Below is a week-by-week schedule of the content we will cover this semester. Please note the following details:

  • This class is entirely online and asynchronous, which means there is no specific time in the week that we will meet. I’ve noted when there are days we would have off if we were in a physical classroom for holidays or the schedule has been altered by the college. Due dates have been adjusted to reflect those days off.
  • There are deadlines throughout each week, marked in red. Most of the deadlines are on Mondays and Wednesdays, with a few exceptions. Some assignment deadlines are small (posts on the Discussion Board), some are large (major writing assignments). All of them count toward your final grade!
  • This schedule is a living document, which means it may change. I will let you know as soon as possible if I make any alterations to assignments or due dates. Be sure to check your email and/or OpenLab on a daily basis.

 

Week 1: Wednesday, 8/26 – Friday, 8/28

Introduction: Course Overview & Tips for Being an Online Student

By end-of-day Friday, 8/28, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Go to OpenLab class site: if you encounter problems, please email me at citytech1@gmail.com.
  • Take a tour of OpenLab. Be sure to read the introduction to course, look over the syllabus, and open and review all course tabs/sections.
  • “Tips for Online Learning Success” 
  • “Online Discussions: Tips for Students”
  • Go here and sign up for your free subscription to The New York Times. 

WRITE: 

Micro-Activity #1: Introductions  

  • Write in response to prompts in Week 1 Agenda about writing, reading, and being an online learner.

 

Week 2: Monday, 8/31- Friday, 9/4

Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community 

By end-of-day Monday, 8/31, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE: 

Micro-Activity #2: Introduction to Discourse Communities 

  • Complete double-entry journal for Swales reading (see Week 2 Agenda for details).
  • Begin to brainstorm discourse communities for Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community
  • Respond to at least two classmates’ posts about writing, reading, and being online students

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/2, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Respond to Discussion Question regarding Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community
  • Respond to Discussion Question on Geeta Kothari and discourse community

Micro-Activity #3: Brainstorming Discourse Communities

  • Brainstorm issues related to a discourse community of your choice for Unit 1.
  • Begin researching your discourse community issue.

Week 3: Monday, 9/7 – Friday, 9/11 (Monday: Labor Day–no classes) 

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/9, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Respond to peers’ posts on their discourse community issue.

Micro-Activity #4: Responding to Douglass

  • Pick quotations and write in response to Douglass.
  • Analyze Douglass’ writing strategies 

Week 4: Monday, 9/14 – Friday, 9/18 (Friday–no classes)

By end-of-day Monday, 9/14, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE:

Micro-Activity #5: Google Doc “Analyzing Douglass”

  • Participate in group work close reading Douglass.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/16, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Mary Wollstonecraft “Dedicatory Letter” to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

WRITE:

Quick Comment

  • Revisit group work responding to Douglass and engage with your peers’ ideas. 

Micro-Activity #6: Responding to Wollstonecraft

  • Write in response to prompts about Wollstonecraft’s discourse community and writing strategies.

Week 5: Monday, 9/21 – Friday, 9/25  

By end-of-day Monday, 9/21, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ: 

  • Reread Douglass’s speech and Wollstonecraft’s letter, and decide which one you want to use as a model.

WRITE: 

Micro-Activity #7: Pick a Model & Organize Your Ideas

  • Begin drafting Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community assignment

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/23, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Review your research on your discourse community issue. 
  • Watch and/or read Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (A.O.C’s) speech responding to Rep. Ted Yoho. You can watch and read here.

WRITE:

Quick Comment

  • Respond to Discussion Question on O.C’s speech.

Drafting

  • Work on your draft of Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community.
  • Email your draft of Unit 1 to your Peer Review Partner by Friday, 9/25.
  • Complete the Peer Review Sheet for your Peer Review Partner’s Unit 1 assignment by Sunday, 9/27. Email the sheet to me and your partner!
    • When you’ve received your Peer Review Sheet from your partner, be sure to review it and work on finishing/improving your Unit 1 assignment.

Week 6: Monday, 9/28 – Friday, 10/2 (No classes Monday; Tuesday is a Monday schedule)

Unit 2: Inquiry-Based Research (Annotated Bibliography)

By end-of-day Tuesday, 9/29, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

  • Unit 1 Assignment: Discourse Communities Due (submit to OpenLab)

Micro-Activity #8: Reflection on Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community

  • Write a reflection on the process of writing your speech or letter.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/30, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE:

Quick Comment

  • Respond to Discussion Question on Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography assignment

Micro-Activity #9: Analyzing the Declaration of Independence

  • Write in response to prompts about the Declaration of Independence.
  • Connect the Declaration of Independence to concerns, issues, or problems in American society today, and explain your choice (or choices).

Week 7: Monday, 10/5 – Friday, 10/9

By end-of-day Monday, 10/5, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ: 

WRITE:

Micro-Activity #10: Brainstorming Research Topics

  • Begin to brainstorm issues that you feel passionately about to help you get started on the Unit 2 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography. 

By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/7, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ: 

WRITE: 

Micro-Activity #11: Developing Research Questions

  • Pick an issue for you annotated bibliography and begin to develop research questions.

Week 8: Monday, 10/12 – Friday, 10/16 (No classes Monday; Wednesday is a Monday schedule)

By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/14, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Review the four questions you developed about your topic (and posted last class).
  • Review any comments I may have provided regarding your questions.

WRITE: 

Micro-Activity #12: Researching 

  • Finalize your research question.
  • Complete the library tutorial.
  • Begin to locate sources for your Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography assignment.

Week 9: Monday, 10/19 – Friday, 10/23 

By end-of-day Monday, 10/19, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Your source to help you answer your research question.

WRITE: 

Quick Comments

  • Respond to Discussion Question about research and library

Micro-Activity #13: Drafting the Annotations

  • Draft your first annotation for the annotated bibliography.
  • Continue researching and looking for sources.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/21, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Your other sources to help you research your question.

WRITE:

Micro-Activity #14: Continue Drafting the Annotations

  • Draft the next two annotations for the annotated bibliography.
  • Work on the other parts of your annotated bibliography.
  • Email your draft of Unit 2 to your Peer Review Partner by Wednesday, 10/21.
  • Complete the Peer Review Sheet for your Peer Review Partner’s Unit 2 assignment by Friday, 10/23. Email the sheet to me and your partner!
    • When you’ve received your Peer Review Sheet from your partner, be sure to review it and work on finishing/improving your Unit 2 assignment.

 

Week 10: Monday, 10/26 – Friday, 10/30 

Unit 3: Multimodal Project

By end-of-day Monday, 10/26, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

  • Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography Due (submit to OpenLab)

Micro-Activity #15: Reflecting on the Research Process

  • Write a reflection on the research process and what you learned.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/28, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Respond to Discussion Question about the assignment guidelines for Unit 3: Multimodal Project guidelines.

Micro-Activity #16: Looking at Multimodal Texts

  • Write in response to genre and multimodal compositions.

Week 11: Monday, 11/2 – Friday, 11/6

By end-of-day Monday, 11/2, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Review your Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography, and think about the issue you have been researching. Pay special attention to the concluding section of your bibliography as you will be expanding on this section for today’s writing assignment.
  • Read the sample multimodal text: Chelsea Harrison, “College Students and Social Media.”

WRITE:

Quick Comments

Micro-Activity #17: Choosing a Discourse Community

  • Write in response to prompt for helping you choose your audience and genre for Unit 3: Multimodal Project.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 11/4, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Review your research and feel free to do further research as you start to draft Unit 3: Multimodal Project (be sure to document all sources as you go).

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Revisit group work on Harrison and engage with your peers’ ideas.

Micro-Activity #18: Choosing a Mode

  • Write in response to prompt analyzing the genre you have chosen to use for Unit 3.

Week 12: Monday, 11/9 – Friday, 11/13

By end-of-day Monday, 11/9, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

Drafting

  • Work on drafting your Unit 3: Multimodal Project use virtual office hours to check in with me about your project.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 11/11, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

Drafting

  • Work on drafting and use virtual office hours to check in with me about your project.
  • Email your draft of Unit 3 to your Peer Review Partner by Wednesday, 11/11.
  • Complete the Peer Review Sheet for your Peer Review Partner’s Unit 3 assignment by Friday, 11/13. Email the sheet to me and your partner!
    • When you’ve received your Peer Review Sheet from your partner, be sure to review it and work on finishing/improving your Unit 3 assignment.

 

Week 13: Monday, 11/16 – Friday, 11/20

By end-of-day Monday, 11/16, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Respond to Discussion Question about your progress on your Unit 3 assignment. Comment on your progress with UNIT 3: Multimodal Project.

Drafting

  • Continue drafting and check in using virtual office hours.

By end-of-day Wednesday, 11/18, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

  • UNIT 3: Multimodal Project Due (submit to OpenLab) 

Micro-Activity #19: Reflecting on Multimodal Composing

  • Write a reflection on the experience of creating a multimodal project.

Week 14: Monday, 11/23 – Friday, 11/27 (Wednesday follows a Friday schedule; College closed Nov 26-29 (Thursday-Saturday) for Thanksgiving)

Revisions

By end-of-day Monday, 11/23, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Read through all your work so far this semester and the comments you received. 

WRITE:

Micro-Activity #20: Revisions

  • Use this week to revise one Unit Assignment.
  • Write a response explaining what assignment you will revise and why you chose this assignment.

 

Week 15: Monday, 11/30 – Friday, 12/4

Final Reflection and Portfolio

By end-of-day Monday, 11/30, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

READ:

  • Please read through the assignment guidelines for the “Final Reflection and Portfolio.”
  • Look over your work from this semester (all small and large assignments).

WRITE:

Quick Comments

  • Respond to Discussion Question regarding the guidelines for the “Final Reflection and Portfolio.”

Micro-Activity #21: Reflecting and Building the Portfolio

  • Begin to draft your Final Reflection and to build your portfolio. 

By end-of-day Wednesday, 12/2, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE: 

  • Work on drafting your Final Reflection.
  • Email your draft of your Final Reflection to your Peer Review Partner by Wednesday, 12/2.
  • Complete the Peer Review Sheet for your Peer Review Partner’s Final Reflection by Friday, 12/5. Email the sheet to me and your partner!
    • When you’ve received your Peer Review Sheet from your partner, be sure to review it and work on finishing/improving your Final Reflection.

Week 16: Monday, 12/7 – Wednesday, 12/9 (Thursday December 10 and Friday December 11 are Reading Days, no classes meet)

By end-of-day Monday, 12/7, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

  • Continue working on your reflections and portfolios.
  • Attend virtual office hours if you need help with any aspect of the portfolio or reflection

By end-of-day Wednesday, 12/9, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

  • Final Reflection and Portfolio Assignment Due (submit to OpenLab)

Week 17 (Finals Week): Monday, 12/14 – Friday, 12/18

Conclusions

By end-of-day Monday, 12/14, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

WRITE:

Micro-Activity #22: Final Writing Assignment: Letter to a Future Student

  • Reflect on and write about ENG 1121 and your experience this semester.

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