If we were meeting in person, we would meet for 4 hours per week, and then you would 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; 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.
Our class is “synchronous,” which means that we do have a scheduled meeting time (from the Greek Syn=together and Kronos=time). We will meet together at the beginning of the period at 8:00AM — please come 5 minutes early if you can at 7:55. This way we can check in before class and ensure that we start on time! Each week I will also hold office hours M/W from 11:45 to 12:45PM. During our class time we will discuss the class readings and assignments and practice writing in workshop mode. We will also be on our Open Lab class site, reading and responding to texts and each other’s HW posts. You will submit your formal writing assignments to me on the Blackboard site.
Weekly schedule: class meeting Monday and Wednesday 8:00 to 9:40 AM.
Schedule (This is tentative. We will likely adjust as we go along.)
| WEEK ONE
M 1/31
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W 2/2
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Orientation and Introduction: Our Open Lab Site
· Introductions to Professor and Course; Complete technology survey · 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 For HW please review on your own all of the above.
Introductions in small groups – in-class start on HW Post #1 Introductions “(Un) LEARNING My Name” by Mohamed Hassan on YouTube https://www.mohamed-hamad.com/mohamed-hassan-unlearning-my-name-spoken-word/ Teacher Vuong on student names HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR – YEAR OF THE TIGER 2022 DUE Wednesday BEFORE class: Complete Open Lab HW Post #1 (Introductions) Two full paragraphs introducing yourself; include a visual element; THEN ALSO one paragraph responding to TWO classmates’ introduction posts Register for your free CUNY New York Times account
Unit One: Educational Narratives and Resilience For Wed’s class: Read Caroline Hellman, “In Defense of the Classroom” (2020) Read and Print Out and Annotate. Prepare in your real physical notebook: What are some of the main ideas (MI) in Prof. Hellman’s article? How do we build community as an online class? In your real physical notebook. Start Vocab List — Look up unfamiliar words! What genre? Demonstrate RLW and Rhetorical Analysis
AND also for Wed’s class: Read Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read” as an example of resilience. Find in our Open Lab site under Readings
We have done a lot so in these two days — so — please get caught up over the weekend for a strong start to the semester! DUE Friday 2/4 by 6pm Complete Open Lab HW Post #2 (F. Douglass Pre-Reading Study Questions) |
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WEEK TWO
M 2/7 W 2/9
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Introduce Unit One Major Assignment, Educational Narrative
For Monday’s class (cont) Re-read Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read” as an example of resilience. Find in our Open Lab site under Readings · Printout, Read, and Annotate in physical notebook. Vocab Work: Look up unfamiliar words.
Due Wednesday 2/9 BEFORE class: Complete Open Lab HW Post #3 (“Resilience”) Two full paragraphs. Respond to two other students’ posts, one paragraph each.
DUE Wednesday. We will discuss: Read Malcolm X, Laurence Fishbourne and the Theater of Your Mind (NYT interview)
And preview Malcolm X’s Chapter 11 of Autobiography of Malcolm X).
· Ch11 Saved beginning paragraphs · “Prison Studies: or Saved” ( Find both in Open Lab course site under Readings
Due Saturday 2/12 by 12 noon: HW #4 MX Reading Response Qs. |
| WEEK THREE
M 2/14
W 2/16 |
FOR Monday Read Malcolm X’s Chapter 11 of Autobiography of Malcolm X).
· Ch11 Saved beginning paragraphs · “Prison Studies: or Saved” ( Find both in Open Lab course site under Readings · Reading strategies: annotating (continued); summarizing and responding; identifying structural elements of writing and different genres
IN-CLASS activity brainstorm in break out room / Prepare for Writing Response with Quotation. Due Wed. 2/16: Complete Open Lab HW #5 Mentor Quote.
Extra Credit for attending: Friday, Feb 18, 7 pm, Black History Month speaker Professor Renata Ferdinand, An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood: Things I Tell My Daughter, |
| WEEK FOUR
M noclass W 2/23
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Wednesday 2/23 José Olivarez, · “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing” · “Mexican American Disambiguation” (2018) Find both in Open Lab course site under Readings Watch Oliveraz video. · Notice repetition, rhythm, delivery. · What does he mean when he uses the words “diverse” “Mexican” “American” “college brochure”? DUE Sat 2/26: Complete Open Lab HW #6 Between Two Worlds Read Colin Powell: “My American Journey” Find in Open Lab course site under Readings (starts on page 90) · In your notebook: Block off 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).
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| WEEK FIVE
M 2/28 W 3/2 |
MONDAY Discuss: Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” Find in Open Lab course site under Readings
In your notebook: · Consider (1) the term “mother tongue” (2) the different Englishes Amy Tan speaks (3) how her mother is viewed by Americans based on her spoken English. · Listen to audiobook narrator Nancy Wu (very famous person I am related to!)
We will listen to audiobook narrator Nancy Wu (very famous person I am related to!)
WEDNESDAY Writing Workshop: How To Develop your HW 5 or 6 into a Rough Draft DUE Saturday 3/5: Unit One Rough Draft Due before class (in Google drive folder for Unit One)
Read: Esmeralda Santiago: “When I was Puerto Rican.” Find in Open Lab course site under Readings (starts on page 101) · In your notebook: Block off 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).
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| WEEK
SIX
M 3/7 W 3/9
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MONDAY Peer Review: Each student to do TWO peer reviews in the Group
ALSO Writing Workshop Demonstration using Student Pprs and Review · Peer Review Sheet · Writing Strategies · The Assignment
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)
WEDNESDAY Another Day of Peer Review in Breakout Room Groups — AND –Workshop Student Pprs
DUE Saturday 3/12 Unit One Project: Final Draft due to Google Drive AND to Bboard. |
| WEEK SEVEN
M 3/14 W 3/16 |
Review Proofreading vs REVISION
Barack Obama, Chapter 4, Dreams from My Father. Find in Open Lab course site under Readings. RLW look at scene development, dialogue, scene building timeline. MONDAY preview with dramatic reading of opening scene in cafeteria
DUE HW#7 Obama Wed before class 3/16
WEDNESDAY Discuss Chapter 4 Obama |
| WEEK EIGHT
M 3/21
W 3/23 |
Poetry Layli Long Soldier
Introduce Unit Two Project Prof Berger and Prof Muchowski: guest presentation on Library and Research Research Question on CV Creating a proposal paragraph
Literary Arts Festival Thursday 4:30 to 6:30 featuring Poet: Layli Long Soldier Extra-Credit opportunity
A Talk to Teachers, James Baldwin. Find in Open Lab under Readings.
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| WEEK NINE
M 3/28
W 3/30 |
RAB Step One: Writing The Proposal Paragraph. Use the Template/Paragraph Starter. Google Search NYT articles. Refine Research Question.
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| WEEK TEN
M 4/4
W 4/6
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Demonstrate Citation and Summary writing for Andrew Yang op-ed Washington Post: We Are Not The Virus.
RAB Step Two: · Part 1 MLA CITATION · Part 2 SUMMARY DUE RAB Source Entry (MLA Citation and SUMM) Wednesday 11/2 noon.
RAB Step Three: · Part 3A/3B REFLECTION/RHETORICAL AND GENRE ANALYSIS · Part 4 NOTABLE QUOTABLES DUE RAB Source Entry#1 (complete) Saturday 12noon 11/6: |
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Week 11
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Share multi-media Sources: video, podcast, op-doc, TEDtalk, video news clip
DUE RAB Source Entry #2 (multimedia genre) Parts 1 and 2 due Wednesday 11/10
DUE RAB Source Entry #2 (complete) Due Friday 11/12 at 12noon.
Find your interviewee for RAB Source Entry #3 Personal Interview. Prepare for the interview with talking points and questions. |
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Week 12
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Look at student examples on Open Lab of Interview.
Due Wednesday RAB Source Entry 3 Personal Interview
Due Friday THE CONCLUSION for the entire RAB.
Your RAB is done!
DUE UNIT TWO RAB — Post to BB and Google Drive by 11/20 Saturday 12 noon |
| Week 13
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Introduce Unit 3 Assignment: Genre Project
Study and explore the Unit 3 Assignment
Analyze Mentor Texts
HW1 Due Wednesday 11/24 Podcast Analysis HW2 Due Saturday 11/27 Project Proposal HW3 Due Monday 11/29 12noon Photo Essay Analysis — Assign Love and Black Lives
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Week 14
- Unit 3 Class Presentations continued
- Revision workshop
Week 15
- Unit 3 Class Presentations continued
- Writing Celebration
- Portfolio Due and Reflection
