Please check this schedule frequently for changes as needed
course calendar
Week One
Thursday 9/1
Week Two
Tuesday 9/6
Week Three
Sunday 9/11
Week Four
Sunday 9/18
Week Five
Tuesday 9/27
Week Six
Sunday 10/2
Week Seven
Sunday 10/9
Week Eight
Tuesday 10/18
Week Nine
Tuesday 10/25
Week Ten
Tuesday 11/1
Week Eleven
Sunday 11/6
Week Twelve
Tuesday 11/15
Week Thirteen
Tuesday 11/22
No School – Thanksgiving
Week Fourteen
Tuesday 11/29
Thursday 12/1
Week Fifteen
Sunday 12/4
TBD
Finals Week
Friday 12/16
Final reflection assignment due online to the dropbox in D2L
(7:45-9:45am)
Thursday 9/1
- First day interviews
- Syllabus overview
Week Two
Tuesday 9/6
- Reading due: Chapter one from The Truth About Stories
- Hand out first project prompt
- unlearning conversation
- group chat
- Discuss communal assessment
- Proposals due
- Monthly planning sesh: bring planners!
Week Three
Sunday 9/11
- Draft of project 1 due
- Reading due: Shitty First Drafts
- Discuss writing concerns and feedback wishes
- Work on Shitty First Drafts
- Revise Assessment Rubric
- Workshop drafts
- Hand out Project 2, l’object de cultura
Week Four
Sunday 9/18
- Unlearning Narrative Due by midnight to dropbox in D2L
- Conferences in my office (evaluative feedback)
- Reading due: two articles from Native Appropriations
- Drafting sesh
Week Five
Tuesday 9/27
- Reading DUE: Michael Brown's chapter, Sign Wars
- Discuss project 2 and proposals
- Draft proposals for project 2
- Monthly planning sesh
Week Six
Sunday 10/2
- Project 2 proposals DUE
- Reading due: Chapter 2 from The Truth About Stories
- Hand out Project 3 prompt
- Shitty first drafts due on Project 2
- Workshop drafts
Week Seven
Sunday 10/9
- L’object de cultura DUE by midnight to dropbox in D2L
- Readings due: “How to email your professor (without being annoying AF)” and Chapter 3 from The Truth about Stories
- Draft up interview questions and research plan
- Research plan DUE
- Meet in Library for research day
Week Eight
Tuesday 10/18
- Reading due: “Pedagogy” by Qwo-Li Driskill
- Free write day: generate ideas for zines
- Go to library to check out zines?
- Midterms: Last day to drop with no grade reported
- Meet in Writing Center, 300 EBH, for Zine-making Self Care Day
Week Nine
Tuesday 10/25
- Reading due: Chapter 4 The Truth about Stories
- Social media lurking reflection (post to D2L in class as a group)
- Research practice
- Readings due:
- Barbara Mellix's "From Outside, In" and Xin Liu Gale's "Conversing Over Cultural Boundaries"
- Write annotations and incorporate research
Week Ten
Tuesday 11/1
- Shitty first drafts due for workshop
- Rough drafts DUE
- Lightning Talks presentations DUE
Week Eleven
Sunday 11/6
- Professional Literacies Project DUE by midnight to dropbox in D2L
- Lightning Talks presentations DUE
- Introduce Project 4
- Show Knoxx video and something about making
- “Playing with Plagiarism” by Dustin Edwards
- “Craft as Memorializing Rhetoric” by Maria Novotny
Week Twelve
Tuesday 11/15
- The Olive Project by Erin Anderson
- A Tale of Two Soundscapes by Steph Ceraso
- Leaks music video by LeAnne Simpson and Cara Mumford
- Conferences, meet in my office at scheduled time
Week Thirteen
Tuesday 11/22
- King chapter 5 and epilogue
- Introduce Project 5
- Reflection practice day (bring in all previous work in the class)
No School – Thanksgiving
Week Fourteen
Tuesday 11/29
- Project 4 Presentations
Thursday 12/1
- Project 4 Presentations: First Year Writing Conference
Week Fifteen
Sunday 12/4
- Remix Project Due by midnight to dropbox in D2L
- Work on Reflection projects
- Game day
TBD
Finals Week
Friday 12/16
Final reflection assignment due online to the dropbox in D2L
(7:45-9:45am)