Schedule of Assignments

*assignments are subject to change.*

Sep 3

Whole Class: Blog Post

  • First Day of Class

 

UNIT 1: EXPOSITORY WRITING: WALKING AS METHOD

WEEK 1:

Group A:  Blog Post

Sep 8

  • excerpt Michel de Certeau “Walking in the City,” The Practice of Everyday Life
  • http://soundenvironments.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/decerteau_walking.pdf
  • Read the whole PDF (link above) EXCEPT the section titled “The Return of Practices.”  The first page is a brief introduction, written by someone else.  It might be helpful to read it especially if you find the reading very difficult, but it is not required.

Sep 10

  • Wendell Holmes “The Physiology of Walking” (1892) (if for some reason the link does not work, google “The Physiology of Walking Holmes”; it should be one of the first entries that appears.
  • Henry David Thoreau, “Walking“

WEEK 2:

Sep 15

  •  Listening Day, ASSIGNMENT: Go to The Electric Typewriter’s listing of 25 best music essays.  http://tetw.org/Music, pick one of the essays on music to read (they are mostly fairly short).  Listen to a piece of music referenced in the piece, and write a 3-5 paragraph response to the article you read.  Post the writing and a link to the music on the class site; bring your writing to class.
  • Workshop Paragraph

Sep 17

  • Workshop Drafts

[Saturday, September 20th Paper 1 Due by 5pm]

 

UNIT 2:  PERSUASIVE ESSAY: A VERTICAL NATION [THE UPRIGHT]

WEEK 3

Group B:  Blog Post

Sep 22

Further Readings:

o    Reagan, “We will be a city upon a Hill,” First Conservative Political Action Conference, January 25, 1974  http://reagan2020.us/speeches/City_Upon_A_Hill.asp

o    Reagan, RNC Nomination Acceptance Speech, 1984

http://reagan2020.us/speeches/nomination_acceptance_1984.asp

Sep 24

  • NO CLASS

WEEK 5

Sept 29

Group C Blog Post

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”

http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

  • “Nature”

http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature1.htm

Oct1

  • Frederick Douglass “Self Made Men”

http://www.monadnock.net/douglass/self-made-men.html

 

WEEK 6

Oct 6

Group A:  Blog Post

COMPUTER LAB:  MEET @ lab VC 8170

 

Oct 8

Group B:  Blog Post

WEEK 7

Oct 13

  • NO CLASS

Oct 15

Group C:  Blog Post [on Reading Assignment]

 

WEEK 8

Oct 20

  • see posting for tasks due regarding group paper

Oct 22

  • see posting for tasks due regarding group paper

 

 

UNIT 3: CLOSE READING ANALYSIS:  Under Foot and Missteps [THE LOWLY]

WEEK 9

 

Oct 27

 

see posting for tasks due regarding group paper

[Meet in computer lab VC 8-170]

 

[Tuesday, October 28th, by 5pm:  Argument Paper 2 Due]

 

Oct 29

  • Whole Class:  Blog Post Assignment:  Find a song, advertisement, toy, clip of the Oscars, some pop cultural item that configures itself around the vertical (i.e. around being high up or low down).  Upload some evidence of the item (if not the item itself) to the WordPress site along with your first journal post. Your post should include 1. a description in your own words of the item you’ve posted 2. A highlighting of a specific element of the post (e.g. a word, a gesture, a contrast in two colors) that you think is important to the message and 3. at least two sentences explaining how you think this specific element should affect our understanding of the whole picture).
    • excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), chapter 20, “Topsy.”

WEEK 10

Group A:  Blog Post

Nov 3

Nov 5

WEEK 11

Nov 10

 

Nov 12

  • COMPUTER LAB VC8170  — Workshop DAY

WEEK 12

Group B:  Blog Post

Nov 17

Nov 19

WEEK 13

Nov 24

  • Introduction  Workshop Day

Nov 26

  • Draft  Workshop Day

 

WEEK 14

[DEC 1 by 10:00 am)  Paper 3 Literary Analysis Paper Due]

Group C:  Blog Post

Dec 1

  • Jason King, “Which Way is Down”  –> Which way is down by Jason King
  • Otis Redding, “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” (1967)
  • Curtis Mayfield, “We the People who are Darker than Blue” and “Moving Up” (1970)
  • James Brown “Get Up Off That Thang” (1976)
  • Group 1 Revision Workshop

_____Dmytro___________________

_____Cindy___________________

_____Tiffany___________________

 

Dec 3

  • Group 2 Revision Workshop

________Tanzim________________

________Jasper________________

________Jacob________________

_________Aqsa_______________

 

WEEK 15

Dec 8

Make Up:  Blog Post

  • Group 3 Revision Workshop

______Milyza_______________

______Rayhanul__________________

______Mark__________________

______Dafna__________________

______Zach__________________

 

WEEK 16

Dec 10

_____Rachel___________________

______David__________________

______Phil__________________

_______Joy_________________

 

Dec 15  [Bring a laptop to class and complete the course survey in class  –> an extra credit on lowest grade for all who come ready to do so.  Laptops can be acquired in the library.  If you can take the survey on any other mobile device, then that is fine, but you have to be able to complete the survey to receive the extra credit]

 

 

[Revision Paper 4 Due:  by 8pm on December 18th  –> no exceptions]

 

*assignments are subject to change.*

Post Group Assignments

GROUP A
Phil Chen

Tanzim Choudhury

Milyza FLores

Rayhanul Ibrahim

Jacob Kabariti

 

 

GROUP B
Mark Kumar

David Lasher

Neman, Joy

Tiffany Li

Aqsa Naeem

Rachel Shnaydman

 

GROUP C

DMYTRO USYK

Hartman, Tzadok (Zach)

Cindy Win

Dafna Yacobian

Jasper Yoon

Constantine Kontopirakis