Schedule

8/27 TH

Introduction, syllabus review, and diagnostic essay
Readings for next meeting: Chapters 1-3 in George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By and Matthew Crawford’s “Attention as Cultural Problem.”

9/1 TUES
Attention to Language/Attention To Self
Discuss readings and responses
Reading for next meeting: John Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”

9/3 TH 
Discuss reading/poetry imitation exercise
Readings for next meeting: Ralph Ellison’s “On Being the Target of Discrimination” and Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”

9/8 TUES
Discuss readings
Readings for next meeting: Roland Barthes’s “Leaving the Movie Theater” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”
Bring a “brainstorm list” for your first assignment next meeting

9/10 TH
Labor Day-No Class (Classes follow Monday Schedule)

 9/15 TUES
No Class

9/17 TH
Discuss Readings/Creative  Non-Fiction Assignment Ideas
Readings for next meeting: Richard Straub’s “Responding to Other Students’ Writing”
Creative Non-Fiction Essay DRAFT Due Next Meeting

 9/22 TUES
Jewish Holidays-No Class

9/24 TH
Peer Review of Creative Non-Fiction Essay Draft
Readings for next meeting: Excerpt from John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”

9/25 FRI (Classes Follow a Tuesday Schedule)
In-Class Art/Photography “Reading”
Creative Non-Fiction Essay Due Next Meeting
Reading for next meeting: William Blake’s “London”

9/29 TUES
Attention to Others
Creative Non-Fiction Essay Due Today
Discuss Blake poem and in-class reading of Jane Jacobs’s “Downtown is for People”
Readings for next meeting: Chapter 1 of Nel Noddings’s Caring

10/1 TH
Discuss readings
Reading for next meeting: George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”

10/6 TUES
Discuss readings
Readings for next meeting: Excerpts from Ta-Nehishi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations”

10/8 TH
Discuss Readings/Critical Analysis Essay
Readings for next meeting: “What is Academic Writing?” and “I Need You to
Say I: Why First Person is Important in College Writing”

10/13 TUES
Discuss Readings/Brainstorm Critical Analysis Essay
No Meeting Next Class: Sign up to meet with Prof. Rowe

10/15 TH
No formal class meeting: writer’s group conferences with Prof. Rowe
Readings for next meeting: Jaques Barzun’s “Revision: Or What Have I
Actually Said?” and excerpts from They Say/I Say by Gerald Graff

10/20 TUES
Discuss Critical Analysis Essays and Drafting Process
Readings for next time: Brock Dethier’s “Revising Attitudes”

10/22 TH
In-Class Writing Workshop
Readings for next meeting: Excerpts from Strunk and White’s Elements of
Style
Critical Analysis Essay Due Next Meeting

10/27 TUES
Discuss Research Projects/Reflection

Critical Analysis Essay Due Today
Reading for next meeting: Wanda Cole’s “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead”

10/29 TH
Attention to Self and Others
Discuss individual/group dynamics
Readings for next meeting: Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and excerpts from Ted Cohen’s “Metaphor, Feeling and Narrative” 

11/3 TUES          
Discuss readings/Introduce Research Project
Reading for next meeting: Walt Whitman’s 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass

11/5 TH
Discuss reading
Draft Research Paper Proposal Due Next Meeting

11/10 TUES
In-Class Writing/Research Workshop
Assignment for next meeting: Begin work on your Annotated Bibliography

11/12 TH
Library Visit
Annotated Bibliography Due Next Meeting

11/17 TUES
Discuss Research Projects/Research Process
Assignment for next time: Make progress on your draft! 

11/19 TH
Discuss readings and the writing process  
Research Paper Draft Due Today
Complete Peer Review Forms For Next Meeting   

11/24 TUES
Peer Review
Research Paper Due Tuesday                           

11/26 TH     
Thanksgiving-No Class

12/1 TUES
Discussions of Re-Visioning Project
Watch Pico Ayer’s “The Art of Stillness”
Research Paper Due Today

12/3 TH
In-class conferences on Re-Visioning Project/In-class work on Re-Visioning Project

12/8 TUES
In-class work on Re-Visioning Project

12/10 TH
Final Day of Class
In-Class Writing Reflection

12/15 TUES
Reading Day-No Class

12/17 TH 
Re-Visioning Project Presentations and Party
Class Meets from 10:30-12:30