This schedule is tentative. Expect that we will be modifying it as we move through the semester!

Week #1 – #2

• Introductory posts
• Book purchase plus observation about the book
• Replace bearcat icon with picture of yourself on blogs@baruch
• Edward P. Jones, “The First Day” w/blog comment
• Richard Rodriguez, “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” (choose quotations to discuss)

Week #3

• Group response to Rodriguez
• Comment on classmates’ introductions
• Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” 

Week #4

• Change-Rae Lee, “Mute in an English Only World”
• Sherman Alexie, “Superman and Me”
• Pre-Writing for Literacy Narrative

Week #5

• Creation of Writing Groups
• Reading Peers’ Pre-Writing Assignments
• Planning for Literacy Narratives
• Read Kim Liao “Defining My Identity Through Language; What I Learned about Literacy Narratives”
• Anne Lamott “Shitty First Drafts” and George Dila “Rethinking the Shitty First Draft”
• Drafts Due

Week #6

• Drafts were due on Sunday
• Peer Review
• Richard Straub, “Responding – Really Responding to Other Students’ Writing”
• Group Conferences

Week #7

• Literacy Narratives Due (in personal folders)
• Dear Reader Letter
• Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”

Week #8

• Vershawn Young, “Should Writers Use They Own English” (with Stanley Fish)
• Jamila Lyiscott, “Three Ways to Speak English”
• Blog post responding to Young and Lyiscott

Week #9

• Conferences to discuss Literacy Narratives
• Recommendation Round-Up – using authentic peer-to-peer voice
• Mid-Semester Reflection
• Choose Text for Textual Analysis

Week #10

• Drafts due for Textual Analysis
• Peer Review
• Respond to Recommendation Posts

Week #11

• Textual Analysis Essays due at end of week.
• Feedback on Recommendation posts

Week #12

• Textual Analysis Essays Due
• Dear Reader Letters
• Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story”
• Representation Posts:  Something exactly right, totally problematic, or somewhere in between.

Week #13

• Brainstorming and proposing ideas for Research Paper
• Conferences re: Research Topics
• Computer Session – intro to Newman Library
• Research Proposals Due

Week #14

• Research Proposals
• Conferences
• Preliminary Bibliography

Week #15

• Drafts Due
• Join the Conversation – “Using Sources” and “Plagiarism and Academic Integrity”

Week #16

• Peer Review
• Conferences

Week #17

• Presentations
• Papers Due
• End of Semester Reflection and Grade Proposal