Weekly Schedule

JANUARY

M 1/29

W 1/31

·      Open Lab registration and join as a member to our Open Lab course site

·      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.

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

·      Register for your free CUNY New York Times account

·      Get your City Tech email up and running.

“(Un) LEARNING My Name” by Mohamed Hassan on YouTube  https://www.mohamed-hamad.com/mohamed-hassan-unlearning-my-name-spoken-word/

DUE Friday 9/1 by midnight:

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

DUE Saturday 9/1 by midnight: Comment on TWO student peer introductions

Prepare for Wednesday: Printout and Bring to Class

·      Mike Bunn Read Like A Writer RLW “How To Read Like A Writer”

·      Lynn Kilpatrick Decisions Dilemmas Decisions (find in Readings)

·      Wednesday

·      We will read, discusss, and demonstrate RLW

·      We will consider what is genre and why it’s important.

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

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

OVER THE WEEKEND:

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

Due Sunday 2/4 by midnight: Open Lab HW 2:  Tips for College Success

FEBRUARY

M 2/5

W 2/7

Introduce Unit One Major Assignment: Educational Narrative

For Monday – TWO readings:

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

·      Group ONE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the two readings.

·      You can always find all of our readings under Readings.

Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

1.     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” (

2.    NYT interview with LFishbourne (make sure you have your NYT account)

Malcolm X, Laurence Fishbourne and the Theater of Your Mind (NYT interview)

·      We will consider how the writer creates scenes.

·      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 (HW 3).

For Wednesday:

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

·      Group TWO: Prepare Master Vocabulary.

·      You can always find all of our readings under Readings.

Bring to class 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 continue our study of scene building.

·      IN-CLASS activity: Prepare for Mentor Quote or Saved (your choice) Writing Response (HW 3)

·      Due 2/9 Friday by midnight:  Open Lab HW #3 Mentor Quote or Saved (your choice) Writing Response (HW 3)

Due 2/10 Saturday by midnight: Comment two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.  YOU MUST MAKE MEANINGFUL COMMENTS – We will discuss this.

Note:  HW #3, #4, #5 are very important and will jumpstart you on Unit One Assignment, our first Major Unit Assignment.

M no class

W 2/14

MONDAY:  NO CLASS BUT STUDENTS WILL READ A VERY SHORT READING  ON THEIR OWN

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

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

Open Lab HW 3B:  SHOW ME that you are annotating your text!

• Due Monday 2/12. 
• Post a picture of an annotated page from your reading of “When I was Puerto Rican” 
• Give 5 new words you learned from the text: definition, part of speech and sentence where the word appears.

For Wednesday:  Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”

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

·      Group THREE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the reading.

·      IN-CLASS activity brainstorm: Connect to HW 4 Writing Response:  Between Two Worlds — or –Mentor Quote (negative)

·      We will listen to audiobook narrator Nancy Wu.

Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”

We will consider:

·      the term “mother tongue”

·      the use of dialogue and scene building

·      the different Englishes Amy Tan speaks (how writers use home language)

·      how her mother is viewed by Americans based on her broken English.

DUE Friday 2/16:  Complete OLab HW #4: Outline and Opening

DUE Saturday 2/17: Comment on two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.

M no class

W 2/21

Anne Lamott:  Shitty First Drafts

DUE Tuesday 2/19: OLab #4B Shitty First Drafts

Monday no class but you must START READING OBAMA

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

·      Group FOUR: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the Obama reading pages 72-85.

·      Group FIVE: Prepare Master Vocabulary for the Obama reading pages 85 – 92.

For Wednesday — Bring to class and be ready to discuss:

Barack Obama, Chapter 4 Dreams from My Father. Obama, Chapter Four   (20 pages—long read, get started early)

·      We will study how writers create opening scenes.

·      We will do a dramatic reading of Obama’s opening scene in cafeteria.

·      We will study the scene of Obama and grandparents argument to see how to create a scene with dialogue.

·      We are reading Obama’s education narrative at the same time as working on your own education narrative in order to make writerly points more clear to you.

·      RLW look at scene development, dialogue, scene building, timeline.  SHOW don’t tell!

Writing Workshop: Develop your HW 3, 4, or 5 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)

DUE Friday 2/23: Open Lab HW #5 Between Two Worlds.

DUE Saturday 2/24:  Comment on two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.

START DEVELOPING EDUCATION NARRATIVE from HW 3, 4, or 5.  YOUR CHOICE BUT CHOOSE ONLY ONE.

M 2/26

W 2/28

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)

DUE Tuesday 2/27 by midnight Unit One Rough Draft Due before class (in Google drive Rough Draft folder in Unit One)

For Wednesday:

·      Peer Review

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

DUE by Friday 2/28 in the Google Drive: TWO Rough Draft (RD) peer reviews from your Group

MARCH

M 3/4

W 3/6

Introduce Unit Two Major Assignment: Reflective Annotative Bibliography (RAB) Project

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.

Wednesday:  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 3/8: OLab HW 1 RAB PROPOSAL and 3 possible sources. 

DUE Saturday 3/9:  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 3/11

W 3/13

For practice on summary writing, we are all reading the practice article, “Schools are Killing Curiosity.”  This week I am guiding you all on writing a complete Source Entry on this article (Remember the five parts of the Source Entry are MLA Citation, Summary, Reflection, Rhetorical Analysis, and Notable Quotables).

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

DUE Tuesday 3/12:  OLab HW 3 on practice article “Schools Killing Curiosity”:

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

·      Part 2 SUMMARY

DUE Friday 3/15: OLab HW 4 on practice article – You have now written a complete practice RAB Source Entry (all five parts) on “Schools are Killing Curiosity.”

·      Part 3 REFLECTION

·      Part 4 RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

·      Part 5 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:

·      Spit on Yelled at Attacked Chinese Americans Fear for Safety news article by Tavernise and Oppel

·      Andrew Yang op-ed Washington Post:  We Are Not The Virus.

M 3/18

W 3/20

Work on your RAB Source Entry 1

DUE Friday 3/22   OLab HW 5:  Complete RAB Source 1

M 3/25

W 3/27

Work on RAB Source Entry 2

DUE Friday 3/29   OLab HW 6:  Complete RAB Source 2

APRIL

M 4/1

W 4/4

Work on RAB Source Entry 3

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

DUE Friday 4/6   OLab HW 7:  Complete RAB Source 3

HOW TO WRITE THE RAB CONCLUSION

Your RAB is done!

DUE 4/7 Sunday UNIT TWO RAB Complete — Post to BB and Google Drive.

M 4/8

W 4/10

Study and explore the Assignment

M 4/15

W 4/17

W 4/24

M 4/19

SPRING BREAK

MAY

W 5/1

M 5/6

W 5/8

M 5/13

W 5/15

Final Portfolio is Due