Weekly Schedule

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 9:55. 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 after class from 11:45 to 12:45 PM.  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 10:00 to 11:40 AM.

 

Schedule (This is tentative.  We will likely adjust as we go along.)

 

 

WEEK ONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

M 1/31

 

and

 

W 2/2

 

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)

 

WEEK TWO

 

 

 

M 2/7

W 2/9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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).

 

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).

 

 

WEEK

SIX

 

M 3/7

W 3/9

 

 

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.

 

 

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. 

 


DUE RAB PROPOSAL 10/27 (extended to Friday 10/29) and 3 possible sources.  Choose one and printout/read/annotate bring to class to work on Step Two

 

WEEK TEN

 

 

M 4/4

 

 

 

 

 

W 4/6

 

 

 

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: 

 

 

 

Week 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Week 12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Week 14

  • Unit 3 Class Presentations continued
  • Revision workshop

 

Week 15

  • Unit 3 Class Presentations continued
  • Writing Celebration
  • Portfolio Due and Reflection