WEEK ONE Tuesday, September 8th • Questions + Asymptotes Cioffi, Argumentation in a Culture of Discord Wallace, This Is Water Thursday, September 10th • Reading Like a Writer Bunn, How to Read Like a Writer Re-read Wallace and Cioffi...like a writer! Viswanathan, Growing Up With a Dose of Magic Email to Me WEEK TWO Tuesday, September 15th • Digging Deeper Nocera, Hearing With the Heart North, Writing is a Process of Abandoning the Familiar Begin gathering evidence for Essay 1 Sign up for Wordpress and answer question on Q&A blog Thursday, September 17th • Making Connections Smith, Some Notes on Attunement Q&A Blog question! WEEK THREE Tuesday, September 22nd • Discovery Peitzman, “There's Something Inside of Me:” Coming Out as a Gay Horror Fan Wallace, How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart Essay 1 outline Blog comment Thursday, September 24th • Practice Workshop Chamberlain, Workshop Is Not For You Sample Essays 1 [CTools Resources] Margin comments on both samples Workshop letter on one sample Bring your schedule to sign up for conferences next week Blog question! ***Sunday, September 27th • Essay 1 Rough Draft Due by 5PM via CTools Forums*** WEEK FOUR Tuesday, September 29th • Workshop Workshop Letters Blog comment Thursday, October 1st • Cla** Cancelled for Conferences Descriptive outline Blog question!!! ***Sunday, October 4th • Essay 1 Final Draft + Exit Survey Due via CTools Assignments*** WEEK FIVE Tuesday, October 6th • Pattern Recognition Denby, High School Confidential Paur, Recipe for a Movie Genre Blog comment!!! Thursday, October 8th • Compare + Complicate Boxer, Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead? Rosenwa**er and Stephen, an*lysis: What It Is and What It Does Samples for close reading Blog question!!! WEEK SIX Tuesday, October 13th • See Fig. 1 Douglas, It's Supposed to Look Like sh**: The Internet Ugly Aesthetic At least five pieces of evidence Blog comment!!! Thursday, October 15th • So What? Prose, Voting Democracy Off the Island Outline first three sections with topic and transition sentences Blog question!!! WEEK SEVEN Tuesday, October 20th // FALL BREAK Blog comment!!! Thursday, October 22nd • Building Blocks Wallace, This is Water Saunders, Congratulations, By The Way Commencement speech of your choice Kamenetz, What We Learned From The Best Commencement Speeches Ever Klosterman, Why I Am Rooting for Duke: An Argument in 7 Ascending Steps Thesis statement Blog question!!! ***Sunday, October 25th • Essay 2 Rough Draft Due via CTools Forums*** WEEK EIGHT Tuesday, October 27th • Workshop Workshop letters (A) Blog comment!!! Thursday, October 29th • Workshop Workshop letters (B) Blog question!!! ***Sunday, November 1st • Essay 2 Final Draft + Exit Survey Due via CTools Assignments*** WEEK NINE Tuesday, November 3rd • Driving Questions, Questions About Driving Gladwell, Big and Bad Blog comment Thursday, November 5th • Experimentation Baum, Happiness is a Worn Gun Driving question + research plan Blog question ***Sunday, November 8th by 5PM • Respond to questions/propsals in research group*** WEEK TEN Tuesday, November 10th • Search and Research! Alexander, Introduction to The New Jim Crow Blog comment (optional) Thursday, November 12th • LIBRARY SESSION Questions + keywords for library research Driscoll, Introduction to Primary Research Blog question ***Sunday, November 15th by 5PM • Primary Research Update*** WEEK ELEVEN Tuesday, November 17th • Finding Answers (and More Questions) McGonigal, How Might Video Games Be Good for Us? Respond to primary research updates in research group forum Blog comment (optional) Thursday, November 19th • Integrating Sources BYO Readings Stedman, Annoying Ways People Use Sources Blog question ***Sunday, November 22nd • Field notes, annotated bibliography and DETAILED outline*** WEEK TWELVE Tuesday, November 24th • Planning for Revision Wybrecht, A Tale of Two Ice Cream Stores (rough and final drafts) Respond to field notes, annotated bibliography, and outline in research group Blog QUESTION Blog comment (optional) Thursday, November 26th // THANKSGIVING
***Sunday, November 29th • Essay 3 Final Draft + Exit Survey Due via CTools Assignments*** WEEK THIRTEEN Tuesday, December 1st • What's So Funny? 21 Movies With “Upworthy” Titles Carlson, Blah Magazine Mitchell, An Honest Facebook Political Argument Kuperberg, Climate Change Christmas Carols Burstein, The New and Improved SAT Thursday, December 3rd • Dear Audience Other Forms Samples + Tools Madden, An Open Letter to My Christian Friends Henderson, Open Letter to Kansas School Board Wayne, Dissecting a Frog: How to Write a Humor Piece Also check out: McSweeney's Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond “Essay” 4: Proposal BLOG QUESTION WEEK FOURTEEN
Tuesday, December 8th • Other Other Forms Horsey, The American Dream Game McCorkle, The Annotated Obama Poster MacNaughton, Should I Check Email? Is the HPV Vaccine Safe? Parable of the Polygons xkcd, Wikipedian Protester, How It Works, Science Montage Examples an*lysis BLOG COMMENT Thursday, December 10th • Final workshop: Lightning Round! comments Rough draft of “Essay” 4 Tuesday, December 15th • Goodbye, Q&A Blog! FINAL BLOG COMMENT ***Friday, December 18th • Final Draft of "Essay 4" due via email or CTools BY 5 PM***