TR Calendar

Week One

R: 8/20            In Class: Syllabus, Introductions, What is Composition? 

Week Two—Unit One (Critical Reading Methods)

T: 8/25             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
Bureaucratic Announcement: Tomorrow is the last day to change/drop course without receiving a “W” on your transcript

R: 8/27            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 SWA 1

 

Week Three

T: 9/1               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 power of genre; Discuss Essay 1
Due: SWA 1

R: 9/3              The Carolina Reader: H.P. Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls" (40-56)
In Class: Utilizing the different reading strategies

Week Four

T: 9/8               No Reading: Work on your paper!
In Class: Wrap up discussion of H.P. Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls" (40-56); Introduction to peer review; Establish local, mezzo, and global issues for this paper
Due: First Draft Essay 1 (4 hardcopies)

R: 9/10            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 (2 hardcopies of each)

Week Five

T: 9/15             The Carolina Reader: Guy Maupassant “The Necklace” (32-40)
In Class: Utilizing different reading strategies; comparing to “The Rats in the Walls”

 

R: 9/17            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)

T: 9/22             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 

R: 9/25            Blackboard: RadioLab “Sight Unseen”
In Class: Do photo-essays have a unique power?; view other photo essays; Discuss SWA 2

Week Seven

T: 9/29             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

R: 10/1            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

T: 10/6             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)

R: 10/8            In Class: Peer Review; introductions and conclusions
Due: Peer Review Letters (2 hardcopies of each)

Week Nine

T: 10/13           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)

R: 10/15          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)

T: 10/20           The Carolina Reader: Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (208-222)
Blackboard: Anne Stiles “Go Rest, Young Man” ; S. Weir Mitchell “Rest in the Treatment of Nervous Disease” (95-97)
In Class: Fiction as social critique; Discuss SWA 3

R: 10/22          No Class—Fall Break!       

  

Week Eleven

T: 10/27           Blackboard: Malcolm X “Message to the Grassroots”
                        In Class: Understanding X’s rhetoric in context
                        Due: SWA 3

R: 10/29          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

T: 11/3             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?
Due: First Draft Essay 3 (4 hardcopies)

R: 11/5            In Class: PeerReview; read aloud exercise
Due: Peer Review Letters (2 hardcopies of each)

Week Thirteen

T: 11/10           The Little Penguin Handbook: Chapters 18-21 (156-177) and Skim Chapters 22-35 (178-250)
In Class: “Correct Speech,” education, and ideology

R: 11/12          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)

T: 11/17           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

R: 11/19          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

T: 11/24           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

R: 11/26          No Class—Thanksgiving Break!

Week Sixteen

T: 12/1             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)

R: 12/3            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”)