Due for Class 2 (1/29)

• Read “On Being Moved by Art…” (Djikic et al.) – on_being_moved_by_art_-_how_reading_fiction_transforms_the_self
• Respond to Blog Post #1

Due for Class 3 (2/4)

• Read “The Love of My Life” (Boyle) – The_Love_of_My_Life_(Boyle)
• Respond to Blog Post #2
• Conduct research on Andy Marino, author of Autonomous and other young adult fiction works, and have one or two questions prepared for him

Due for Class 4 (2/6)

• Read “Setting”, “February Evening in New York” (Levertov), “Sister Carrie” (Dreiser), “The Role of Physical Objects” and excerpt from “Remains of the Day” (Ishiguro) (All of these are featured in the following document) – Fiction_Setting_Feb_Eve_NY_Sister_Carrie_Remains_Day
• Respond to Blog Post #3

Due for Class 5 (2/11)

• Read “Scene, Episode, and Plot”, “Momentum of Plot” and “An Episode of War” (Crane) – Scene_Episode_Plot_Pinsky_Episode_War_Momentum
• Respond to Blog Post #4
• Continue to develop your story and bring in more of your written work to discuss

Due for Class 6 (2/13)

• Complete the first draft of your fiction piece. Bring in a physical copy and make sure to staple the rubric to it
• Read “Character” and “Building Character” – Character
• Read “Eveline” (Joyce) – joyce_eveline
• Read the student story posted under documents from class 4
• Respond to Blog Post #5

Due for Class 7 (2/18)

• Read “Point of View” – Point_of_View
• Read “My Kid’s Dog” (Hansen) – My_Kid’s_Dog_(Hansen)
• CHANGE: NO BLOG POST DUE

Due for Class 8 (2/20)

• Read “Symbolism” – Symbolism
• Read “The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas” (Le Guin) – Omelas_LeGuin
• Respond to Blog Post #6
• Bring in the second draft of your fiction story (if it is ready); make sure to bring your current draft if you do not have a new one yet

Due for Class 9 (2/25)

• Complete the second draft of your fiction piece
• Read “Backpacks Vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis” (Carroll) – carroll–backpacks-vs-briefcases

Due for Class 10 (2/27)

• Read “The Fire Next Time” (Baldwin) pp. 15-27 – The_Fire_Next_Time_(Baldwin)_pp_15-27
• Respond to Blog Post #7
• Print out a copy of The Glass Menagerie (Williams) and bring it to class – the_glass_menagerie

Due for Class 11 (3/3)

• Complete the final draft of your fiction piece. Bring in a physical copy and submit a digital copy via Turn It In on Blackboard
• Read “The Fire Next Time” (Baldwin) pp. 47-67 – The_Fire_Next_Time_(Baldwin)_pp_47-80
• Respond to Blog Post #8
• Binta and Aliya, please be prepared to share your short stories with the class

Due for Class 12 (3/5)

• Read “The Fire Next Time” (Baldwin) pp. 67-80 – The_Fire_Next_Time_(Baldwin)_pp_47-80
• Respond to Blog Post #9
• Jason and Henry, please be ready to present your short stories
• Shila, please pick a topic to discuss in class

Due for Class 13 (3/10)

• Read “Tragedy and the Common Man” by Arthur Miller – Tragedy_Miller_Aristotle (Only read the first two and a half pages of this document)
• Check out podcasts like the following as well as some others that you may be interested in:
  • NPR Podcasts like The Indicator, Planet Money, or This American Life
  • Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
  • The Breakfast Club
  • The Daily (NY Times)
  • The Daily Drive
  • The Rich Roll Podcast
  • The Joe Rogan Experience
• Respond to Blog Post #10
• Decide on whether you would like to conduct literary analysis or rhetorical analysis in your podcast. If you chose rhetorical analysis, I highly recommend that you choose a piece to analyze in which someone is speaking (so that you can take pieces of their speech as evidence to use in the podcast). Lastly, for this assignment, I am not going to allow for the analysis of print advertisements or purely visual sources

Due for Class 14 (3/12)

• Read “The Catastrophe of Success” by Tennessee Williams
• Complete one to two pages of the first draft of your podcast transcript and bring in a print copy of what you have thus far
• Darian and Shila, please be prepared to read your short stories
• Amy, please choose a topic for conversation

Due for Class 15 (3/24)

• Respond to Blog Post #11
• Complete the first full draft of your podcast transcript and share it with me via Google Docs
• Download Audacity – https://www.audacityteam.org/ – and practice with it; for the phone it is called “Audacity Editor Tool”
• Here is a link for a tutorial on how to record a podcast using Audacity!
• Darien and Shila, please be ready to read your short story over Zoom for the next class

Due for Class 16 (3/26)

• Listen to and read along to David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water” – This_is_Water (This is a reduced version of the full speech) / YouTube link
• Respond to Blog Post #12
• Continue to play around with Audacity or Garageband as your prepare to record your podcast
• Christina and Becky, please be ready to present your stories to the class
• Christina, please be ready to lead the class discussion

Due for Class 17 (4/2) <— THURSDAY

• Complete your podcast and the final draft of your podcast transcript; put your final podcast in the “Final_(Recorded)_Podcasts” folder on Google Drive
• James and Amy, please be ready to read your stories to the class
• If you have not conferenced with me about your first draft and do not know when your scheduled time to conference is, please check the “Sign_up_Sheet_for_Podcast_Conferences” folder on the class Google Drive, if you see “(Email)” next to your name, please send me an email to schedule a conference time

Due for Class 18 (4/14)

• Choose a topic that you would like to research and formulate a research question; please see this this NY Times post for prompts for argumentative essays
• Read “The Case for Censoring Hate Speech” (McElwee) – The_Case_for_Censoring_Hate_Speech_(McElwee)
• Respond to Blog Post #13
• Kevin and Sardor, please be ready to read your stories
• Binta, please be ready to lead the class discussion

Due for Class 19 (4/16)

• Read “They Say: Starting with What Others Are Saying” – Starting_with_What_Others_Are_Saying
• Read “The Sense of Style” (Pinker), pp. 24-25 (In “Readings” File on Google Drive)
• Respond to Blog Post #14
• Conduct research for your Literature Review – Instructions_for_Researching_&_Citing_Sources
• James, please be prepared to read your story
• Xinyu, please be prepared to lead the class conversation

Due for Class 20 (4/21)

• Read “Her Point Is: The Art of Summarizing” – The_Art_of_Summarizing
• Read “The Sense of Style” (Pinker), pp. 34-35 (In “Readings” File on Google Drive)
• Respond to Blog Post #15
• Develop your Literature Review & Introduction
• Aliya, please be prepared to host the class discussion

Due for Class 21 (4/23)

• Read “As He Himself Puts It: The Art of Quoting” – The_Art_of_Quoting
• Read “The Sense of Style” (Pinker), pp. 40-41 (In “Readings” File on Google Drive)
• Develop Your Literature Review & Introduction; make sure to share the Google Doc for your final paper with me ([email protected])
• Respond to Blog Post #16
• Review the final research paper sample 2 (the one that we looked at today in class) for how write a paraphrased sentence with multiple citations

Due for Class 22 (4/28)

• Read “Writing in the Social Sciences” – Writing_in_the_Social_Sciences
• Read “The Sense of Style” (Pinker), pp. 46-49 (In “Readings” File on Google Drive)
• Complete the first draft of your Literature Review and Introduction (and your Works Cited page)
• Write at least six closed-response questions (“Yes/No” or “A, B, C, D” and two open-response questions (questions that require a few sentences in their responses) for your own data collection
• Jason, please be ready to lead the next class discussion

Due for Class 23 (4/30)

• Read “You Mean I Can Just Say It That Way?” (Reading in Google Drive)
• Respond to Blog Post #17
• Sign up for a conference time for Thursday, 4/30 – Link here
• Make your questionnaire/survey using Google Docs (quick tutorial here) and begin to share it so that you can start collecting data
• Develop your Methods, Measurements, and Results sections
• Darian, please be ready to lead the class conversation

Due for Class 24 (5/5)

• Make sure to fill out some of your classmates’ surveys via the comments for Blog Post #17
• Complete the first draft of your Methods, Measurements, and Results sections
• Complete the first draft of your Discussion and Limitations sections
• Darian, please be ready to lead the class conversation

Due for Class 25 (5/7)

• Please fill our your fellow classmates’ surveys (in the comments section for Blog Post #17)
• Sign up for a conference time here
• At the very least, you should complete your methods, measurements, and results sections; I would like to see your discussion and limitations sections, as well (if possible)
• Develop your Research/Policy/Social Implications
• James, please be ready to lead the class conversation

Due for Class 26 (5/12)

• Respond to Blog Post #18 (this will be posted by late Thursday, 5/7) – LAST BLOG POST!
• Read “The Sense of Style” (Pinker), pp. 104-105 – The_Sense_of_Style_pp_104-105_Eliminating_Wordiness
• Develop your Abstract section and work on your entire paper
• Remember, you can still schedule an appointment with the writing center if you would like!

Due for Class 27 (5/14)

• Continue to work on your final paper (and use REVISED_STUDENT_SAMPLE_PAPER as a model)
• Sign up for your final presentation here

Due for Class 28 (5/19)

• Complete your final research paper and submit it through Turn It In on Blackboard
• Prepare to present

Due for Class 29 (5/21)

• Complete your portfolio reflection (one page) and share it with me via Google Docs
• Prepare to present (if you have not presented)