ENG 1101 Week 2 Agenda

We’ve finished one week of the semester so far–congratulate yourself for that accomplishment! Here we go with Week 2!

Class Info

• Dates: Wednesday, 9/1-Tuesday, 9/14 (no class meeting on Tuesday, 9/7)
• Meeting Info: To review:
  • Our course is a hybrid, meaning that it is a blend of synchronous and asynchronous work.
  • For the synchronous sessions, we will meet on Tuesdays 12:00-1:40pm via Zoom and share notes in a shared document.
  • For the other class meeting time, you will do your work throughout the week asynchronously, on your own time.
  • Our weeks will begin on Wednesdays and run through our class meetings on Tuesdays.
  • Work will be due during the week as noted in the weekly agenda, usually with Thursday and Monday mornings as a deadline to join a discussion so we all have time to respond to each other.
  • Optional student support meeting hours are opportunities to meet synchronously with me individually or in a small group via our class Zoom link.

To-Do Before Class

For the start of Week 2, be sure to have completed the work assigned in the ENG 1101 Week 1 Agenda, most importantly:

• Join the OpenLab
• Once you’re signed in, join our First Year Learning Community–be sure to click “Join Now” under the pineapple avatar
• Review the site for these courses, especially for ENG 1101
• Read the ENG 1101 Syllabus
• Complete the Student Survey about your access to technology
• Participate in our FYLC’s Introductions discussion
• Participate in the What about Online Learning? discussion after completing the readings assigned there

Topic

Introductions continued; beginning of ENG 1101 Project #1: Education Narrative

Objectives

• To consider and discuss aspects of education and educational experiences through the lens of writing

To-Do This Week

If you’ve never taken a fully online class before, or a hybrid synchronous/asynchronous course, it may take a while to get used to the ways the class functions. The work for the week includes what you would do in the classroom if we met a second day per week, as well as what you would do to prepare for class and what you would do outside of class to work toward a course project.

This week, much of our work will help us learn more about each other and ourselves in this collaborative environment focused on developing as writers. The agenda might look like a lot, and it likely is a lot, and we can talk about that, too. To help us keep on track please share your work assigned for Week 1 as soon as possible…let’s say no later than Monday morning, 9/6–but that’s Labor Day, so I’m not actually asking you to to work that day. Finishing it before then would be ideal! Next, please share your work for the Week 2 assignments by Monday morning, 9/13 so we all have time to read everyone’s work before class on Tuesday, 9/14.

Reading

• Mike Bunn, “How to read like a Writer”
• José Olivarez, “Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing”
• Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”

Writing

Discussions: We’ll write about the different readings we have for this week. Rather than discussing them all in one huge discussion thread, we’ll break it apart. Follow instructions for discussions about how we read, how we write, and about telling an education narrative.