MW Calendar

Week Two—Unit One (Critical Reading Methods)

M: 8/24            In Class: Syllabus, Introductions, What is Composition?

W: 8/26           The Carolina Reader: David Foster Wallace “This is Water”(xii-xviii); Lewis Carroll “Jabberwocky” (31-32).
The Little Penguin Handbook: Chapter Two (4-6)
In Class: Reading “Jabberwocky” beyond our default settings; Discuss SWA 1
Bureaucratic Announcement: Last day to change/drop course without receiving a “W” on your transcript

Week Three
 

M: 8/31            The Carolina Reader: Roland Barthes “Death of the Author” (2-7); Relook at Lewis Carroll “The Jabberwocky” (31-32)
In Class: Differentiating between “What does she mean” and “What does it mean;” Discuss Essay 1
Due: SWA 1

W: 9/2             The Carolina Reader: Stanley Fish “How to Recognize a Poem When you See One” (7-20); Relook at Lewis Carroll “The Jabberwocky” (31-32)
In Class: The importance of genre and culture

Week Four

M: 9/7              No Class—Labor Day!

W: 9/9             The Carolina Reader: H.P. Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls" (40-56)
In Class: Utilizing different interpretation strategies; Introduction to peer review; Establish local, mezzo, and global issues for this paper
Due: First Draft Essay 1 (4 hardcopies)

Week Five

M: 9/14            The Little Penguin Handbook: Chapters 3-5 (7-15) and Chapters 12-13 (58-67)
In Class: Peer Review; Source integration and plagiarism
Due: Peer Review Letters

W: 9/16           No Reading: Work on your paper!
In Class: The standard reflection exercise; Wrap up discussion of theories of interpretation.
Due: Second Draft Essay 1 (1 hardcopy and Blackboard)

 Week Six—Unit Two (Visual Reading Practices)

M: 9/21            The Carolina Reader: John Berger “Hiroshima” (128-134)
Blackboard: Phillip Levine “A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”; Unforgettable Fire (skim)
In Class: Visual representations, affect, and meaning 

W: 9/23           Blackboard: RadioLab “Sight Unseen”
In Class: Do photo-essays have a unique power?; view other photo essays; Discuss SWA 2

Week Seven

M: 9/28            The Carolina Reader: Scott McCloud “from Understanding Comics” (70-107)
Blackboard: Usability.gov “Visual Design Basics”
In Class: The importance of layout; comics and affect
Due: SWA 2

W: 9/30           The Carolina Reader: Art Spiegelman “from Maus” (134-142); Will Eisner “from A Contract With God” (107-128); Relook at Scott McCloud “from Understanding Comics” (70-107).
In Class: Storytelling and affect; Discuss Essay 2

Week Eight

M: 10/5            The Carolina Reader: Guy Delisle “from Pyongyang” (150-160); Relook at Scott McCloud “from Understanding Comics” (70-107)
In Class: Breaking conventions with style; Establish local, mezzo, and global issues for this paper
Due: First Draft Essay 2 (4 hardcopies)

W: 10/7           In Class: Peer Review; introductions and conclusions
Due: Peer Review Letters (2 hardcopies of each)

Week Nine

M: 10/12          In Class: Organization and reverse outlining
Bureaucratic Announcement: Last day to drop a course or withdraw without a grade of "WF" being recorded
Due: Bring the current version of your draft to class (hardcopy or digital)

W: 10/14         No Reading: Work on your paper!
In Class: Standard Reflection Exercise!; Wrap up discussion of visual reading practices.
Due: Second Draft Essay 2 (1 hardcopy and Blackboard)

Week Ten—Unit Three (Cultural and Historical Criticisms)

M: 10/19          The Carolina Reader: Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (208-222)
Blackboard: Anne Stiles “Go Rest, Young Man”  
In Class: Fiction as social critique

W: 10/21         The Carolina Reader: Nely Bly “Ten Days in a Madhouse" (190-208)
Blackboard: S. Weir Mitchell “Rest in the Treatment of Nervous Disease” (95-97)
The Little Penguin Handbook: Chapters 8-10 (32-53)
In Class: Bly and Gilman as subversive; Discuss SWA 3

Week Eleven

M: 10/26          Blackboard: Malcolm X “Message to the Grassroots”
                        In Class: Understanding X’s rhetoric in context
                        Due: SWA 3

W: 10/28         The Carolina Reader: Stokely Carmichael “Black Power” (247-261); Martin Luther King “The World House” (283-300)
In Class: Comparing X, Carmichael, and King; Discuss Essay 3

Week Twelve

M: 11/2            The Carolina Reader: Relook at Martin Luther King “The World House” (283-300); Relook at Malcolm X “Message to the Grassroots;” Relook at Stokely Carmichael “Black Power” (247-261)
In Class: What does looking at these authors in tandem teach us?;Establish local, mezzo, and global issues for this paper
Due: First Draft Essay 3 (4 hardcopies)

W: 11/4           In Class: Peer Review; read aloud exercise
Due: Peer Review Letters (2 hardcopies of each)

Week Thirteen

M: 11/9            The Little Penguin Handbook: Chapters 18-21 (156-177) and Skim Chapters 22-35 (178-250)
In Class: “Correct Speech,” education, and ideology

W: 11/11         No Reading: Revise your essay!
In Class: The standard reflection exercise!; Wrap up discussion of cultural criticism
Due: Second Draft Essay 3 (1 hardcopy and Blackboard)

Week Fourteen—Unit Four (Comparative Analyses)

M: 11/16          The Carolina Reader: Julia Ward Howe “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (462-464)
Blackboard: Peruse Civil War Trust “Music of the 1860s”; Titus Andronicus “A More Perfect Union”
In Class: Mutation, allusion, and cultural touchstones; Discuss SWA 4

W: 11/18          The Carolina Reader: Julia Ward Howe “Battle Hymn of the Republic” 
                        (462-464)
                        Blackboard: Peruse Civil War Trust “Music of the 1860s”
                        In Class: Describing the different sides of a conflict

Week Fifteen

M: 11/23          The Carolina Reader: Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self-Reliance” (437-456); Cornel West “Moral Obligation of Living in a Democratic Society” (456-461)
In Class: Comparing Emerson and West’s perspectives on community; Discuss Essay 4
Due: SWA 4

W: 11/25         No Class—Thanksgiving Break!

Week Sixteen

M: 11/30          No Reading: Work on your paper!
In Class: Discuss difficulties with this paper; Establish local, mezzo,and global issues for this paper
Due: First Draft Essay 4 (4 hardcopies)

W: 12/2           In Class: Peer Review
Due: Peer Review Letters (2 hardcopies of each)

Finals Week

Final Portfolio Due During our Final Period—Details TBA

(Optional prep reading for 102—Wayne C. Booth “The Rhetorical Stance”)