The Schedule

Schedule:
Homework is always listed after the schedule for the day; it is due at the next class meeting or when indicated.

ST=Studs Terkel
DL=Dorothea Lange
RES=Book/Reading Materials on Reserve (Electronic)
DH=Diana Hacker’s Rules for Writers
RN=Reading Notes

M Aug 31
Introductions, Defining terms, Class Materials, Receive handout (“The Five Faces of Oppression” by Iris Marion Young), Browsing our books
HMWK: 1. Read introductory material of handout; take notes in your journal; read your assigned section and prepare to report the information to the class, 2. Get a gmail address, and send it to me, 3. Look at our class blog and the old “Writing as History” (www.fallwriting2.blogspot.com) for ideas, 4. Read the RN guidelines in the syllabus

W Sep 2
Discussion of Young, Bob Dylan song (“The Lonesome Ballad of Hattie Carroll”), Thesis, How to do RNs
HMWK: 1. RN1 ST: Foreword, Prefatory Notes, Florence Scala, Lucy Jefferson, Gene Willis, Jan Powers, 2. BRING DL to next class

W Sep 9
Discussion of ST, Carolyn Forche poem (“The Colonel”), Review IMY, Look at DL
HMWK: 1. RN 2: ST: Kid Pharaoh, Stan Lenard, Eva Barnes // leaders?_____, 2. BRING DL

M Sep 14
(Leaders) Discussion of ST, Develop and vote on criteria for “Documentation,” Look at DL
HMWK: 1. RN3: DL: p. 3-28, p. 86-93 // leaders?____, 2. Read a news article at nytimes.com that connects to our class themes

W Sep 16
(Leaders) Discussion of DL, News Discussion, Explanation of News Analysis, Review criteria, Look at the blog—how to post
HMWK: 1. Read DH p. 418-423, 2. Do DH online exercise 54-1 to 54-4 (e-mail me the score), 3. Work on NA, 4. RN4: ST: Lucky Miller, Bonnie Dawson, Mrs. Fuqua Davies // leaders?____, 4. BRING DH

M Sep 21
(Leaders) Discussion of ST, Talk about quoting and citing (tools for NA)
HMWK: 1. News Analysis 1, 2. Blog: post just your NA thesis and a link to your article, 3. Skim DL 93-110, 4. BRING DL

W Sep 23
Turn in NAs, Images & Arguments, Vostell’s “Miss America,” nytimes.com “Faces of the Dead,” Test against our criteria, DL “faces”
HMWK: 1. RN5: DL 47-57, 93-110 // leaders?____, 2. Blog: think of an iconic image and briefly write about it

M Sep 28
(Leaders) Discussion of DL, Explanation of Creative Response #1, Review all the names and faces of our texts
HMWK: 1. Brainstorm/free write in your notes in order to prepare for CR1 (due M Oct 5), 2. RN6: ST Therese Carter and Helen Peters and RES. “The Fifties” (p. 175-199) // leaders?____

W Sep 30
(Leaders) Discussion of ST and Fifties, Student Example, Questions about CR1, WPA Slave Narratives, (time?) Nickel and Dimed
HMWK: 1. CR1—post on blog by Monday morning, 2. Read the blogged letters in the next few days

M Oct 5
Discuss letters?, Explanation of Oral History Assignment, Review of OH techniques, Story Corps, Student Example, Grammar lesson
HMWK: 1. Choose and schedule time with someone for your Oral History (due next Monday morning on our blog), 2. Write your interview questions, 3. RN7: DL 57-69, skim 112-131 // leaders?___, 4. DH exercises for extra credit (I’ll announce or post on the blog)

W Oct 7
(Leaders) Discussion of DL, Grammar Day!!, Catching up
HMWK: 1. RN8: ST: Henry Lorenz, Lew Gibson, Mike Kostelnik, Mrs. James Winslow, Bob Carter // leaders?____, 2. OH needs to be on blog before class on Monday

M Oct 12
(Leaders) Discussion of ST, Listen to Wiesel speech (Perils of Indifference, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ewieselperilsofindifference.html), Look at our OH postings on the blog
HMWK: 1. RN9 Pyongyang comic strip and the “Testimony” at http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/testimony.html, 2. RN10: Read 2 OH examples from our blog; post this RN on the blog

W Oct 14
Explanation of CR2, Review our materials again, CR2 student example, Sign up for conferences, Cultural Documents
HMWK: 1. Brainstorm for CR2, 2. RN 11: Read an excerpt (Aug 17-Aug22, 2003) from the blog Baghdad Burning (http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/) // leaders?____(for T Mar 10), 2. Blog: examine a cultural document: look at a popular/viral video on YouTube, or a website, or a TV show, or a movie; write a paragraph about what this tells us about our culture at this moment and whether or not there are any Social Justice themes/issues here; and provide a link to the document or to some background

M Oct 19 and W Oct 21: No classes: Conferences in CLS 2084

M Oct 26
(Leaders) Discussion of BB, Examining Cultural Documents (film clips, The Girl’s Own Paper, The Underworld Sewer, Ted Koppel on Nightline, songs, Aztec poetry, Lomax recordings, Arielle Greenberg, Brothers Grimm, Charles Daumier), Review dates for CR2 presentations
HMWK: 1. Work on CR2, and e-mail me TONIGHT with Tech requests, 2. Read some news at nytimes.com again in order to prepare for NA2

W Oct 28
Presentations
HMWK: NA2

M Nov 2
Turn in NA2, Presentations, Documentation Project, Review our criteria
HMWK: Type up a list of ideas for your Doc Proj, and review all our texts/materials

W Nov 4
Catching up, Grammar lesson, DP questions, Making connections—lists, Tribond, Ingenium, Explanation of Bridge Essay
HMWK: 1. RN12 (if you need it; otherwise, just read): RES: Rock the Junta // leaders?____, 2. Notes and ideas for Bridge Essay, 3. Work on Doc. Proj

M Nov 9
(Leaders) Discussion of RES reading, Bridge Essay questions, DP questions (esp. criteria)
HMWK: 1. Bridge Essay is due W 2. DP Proposal is due next M

W Nov 11
Guest speaker? (hopefully!): Dr. Dennis Grammenos, Discuss Doc Proj., Harpers Scavenger Hunt, Student examples of DP
HMWK: 1. DP Proposal, 2. Type up a list of topics related to your Doc Proj topic; include any research questions

M Nov 16
Partner exchange of proposals, Discussion, Topics List, Review steps/schedule for Research Paper, Grammar lesson
HMWK: 1. Read DH p. 381-415, 2. Make a list of useful things to remember as you work, 3. Make a schedule of your steps // next class: meet in the library!

W Nov 18
Library Time
HMWK: 1. Make a list of questions you have, and bring it to class, 2. DO RESEARCH!

M Nov 23
Questions, Grammar check-ups?, Scheduling & Planning, Explanation of Annotated Bibliography
HMWK: 1. Your Doc Proj and the written Explanation need to be done by next Monday, 2. Collect 10 sources for your Annotated Bibliography—due this Wednesday, 3. Consider your Thesis and where you’re headed

W Nov 25
Turn in Ann. Bibliographies, Argumentation Techniques and terms, Report to class your DP plans
HMWK: 1. Do DH exercise on p. 380 in your notes, 2. DP Explanation AND the first three pages of your paper are due when you come back from Thanksgiving—MONDAY

M Nov 30
Peer Review, Questions, Steps
HMWK: 1. First 5 pages are due on WEDNESDAY, 2. READ, WRITE, WORK

W Dec 2
Peer Review, Get back first Draft, Discuss Final presentations
HMWK: Explanation AND 7 pages AND Draft of Works Cited are due on MONDAY

M Dec 7
Get back Drafts, Turn in current Drafts, Presentations, Surveys

W Dec 9
Get back Drafts, Presentations

M Dec 14: TBA—we’ll see what is left—presentations? questions?
HMWK: 1. Read the Social Justice Statement guidelines on the blog, 2. Do a Draft on your own, 3. Submit it to me if you have questions; otherwise, just keep working, 4. Look at all your Drafts, all the notes, and get the FINAL version ready

On Wednesday Dec 16 (BY 4 P.M.), the following is due in my mailbox or in the box on my office door:
a) Your journal: just rip out and staple your notebook pages, b) Your final and complete draft of your Research Paper (Explanation of DP, Paper, SJ Statement, Works Cited)