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