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Hi all:

Since we are done with in-class presentations, we are done with our class! I wish you all the best of luck and I’m looking forward to reading your final portfolios (due today).

Thank you.

12/3 In class Revision Assignment
Sign up for Class Presentations (due 12/10, 12/12, 12/17)
*Email me if you are not in class today and you want credit for the final presentation, and I will assign you a presentation day

12/5 DUE on Open Lab: Research and Audience Assignment
Read for class: Donald Murray, “Internal Revision” (in packet)

12/10 Read for class: Donald Murray, “The Maker’s Eye”
Presentation Day 1

12/12 Presentation Day 2

12/17 DUE on Open Lab: Final Portfolios due
Presentation Day 3

12/19 Last Class

…please review your first two major assignments (Literacy Narrative and Annotated Bibliography) and look at the comments and grades on your posts. If you do not see a grade for a major assignment, and you think you uploaded the assignment, let me know NOW. If you do not see a grade, that means that I do not have record of your turning in the assignment, which means you will not get credit for the assignment.

Any questions, please let me know!

Hi all:

Reminder that for peer review tomorrow, you are responsible for bringing to class a TYPED and PRINTED copy of your document. You should bring one message to one of your audiences (basically, one half of the Research and Audience assignment).

As always, but especially on peer review days, it is important that you show up to class on time.

Revised Schedule:
Tues, Nov 12: Discuss Annotated Bibliography Reflection; start drafting reflection

Thurs, Nov 14: Read Kristen Roupenian, “Cat Person” (in packet)

Sunday, Nov 17: Reflection on Annotated Bibliography due on Open Lab

Tues, Nov 19: Read Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son” (in packet)
Due in class: research topic and question

Thurs, Nov 21: Workshopping Research Questions and Audience

Tues: Nov 26: Peer Review, bring one of your audience assignments to class (see Open Lab for more instructions)

November 17: Reflection on Annotated Bibliography due on Open Lab

November 26: Peer Review in class

December 5: Research and Audience assignment* due on Open Lab

In-class Presentations of research topic – date to be assigned by instructor

December 17 Final Portfolios** due on Open Lab

*Major Unit Assignment
**Comprising revised major assignments and reflection papers (instructions to follow)

Please read Colson Whitehead’s “City Limits” for our class meetings this week. You can find the reading in our packet.

Thurs, Oct 10: Laura Bolin Carroll, “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” (in our Course Packet)

**Mon, Oct 14: Open Lab assignment due (Rhetorical Analysis of One Text in Chosen Genre)

Tue Oct 15: “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” cont’d (re-read essay for class). Students to continue research on chosen genre in preparation of our library visit.

Thurs, Oct 17: LIBRARY VISIT: We will meet in front of the library (Namm, 4th floor) at 10:00

Tues, Oct 22: Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”
In class, we will practice writing summaries and continuing our practice of rhetorical analysis

Thurs, Oct 24: “I Have a Dream,” cont’d.

**Tues, Oct 29: Peer Review Annotated Bibliographies. In class, bring at least 5 full annotations of your genre texts to class (review the Annotated Bibliography prompt). Please print out two copies for class today.

Thurs, Oct 31: Reading TBD; students to continue working on annotated bibliographies

**Fri, Nov 1: Annotated Bibliographies due on Open Lab