Below is the schedule of assignments and content goals. It is divided into three units: Analysis, Research, and Project Revision. Please pay attention to the following notes before reading the schedule:
All Exer
cises are Posted in Grey Each exercise has a Take 1 and a Take 2 component: The Take 1 of all exercises are due 24 hours before the F2F class Tuesdays at 12:25 pm. Take 2 of the exercise is due at 48 hours after the F2F class, Fridays at 12:25 pm. All exercises should be posted on the course site with the appropriate marked categories. For details aboutspecific exercises, including the accompanying reading, check the assignments page.
Hand-In Assignment Deadlines are posted in red; they are due by email as word documents.
University Deadlines are posted in Blue
Group Meeting Deadlines are posted in green. Following your group’s meeting with me, you will be required to post a project update. I will give you specific details for the post during our meeting.
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UNIT: ANALYSIS
WEEK 1 Introduction
Day 1-Feb 1: The Basics
F2F Content Goals: Syllabus Overview, Final Project, Using the Technology, Group Assignments
Exercise Assignment: Caption NYC
Day 2- Feb 3: Descriptive Writing
F2F Content Goals: Defining Objectivity & Subjectivity and Content vs Form; Introducing analysis [identifying component parts]
Exercise Assignment: Caption NYC Take2
WEEK 2 Evaluative Claims
February 10 – F2F Content Goals: Discuss difference between reviews, critiques, evaluations; Analysis Part 2 (assessing parts within a rubrics; making a supported evaluation of the whole)
Exercise Assignment: American Idol Judge
WEEK 3 Interpretive Claims (the Arts)
February 17– F2F Content Goals: Introduce Single Text Analysis, Go over Strategies for Narrowing Scope and Close Reading ; Analysis Part 3 (interrogating how parts speak to each other; making a supported interpretation about the meaning or effects of the whole)
Exercise Assignment: American Idol Assignment part 2
Evaluative Claim Paper Due: Feb 20 Sat. 9am
WEEK 4 Interpretive Claims (History)
February 24 – F2F Content Goals: Multi-Text Analysis (Using the Vogue “Fashion: Brevity …” articles); Steps for Comparing and Contrasting; Analysis Part 4 (making a claim about the meaning or effect of multiple texts when put together).
Exercise Assignment: What’s in a Number?
UNIT: RESEARCH
WEEK 5 Starting Out
March 2 – F2F Content Goals: Formulating Research Questions, Identifying Types of Sources, Figuring out Where to Find Sources
Exercise Assignment: Scavenger Hunt
Textual Analysis Paper Due: Mar 5 Sat. 9am
**Thursday, 2/18 Last day for 25 percent refund, for P/F, to drop without a W
Monday 2/29 Last day to register for internship and independent study.**
WEEK 6 Curating Sources
March 9 – F2F Content goals: How to Write Annotated Bibliographies and Abstracts
WEEK 7 Working with Facts
March 16 – F2F Content Goal: Analyzing & Integrating background information, history, & data.
Exercise Assignment: Magazine Short
WEEK 8 Joining a Conversation
March 23 – F2F Content Goal: Analyzing and Integrating arguments, methodologies, and other scholarship
[Mar 21 & 23 classes follow Friday schedule]
Exercise Assignment: The Nutty Professor
WEEK 9 Joining a Conversation (continued)
March 30 – F2F Content Goal: Analyzing & Integrating Scholarship
Exercise Assignment: You Say Tomāto; I say Tomăto?
Group 1 Meeting and Post Introduction
Magazine Short Paper Due: Apr 2 Sat. 9am
UNIT: PROJECT REVISIONS
WEEK 10 Project Week
April 6 – F2F Content Goal: Workshop Group 1
Grammar Exercise 1: Passive Voice
Group 2 Meeting and Post Introduction
**Monday 4/11 Last day to drop with a grade of a W**
WEEK 11 Project Week
April 13 – F2F Content Goal: Workshop Group 2
Grammar Exercise 2: Floating Pronouns
Group 3 Meeting and Post Introduction
WEEK 12 Project Week
April 20 – F2F Content Goal: Workshop Group 3
Grammar Exercise 3: Integrating Quotations.
Group 4 Meeting and Post Introduction
Annotated Bibliography with Introductions Due: Apr 23 Sat. 9am
WEEK 13 [April 25 & 27] Spring Break
WEEK 14 Project Week
May 4 – F2F Content Goal: Workshop Group 4
Grammar Exercise 4: Formatting Titles
Group 5 Meeting and Post Introduction
WEEK 15 Project Week
May 11 – F2F Content Goal: Workshop Group 5
**5/17-18 Reading Period**
Final Projects Due: At the end of Reading Period –Midnight May 18.
*Assignments are subject to change.*