statements” (Purdue OWL).
- Review “Thesis Statements” (Purdue OWL).
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 9: Ethos, Pathos & Logos
Texts:
- Review “Ethos, Pathos & Logos” (Texas A&M University Writing Center).
- Review “Citation and Formatting Guide.” (City Tech Library).
- Review “MLA Sample Works Cited Page (Purdue OWL).
- Review “Handout: Quoting Others (Purdue OWL).
- Review “The Quote Sandwich” (Washoe School District).
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 10: Ending Unit 2 & Starting Unit 3
Unit 2 (The Op-Ed/Opinion Essay) due.
Texts:
- Examine “College Students and Social Media” by Chelsea Harrison.
- Examine “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street” by Annie Correal.
- Examine “The Strange Lives of Objects in the Coronavirus Era” by Sophie Haigney.
- Examine “I Am Stuck Between Two Lives During This Pandemic” by Lucie Langston.
- Examine “100 New Yorkers” by Mona Chalabi.
- Examine “2020 Can Go to Hell” by Jack Healy.
- Examine 1619 Project (NYT Magazine).
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 11: Drafting & Building Unit 3: The Multimodal project
Texts:
- None for this week!
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 12: Drafting Continued & Multimodal Presentations
Texts:
- Read “Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process” by Liz Lerman.
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 13: Multimodal presentations (cont’d.)
Unit 3 (The Multimodal Project) due.
Texts:
- None for this week!
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 14: Reflections, Revisions & Portfolios
Texts:
- None for this week!
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
Week 15: Conclusion
Final Reflection and Portfolio due
Texts:
- None for this week!
Writing:
- Specific prompts and activities will be announced in class and/or posted to the weekly Class Agenda.
