SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND WEIGHTED ASSIGNMENTS

SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

WEEK ONE

Monday, August 19th: INTRODUCTION

·       Introduction to the course

·       TED Video: Multiple Literacies, Code-Switching, and The Power of Telling One’s Own Story

·       Rhett Power “Success”

·       I Am From

·       Norton animated video: “Generating Ideas for A Literacy Narrative”

·       Read in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, Part:1 “Academic Literacies” (1-32)

Wednesday, August 21st: LITERACY NARRATIVES

·       Read in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, “Writing A Literacy Narrative” (81-103)

·       Norton animated video: “Thinking Rhetorically”

·       Watch the 15 second video, How to Register for and Use InQuizitive module Canvas

·   Complete the How to use InQuisitive module in Canvas

·   Complete Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism module in Canvas

WEEK TWO

Monday, August 26th: LITERACY NARRATIVES

·       Read in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, “Memoirs” (236- 244)

·       Read in The Norton Field Guide, “Describing” (456-463) and “Narrating” (474-482)

·   Read literacy narrative example from Echo In My Soul (1962) by Septima P. Clark Posted in Canvas under files (for historical background information on Clark see SNCC Digital Gateways https://snccdigital.org/people/septima-clark/)

·   Read literacy narrative example from To Smile in Autumn (1979) by Gordon Parks Posted in Canvas under files (for historical background information on Parks see Gordon Parks Foundation website https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/)

·   Read “Learning to Read” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) by Alex Haley Posted in Canvas under files

·       Complete the Critical Reading Strategies module in Canvas

Wednesday, August 28th: WORKSHOP

Ø  INITIAL DRAFT OF FORMAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT # 1: LITERACY NARRATIVE DUE/IN-CLASS WORKSHOP

Ø  Peer Review Essay #1 due in Canvas and email it to your partner

WEEK THREE

Monday, September 2nd: LABOR DAY/NO CLASSES

Wednesday, September 4th: WRITING AND READING AS PROCESS

·       Read in The Norton Field Guide, “Drafting,” “Assessing Your Own Writing,” “Getting Response and Revising,” and “Drafting” (364-379)

·       Norton animated video: “Reading Scholarly Articles”

·       The Multi-Draft Reading Process (activity)

·       Complete the Rhetorical Situations module in Canvas

Ø  FINAL DRAFT OF FWA#1: LITERACY NARRATIVE DUE IN CANVAS BY FRIDAY

WEEK FOUR

Monday, September 9th: WRITING AS EXPLORATION AND HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS  SOCIAL ISSUES

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Explorations” (269-279) and “Writing As Inquiry” (329-332)

·       Read Chapter One: “How Sociologist View Social Problems” in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach (1-20) Posted in Canvas under files

·        In Class Viewing: How Does Social Change Happen? (brief Pearson documentary)

  and “Can Meaningful Social Change Happen Without Everyone on Board?” (brief Pearson documentary)

·        TED Video: Documenting Serious Social Issues and Creating Social Movements

·        Push Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (2020) (documentary feature film)

·        Don’t Believe the Hype: The Push Out (2021) (brief spoken word PBS documentary) https://www.pbs.org/video/the-push-out-z2mhkr/

·   Norton animated video: “Examining A Text Closely”

·       Complete the Finding Sources module in Canvas

Wednesday, September 11th: VETERAN’S DAY/NO CLASSES

WEEK FIVE

Monday, September 16th: HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES

·   Examining Some Serious Social Issues: Read in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach, Chapter Six: “Crime and Criminal Justice” (142-177) Posted in Canvas under files

·   In Class Viewing: Why is it so Hard to Stop Gun Violence in the United States? (brief Pearson documentary)

·   Kids for Cash (2013) (documentary feature film)

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Justice or Murder?” (977-980)

·   Norton animated videos: “Paragraph Development: Topic Sentences” and “Supporting Sentences” and “Transitions”

·   Complete the Paragraph Development module in Canvas

Wednesday, September 18th: WORKSHOP

Ø  INITIAL DRAFT OF FORMAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2: EXPLORATORY ESSAY DUE /IN-CLASS WORKSHOP

Ø  Peer Review Essay #2 due in Canvas and email it to your partner by Friday

·       Complete the Editing the Errors That Matter:(A Comprehensive Activity) module in Canvas

 WEEK SIX

Monday, September 23rd: IDENTIFYING RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC

 WRITING

·       Read in the Norton Field Guide: “Analyzing Texts” (104-139) and “Strategies” (405-445)

·       Read in the Norton Field Guide: “Black Mamas’ Lives Matter: The Severe Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality Rates” (818-823)

·       Read “Medicalizing Racism” (2014) by James M. Thomas Posted in Canvas under Files

·   Norton animated video: “Narrowing A Topic”

·       Complete the Evaluating Sources module in Canvas

Wednesday, September 25th: HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES AND INDENTIFYING RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC WRITING

·       Read in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach, Chapter 8: “Racial-Ethnic Relations” (213- 250) Posted in Canvas under files

·       Read in the Norton Field Guide: “Strategies” (456-488)

·       Read “Racism and Stereotyping on Campus: Experiences of African American Male Student-Athletes” (2014) by Krystal Beamon Posted in Canvas under Files

·       In Class Viewing: Does Ignoring Race Fix Racism (brief Pearson documentary) and Is Racism Literally Toxic? (brief Pearson documentary)

·       Complete the Fact Checking Sources module in Canvas

Ø  FINAL DRAFT OF FWA#2: EXPLORATORY ESSAY DUE IN CANVAS DUE BY FRIDAY

WEEK SEVEN

Monday, September 30th: HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES AND INDENTIFYING RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC WRITING

·   Read in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach, Chapter 3: “Social Problems Related to Sexual Behavior” (47-75) Posted in Canvas under files

·   Read in the Norton Field Guide to Writing “The Boldness of Roxane Gay’s Hunger” (840-44)

·   In Class Viewing: Sex Trafficking in America (Frontline documentary)

·   Complete the Integrating Sources module in Canvas

Wednesday, October 2nd: HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES AND

 IDENTIFYING RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC WRITING

·   Read in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach, Chapter 4: “Alcohol and Other Drugs” (76- 110) Posted in Canvas under files

·   Read “Xenophobia and Racism” (2014) by Ronald R. Sunstrom and David Haekweon Kim Posted in Canvas under Files

·       In Class Viewing: Opioids, Inc. (Frontline documentary)

·   Norton animated video: “Using Signal Phrases”

·       Complete the Incorporating Quotations module in Canvas

WEEK EIGHT

Monday, October 7th: HOW TO EXPLORE SERIOUS SOCIAL ISSUES AND IDENTIFYING

RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC WRITING

·       Examining Some Serious Social Issues: Read in Social Problems A Down-to-Earth Approach, Chapter Five: “Violence in Society: Rape and Murder” (111-141) Posted in Canvas under files

·        Read “Making Sense of the Pandemic of Racism: From the Asian Exclusion Act in 1924 to the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in 2021” (2021) by Juwen Zhang Posted in Canvas under Files

·       In Class Viewing: Second Chance Kids (Frontline documentary)

·       Complete the Punctuating Quotations module in Canvas

Wednesday, October 9th: WORKSHOP

Ø  INITIAL DRAFT OF FORMAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3: RHETORICAL ANALYSIS DUE/IN-CLASS WORKSHOP

Ø  Peer Review Essay #3 Due in Canvas and email it to your partner by Friday

WEEK NINE

Monday, October 14th  and Tuesday, October 15th: FALL BREAK/NO CLASSES

Wednesday, October 16th: RHETORICAL STRATEGIES

·       Review rhetorical strategies in The Norton Field Guide “Classifying and Dividing” (431-436), “Comparing and Contrasting” (437-444) and “Defining” (445-455), “Describing (456-463), “Using Dialoge” (464-468), “Explaining Process” (469-473), and “Narrating” (474-482)

Ø  Rhetorical Strategies (Quiz)

·       Complete the Elements of Argument module in Canvas

Ø  FINAL DRAFT OF FWA#3/ RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY DUE IN CANVAS BY FRIDAY

WEEK TEN

Monday, October 21st: WRITING AS PROCESS

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Organizing Your Writing, Guiding Your Readers” (345-363)

·       Norton animated video: “Developing an Argumentative Thesis Statement”

·       Workshoping Preliminary Thesis Statements (activity)

·   Complete Thesis Statements module in Canvas

Wednesday, October 23rd: WRITNG WITH SOURCES AND ARGUING THROUGH SOURCES

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Arguing a Position” (164-195) and “Arguing” (410-430)

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Synthesizing Ideas” (535-541), “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (542-554), and “Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism” (555-559) and “Documentation (560-563)

·   Norton animated video: “Understanding In-Text Documentation”

·   Complete Documenting Sources: MLA Style (2021) Update module in Canvas

WEEK ELEVEN

Monday, October 28th: CONDUCTING RESEARCH

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Doing Research” (489), “Getting Started on Research” (491-500), “Finding Sources” (501-523), and “Evaluating Sources” (524-534)

·       Complete the Finding Sources and Evaluating Sources modules in Canvas

·       In Class Viewing: “How Do You Avoid Bias In Your Research?” (brief Pearson documentary)

·       Norton animated video: “Organizing and Synthesizing Ideas”

·       Norton animated video: “Using Signal Phrases”

Wednesday, October 30th: WORKSHOP

Ø  INITIAL DRAFT OF FORMAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT #4: ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY DUE/IN-CLASS WORKSHOP

Ø  Peer Review Essay #4 due in Canvas and email it to your partner by Friday

WEEK TWELVE

Monday, November 4th: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Wednesday, November 6th: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

WEEK THIRTEEN

Monday, November 11th: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Wednesday, November 13th: GIVING PRESENTATIONS

·   Read in The Norton Field Guide “Media/Design” (657); “Choosing Media” (659-663); “Designing Text” (664-672); “Using Visuals, Incorporating Sound” (673); “Writing and Learning Online” (684-693); “Giving Presentations” (694-706)

WEEK FOURTEEN

Monday, November 18th:  20 MINUTE FINAL PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC OF YOUR ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY

Wednesday, November 20th:  20 MINUTE FINAL PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC OF YOUR ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY

WEEK FIFTEEN

Monday, November 25th: 20 MINUTE FINAL PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC OF YOUR ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY

Wednesday, November 27th: 20 MINUTE FINAL PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC OF YOUR ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH ESSAY

Ø  FINAL DRAFT OF FIVE-PAGE ARGUMENTATIVE RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CANVAS BY FRIDAY

WEEK SIXTEEN IS FINALS WEEK

Ø  Monday, December 2nd thru Friday, December 6th

Ø  Wednesday, December 11th: Final Grades due in Banner