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.
