| Date | In-class | Assignments |
| 1/28 | Review syllabus; annotate course page; relationship with writing activity
Read/Write: excerpt from Killing the Five-Paragraph and response
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Read “Past Experiences” by Petersen and “On Anarchism in New York” and “Academic Tourist” |
| 1/30 | What is an autoethnography; What is not an autoethnography
Tips, not formulas: Paragraph structure |
Watch your assigned film: Strong Island; Henrietta Lacks; Struggle; Harriet the Spy; Look of Silence
Blog Post #1 due by next class |
| 2/4 | What is an autoethnography; what is not an autoethnography continued | Read Agosin’s “Always Living in Spanish” and Chee’s “The Writing Life”
Please visit thedaln.org and pick one of the thousands of literacy narratives to analyze in class
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| 2/6 | Purpose of literacy narratives
Tips, not formulas: Close reading/writing strategies (tone, structure, technique) Write/Present: Write a paragraph of your own literacy narrative. Try to mirror the tone, structure, or technique of the literacy narrative you have selected. |
Read Emergent Strategy excerpt and “Mindfulness as a moderator in expressive writing”
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| 2/11 | What is mindfulness; how can we apply it to the writing process
Experiment: Writing using mindfulness Tips, not formulas: Transforming pre-writing notes into project ideas |
Read excerpt from Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and excerpt from Wildbrook |
| 2/13 | How is place research?
Write: Place that I’m writing from; Place that I’m writing about; Place that my reader is in |
Read “Lena Dunham Comes to Term with Herself” and “When the Walls Came Tumbling Down”
Blog post #2 due by next class |
| 3/6 | People as research; Interviewing techniques; Deep Listening
Experiment: Try deep listening for our own project Write: Summarize what you learned from your deep listening exercise |
Submit your first draft of your autoethnography prior to our conference (no later than Saturday 2/23) |
| 2/25 | Conferences | |
| 2/27 | Conferences | Read excerpt from Carrying the Fire and “Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops.”
Blog post #3 due by next class |
| 3/11 | What is history; techniques for integrating history into our final project; how can history become research
Write: Timeline for our own projects Tips, not formulas: Synthesis |
Read excerpt from Tyson’s Astrophysics and watch Bill Nye the Science Guy clip |
| 3/13 | Explaining difficult concepts to children; avoiding wordiness; how can science help us in our research; conducting our own scientific experiment
Tips, not formulas: Avoiding wordiness |
Read “Our Real Immigration Problem” and “A Week in New York City”
Blog post #4 due next class |
| 3/18 | Integrating quotes continued; Numbers as research; creating your own data
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Read “The Help” by Roxane Gay and “Beale Street” by Mary Phillips |
| 3/20 | Performing critiques on whole works; value of critiques; place of critique in our own research project; types of critique we might use
Write: Critique a whole work related to your project |
“The Coded Language of For-Profit Colleges” by Cottom
Blog post #5 due next class |
| 3/25 | More on for-profit colleges; sociological institutions up for critique
Write: What are institutions/systems your project is interested in challenging, breaking apart? |
Blog post #6 due next class
and watch/read your assigned film/story and complete “Method of Critique” |
| 3/27 | Critique, Critique, Critique… | Read “A Talk to Teachers” by Baldwin and watch Adiche’s “We Should All be Feminists” |
| 4/1 | Writing for an intended reader; developing our own “Talk”
Tips, not formulas: Offering feedback |
Be sure to share your second draft with your workshop partner (and me) and complete blog post #7 |
| 4/3 | What is an argument? Claims, logical fallacies, counterclaims, etc. | Read sample autoethnography |
| 4/8 | Responding to feedback; sample responses to feedback;
Read/Write: reading letters to editors and crafting your own “letter to the editor” |
Read sample autoethnography |
| 4/10 | ACTIVISM IN ACADEMIA EVENT at The Graduate Center | |
| 4/15 | In-class: APA
Try APA on your own in this doc Technical: APA in-text and format Technical: APA in-text and reference page
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Read Roxane Gay’s What Fullness is
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| 4/17 | APA What ifs | Work on final draft of auto ethnography & enjoy spring break! |
| 4/29 | ||
| 5/1 | Write: Continue working on final draft of autoethnography | Finish your autoethnography and submit by May 1, no later than May 5. |
| 5/6 | Conferences | |
| 5/8 | Conferences | |
| 5/13 | Revisiting writing activity from first class; letter to future ENG 121 student; celebration | Consider taking more ENG/ENW courses: ENW 210, ENW 305, ENG 222, ENG 223, etc. |
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