The class schedule will develop over the term, with updates taking place via the course website. This course site schedule is your reference for assignments and due dates! Bookmark it in your “work” browser!
The process-oriented nature of English Composition allows for a flexibility in specific activities in order to tailor activities to the needs of the specific class. Smaller assignments will be added as we move through the term.
Expect to have both a reading and a writing assignment for each class meeting. Usually, there will be a couple of them. After all, this is a writing class.
Week 1 – Introductions – Write. Now!
AUGUST 30 – Introductions
- Who are we, and what are we doing here?
- Talking Literacy, Reading Literacy Narratives
- For Next Class
- Complete Profile Assignment
- Complete Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment Survey
- Complete First Week Writing Assignment (handout)
- Complete Literacy Narrative Draft Assignment
- Consider signing up for SAS 011 (Writing Lab)
Week 2 – Getting into Writing
September 4 – Wonder Woman, Peer Review, Set up ePortfolio
- Watch Amy Cuddy, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are” TED Talk (If time permits)
- Peer Review, First Day Sample Draft
- Getting Started with ePortfolio
- For Next Class
- Revise First Day Sample
- Complete Homework due September 6
September 6 – Discussing Cuddy and Gee
- First Week Writing Sample Revisions Due!
- Embedding Images in Posts or Pages
- Discussing Cuddy and Gee
- For Next Class
Week 3 – Preparing Paper 1
SEPTEMBER 11 – Discuss Gee, Cuddy, & Paper 1
- Discussing Gee & Cuddy
- Discussing Academic Discourse and They Say/I Say
- For Next Class
SEPTEMBER 13 – Paper 1, First Draft Due!
- Setting up Peer Review, Paper 1
- Sharing Paper 1 (GDocs kinks, basic formatting, and more)
- Peer Review for Literacy Narrative Drafts
- For Next Class
- Peer Review, Paper 1 Due (as homework) – Get Peer Review Guide
- Revise Literacy Narrative Draft
Week 4 – Paper 1, Revising
SEPTEMBER 18 – Peer Review Paper 1 & Literacy Narrative
- Peer Review, Paper 1
- Share Literacy Narrative with Cripps
- For Next Class
SEPTEMBER 20 – Discuss Gee, Cuddy, & Paper 1
- Sharing Paragraphs & Organizing Claims
- Framing quotations
- For Next Class
Week 5 – Paper 1, Continued
SEPTEMBER 25 – Responding to Gee/Cuddy; Finding a Perspective
- Working with Samples
- For Next Class
SEPTEMBER 27 – Paper 1, Final Draft Due
- Sharing Final Draft
- In-class Guided Reflection on Learning & Evidence
- Publish Literacy Narratives in Rising Cairn (We’ll Return to These for Project 3!)
- For Next Class
Week 6 –Reading Science, IMRaD, and Discourse Analysis
October 2 – Discussing Haas & Discourse
- Discuss Haas & Revisiting Gee – Learning Science as Discourse Entry
- For Next Class
October 4 – Discussing Scientific Discourse Analysis: Reading Rhetorically and IMRaD
- IMRaD, Reading in Biology, and Building Tasks
- Building Tasks Worksheet Starter
- For Next Class
Week 7 – Drafting Project 2
October 9 – From Building Tasks & Three Paragraphs to a Draft
- Group Work on Building Tasks & Paragraphs
- For Next Class
- Paper 2, First Draft Due
- Bring The Little Seagull to class!
October 11 – First Draft, Science Discourse Analysis Due
- Sharing Paper 2, First Drafts
- Working on Documentation Style
- For Next Class
- Peer Review, Project 2 Due as Homework! – Use the Peer Review Guide GDoc
- They Say/I Say Work
Week 8 – Reviewing and Revising Project 2
October 16 – Peer Review, Project 2
- Peer Review, Project 2
- Sharing Efforts, Rethinking the Discourse
- Work on the “They Say” and the “I Say”
- Conference Signup
- For Next Class
- Conference Signup
- Complete Homework due October 18
October 18 – Discourse Analysis Sharing
- Student Samples & Salient Ideas
- Style and Emphasis, Ideas, Introductions
- For Next Class
- Paper 2, Final Draft due!
Week 9 – Paper 2 ,Final Draft; Start Literacy Narrative Analysis
October 23 – Paper 2, Final Draft Due!
- Paper 2, Final Draft Due!
- In-class Guided Reflection on Learning & Evidence
- Moving to Project 3
- For Next Class
- Complete Homework due October 25
October 25 – Themes in Literacy Narratives – Who are “They” and What do They Say?
- Discuss Alexander, Brandt, Williams
- For Next Class
Week 10 – Crowdsourcing & Coding Literacy Narratives for Analysis
October 30 – Literacy Narratives & Categories for Analysis
- More on Alexander, Brandt, Williams – Grasping what “They Say”
- Work with Some Samples
- For Next Class
November 1 – Crowdsourcing Archive to Locating Themes & Ideas
- Discussion of Crowdsourced Work – Sharing Findings
- Dipping into the Archive & Sharing Interests
- For Next Class
Week 11 – Paper 3 – Moving to a Real Draft
November 6 – Discussing Literacy Narratives & Forging Connections
- Sharing Literacy Narrative Selections, Preliminary Insights
- Building Connections, Moving to an “I Say”
- For Next Class
November 8 – Paper 3, First Drafts Due!
- Peer Review Paper 3
- Reflections on Active, Critical Reading & Peer Review
- Conference Signup
- For Next Class
- Peer Review, Paper 3 – get Peer Review Guideline
Week 12 – Developing Paper 3 – The Argument, Thesis, Contribution?
November 13 – Peer Review, Paper 3 (Veterans Day!)
- Attend UNE’s Veteran’s Day Events
- Peer Review Discussion
- Conference Signup
- For Next Class
November 15 – Finding Your Argument or Perspective?
- How Archives Help Us Talk Back to Alexander, Brandt, Williams
- For Next Class
Week 13 – Paper 3 (Thanksgiving Week!)
November 20 – Paper 3, Final Draft Due!
- Paper 3, Final Draft Due!
- For Next Class
November 22 – Thanksgiving! No Class Meeting
- Relax, Eat, Spend Time with Family!
- For Next Class
Week 14 – Taking Stock of Learning & Assembling Evidence
November 27 – ePortfolio Work I
- Six Outcomes, Lots of Evidence – Making Meaning of Our Learning
- Getting Started Linking Evidence to Outcomes & Framing
- For Next Class
November 29 – ePortfolio Work II
- Individual and Peer Work to Align Evidence with Outcomes – 3 Outcomes
- For Next Class
Week 15 – ePortfolios Come Due
December 4 – ePortfolio Work III
- CLASS MEETS LOWER LEVEL RIPICH COMMONS!!!!
- Individual and Peer Work to Align Evidence with Outcomes – 3 Outcomes
- For Next Class
December 6 – Last Class! ePortfolio Due
- Wrapping up the ePortfolio
- Debriefing on the Term