Weekly Schedule

Mon/Wed Class: Attend Class on Zoom from 2:30-3:45 (attendance required)

Tuesday Class: Attend Class on Zoom 6:00-8:30  (attendance required)

Friday: Class Open Lab post due by 12 pm (so I can respond before we move on)

 

City Tech Spring 2021 Academic Calendar (including withdrawal deadlines)  

***Note: Classes begin Friday 1/29

Week 1: Monday, 2/1 – Friday, 2/5

Monday, 2/1  Welcome and Introduction; Caroline Hellman  “In Defense of the Classroom” (2020)
Wednesday, 2/3 William Zinsser “On Writing Well” (pgs. 1-28) On Writing Well – Bryn Mawr College ( PDFDrive )

 

UNIT #1  WHY THEY WRITE

Week 2: Monday, 2/ 8 – Friday, 2/12 (Friday 2/12, College is Closed)

Monday, 2/8  Barack Obama Vanity Fair Interview on new book

Wednesday, 2/10 Barack Obama, A Promised Land (excerpt); LONGER VERSION PromisedLand

·       What are President Obama’s main ideas, and what are the corresponding examples he uses to illustrate them? Choose 1 particular example to expand on in your response. What are some details that he includes to support his point?

·        What does President Obama articulate is the goal of his writing? Do you think he achieves this goal in the excerpt? Why/why not?

Week 3: Monday, 2/15 – Friday, 2/19 (Monday 2/15, College is Closed)

Monday, 2/15: College is closed, no classes
Wednesday, 2/17  Frederick Douglass “Narrative of American Slave” (4-19) from  Why They Write (1)

Week 4: Monday, 2/22 – Friday, 2/26

Monday, 2/22  George Orwell “Why I Write” (20-37) from Why We Write
Wednesday, 2/24  Joan Didion “Why I Write” (38-53)

Week 5: Monday, 3/1 – Friday, 3/

Monday, 3/1 Aaron Barlow “Why I Write” (70-77) from Why We Write

Wednesday, 3/3 Read: Elements of Style StrunkWhite;  Unit #1 Assignment

 

UNIT #2  WRITING ARGUMENTS

Week 6: Monday, 3/8 – Friday, 3/12
Monday, 3/8  Virginia Woolf  “A Room of My Own”
Wednesday, 3/10  Alicia Gupta “Jill Biden is a Teacher”; Alexis Okeowo,  “Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris on the Road Ahead”

Week 7: Monday, 3/15 – Friday, 3/19

Monday, 3/15 Martin Luther King, Jr.   Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Wednesday, 3/17  “Words of MLK”

Week 8: Monday, 3/22 – Friday, 3/26

Monday, 3/22  James Baldwin “Letter to My Nephew”

Wednesday, 3/24  Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro (Baldwin documentary)

Week 9: Monday, 3/29 – Friday, 4/2 (Spring Recess, no classes this week)

Monday, 3/29: Spring Recess, no classes
Wednesday, 3/31: Spring Recess, no classes

Week 10: Monday, 4/5 – Friday, 4/9

Monday, 4/5  Unit #2 Assignment
Wednesday, 4/7

 

UNIT #3  WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet:

Final Project with Annotated Bibliography

Week 11: Monday, 4/12 – Friday, 4/16

Monday, 4/12 Introduction to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet  HamletWebsite
Wednesday, 4/14  Act I

Week 12: Monday, 4/19 – Friday, 4/23

Monday, 4/19   Act II-III
Wednesday, 4/21

Week 13: Monday, 4/26 – Friday, 4/30

Monday, 4/26  Act IV-V
Wednesday, 4/28

Week 14: Monday, 5/3 – Friday, 5/7

Monday, 5/3   Find Articles on Hamlet
Wednesday, 5/5 Find Articles on Hamlet

Week 15: Monday, 5/10 – Friday, 5/14

Monday, 5/10  Critical Response to Hamlet
Wednesday, 5/12

Week 16: Monday, 5/17 – Friday, 5/21 (Tuesday 5/18, Reading Day; Wednesday 5/19, Finals Begin)

Monday, 5/17  Reflection
Wednesday, 5/19

Week 17: Monday, 5/24 – Tuesday, 5/25 (Tuesday 5/25, Finals End)

Monday, 5/24 Final Portfolio Due

 

 

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