How to read this schedule:

Class:   [these are things we will do in the class session of the day]
Study:  [these are  things you need to study (critically read, watch, play, listen to) before the class session of the day]
Due:      [these are things that are due in class or via email that day]

Week 1

• Wed, 9/5
  • Class: Introductions, discussion of education [PDF, slides]
  • Watch: Sir Ken Robinson, RSA Animate: “Changing Education Paradigms”
  • Homework: Syllabus, Standard Manuscript Format, Exercise #1: Personal Narrative

Week 2

• Mon, 9/10
  • Class: Syllabus questions, seminar discussion, narrative essay introduction
  • Study: A.N. Whitehead, “Aims of Education” (14pgs) & Dan Meyer, TED Talk: “Math Curriculum Makeover” (12m)
  • Due: Exercise #1: Personal Narrative
• Wed, 9/12
  • Class: Library Visit: Information Literacy
  • Study: First Year Library Survival Guide & Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, “Shitty First Drafts” (7pgs)

Week 3

• Mon, 9/17
  • Class: Rhetorical awareness, strategy; seminar discussion
  • Study: Ursula K. Le Guin, Language of the Night, “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?”
• Wed, 9/19
  • Class: Peer review: audience, seminar discussion
  • Study: David Foster Wallace, “This is Water” & Cornel West, “Lives Worth Living”
  • Due: Narrative Essay (discovery draft)

Week 4

• Mon, 9/24
  • Class: Workshop: revising
  • Study: Peter Elbow, Writing with Power (excerpts on Audience)
• Wed, 9/26
  • Class: Peer review: audience, voice [PDF, slides]
  • Study: Peter Elbow, Writing with Power (excerpts on Voice)
  • Due: Narrative Essay (working draft)

Week 5

• Mon, 10/1 –  Wed 10/3
  • 1-on-1 CONFERENCES (see signup times here)
  • Due: Narrative Essay (polished draft)

Week 6

• Mon, 10/8
  • Class: Analysis and interpretation; Analytical Essay introduction; seminar discussion [PDF, slides]
  • Study: Marianne Moore, “Poetry” / “The Student” / “A Graveyard”
    Rosenwasser, Writing Analytically, “The Analytical Frame of Mind” (excerpts)
• Wed, 10/10
  • Class: Workshop: analysis; seminar discussion [PDF, slides]
  • Study: Wallace Stevens, “Snow Man” / “Idea of Order at Key West”
    “Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself”

Week 7

• Mon, 10/15
  • Class: Intertextuality, integrating quotations, MLA citation; seminar discussion [PDF, slides]
  • Study: Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” /  “I, Too” / “Harlem”
• Wed, 10/17
  • Class: Workshop: media analysis; seminar discussion
  • Study: Childish Gambino, “This is America” (video) [lyrics PDF]
  • Due: Exercise #2: Close Analysis

Week 8

• Mon, 10/22
  • Class: Workshop: comparative analysis; seminar discussion
  • Study: The Knife, Shaking the Habitual, “Full of Fire” (video)
• Wed, 10/24
  • Class: Peer review: integrating quotations
  • Due: Analytical Essay (discovery draft)

Week 9

• Mon, 10/29
  • Class: Peer review: analysis
  • Study: Marshall McLuhan, “McLuhan’s Wake” (video)
    [password: aestheticeducation]
• Wed, 10/31
  • Class: Continuity, critical moves; seminar discussion
  • Study: Marshall McLuhan, Medium is the Massage
• Fri, 11/2
  • Due: Analytical Essay (working draft) by midnight

Week 10

• Mon, 11/5
  • Class: Argument, critical moves/strategy; seminar discussion
  • Study: Rosenwasser, Writing Analytically, “Reasoning from Evidence to Claims”
    Astra Taylor, “Democratic Culture: A Contradiction in Terms?” (video)
• Wed, 11/7
  • Class: Argument, thesis statements; seminar discussion
  • Study: Rosenwasser, Writing Analytically, “Reasoning from Evidence to Claims”
    Sherry Turkle, Alone Together (videos/texts)

Week 11

• Monday, 11/12
  • HOLIDAY: NO CLASS
• Tuesday, 11/13
  • Due: Analytical Essay (polished draft)
• Wed, 11/14
  • Class: Writing Center Day
  • Study: Jaron Lanier, “High Tech Peace Will Require a New Kind of Humanism”
    “Who Owns the Future” (video)

Week 12

• Mon, 11/19
  • Class: Research, sources; seminar discussion
  • Study: Paolo Pedercini, “Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism”
  • Due: Argumentative Essay (discovery draft)
• Wed, 11/21
  • HOLIDAY: NO CLASS

Week 13

• Mon, 11/26
  • Class: Peer review: thesis, argument
  • Study: Merritt Kopas, “I’m a Transsexual Witch Poet Gamecrafter and You Can Too”
    Fusion TV, Girl Gamers, Ep.2 “Why Do Women Make Games?” (video)
  • Due: Exercise #3: Thesis Statements
• Wed, 11/28
  • Class: Extending argument, transitions
  • Study: <research sources>

Week 14

• Mon, 12/3
  • Class: Peer review: argument, conclusions
  • Study: <research sources>
  • Due: Argumentative Essay (working draft)
• Wed, 12/5
  • Drop-in 1-on-1 CONFERENCES

Week 15

• Mon, 12/10
  • Class: Writers Symposium, day 1
• Wed, 12/12
  • Class: Writers Symposium, day 2
• Saturday, 12/15
  • Due: Argumentative Essay (polished draft)
  • Due: All optional revisions