| Date | Activity | Homework Due on This Day | ||
| Week one | Mon. | 8/22 | Intro & Syllabus | |
| Tues. | 8/23 | No Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 8/24 | Composition & Argument | ||
| Thurs. | 8/25 | Parts of an Argument | ||
| Last day for late registration | Fri. | 8/26 | No Conferences | |
| Week Two | Mon. | 8/29 | Intro to A#1Quotation, Citation | |
| Tues. | 8/30 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 8/31 | Logical Appeals | Read Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” | |
| Thurs. | 9/1 | In-class Speech Analysis | Read Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” | |
| Fri. | 9/2 | Conferences | ||
| Week Three | Mon. | 9/5 | LABOR DAY—NO CLASS | |
| Tues. | 9/6 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 9/7 | Revision | A#1 draft due (in e-mail by 12:30 pm) | |
| Thurs. | 9/8 | Paragraphing | ||
| Fri. | 9/9 | Conferences | ||
| Week Four | Mon. | 9/12 | Ways of Reading | A#1 due (hard copy in class by 12:30 pm) |
| Tues. | 9/13 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 9/14 | Ways of WritingIntro to A#2 | ||
| Thurs. | 9/15 | Narrative Analysis | Read Lovecraft, “Dagon” | |
| Fri. | 9/16 | Conferences | ||
| Week Five | Mon. | 9/19 | Audio Analysis | |
| Tues. | 9/20 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 9/21 | Visual Rhetoric | ||
| Thurs. | 9/22 | Video Game Analysis | Read cow clicker essay, outsider games column, and dwarf fortress essays. | |
| Fri. | 9/23 | Conferences | ||
| Week Six | Mon. | 9/26 | Working with Sentences | A#2 draft due (in e-mail by 12:30 pm) |
| Tues. | 9/27 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 9/28 | Intro to A#3 | ||
| Thurs. | 9/29 | Who lives here? | ||
| Fri. | 9/30 | Conferences | ||
| Week Seven | Mon. | 10/3 | Ways of Documenting | A#2 due (hard copy in class by 12:30 pm) |
| Tues. | 10/4 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 10/5 | Description & Textual Texture | Read Welty, “The Little Store” | |
| Thurs. | 10/6 | Description Activity | ||
| Fri. | 10/7 | Conferences | ||
| Week Eight | Mon. | 10/10 | OCTOBER BREAK—NO CLASS | |
| Tues. | 10/11 | OCTOBER BREAK—NO CLASS | ||
| Weds. | 10/12 | Using Documentary Evidence | ||
| Thurs. | 10/13 | Work Day | ||
| Fri. | 10/14 | Conferences | ||
| Week Nine | Mon. | 10/17 | Peer Review | A#3 draft due (in e-mail by 12:30 pm) |
| Tues. | 10/18 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 10/19 | Intro to A#4What is Wikipedia? | ||
| Thurs. | 10/20 | Finding Sources | ||
| Fri. | 10/21 | Conferences | ||
| Week Ten | Mon. | 10/24 | Source Credibility | A#3 due by 12:30 pm |
| Tues. | 10/25 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 10/26 | Writing for Wikipedia | Have the stub you are going to expand picked out. | |
| Thurs. | 10/27 | Using SubsectionsArticle Analysis | ||
| Fri. | 10/28 | Conferences | ||
| Week Eleven | Mon. | 10/31 | Work day | |
| Tues. | 11/1 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 11/2 | Intro A#5
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| Thurs. | 11/3 | Experience and Subjectivity | Read “What is it Like To Be a Bat?” | |
| Fri. | 11/4 | Conferences | ||
| Week Twelve | Mon. | 11/7 | Peer ReviewWorkshop Pt. 1 | A#4 draft due (in email by 12:30 pm) |
| Tues. | 11/8 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 11/9 | Peer Review Workshop Pt.2. | Revisions according to peer comments due | |
| Thurs. | 11/10 | Talking about oneself | Read excerpt from Franklin’s Autobiography | |
| Fri. | 11/11 | Conferences | ||
| Week Thirteen | Mon. | 11/14 | What Did You Do? | A#4 final due(hard copy in-class and posted to Wikipedia) |
| Tues. | 11/15 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 11/16 | Blogs & BloggingUsing moviemaker | ||
| Thurs. | 11/17 | Using photoshop | ||
| Fri. | 11/18 | Conferences | ||
| Week Fourteen | Mon. | 11/21 | Using Prezi (10 minute biographies) | |
| Tues. | 11/22 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 11/23 | THANKSGIVING—NO CLASS | ||
| Thurs. | 11/24 | THANKSGIVING—NO CLASS | ||
| Fri. | 11/25 | THANKSGIVING—NO CLASS | ||
| Week Fifteen | Mon. | 11/28 | Work in Class | |
| Tues. | 11/29 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 11/30 | Work in Class | ||
| Thurs. | 12/1 | Presentations | ||
| Fri. | 12/2 | Conferences | ||
| Week Sixteen | Mon. | 12/5 | Presentations | |
| Tues. | 12/6 | Conferences | ||
| Weds. | 12/7 | TBA | ||
| Thurs. | 12/8 | TBA | ||
| Fri. | 12/9 | Conferences |
