Weekly Schedule

W 8/28

M 9/2 Labor Day    no class, but there is work to do!

·      Open Lab registration and join as a member to our Open Lab course site.  Go to HOME page on our site and scroll down to Let’s Get Started on Open Lab

·      Review “Syllabus and Course Policies and Information,” focus on participation, attendance, and Ground Rules

·      Students to create their own private chat AND find a class buddy to exchange contact info.

·     Get your City Tech email up and running.

·      Register for your free CUNY New York Times and free CUNY Wall Street Journal accounts: https://guides.cuny.edu/libraries/newspapers

•       Introductions in small groups – in-class start on HW Post #1 Introduction

DUE Sunday September 1 by midnight:

Complete Open Lab HW Post #1 Introduction (two paragraphs with a visual please)

DUE Monday 9/2 by midnight: Comment on TWO student peer introductions

See Prof Wu’s introduction.

Watch this invaluable slideshow on Tips for College Success.  Scroll down for other useful links on the page too.

Due Monday 9/2 by midnight: Open Lab HW 2:  Tips for College Success

Due Tuesday 9/3 by midnight Comment on two student peer posts

Go to Student Resources page on our site and -- Learn how to post on Open Lab

M 9/2 no class, but there is work to do — see above

W 9/4

·    Esmeralda Santiago, “When I Was Puerto Rican”Find in Open Lab course site under Readings (page 101-104)

College Computer Centers (where you can printout for free -- and study) are located:
Atrium Ground Level 
General Building 600
Vorhees Building 237
inside the Library
For SEEK students:  SEEK Center Namm 401

·      We will study use of dialogue and use “home” languages.  Mark every time Santiago uses dialogue.  Choose one major dialogue and read out loud with a partner.  Take notes on why you think it works well (or not).  What do you learn about Esmeralda from reading the dialogue?

• Think about an event in your educational journey.  Has there been a time when you proved yourself, when you overcame somebody’s misperception of your ability?
• Think about an event in your educational journey.  Has there been a moment or an event when you have felt that you were operating between two different worlds? (Esmeralda Santiago must navigate between two different languages as she starts school in America.)

QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence:  What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?

•   We will also read and discuss Mark Bunn Read Like a Writer, (no need to printout; I will provide) and demonstrate RLW.  We will consider what is genre and why it’s important.

·      IN-CLASS activity brainstorm: Prepare for Writing Response — Mentor Quote — or — Between Two Worlds Writing Response (HW 3)

DUE Friday 9/6:  Complete OLab HW #3: Mentor Quote or Between Two Worlds

DUE Saturday 9/7: Comment on two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.

NOTE:  All of our readings are posted on the Readings page.

Schedule an appointment with the Writing Tutors ASAP to work on your Ed Narrative!  Remember total of TWO visits for the semester are required.

We have done a lot so in these first days — so — please get caught up for a strong start to the semester!

LOOK AHEAD/SCROLL DOWN for the reading and group work on “My American Journey” by Colin Powell you need to do for Monday.

ASSIGN Groups for Master Vocabulary List project

M 9/9

W 9/11

Introduce Unit One Major Assignment: Educational Narrative

For Monday:  Colin Powell:  “My American Journey” Find in Open Lab course site under Readings (page 90-97)

·      Printout, Read, Annotate, and Vocabulary (look up new words).

·      Group ONE and Group TWO: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading.

• Group One: pages 90-93
• Group Two: pages 94-97

College Computer Centers (where you can printout for free -- and study) are located:
Atrium Ground Level 
General Building 600
Vorhees Building 237
inside the Library
For SEEK students:  SEEK Center Namm 401

Bring to class your printout and be ready to discuss:

Colin Powell:  “My American Journey” Find in Open Lab course site under Readings (page 90-97)

·      We will look at the writer’s use of details and descriptive language to SHOW and not just tell.

·      We will study scene building.

·      IN-CLASS activity: Prepare for Saved Writing Response (HW 4)

• Think about an event in your Educational Journey.  Has there been an experience or activity or school club has saved you and gave meaning and purpose to your school life? (Colin Powell joined ROTC Pershing Rifles and this school club gave meaning to his life.)

QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence:  What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?

For Wednesday:

·      Printout, Read, Annotate, and Vocabulary (look up new words).

·      Group THREE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading.

Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

Malcolm X’s Chapter 11 of Autobiography of Malcolm X.  Chapter 11 is presented in two parts here:

·      Ch11 Saved beginning paragraphs

·      “Prison Studies: or Saved” ( 

·      We will consider how the writer creates scenes.  Focus on the scene of MX reading by the late night glow of the hallway light and evading the night guards.

·      We will demonstrate reading strategies: annotating; summarizing and responding; identifying structural elements of writing and different genres

·      IN-CLASS activity: Prepare for Writing Response with Mentor Quote  or revisit Saved (HW 4).

• Think about a time in your educational journey.  Has there been a moment or a time when a mentor figure has given you positive words that pushed you forward? (Elijah Mohammad’s written words to MX ignite his passion for writing).
• Contrastingly has there been a moment or a time when a mentor figure has delivered negative words that were painful and hurt you?  How did you overcome this negative impact?  (Esmeralda Santiago proves to the principal that she is more capable than he thinks.)
• Think about your Educational Journey.  Has there been an experience (MX discovered passion for reading) or activity or school club (Colin Powell joined ROTC Pershing Rifles) has saved you and gave meaning and purpose to your school life?

QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence:  What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?

Due 9/13 Friday by midnight:  Open Lab HW #4 Mentor Quote or Saved.

Due 9/14 Saturday by midnight: Comment two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.

Note:  HW #3 and #4 are very important and will jumpstart you on Unit One Assignment, our first Major Unit Assignment.

M 9/16

W 9/18

·      Printout, Read, Annotate, and Vocabulary (look up new words).

·      Group FOUR: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading.

Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”

We will consider:

• ·      the term “mother tongue”
• ·      the different Englishes Amy Tan speaks
• ·      how her mother is viewed by Americans based on her spoken English.

• We will listen to audiobook narrator Nancy Wu.
• Think about an event in your educational journey.  Has there been a moment or an event when you have felt that you were operating between two different worlds? (Like Santiago, Amy Tan must navigate between two different languages, two different cultures.  She learns and grows through this experience of living between two different worlds.)

QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence:  What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?

For Wednesday:

·      Printout, Read, Annotate, and Vocabulary (look up new words).

• Group FIVE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading (p 72-81).
• Group LASTCHANCE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading (p 82-91).

Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

Barack Obama, Chapter 4 Dreams from My Father. Obama, Chapter Four   (20 pages)

·      We will do a Dramatic Reading of opening scene in cafeteria.

·      Reading Obama’s education narrative at the same time as working on your own education narrative will make many of the writerly points we are discussing in class more clear to you.

·      RLW look at scene development, dialogue, scene building, and time-line.

DUE Friday 9/20:  Open Lab HW 6 Building Scene and Scene with Dialogue

Due 9/21 Saturday by midnight: Comment two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.

START DEVELOPING EDUCATION NARRATIVE, UNIT ONE MAJOR ASSIGNMENT ESSAY.  (on Assignments page of our site)

QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence:  What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?

M 9/23

W 9/25

Anne Lamott:  Shitty First Drafts

Continue discussion of Barack Obama, Chapter 4 Dreams from My Father. Obama, Chapter Four 

ALSO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story (TEDtalk) and  The Danger of a Single Story (transcript)

DUE Monday 9/25:  OLab HW #6 Shitty First Drafts

DUE Tuesday 9/26: Comment on two students’ posts, one paragraph each.

Writing Workshop: Develop your Open Lab writing into a Rough Draft

ALSO Writing Workshop Demonstration using Student Example Papers and Review

·      Peer Review Sheet

·      Writing Strategies

·      The Assignment

·      Review Proofreading vs REVISION

Discuss sample rough drafts, development strategies, focusing on developing scenes and using dialogue, including “home” languages, how to make a connection to the readings, how to incorporate reference in your writing.

ALSO Timeline (workshop example student papers)

M 9 / 30

W 10 / 2 no class

DUE Sunday 9/29 by midnight:

Unit One Rough Draft Due before class (in Google drive Rough Draft folder in Unit One)

For Monday:

·      Peer Review

·      Bring TWO hard copy / printouts of your Rough Draft (RD)

DUE by Wednesday 10/2 in the Google Drive: TWO Rough Draft (RD) peer reviews for two of your Group members.

Work on advancing your RD to FD!

M 10/7

Final Draft due to Google Drive

M 10/14 no class

TUESDAY 10/15 (in library)

W 10/16

Introduce Unit Two Major Assignment: Reflective Annotative Bibliography (RAB) Project (Go to the Assignments page).

NOTE THAT TWO AND UNIT THREE ARE LINKED PROJECTS.  Unit Two leads to Unit Three!  Same topic for both projects.

Study and explore the Assignment – Choose your Research Question carefully.  Unit Two leads to Unit 3 so choose a topic that is truly a question you wish you to pursue.

TUESDAY:  We will have guest presentation by Library Professor

Computer Lab

Choosing a Research Question

Creating a Proposal Paragraph

RAB Step One:  Writing The Proposal Paragraph.

·      Use the Template/Paragraph Starter.

·      Google Search NYT articles.

·      Refine Research Question.

DUE Friday 10/18: OLab HW 1 RAB PROPOSAL and 3 possible sources. 

DUE Saturday 10/19:  OLab HW 2

·      Choose one possible source for your RAB and printout/read/annotate.

·      Post link of article and px of your annotated page.

M 10/21

W 10/23

THIS WEEK on your own time:

• You are solidifying and making sure what your research question will be.  You must be ready to go next week on writing the source entries.  Work with a research librarian to do this!
• You are refining your RAB Proposal. 
• Also, you are searching for / researching three possible sources for your own RAB.  The three sources will be:

1. a news or feature piece
2. an opinion piece
3. a multi-media piece

THIS WEEK during class time:  We are practicing summary writing; we are all reading the practice article, “Schools are Killing Curiosity.”

·      For Monday:  Printout, Read, Annotate, and Vocabulary (look up new words)

This week I am guiding you all on writing a complete Source Entry on this article (Remember the four parts of the Source Entry are MLA Citation, Summary, Rhetorical Analysis, and Notable Quotables).

DUE Tuesday 10/22:  OLab HW 3 on practice article “Schools Killing Curiosity”:

·      Part 1 MLA CITATION (use the citation machine!)

·      Part 2 SUMMARY

DUE Friday 10/25: OLab HW 4 on practice article – You have now written a complete practice RAB Source Entry (all four parts) on “Schools are Killing Curiosity.”

·      Part 3 RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

·      Part 4 NOTABLE QUOTABLES

ALSO:

·      Read “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” by Lynn Bolin Carroll to understand what is a Rhetorical Analysis

·      Refine RQ and Revise Proposal Paragraph — USE THE TEMPLATE

·      MEANWHILE, you are refining your Research Question (RQ) and doing searches for possible sources.  You are deciding what will be your final RQ.  Take this week, as we go through the practice article to be sure of your RQ and your RAB Proposal.

DEMONSTRATION using professor’s own RAB research project:

·      “Spit on Yelled at Attacked Chinese Americans Fear” news article by Tavernise and Oppel

·      “We are Not the Virus But We Are Part of the Cure” (WaPo opinion piece by Andrew Yang)

M 10 / 28

W 10 / 30

Computer Lab

Work on your RAB Source Entry 1

DUE Friday 10/27   OLab HW 5:  Complete RAB Source 1

M 11/4

W 11/6

Work on RAB Source Entry 2

DUE Friday 11/3   OLab HW 6:  Complete RAB Source 2

M 11 / 11

W 11/ 13

Work on RAB Source Entry 3

Share multi-media sources: video, podcast, op-doc, TEDtalk, video news clip

DUE Friday 11/10   OLab HW 7:  Complete RAB Source 3

HOW TO WRITE THE RAB CONCLUSION

Your RAB is done!

DUE 11/12 Sunday UNIT TWO RAB Complete — Post to BB and Google Drive.

M 11 / 18

W 11 / 20

Study and explore the Assignment (go to Assignments page)

Work in class on project

M 11/25

W 11/27 (no class)

HAPPYTHXGIVING

M 12/ 2

W 12/ 4

M 12/9

W 12/11

WEEK SEVENTEEN

M 12 / 16

W 12 / 18

Monday and Wednesday: Genre Project Final Presentations

Final Portfolio is Due