Unit 1: Literacy Narrative

Week 1 

9/3-9/11

Everyone (complete in Teams):

• Introduction to the course
• Read Crosscurrents: pg. 3-14 
• “What is literacy, what it means to be literate, and why it matters” 
• Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue 
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Acting French” 
• Literacy Narrative Assignment Sheet

Dual Enrollment Students only (Complete in Moodle):

• Review syllabus, course 
• requirements, etc. 
• Introductory writing assignment due on Moodle by end of week 
• Read LBH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, & 6
• Complete Discussion Board 1 for Amy Tan reading

Week 2

9/14-9/18

Everyone (complete in Teams):

• Malcolm X, "Learning to Read” 
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Littlest Schoolhouse”  

Dual Enrollment Students only (Complete in Moodle):

• Register for MyWritingLab (MWL)

Week 3

9/21-9/25

Everyone (complete in Teams):

• Roxanne Gay, “Peculiar Benefits” 
• Melissa Nicolas, "A Name of my Own: Disrupting (White) Heterosexual Naming Practices” 
• Rough draft due (Friday, Sept 25 by 11:59 p.m.)
• Peer Review worksheet

Dual Enrollment Students only (Complete in Moodle):

• Peer Review worksheet
• Review MWL

Week 4

9/28-10/2

Everyone (complete in Teams):

• “Echoing Halloos and Memories”
• “Making Sense of Suffering, Arrival and Art”
• Discuss Peer Review 
• Make essay revisions
• Literacy Narrative Essay due (Friday, October 2 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students only (Complete in Moodle):

• Literacy Narrative Essay due (Friday, October 2 by 11:59 p.m.)
• All Discussion board posts are due. **You must reply to 2 of your classmates’ initial posts.**
• Continue working on MWL

Unit 2: Rhetorical Analysis

Week 5

10/5-10/9

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• LBH: Chapter 5 & 46 
• Crosscurrents: pg. 61-75 (“Rhetorical Analysis”) 
• Susan Willis, “from Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World” 
• Rhetorical Analysis Assignment Sheet 
• Introduction to rhetorical analysis 

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL

Week 6

10/12-10/16

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Elements of analysis discussion (explanation and how to use them) 
• Analysis of various media 
• Submit essay idea in Teams, Sunday, October 18th by 11:59 pm 

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL
• Submit essay idea in Quiz #3, Sunday, October 18th by 11:59 pm

Week 7

10/19-10/23

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Continue analysis of visuals 
• William Deresiewicz, “Faux Friendship" 
• Peer review worksheet 
• Rough draft due (Friday, October 23 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL
• Peer Review worksheet 

Week 8

10/26-10/30

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Mid-term Exam completed in Teams (90 minutes)
• Continue analysis of visuals
• Discuss Peer Review
• Rhetorical Analysis essay due (Friday, October 30 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL

• Mid-term Exam completed in Moodle (90 minutes)
• Rhetorical Analysis essay due (Friday, October 30 by 11:59 p.m.)

Unit 3: Literary Analysis

Week 9

11/2-11/6

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Introduction to reading and writing about literature-why is it important?
• “Writing about fiction” 
• Discuss elements of analysis 
• Literary Analysis Assignment Sheet 

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL

Week 10

11/9-11/13

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” 
• Joey R. Poole, “I Have Always Been Here Before” 
• Nathanial Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” 
• Submit essay idea by Sunday, November 15^th by 11:59 p.m.
• Begin working on the essay

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL
• Email essay idea by Sunday, November 15^th by 11:59 pm

Week 11

11/16-11/20

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Claire Vaye Watkins, “Ghosts, Cowboys” 
• Te-Ping Chen, “Lulu”
• Continue working on essay draft
• Peer review worksheet 
• Rough draft due (Friday, November 20 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL
• Peer Review worksheet 

• Friday, November 20: Last day to withdraw from classes or resign from University. Deadline at 12:30 p.m. 

Week 12

11/23-11/27

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” 
• Discuss peer review 
• Literary Analysis essay due (Friday, November 27 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL

• Rhetorical Analysis essay due (Friday, November 27 by 11:59 p.m.)

Unit 4: Situations and Contexts

Week 13

11/30-12/4

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• LBH: Chapter 6 (again), 38 & 39 
• Crosscurrents: pg. 41-52 (“Reviews”) 
• Bad Ideas About Writing: Anjali Pattanayak, “There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking” (pg. 82) 
• David Ives, “Sure Thing” 
• Situations and Contexts Assignment sheet 
• “Where do you go from here?” 

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Continue working on MWL

Week 14

12/7-12/11

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings” 
• Gloria Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” 
• Michaela Cullington, “Texting and Writing” 
• George Orwell, “Politics of the English Language” 
• Continue working on essay draft
• There will be no peer review for this essay. 

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Complete Final Assessment on MWL
• Email essay idea by Sunday, October 15^th by 11:59 pm

Week 15

12/14-12/18

Everyone (Complete in Teams):

• Discuss final exam and readings
• Continue working on essay draft
• Situations and Contexts Analysis essay due (Friday, December 18 by 11:59 p.m.)

Dual Enrollment Students Only (Complete in Moodle):

• Situations and Contexts Analysis essay due (Friday, December 18 by 11:59 p.m.)
• All revisions due by Friday, December 18 by 11:59 p.m.)