Course Schedule 08revised2

Course Schedule English 103 Fall 2008

Assignments marked Dueor Read are to be done for the day they are listed on the schedule and completed by the beginning of class.

Week 1 T 8/26 Discuss: Class Introduction.-syllabus, goals of 103, a look at the semester. Modes of composition

TR 8/28 Read: Course Syllabus and bring any questions to class. Envision p2-6. Shitty First Drafts by Ann Lamott. http://www.writingcenter.emory.edu/bird.html Discuss: Rhetoric, Elements of rhetorical situations, Reading. Blogs.

Week 2 T 9/2 Read: Handout: (How I learned about the Power of Writing and Proficiency) and Envision p7-14. Discuss: Visual Literacy Narrative Essay. Readings. Blogs.

TR 9/4 Due: Blog. Read: Handout: (Excerpt from Malcolm X) and Envision 172-187. Discuss: Readings and Invention.

Week 3 T 9/9 Read: Envision p220-222, 239-245, 249-252. Discuss: Composing visual arguments. Working with images in Microsoft Word 2007. Fair Use and Documenting Sources.

TR 9/11 Due: Blog Read: Handouts on examples of visual literacy narratives Discuss: Examples and Composing Visual Arguments.

Week 4 T 9/16 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative draft for workshop. Discuss: Peer workshop and Revision.

TR 9/18 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative. Read: Envision p254-269, p271-276 Discuss: Group Project

Week 5 T 9/23 Group project workday . TR 9/25 Due: Group Presentations, Blog (about group project reading/research) Discuss: Definition Essay

Week 6 T 9/30 Read: Envision p66-76, 78-85 Discuss: Reading

TR 10/2 Due: Blog Read: Handout: (Spam) and Envision 161 Discuss: Reading and interviews

Week 7

T 10/7 Read: Envision p245-249 Discuss: Mid-term Portfolios and websites

TR 10/9 Due: Blog (about website building/reading) Discuss: Thesis statements, using quotes, websites

Week 8 Conference week: Class cancelled for conferences for definition essay and electronic portfolios. Mid-term Portfolios due by 5pm Friday 10/17. Post the link to your website on blackboard. T 10/14 Conferences

TR 10/16 Conferences

Week 9 T 10/20 Discuss: Meaning Essay. Work on websites

TR 10/23 Meet by the spiral staircase at Bracken Library. Due: Blog. Post ad choice and write about it. If non-digital write about it.

Week 10 T 10/28 Read: Envision 37-63 Discuss: Meaning Essay. Rhetorical appeals and context.

TR 10/30 Read: Handout: Meaning Essays (Spam) Discuss: Reading, personal testimony and counterargument Due: Blog

Week 11 T 11/4 Read: Envision p141-152, p289-293, p296-310 Discuss: Using sources, MLA Documentation.

TR11/6 Due: Meaning Essay for workshop. Revised essay to be submitted on blackboard by 5pm Sunday. Discuss: Workshop. Essay 4

Week 12 T 11/11 Meet by the spiral staircase at Bracken Library. Due: Movie for review

TR 11/13 Due: Blog.(Write one paragraph of movie summary and one paragraph of your opinion) Read: Handout: (sample reviews on blackboard) Discuss: Reading, components of a movie review, analysis

Week 13 T 11/18 Read: Envision p231-235 and Handout: sample movie reviews (links to reviews on blackboard). Discuss: Analysis, writing a review

TR 11/20 Due: Blog (about movie we watched Tues. in class). Bring to class reviews you have found and writing you have started. Discuss: Layout in Word 2007, Writing

11/25 No class Fruesday 11/27 No Class Thanksgiving Break

Week 14 T 12/2 Due: Review Essay for Workshop Discuss: Workshop

TR 12/4 Due: Review Essay. Post on blackboard before class. Discuss: Final Portfolio

Week 15 T 12/9 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

TR 12/11 Workshop/in-class conferences.

Final Portfolio due by 5pm Friday, December 12, 2008. Post website link to blackboard. Make sure all links work and be sure no documents are in office 2007/8 format.

Final Exam: Friday December 19, 2008

8:00 class- 8:00-9:30am 11:00 class- 10:00-11:30am