tentative syllabus ENGL301 Writing & The Teaching of Writing
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6 September 2017
W First Day of Classes. Introduction to the Course. What does your gut tell you about a good classroom?
11 September 2017
M Please locate one article that deals with education from the past year—it can be from any newspaper or magazine, popular or scholarly. Have it read and be ready to write about and discuss your article in class.
W READ: Chapters 1-3 in Constance Weaver’s Grammar to Enrich & Enhance Writing.You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: l on the Constance Weaver reading. In-class work on grammar lust & loathing. In class discussion of Mentor Text Memoir. Come to class having read the information on the web site for these assignments.
18 September 2017
M READ: Chapters 1-3 of Lives on the Boundary.You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: We will work as a class on how to write your first reading journal.
W In class discussion of Mentor Text Memoir. Come to class having read the information on the web site for these assignments. We will work on this in class, catch up with whatever we've got to catch up with, and in class discussion of Book Club. Come to class having read the information on the web site on this assignment.
25 September 2017
M READ: Chapters 4, 5, & 6 of Lives on the Boundary. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: First official Reading Journal. Draft of Mentor Text Memoir for workshopping. Please bring TWO COPIES of your draft for use in class. IN-CLASS: First workshop. Discussion of sample evaluation letters and “Reading with Love.” You can read sample letters here.
W READ: Chapters 7, 8, & epilogue in Lives on the Boundary and handout “Why Johnny Can’t Write.” DUE: Reading Journal.
2 October 201
M IN-CLASS: Gertrude Stein exercise. DUE: Also, draft of Mentor Text Memoir to turn in to me, include your woskhop drafts with your revision.
W READ: Frank Smith handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal. IN-CLASS: First book club meeting. You won’t need to have read your book for the first meeting, BUT you should bring your book so that you can determine how many pages you need to read for each book club in order to have the text done by the time of the book club presentations. Explanation of online book club.
9 October 2017
M Columbus Day Holiday. All classes are canceled. Online Book Club: See our class fake blog page accessible here. Please complete your post and response by class time on Wednesday.
W READ: Louise Rosenblatt handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal.
16 October 2017
M READ: Wolfgang Iser handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal on Iser only (not on your book club book). IN-CLASS: Second Book Club meeting. Have read the agreed upon portion of your book club. Be ready to write about it in-class.
W READ: Freire Handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: Reading Theory Dialogue Exercise. Also, overview of midterm portfolio. Please come to class having read the assignment information on the course website.
23 October 2017
M IN-CLASS: Final Book Club Meeting. You should have the book completed at this time. Be prepared to write a final reading journal. Presentation of Reading Theory Dialogue Exercise.
W IN-CLASS: Book Club Presentation Working Time. This is the only class time you’ll have to ready your book club presentation.
30 October 2017
M DUE: Book Club Presentations.
W DUE: Mid-term portfolios. Time in class to write your mid-term portfolio cover letter. Bring your laptop to class for this purpose. I'll provide you with an envelope to put your materials in. You will need to turn in your portfolio materials at the end of class time.
6 November 2017
M In-Class: Mapping Exercise.
W Probably in honor of my birthday, and, also, the real holiday Veteran's day, Wednesday is a Friday schedule. No Wednesday classes meet. Not to take anything at all away from the real and solemn reason for this holiday, Happy Birthday to us. READ: "We Do Language." You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Click here to get to the blog page for this assignment.
13 November 2017
M IN-CLASS: Library Research Day. Either we will go to the Library people or the library people will come to us. Time in class to find articles, work with your group. ALSO: Completed Map packet with bio information. Please be ready to turn that in with your writer's notebook as a complete package. Discussion of Research in Teaching Diverse Populations. Please come to class having read the assignment on this website.
W READ: pages 208 to 237 in Write Beside Them. Read, also, Introduction: Writing Assessment Ecologies as Anti-Racist Projects, From Asaou Inoue's Anti-Racist Writing Assessment available as a free pdf on the "readings" page for this class (to the right of the syllabus link, scroll to the bottom of the page). DUE: Reading Journal. IN-CLASS: Also, responding to student writing practice.
20 November 2017
M READ: Parts 1 and 2 of Write Beside Them. DUE: Reading Journal on ALL of the reading assigned for today, ONE journal for all of the reading. In-class work on annotated bibliographies. Come to class having read (and perhaps even taken notes) on at least one of your articles. IN-CLASS: Also, please read the information for the Assignment Design assignment available on this website. Come prepared to talk about this in class. Also, responding to student writing practice.
W READ: Part 4 of Write Beside Them. DUE: Reading Journal on ALL of the reading assigned for today, ONE journal for all of the reading.Check out these interesting bits of teaching stuff: From NPR on the history of MCAS in MA and the relationship to the PARQUE exam on the use of portfolios rather than parent teacher conferences.
NOTE: Thanksgiving Recess begins at the close of day classes. Evening classes do not meet.
27 November 2017
M DUE: Annotations for Annotated Bib for workshopping. In-class work on Research in Teaching Diverse Students Presentations. In-Class work on cover letter. Also, responding to student writing practice.
W IN-CLASS: Time to complete Teaching Diverse Students Presentations.
4 December 2017
M DUE: Research on Teaching Diverse Students Annotated Bibliographies, with cover letters. IN-CLASS: Start, Research in Teaching Diverse Student Presentations. Also, check in on Assignment Design. Sign up for Assignment Design Group Conferences. Finally, discussion of Philosophy of Teaching Assignment. Please come to class having read the information about the assignment on this website.
W IN-CLASS: Finish Research in Teaching Diverse Student Presentations. Sign up for Assignment Design Workshops here.
11 December 2017
M In-Class: Mapping exercise.
W Last Day of Class (as well as last day of fall semester classes). Evaluations. READ: My philosophy of Teaching, available here. IN-CLASS: Philosophy of Teaching workshop.
Monday, 18 December 2017
Portfolios are due ELECTRONICALLY by midnight on the 18th. You'll receive a grade letter electronically shortly there after. You are welcome to turn it in early if you choose, but I am out of the country as of 16 December 2017. So if you want to give me a hard copy of anything, it's got to be before then.
W First Day of Classes. Introduction to the Course. What does your gut tell you about a good classroom?
11 September 2017
M Please locate one article that deals with education from the past year—it can be from any newspaper or magazine, popular or scholarly. Have it read and be ready to write about and discuss your article in class.
W READ: Chapters 1-3 in Constance Weaver’s Grammar to Enrich & Enhance Writing.You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: l on the Constance Weaver reading. In-class work on grammar lust & loathing. In class discussion of Mentor Text Memoir. Come to class having read the information on the web site for these assignments.
18 September 2017
M READ: Chapters 1-3 of Lives on the Boundary.You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: We will work as a class on how to write your first reading journal.
W In class discussion of Mentor Text Memoir. Come to class having read the information on the web site for these assignments. We will work on this in class, catch up with whatever we've got to catch up with, and in class discussion of Book Club. Come to class having read the information on the web site on this assignment.
25 September 2017
M READ: Chapters 4, 5, & 6 of Lives on the Boundary. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: First official Reading Journal. Draft of Mentor Text Memoir for workshopping. Please bring TWO COPIES of your draft for use in class. IN-CLASS: First workshop. Discussion of sample evaluation letters and “Reading with Love.” You can read sample letters here.
W READ: Chapters 7, 8, & epilogue in Lives on the Boundary and handout “Why Johnny Can’t Write.” DUE: Reading Journal.
2 October 201
M IN-CLASS: Gertrude Stein exercise. DUE: Also, draft of Mentor Text Memoir to turn in to me, include your woskhop drafts with your revision.
W READ: Frank Smith handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal. IN-CLASS: First book club meeting. You won’t need to have read your book for the first meeting, BUT you should bring your book so that you can determine how many pages you need to read for each book club in order to have the text done by the time of the book club presentations. Explanation of online book club.
9 October 2017
M Columbus Day Holiday. All classes are canceled. Online Book Club: See our class fake blog page accessible here. Please complete your post and response by class time on Wednesday.
W READ: Louise Rosenblatt handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal.
16 October 2017
M READ: Wolfgang Iser handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Reading Journal on Iser only (not on your book club book). IN-CLASS: Second Book Club meeting. Have read the agreed upon portion of your book club. Be ready to write about it in-class.
W READ: Freire Handout. You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). IN-CLASS: Reading Theory Dialogue Exercise. Also, overview of midterm portfolio. Please come to class having read the assignment information on the course website.
23 October 2017
M IN-CLASS: Final Book Club Meeting. You should have the book completed at this time. Be prepared to write a final reading journal. Presentation of Reading Theory Dialogue Exercise.
W IN-CLASS: Book Club Presentation Working Time. This is the only class time you’ll have to ready your book club presentation.
30 October 2017
M DUE: Book Club Presentations.
W DUE: Mid-term portfolios. Time in class to write your mid-term portfolio cover letter. Bring your laptop to class for this purpose. I'll provide you with an envelope to put your materials in. You will need to turn in your portfolio materials at the end of class time.
6 November 2017
M In-Class: Mapping Exercise.
W Probably in honor of my birthday, and, also, the real holiday Veteran's day, Wednesday is a Friday schedule. No Wednesday classes meet. Not to take anything at all away from the real and solemn reason for this holiday, Happy Birthday to us. READ: "We Do Language." You can locate the reading on the "readings" page for this class (the page is accessible off of this page and by clicking here). DUE: Click here to get to the blog page for this assignment.
13 November 2017
M IN-CLASS: Library Research Day. Either we will go to the Library people or the library people will come to us. Time in class to find articles, work with your group. ALSO: Completed Map packet with bio information. Please be ready to turn that in with your writer's notebook as a complete package. Discussion of Research in Teaching Diverse Populations. Please come to class having read the assignment on this website.
W READ: pages 208 to 237 in Write Beside Them. Read, also, Introduction: Writing Assessment Ecologies as Anti-Racist Projects, From Asaou Inoue's Anti-Racist Writing Assessment available as a free pdf on the "readings" page for this class (to the right of the syllabus link, scroll to the bottom of the page). DUE: Reading Journal. IN-CLASS: Also, responding to student writing practice.
20 November 2017
M READ: Parts 1 and 2 of Write Beside Them. DUE: Reading Journal on ALL of the reading assigned for today, ONE journal for all of the reading. In-class work on annotated bibliographies. Come to class having read (and perhaps even taken notes) on at least one of your articles. IN-CLASS: Also, please read the information for the Assignment Design assignment available on this website. Come prepared to talk about this in class. Also, responding to student writing practice.
W READ: Part 4 of Write Beside Them. DUE: Reading Journal on ALL of the reading assigned for today, ONE journal for all of the reading.Check out these interesting bits of teaching stuff: From NPR on the history of MCAS in MA and the relationship to the PARQUE exam on the use of portfolios rather than parent teacher conferences.
NOTE: Thanksgiving Recess begins at the close of day classes. Evening classes do not meet.
27 November 2017
M DUE: Annotations for Annotated Bib for workshopping. In-class work on Research in Teaching Diverse Students Presentations. In-Class work on cover letter. Also, responding to student writing practice.
W IN-CLASS: Time to complete Teaching Diverse Students Presentations.
4 December 2017
M DUE: Research on Teaching Diverse Students Annotated Bibliographies, with cover letters. IN-CLASS: Start, Research in Teaching Diverse Student Presentations. Also, check in on Assignment Design. Sign up for Assignment Design Group Conferences. Finally, discussion of Philosophy of Teaching Assignment. Please come to class having read the information about the assignment on this website.
W IN-CLASS: Finish Research in Teaching Diverse Student Presentations. Sign up for Assignment Design Workshops here.
11 December 2017
M In-Class: Mapping exercise.
W Last Day of Class (as well as last day of fall semester classes). Evaluations. READ: My philosophy of Teaching, available here. IN-CLASS: Philosophy of Teaching workshop.
Monday, 18 December 2017
Portfolios are due ELECTRONICALLY by midnight on the 18th. You'll receive a grade letter electronically shortly there after. You are welcome to turn it in early if you choose, but I am out of the country as of 16 December 2017. So if you want to give me a hard copy of anything, it's got to be before then.