Course Schedule

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 M 8/25 Discuss: Class Introduction.- goals of 103, a look at the semester.

W 8/27 Discuss: Course Syllabus. Diagnostic Essay.

Week 2 M 9/1 No class Labor Day

W 9/3 Read. p13-19. Shitty First Drafts by Ann Lamott. http://www.pdfcoke.com/doc/265233/1101shittyfirstdrafts Discuss: Rhetoric, Elements of rhetorical situations, Reading.

Journals.

Week 3 M 9/8 Read: Handout: (How I learned about the Power of Writing and Proficiency) and Envision p28-33. Discuss: Visual Literacy Narrative Essay. Readings. Due: Journal

W 9/10 Read: Handout: (Excerpt from Malcolm X) and p83-86. Discuss: Readings and Invention.

Week 4

M 9/15 Read: handouts Due: journal Discuss: Composing visual arguments. Working with images in Microsoft Word 2007. Fair Use and Documenting Sources.

W 9/17 Read: Handouts on examples of visual literacy narratives Discuss: Examples and Composing Visual Arguments. Documenting sources

Week 5 M 9/22 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative draft for workshop. Discuss: Peer workshop and Revision.

W 9/24 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative. Discuss: gallery day. Definition Essay.

Week 6 M 9/29 Due: Journal Read:509-514 Discuss: Definitions. Reading.

W 10/1 Read: 524-526; 528-530. Discuss: Reading

Week 7 M 10/6 Due: Journal Read: Handout: (Spam) and handout on interviews Discuss: Reading and interviews

W 10/8 Read: handouts Discuss: Mid-term Portfolios, thesis statements, using qoutes

Week 8 Conference week: Class cancelled for conferences for definition essay and portfolios. M 10/13 Conferences

W 10/15 Conferences

Week 9 M 10/19 Due: Mid-term Portfolios Read: 555-562 Discuss: Meaning Essay. Rhetorical appeals and context

W 10/22 Discuss: Research Due: Journal. Advertisement selection.

Week 10 M 10/27 Read: Handout: Meaning Essays Discuss: Reading

W 10/29 Due: Journal. Read: 757-759 and Hacker(pages TBA) Discuss: Using sources, MLA Documentation.

Week 11 M 11/3 Due: Meaning Essay for workshop Discuss: Workshop

W 11/5 Due: Meaning Essay. Discuss: Review Essay, review writing

Week 12 M 11/10 Discuss: Research Due: Movie for review

W 11/12 Due: Journal Read: 143-148 and Handout: (sample movie reviews) Discuss: Reading, components of a movie review

Week 13 M 11/17 Read: Handout: sample movie reviews. Discuss: Magazine layout, Word 2007

M 11/19 Due: Review Essay 4 for workshop, journal Discuss: Workshop

Week 14 M 11/24 TBA

W 11/27 No Class Thanksgiving Break

Week 15 M 12/1 Due: Review Essay Discuss: Final Portfolio

W 12/3 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

Week 16 M 12/8 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

W 12/10 Due: Final Portfolios due by the end of the class period.

Final Exam: TBA