Week 1: Course Overview & Annotating Texts
Aug 29th, Aug 31st
Texts:
- Read “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn.
- Review “RWL” (Reading like a Writer) Power Point by Laura Westengard.
Writing:
- Specific instructions will be announced in class and/or our class site.
Week 2: Understanding the term “Education Narrative”
Sept 5th, Sept 7th
Texts:
- Read “The Memory of My Grandmother” (City Tech student essay) by Anita Jiang.
- Read Chapter 7 here: “https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Douglass/Narrative/Douglass_Narrative.pd” from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
- Read “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X.
- Review “Double-Entry Reading Journals” (Butte College).
- Watch “Understanding Genre Awareness.”
Writing:
- Specific instructions will be announced in class and/or our class site.
Week 3: Reading Plato and Working with Writing Strategies
Sept 12th, Sept 14th
Texts:
- Read “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.
Writing:
- Specific instructions will be announced in class and/or our class site.
Week 4: Drafting the Unit 1 Assignment
Sept 19th, Sept 21st
Texts
- Read “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lourde.
- Read “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott.
- Review “Narrative Basic Features” Power Point by Laura Westengard.
Writing:
- Specific instructions will be announced in class and/or our class site.
Week 5: Drafting (cont’d.) & Peer Review
Sept 26th, Sept 28th
Texts:
- Review “Citation and Formatting Guide” (City Tech Library).
- Review “MLA Style Introduction” (Purdue OWL).
- Review “Writing Transitions” (Purdue OWL).
- Review “What’s a Paragraph?” by Carrie Hall.
Writing:
- Specific instructions will be announced in class and/or our class site.
Week 6: Ending Unit 1 & Starting Unit 2
Oct 3rd, Oct 5th
Unit 1: Education Narrative due
Texts
- Read “Sonny’s Blues” https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf by James Baldwin.
- Watch “Writing an Annotated Bibliography” (City Tech Library).
- Review “Annotated Bibliography Breakdown” (Purdue OWL).
- Read the Declaration of Independence.
- Listen to the Declaration of Independence.
- Read The Declaration of Independence Annotated by Randy Barnett.
- Read “38” by Layli Long Soldier.
- Review “Quotation Handout” by Carrie Hall.
Writing:
Week 7: Research & Research Questions
Oct 10th–no class, CLASS FOLLOWS MONDAY SCHEDULE, Oct 12th
Texts:
- Review the City Tech Library’s Guide to Developing a Research Question.
- Review “What Is Research?” by Carrie Hall.
- Review “Reflective Annotated Bibliography” Power Point by Laura Westengard
Writing:
Week 8: Drafting Annotations
Oct 17th, Oct 19th
Texts:
See the handout with questions about our readings.
Writing:
Week 9: Ending Unit 2 & Starting Unit 3
Oct 24th, Oct 26th
Unit 2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography due
Texts:
- Read the short story “Speech Sounds” by Octavia Butler: http://future-lives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/speech_sounds.pdf
- Read Twitter Thread on Women and the Pandemic, Katie Porter.
Writing:
Week 10: Considering Different Genres, Annotated Bibliography work continued
Oct 31st, Nov 2nd
Texts:
- Read & listen to “Louise Erdrich On Her Personal Connection To Native Peoples’ ‘Fight For Survival’” (NPR interview).
- Please read this article by Nicholas Carr about our use of the internet and how this impacts our lives called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”: https://web.lib.unb.ca/instruction/bcull/ARTICLES/Reading/GoggleCBCA.pdf
- Please read a short article from Psychology Today about narcissism:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202208/what-psychology-is-getting-wrong-about-narcissism
- Please read this poem by Anne Sexton: Self in 1958, by Anne Sexton
Writing: Please choose and write down at least ONE QUOTE from each reading from Week 10 and Week 9 to bring to class. We will work with these quotes in class.
Week 11: Drafting Unit 3
Nov 7th, Nov 9th
Texts:
- Students review their individual mentor texts, which you will choose as part of our Unit 3 preparatory work.
Writing:
Week 12: Drafting Unit 3 (cont’d) & Peer Review
Nov 14th, Nov 16th
Texts:
None for this week!
Writing:
Week 13: Reflections & Revisions & Portfolios
Nov 21st, Nov 23rd–NO CLASS, Thanksgiving
Working on UNIT 3, Reflections on UNIT 2
Texts:
Review texts from week 9, 10, and 11
Writing: Please see the DISCUSSIONS section to answer questions about genre
Week 14: Revisions
Nov 28th, Nov 30th
Texts:
- Read “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” by Donald M. Murray
Writing:
Week 15: Conclusion
Dec 5th, Dec 7th
- Final Reflection and Portfolio due (including revised work)
