Course Schedule

Week 1

For Monday, 8/29

• Sign up for OpenLab and join our class site:
  • If you encounter problems, please email me at RGarcia@citytech.cuny.edu.
• Begin to familiarize yourself with the class site: be sure to read the introduction to the course, look over the syllabus, and open and review all course tabs/sections.
• Respond to the Discussion Question “Introducing Yourself”: Write a paragraph (approx. 100 words) discussing your academic interests, why you chose your major, what you enjoy reading, listening to, watching, and doing in your spare time, or anything else you want to share (include your pronouns if you wish).
• Sign up for your free subscription to The New York Times: https://library.citytech.cuny.edu/help/how/nytimes.php

For Wednesday, 8/31

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn

Week 2

Monday, 9/5: College closed

For Wednesday, 9/7 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “Chapter 7” from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X.

Week 3

For Monday, 9/12 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Read and Annotate “Shitty First Drafts.”
• Follow the Week 3 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 9/14 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “Allegory of the Cave” (Book VII) from The Republic, by Plato.
• Watch “The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay.”
• Watch “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” by Alex Gendler.

Week 4

For Monday, 9/19 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 4 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 9/21 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lourde.
• Print and bring to class your draft of Unit 1

Week 5

Monday, 9/26: No classes scheduled

For Wednesday, 9/28 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Bring a printed out copy of your Unit 1 Draft for a peer review workshop

For Thursday, 9/29 (Monday Schedule – asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 5 Agenda assignments.

Week 6

Monday, 10/3 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Unit 1 assignments (Education Narrative) are due.
• Follow the Week 6 Agenda assignments.

Wednesday, 10/5: No classes scheduled

Week 7

Monday, 10/10: College Closed

For Wednesday, 10/12 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class A Talk to Teachers” by James Baldwin
• Watch “Writing an Annotated Bibliography” (City Tech Library).
• Review “Annotated Bibliography Breakdown” (Purdue OWL)

Week 8

For Monday, 10/17 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Read and annotate The Declaration of Independence Annotated by Randy Barnett
• Read and annotate “38” by Layli Long Soldier
• Follow the Week 8 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 10/19 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print/Download, read, annotate and bring to class Declaration of Independence

Week 9

For Monday, 10/24 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Review the presentation “What Is Research?” by Prof. Carrie Hall.
• Review the City Tech Library’s Guide to Developing a Research Question
• Follow the Week 9 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 10/26 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Library session

Week 10

For Monday, 10/31 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 10 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 11/2 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Come to class prepared to work on Unit 2

Week 11

Monday, 11/7 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 11 Agenda assignments.

Wednesday, 11/9 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Print and bring a draft of your annotated bibliography to class
• Read Twitter Thread on Selena Netflix Movie, Maria Elena Garcia.
• Read Twitter Thread on Women and the Pandemic, Katie Porter.

Week 12

Monday, 11/14 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Unit 2 assignments (Reflective Annotated Bibliography) are due.
• Follow the Week 12 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 11/16 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Read & listen to “Louise Erdrich On Her Personal Connection To Native Peoples’ ‘Fight For Survival’” (NPR interview).
• Read & watch “Native American elder Nathan Phillips, in his own words” (CNN interview clip) by Sara Sidner

Week 13

Monday, 11/21 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 13 Agenda assignments.

Wednesday, 11/23 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Bring an annotated copy of your Unit 3 mentor text to class.
• Bring your working draft of Unit 3.
• Come prepared to continue drafting Unit 3.

Week 14

For Monday, 11/28 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 14 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 11/30 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Bring a print or digital copy of Unit 3 to class.
• Come prepared to present your Unit 3 assignment to the class.

For Friday 12/2 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Unit 3 assignments (Writing in a New Genre) are due
• Follow the Week 14 Agenda assignments.

Week 15

For Monday, 12/5 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 15 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 12/7 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Come prepared to draft your Final Reflection in class

Week 16

For Monday, 12/12 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Follow the Week 16 Agenda assignments.

For Wednesday, 12/14 (in-person session at City Tech)

• Reading Day–no classes

Week 17

Monday, 12/19 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• Final Reflection and Portfolio due (including your revised work).
• Follow the Week 17 Agenda assignments.

Wednesday, 12/21

• Conclusions

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