This class will be a blend of asynchronous learning (happening at times convenient to you by a certain deadline) and synchronous learning (happening during a specific moment with other people). I will email announcements about the week each Monday.

Aside from the first two weeks, when we will meet synchronously for something close to the full class-time of 2:55pm to 4:35pm, we will do the following each week:

• Complete asynchronous learning modules due by Tuesday, no later than 5pm (U.S. eastern).
• We will meet as a class on Thursday from 3pm to 4pm. Not every week will follow this schedule (e.g., the first two weeks), but this will be the general pattern.
• We will meet as small groups (of 3-4) every other week for about 30 minutes on Tuesday some time between 3pm and 4:30pm. You will communicate and work with your small group (i.e., Writing Group) throughout the whole term over Slack (more on this soon). We will start this in the third week.

The Learning Modules for Tuesdays will be accessible via our course website in the lesson plan for that day and will consist of low-stakes writing activities to complete, short readings, video, etc.

For our Thursday full-class meetings, we will also follow along on the course website lesson plan for that day and we will utilize Zoom’s features to do small-group activities, low-stakes writing activities, large and small group discussion, independent writing time, etc.

We will schedule the small group meetings shortly before we start them up in the third week. These meetings will be check-ins to see how you are doing and how writing is going.

I will also meet with each of you individually on Zoom at midterm.

REMEMBER: if you have any technical issues with Zoom or anything else we might be trying to use, you can reach me by email or phone that are provided on the first page of this syllabus.