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Note: All "Homework Assigned is due the next class day by the beginning of class unless otherwise noted. So, if you see the bullet "Homework Assigned: Read WOVENText, pp. 1-3" under Day 4, Thursday, August 31, then that work must be completed by Tuesday, September 5 by the beginning of class unless otherwise noted.
Week 1
Week 1
Day 1, Tuesday, August 22
Syllabus
Calendar
WOVEN An Activity
Belonging, Communication, and Initial Reflections
Homework Assigned (Note: this seems like a lot. It's really only about 20-30 minutes of work)
Read the syllabus, paying particular attention to the goals and outcomes, the tardiness and absence policies, make up policies, and the computer usage policy. Complete the Syllabus Quiz by Monday, August 28 at 5:00 PM.
Update your Image on your Canvas Account. On the Canvas homepage, select "Account," then click "Settings," then hover your cursor over the picture and select the pencil that appears. Upload or take a clear picture of yourself for that picture. And, edit your pronouns if you'd like.
Complete the assignment "WOVEN Reflection" in the Week 1 module (and on the Assignments page)
Read in WOVENText "Critical Concept Three: Communication is Multimodal” [you'll have to scroll down], "How Does Multimodal Synergy Enhance Intellectual Development," and "Why Are Self-Reflection & Self-Assessment about Communication Processes & Artifacts Important?"
Complete the Assignment "What is Writing / Composition Like? 1"
Complete the Assignment "Goals and Learning Outcomes 1"
Bring to class, if possible, an old writing assignment or writing project or essay and the commentary given to you by your teacher, instructor, or professor. You don't need to submit it anywhere. Just bring it on your computer.
Day 2, Thursday, August 24
Extension Log Policy
Oral Presentation
Internal Editor
Improvisation
Homework Assigned:
Artifact 0 due by Monday, August 28 at 10:00 AM in Canvas. Follow the submission instructions.
Read the syllabus if you haven't already. Complete the Syllabus Quiz on Canvas by Monday, August 28 at 5:00 PM.
(Remember that when no due date or time is listed, then the content is due by the beginning of the next day of class. In this case, that means that the content in the next three bullet points is due by Tuesday, August 29 by the beginning of your section's class. The assignment submission page closes the moment class begins.)
Read in WOVENText “Critical Concept One: Communication is Rhetorical”
Bring your computers to class on Tuesday, August 29
Submit the Artifact 0 Script via the "Artifact 0 Script" Assignment in the Canvas Assignment page.
Note: Friday, August 25: Deadline for Registration/Schedule Changes at 4:00 PM ET
Week 2
Week 2
Day 3, Tuesday, August 29
Artifact 0 Reflection
Memoir and Belonging
Homework Assigned:
Read from Fun Home by Alison Bechdel hosted on Canvas in the Week 2 Module
Read from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud hosted on Canvas in the Week 2 Module
Read in Writer/Designer "Analyzing Design Choices," pp. 44-51
Respond to the reading in the assignment "Bechdel Response"
Day 4, Thursday, August 31
What's a Memoir? Why a Memoir?
Discussing Bechdel
Comics: the Basics
Multimodal Composition
Written versus Visual Communication
Homework Assigned:
Read your assigned Memoirs (The memoirs themselves are hosted on Canvas Homepage in the module titled "Memoirs"). Your assignments are listed in the document just above those memoirs in that same location as "Memoir Reading Assignments [section#]."
Respond to the Assignment "Memoir Readings Impressions"
Week 3
Week 3
Day 5, Tuesday, September 5
Memoir and Presentation
Memoir Presentations
Memoir Writing Activity
Homework Assigned
Read "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" by Richard Wright
Respond to the reading in the Assignment "Wright Response." Follow the questions provided.
Respond to the assignment "Brainstorming Memoir"
Day 6, Thursday, September 7
Remaining Presentations
Discussion of "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" by Richard Wright
Writing Discussion Questions
Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Theory
Homework Assigned:
Your Memoir, comic OR written, is due for Peer Review. Submit this via "Artifact 1 Peer Review." This should be a fairly completed draft. At least 3/4 must have been written or storyboarded to receive credit. Please note how peer review is tied to the Artifact 1 grade here. Submit content regardless of its completion so that you may be assigned peers to review on Tuesday.
Read in Writer/Designer from "Peer Reviewing Multimodal Projects" to where the section "Touchpoint: Giving Feedback on a Rough Draft" begins. You may stop there. (Pp. 121-124~)
Week 4
Week 4
Day 7, Tuesday, September 12
Artifact 1 draft due for Peer Review. Submit via "Artifact 1 Peer Review" Assignment before this day's class begins.
Peer Review
In-Class Peer Review Session
Peer Review Reflection
Homework Assigned:
Complete the assignment "Artifact 1 Post Peer Review Reflection."
Artifact 1 Due. Must be submitted via "Artifact 1 Final." You should try to incorporate peer feedback, but it is not required. If you are planning on doing an extension, the extension log must be completed by the due date and time the artifact is due to avoid a Late Penalty. Filling out an extension log does not have any bearing on your grade for this Artifact.
Day 8, Thursday, September 14
Memoirs due via "Artifact 1 Final" assignment.
Artifact 1 Reflection
Assessment Practices
Writing a Bio
An Intro to Introductions
Homework Assigned (due by beginning of class Thursday, Sept. 21):
Read "Meditation at Decatur Square" by Natasha Trethewey (hosted on Canvas). Just so you know, she is talking about Decatur, Georgia.
Check out information I have linked here about the Monuments she mentions in the first section of her poem. The first, the steatite boulder, is here. The second, Jefferson, is here. The third, the old Confederate monument, is here and includes writing of the inscriptions.
Reflect on this poem and some other questions in the assignment "Trethewey and What Is the South Reflection"
Read the Artifact 2 Assignment Page
Week 5
Week 5
Day 9, Tuesday, September 19 -- NO CLASS
Day 10, Thursday, September 21
Authenticity, Belonging, and Place
What is the South?
Discussion of Trethewey
Homework Assigned:
Respond to the reading in the assignment "Monuments and the Lost Cause."
Week 6
Week 6
Day 11, Tuesday, September 26
NicGhabhann discussion
Features of Monumental Rhetoric
Techniques of Close Reading
Written Analysis to Visual Analysis
Homework Assigned:
Submit a picture or brief description of TWO monuments you may use via "Artifact 2 Monument Approval" Assignment
Find an example of an infographic you find compelling or interesting.
Reflect on that Infographic in the Assignment "Infographic Selection and Analysis."
Day 12, Thursday, September 28
What is an Infographic?
Examples of Infographics
Features of Monumental Rhetoric
Workshopping Your Monuments
Homework Assigned:
Follow the instructions on the prompt in the assignment "Artifact 2 Monument Reflections."
Next class we will be meeting with Alison Valk in the Library to go over tools for creating your infographic. Make every effort to be there as this is quite helpful! We'll be in Crosland Tower Classroom 2130.
Week 7
Week 7
Day 13, Tuesday, October 3
Library Visit - Crosland Tower Classroom 2130
Canva
Adobe Photoshop
Homework Assigned
Continue to work on your infographics!
Day 14, Thursday, October 5
Features Reminder
Context Work
(Features Reminder, Context Work.pptx)
Design Considerations
Workshop
Homework Assigned:
Submit your Artifact 2 for Peer Review by the beginning of class on Thursday, October 12. Final-ish Drafts are ideal but rough designs and highly developed sketches with well-developed main argumentative / interpretive claims and analytical points will be accepted.
Week 8
Week 8
Day 15, Tuesday, October 10: NO CLASS-Fall Break
Homework Assigned:
Submit your Artifact 2 for Peer Review by the beginning of class on Thursday, October 12. Final-ish Drafts are ideal but rough designs and highly developed sketches with well-developed main argumentative / interpretive claims and analytical points will be accepted.
Day 16, Thursday, October 12
Artifact 2 Peer Review
Peer Review Reflections
In-Class Workshop
Submit your disciplinary choices, following instructions in the assignment "My Disciplines" by Friday, October 13 at 5:00 PM
Complete "Artifact 2 Peer Review Reflection"
Artifact 2 Due via "Artifact 2 Final"
Week 9
Week 9
Day 17, Tuesday, October 17
Artifact 2 Due
Artifact 2 Reflection
Artifact 3 Groups
The Ad Game
Discourse Communities
Values make Rhetoric
Homework Assigned
Your Artifact 3 Group Collaboration Contracts are due by Friday, October 20 at 11:59 PM (close to midnight)
Read the Artifact 3 Assignment Sheet
Read "Three Questions to Ask When Embarking on an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration" by Margaret Schedel and Heather Lynch (opinion)
Reflect in the assignment "Collaboration Reflection (Individual)."
Day 18, Thursday, October 19
Discourse Communities
Values, Rhetoric
Structure, Reference, Language
A Note on Humanities
Finding an Academic Article (saving as a pdf)
Citations
Homework Assigned:
Your Artifact 3 Group Collaboration Contracts are due by Friday, October 20 at 11:59 PM (close to midnight)
Bring in three peer-reviewed, academic articles related to your assigned discipline/major, submitting them as pdf's via "Three Articles (Individual) (New)."
Sign up for the podcast your group will cover in the Genre Presentation Assignment. You may not sign up for a podcast that has already been claimed. Only one group member needs to complete this. Sign up via the link in the Canvas Module Week 9, Day 18 called "Genre Presentation Sign Up Page."
Week 10
Week 10
Day 19, Tuesday, October 24
Brainstorming Techniques
Brainstorming and Interdisciplinarity
Summarizing an Academic Article
Summary Activity
Genre Presentation Assignment
Homework Assigned:
Submit the summary of your academic article via "Article Summary (Individual)"
Listen to any episode of the Lost in the Stacks Podcast, link to the archive here.
Day 20, Thursday, October 26
Charlie Bennett Visit
Podcasting Techniques
Recording Recommendations
Homework Assigned
Create and Submit your Genre Presentation via the "Podcast Genre Presentation" assignment. This must be submitted as a pdf or ppt or pptx file, not as a link to a Google Slides page.
Read "South" by Natasha Trethewey
Read "Barbecue is an American Tradition ... " by Michael Twitty
Week 11
Week 11
Day 21, Tuesday, October 31
Genre Presentations (3)
South to Interdisciplinarity
Barbecue as a Case Study
Finding a Topic
Brainstorming Activity
Proposals (CFPs)
Homework Assigned:
Listen to this episode of Radiolab
Respond in the assignment "Radiolab Reflection."
Day 22, Thursday, November 2
Genre Presentations (3)
Radiolab Discussion
Specificity, Segments, Roles
Homework Assigned:
Podcast Proposals are due
Week 12
Week 12
Day 23, Tuesday, November 7
Elements of Successful (Infotainment) Podcasts
Podcast Icons
Podcaster Descriptions
Episode Descriptions
Homework Assigned:
Optional: Submit an Icon or Podcaster Descriptions via "Optional: Icon and/or Descriptor" for light review and feedback.
Day 24, Thursday, November 9 -
No Class Attendance Required.
Use this time to work together on your podcast.
I will be in the classroom during that time if you (or y'all) would like to come by and discuss.
Homework Assigned:
All Podcast Deliverables Due by Tuesday, November 14 via "Artifact 3 Final."
Week 13
Week 13
Day 25, Tuesday, November 14
Peer Ratings
Listening Party
Portfolios, Peer Assessment, Artifact 3 Reflection
Homework Assigned
Complete "Peer Assessments" by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 17
Complete "Artifact 3 Reflection" by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 17
Day 26, Thursday, November 16
Peer Ratings
Listening Party
Portfolios, Peer Assessment, Artifact 3 Reflection
Homework Assigned:
Complete "Peer Assessment" by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 17
Complete "Artifact 3 Reflection" by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 17
Read about Portfolios, beginning at the heading "Building Your Communication Portfolio" through "What is the English 1101 or 1102 portfolio & how does it enhance my education?" by Tuesday, November 28 at the beginning of class.
Complete the Assignment "What is Writing/Composition Like? 2"
You may revise your Artifact 2. Please follow instructions in the assignment "[Optional] Revision Opportunity for Artifact 2." This must be completed by the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 28.
Week 14
Week 14
Day 27, Tuesday, November 21--NO CLASS, THANKSGIVING BREAK
Day 28, Thursday, November 23--NO CLASS, THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 15
Week 15
Day 29, Tuesday, November 28
Themes and Reflections
Portfolios
Artifact 0, 1, 2, 3 Pages and Expectations
Reflection Essays
Homework Assigned:
Complete your Reflection Essay in your Portfolio page. Make sure your Portfolio link is submitted via Final Portfolio for in-class peer-review.
Day 30, Thursday, November 30
Reflection Essay Portfolio Workshop / Peer Review
Artifact 0, 1, 2, 3 Pages and Expectations
CIOS Completion
Homework Assigned:
Portfolios are due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, December 5
Attendance in class on Tuesday, December 5 is optional. I will be in the classroom and available for questions, email, or hanging out throughout the duration of class time. Please let me know if you submit your portfolio early!
Week 16
Week 16
Day 31, Tuesday, December 5 -- LAST DAY OF CLASSES--Optional attendance, I will be in the classroom if you need assistance with your portfolio.
Workshopping
Portfolio due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
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