COURSE SCHEDULE: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
Please review our course schedule to stay current on class discussions, course texts, and writing assignments. This schedule is subject to change. Here is the DCCC Academic Calendar.
Here are our formal assignment deadlines for weeks 1-8:
Here are our formal assignment deadlines for weeks 1-8:
- Formal Assignment #1: Digital Portfolio Project due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10 (Week 4).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.17 (Week 5).
- Formal Assignment #2: Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10 (Week 8).
Week 1
- Tuesday, 1.15
- Introduction to course
- Review my website
- Check that you can log into a campus computer and into Delegate. For assistance, review our Information Technology course page.
- Thursday, 1.17
- Q&A about course.
- Process of getting to know each other.
- Check student email for course update.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process:
- Begin working on blog posts #1 and #2. Save your work in a Word or Google document. No work is due next week.
Week 2
- Tuesday, 1.22
- Explore multimodal writing and website design.
- Weebly workshop. Click this link for Weebly resources.
- Work on your Weebly websites at home.
- Thursday, 1.24
- Explore multimodal assessment.
- Weebly workshop.
- Work on blog posts #1 and #2.
- Work on Weebly websites at home.
- Select a personal physical object that evokes emotion in you and bring to class on Tuesday, 1.29.
- Weekly Readings
- All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton)
- It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners)
- Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University)
- Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Weekly Writing Process:
- Blog posts #1 and #2 are due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 1.27.
- Create website content: author-identity theme, home page, about page, narrative project page, research project page, contact page, blog page. Click here for the digital portfolio web design assignment sheet.
Week 3
- Tuesday, 1.29
- In-class commenting on classmate blog posts.
- Explore narrative writing and emotion.
- Explore writing process using a personal physical object that evokes emotion.
- Thursday, 1.31
- Explore creative nonfiction.
- Explore how to compose a scene.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #3 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.3.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.3.
Week 4
- Tuesday, 2.5
- In-class drawing of a scene from My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
- Explore literary analysis: context, text, and subtext.
- Explore literary devices: literary conflict, themes, motifs, and symbols.
- Thursday, 2.7
- In-class performance of Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway).
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #1 Deadline: Digital Portfolio Project (website content for author-identity theme, home page, about page, narrative project page, research project page, contact page, blog page) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10.**
- Blog post #4 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.10.
Week 5
- Tuesday, 2.12
- In-class retrieval via re-genre for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- In-class writing session: memoir draft #1.
- Thursday, 2.14 (No Class: Faculty Professional Development)
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #2 Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #1) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.17.**
- Blog post #5 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.17.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Monday, 2.17.
Week 6
- Tuesday, 2.19
- In-class writing workshop: present your narrative project to class.
- Thursday, 2.21
- In-class writing workshop: present your narrative project to class.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #6 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.24
- Comment on three classmate blog posts and three blog posts in another ENG 100 section (6 total) by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 2.24.
Week 7
- Tuesday, 2.26
- In-class writing session: Draft #2 of memoir.
- Thursday, 2.28
- In-class game show.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #7 is due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.3.
- Comment on three classmate blog posts by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.3
Week 8
- Tuesday, 3.5
- No class today.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317.
- Thursday, 3.7
- No class today.
- Midterm conferences in my office: 4317
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- **Formal Assignment #2 Narrative Project (Web Page and Memoir Draft #2) due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10.**
- Blog post #8 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 3.10.
Week 9: Spring Break: 3.11 - 3.17
- Enjoy your break!
Week 10
- Tuesday, 3.19
- Explore process for revising draft #1 of narrative project.
- Group exploration of Plato's Cave.
- Thursday, 3.21
- In-class explorations of being present in life narratives and the power of counterfactuals.
- In-class workshop: revise draft #1 of narrative project.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- What is Fan Fiction -- and why is it making people nervous?
- Towards a Definition of Fanfiction
- The Cave: An Adaption of Plato's Allegory in Clay
- Plato's Divided Line
- What It's Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom (Michael Pollan)
- Rewinding and Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Head (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- Looking Back: Reflecting On The Past To Understand The Present (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- Weekly Writing Process
- Draft #2 of narrative project is due on your assignment web page by 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.29.
- Blog post #9 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 10.29.
Week 11
- Tuesday, 3.26
- Narrative project packet submission (stapled together in this order: draft #2, draft #1, completed assignment sheet). This submission is optional: only if you want my handwritten feedback.
- Explore research project: rhetorical situation and "three good things" writing process.
- Thursday, 3.28
- Explore assignment sheet.
- Explore positive psychology.
- Explore "three good things" sources.
- Small group discussions and research.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- What is Rhetoric?
- Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation (Purdue OWL)
- What is Positive Pyschology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program)
- Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions (Martin E.P. Seligman et al.)
- Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley's Project Home Page)
- Three Good Things (Greater Good in Action)
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog post #10 is due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.5.
- Comment on blog post #10 for each member in your research group by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.5.
Week 12
- Tuesday, 4.2
- In-class writer's workshop: create content for research project web page. Click here for the student website project requirements.
- Explore the research process (which is part of the genre): research question | collecting data | evaluating sources.
- Thursday, 4.4
- Connect the research process with the research product (both part of the genre): MLA style conventions | integrating source materials into your text.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Writing Process
- Blog post #11 due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.12.
- Comment on blog post #11 for each member in your research group by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.12.
- Rolling deadline for narrative project.
Week 13
- Tuesday, 4.9
- In-class writer's workshop: composing the introduction section and literature review section for your research project.
- Thursday, 4.11
- In-class writer's workshop: composing the research findings section for your research project.
- In-class game show.
- Weekly Readings/Texts
- Weekly Writing Process
- Draft #1 of research project is due on your assignment web page by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.19.
- Blog post #12 due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.19.
- Comment on blog post #12 for each member in your research group by 11:59 pm on Monday, 11.19.
- Rolling deadline for narrative project.
Week 14
- Tuesday, 4.16
- Research project packet submission (stapled together in this order: draft #1, completed assignment sheet). This submission is optional: only if you want my handwritten feedback.
- In-class presentations of research project findings.
- Thursday, 4.18 (No Class. Holiday break.)
- Weekly Writing Process
- No writing assignments are due. Enjoy the holiday break.
Week 15
- Tuesday, 4.23
- In-class presentations of research project findings.
- Thursday, 4.25
- In-class presentations of research project findings.
- In-class game show.
- Weekly Writing Process
- Blog posts #13 and #14 are due at 11:59 pm on Monday, 12.3. *Optional assignments.
- Comment on blog post #13 and #14 for each member in your research group by 11:59 pm on Monday, 12.3. *Optional
- Rolling deadline for narrative and research projects ends on Tuesday, 12.4.
Week 16
- Tuesday, 4.30
- In-class writing workshop. Informal conferences on narrative and research projects.
- Thursday, 5.2
- In-class writing workshop. Informal conferences on narrative and research projects.
- Weekly Writing Process
- Final Portfolio is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.09
- Blog post #15 is due at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 12.09. Final blog assignment for the semester.
- Comment on blog post #15 for each member in your research group by 11:59 pm on Monday, 12.10.
Week 17: Finals Week: 5.7 -5.13
- Student-Teacher Conferences (Schedule TBD).