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Weekly Schedule, ENG 1101
Sections: D193
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Professor Lisa Wu lwu@citytech.cuny.edu
Fall 2024
We meet for 4 hours per week in the classroom, so you should devote at least that same amount of time outside of class to work on our assignments. That gives you an idea of the time commitment for English 1101 Freshman Composition; every week, you will need to dedicate focused, quiet time to reading, annotating texts, posting homework on the Open Lab Forums, and drafting formal assignments.
Please be on time. Class starts on time and lasts for ONE HOUR and FORTY MINUTES. You are expected to stay for the ENTIRE CLASS PERIOD. During our class time, we will discuss the class readings and assignments and practice writing in workshop mode.
In this class, we use the Open Lab. You will post HWs on our Open Lab class website, here you will be reading and responding to texts and each other’s HW posts. You will submit your three major unit assignments on Google Drive.
Note: This is a difficult course requiring your commitment from day one. “Keeping up” should be your mantra. Students who have fallen behind have had extreme difficulty catching up and many were not able to finish the course. It’s like falling into quicksand and not being able to pull yourself out. Please do not let this happen!
Weekly schedule (This is tentative. We will likely adjust as we go along.)
WEEK ONE
W 8/28
M 9/2 Labor Day no class, but there is work to do!
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· Introductions to Professor and Course
· 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
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
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
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WEEK TWO
M 9/2 no class, but there is work to do — see above W 9/4
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Prepare for Wednesday Sept 4: Printout and Bring to Class
· 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?
QUESTION — In ONE clear sentence: What is the single transformative event that you are writing about?
· 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 |
WEEK THREE
M 9/9
W 9/11 |
For Monday:
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.
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)
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).
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. |
WEEK FOUR
M 9/16
W 9/18
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For Monday:
· 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:
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).
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? |
WEEK FIVE
M 9/23
W 9/25
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For Monday Read
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)
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WEEK SIX
M 9 / 30
W 10 / 2 no class
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Peer Review Week
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! |
WEEK SEVEN
M 10/7 |
DUE Monday 10/7: Education Narrative Essay Unit One Project
Final Draft due to Google Drive
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WEEK EIGHT
M 10/14 no class TUESDAY 10/15 (in library) W 10/16 |
This week we meet on Tuesday and Wednesday:
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.
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WEEK NINE
M 10/21 W 10/23 |
THERE ARE TWO THINGS GOING ON SIMULTANEOUSLY THIS WEEK:
THIS WEEK on your own time:
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) |
WEEK TEN
M 10 / 28 W 10 / 30 |
You have solidified your RQ and your RAB Proposal. You have found your THREE sources. You are ready to work on Source Entry writing for your own THREE sources.
Computer Lab Work on your RAB Source Entry 1 DUE Friday 10/27 OLab HW 5: Complete RAB Source 1 |
WEEK ELEVEN
M 11/4 W 11/6 |
Computer Lab
Work on RAB Source Entry 2 DUE Friday 11/3 OLab HW 6: Complete RAB Source 2 |
WEEK TWELVE
M 11 / 11 W 11/ 13 |
Computer Lab
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.
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WEEK THIRTEEN
M 11 / 18 W 11 / 20
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Introduce Unit Three Major Assignment: Genre Project
Study and explore the Assignment (go to Assignments page) Work in class on project |
WEEK FOURTEEN
M 11/25 W 11/27 (no class) HAPPYTHXGIVING
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Work in class on project |
WEEK FIFTEEN
M 12/ 2 W 12/ 4 |
Work in class on project |
WEEK SIXTEEN
M 12/9 W 12/11
WEEK SEVENTEEN M 12 / 16 W 12 / 18 |
Work in class on portfolio
Monday and Wednesday: Genre Project Final Presentations Final Portfolio is Due |
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