Course Schedule

Faculty: Below is a streamlined schedule ; it will allow you to see the full semester. It does not include the detailed prompts you will need to complete weekly assignments. I will provided weekly assignments on this course site, in the Weekly Class Agendas tab.

WRITING: Online Discussion Post

Write your own response to the following questions, and then submit it in the discussion board:

What community do you think Audre Lorde belongs to?

• In her written speech and then her oral presentation separately, who do you think she’s speaking to? Who is her audience in each?
• What’s the purpose of each speech? What does she want her audience to think or do?
• Define the word “genre” in your own words. Why is the speech genre appropriate for her message in each? Do you think a better genre exists to communicate what she hopes to communicate? Why?

Week 2

Wednesday 2/9

READING & WATCHING:

• Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”
• Lisa Beasley, “What is Code Switching?”

WRITING: Thinking About Community

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Week 3

Monday, 2/14  (asynchronous session)

READING:

• John Swales, “Reflections on the Concept of Discourse Community”
• Assignment guidelines for “Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community” (email or speak with me if you have any questions about these guidelines)

RESOURCES:

• Carrie Hall, “Discourse Communities”
• Butte College, “Double-Entry Reading Journals”

WRITING: Introduction to Discourse Communities 

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Wednesday, 2/16

Group Activity

READING:

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

WRITING: Responding to Wollstonecraft

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

RESOURCES:

• Purdue OWL “Effective Persuasion Presentation”

WRITING: Brainstorming Discourse Communities and Research

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 4

Monday, 2/21 

• College closed
• You will have until this deadline to turn in Wollstonecraft

Wednesday, 2/23  (in-person session at City Tech)

READING & LISTENING:

• Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 
• Listen to “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
  • Note: there are different versions of this text’s title

RESOURCE:

• Washoe School District, “The Quote Sandwich”

WRITING: Responding to Douglass

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 5

Monday, 2 28  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

READING & WATCHING: 

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (A.O.C), “I am Someone’s Daughter too”

WRITING: Pick a Model & Organize Your Ideas

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 3/2  (in-person session at City Tech)

RESOURCE:

• Washoe School District, “The Quote Sandwich” 
• Purdue OWL “MLA Style Introduction”

WRITING: Drafting

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 6

Monday, 3/7(asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Drafting

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 3/9  (in-person session at City Tech)

• SUBMIT Unit 1 (Investigating a Discourse Community)
• A short reflection will be due with your Unit 1 assignment. Directions will be posted on our class site.

READING:

• Assignment guidelines for Unit 2: Opinion Essay/Op-Ed
• John McWhorter, “Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People”

RESOURCE:

• Purdue OWL, “Argumentative Essays”

WRITING: Introducing the Argument & Persuasion Project: Writing an Op-Ed

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 7

Monday, 3/14  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

READING:

• Read Sophocles, Antigone (lines 1-625, pp.1-21)

(Note: if your class meets synchronously, consider devoting class time to reading sections of the script out loud.)

WRITING: Antigone Day 1

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 3/16  (in-person session at City Tech)

READING:

• Sophocles, Antigone (lines 626, pp. 22-45)                

RESOURCES:

• The City Tech Library’s Guide to Developing a Research Question

WRITING: Antigone Day 2

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 8

Monday, 3/21  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Preliminary Research and Picking a Topic for your Op-Ed

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 3/23  (in-person session at City Tech)

WATCHING:

• Watch video: PBS’s Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson

WRITING: Antigone Day 3

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 9

Monday, 3/28  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

RESOURCES:

• The City Tech Library’s “Citation and Formatting Guide.”
• Purdue OWL, “MLA Sample Works Cited Page”

WRITING: Research Prep (this is for you, no posting necessary)

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 3/30  (in-person session at City Tech)

READING:

• Frank Bruni, “The End of College as We Knew It”

RESOURCE:

• Texas A&M University Writing Center, “Ethos, Pathos & Logos”
• Purdue OWL’s “Handout: Quoting Others”
• Washoe School District, “The Quote Sandwich”

WRITING: Looking at the Op-Ed Genre and Thinking about Argument

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 10

Monday, 4/4  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• The Op-ed Project, “Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks”

RESOURCES:

• Purdue OWL, “Developing Strong Thesis Statements”
• Purdue OWL, “Thesis Statements”

WRITING: Thinking about Thesis and Structure

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 4/6  (in-person session at City Tech)

READING:

• Harvard Kennedy School Communications Program, “How to Write an OP-ED or Column” 

WRITING: Drafting & Conferencing

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 11

Monday, 4/11  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Drafting — Finalizing the Op-Ed

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 4/13  (in-person session at City Tech)

• SUBMIT Unit 2: Op-Ed Piece
• A short reflection will be due with your Unit 2 assignment. Directions will be posted on our class site.

READING:

• Read the assignment guidelines for Unit 3: Multimodal Project.
• Read and review student samples of the Multimodal Project

RESOURCES:

• “Ms. Alexis’ Classroom,” Multimodal Texts
• Amy Holly, ENG121: Strategies for Composing Multimodal Texts 

WRITING: Introducing the Multimodal Project

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 12

Monday, 4/18  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• No work assigned, Spring Recess

Wednesday, 4/20  (in-person session at City Tech)

• No class, Spring Recess

Week 13

Monday, 4/25  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

READING:

• Chelsea Harrison, “College Students and Social Media.”
• Annie Correal, “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street”

WRITING: Looking at Multimodal Texts and Analyzing Samples

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 4/27  (in-person session at City Tech)

WRITING: Drafting

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 14

Monday, 5/2  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Drafting

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 5/4  (in-person session at City Tech)

• SUBMIT UNIT 3: Multimodal Project

READING:

• Read through all your work so far this semester and the comments you received. 
• Read through the assignment guidelines for the “Final Reflection and Portfolio.”
• Look over your work from this semester (all small and large assignments).

WRITING: Thinking about Revisions

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 15

Monday, 5/9  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Reflecting and Building the Portfolio

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 5/11  (in-person session at City Tech)

WRITING: Drafting

• In-class activities and writing will occur during our in-person class session.

Week 16

Monday, 5/16  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

WRITING: Drafting

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

Wednesday, 5/18  (in-person session at City Tech)

• SUBMIT Final Reflection and Portfolio Assignment

Week 17

Monday, 5/23  (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)

• See weekly agenda on our OpenLab class site for activities and assignments

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