Course Schedule

English 1105
Fall 2009

Assignments marked Due or Read are to be done for the day they are listed on the
schedule and completed by the beginning of class.

Reading: Comp= Composition at Virginia Tech

RC= Reading Culture

Week 1
M 8/24 Discuss: Class Introduction.-syllabus, goals of 1105, a look at the semester.

W 8/26 Read: Course Syllabus and bring any questions to class. Comp 4-9 and Shitty
First Drafts by Ann Lamott.
Discuss: Reading. Questions.

F 8/28: Reading: Comp 14-16, 23-24

Discuss: Rhetoric, Elements of rhetorical situations, Reading. Blogs.

Week 2
M 8/31 Read: RC 14-25, 27-29
Discuss: Visual Literacy Narrative Essay. Readings. Blogs.

W 9/2 Read: RC 25-26, Comp 58-60

Discuss: Readings and Invention.

F 9/4 Due: Blog.

Read: RC29-30, 37-39 Comp 62-63
Discuss: reading, invention

Week 3
M 9/7 Read: Comp 206-207, lit narrative student examples
Discuss: Reading, Composing visual arguments. Working with images in
Microsoft Word 2007.

W 9/9
Read: Handouts on examples of visual literacy narratives, 182-196
Discuss: Examples and Composing Visual Arguments, Google maps
F 9/11 Due: Blog
Read: Fair Use handout
Discuss: Fair Use and Copyright, Movie Maker

Week 4
M 9/14 Discuss: Fair Use, in class project workday.

W 9/16 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative for workshop.

Discuss: Workshop

F 9/18 Due: Final visual literacy narrative

Read: 218-230
Discuss: Group Project, Group Project Workday

Week 5
M 9/21 Discuss: Group project workday
.
W 9/23 Due: Group Presentations

F 9/25 Due: Blog (about group project reading/research)

Discuss: recap presentations and punctuation, Culture and Society Essay

Week 6
M 9/28 Read: RC 136-153
Discuss: Reading

W 9/30 Read: RC 153-162, 181-185, 156-162

Discuss: Reading

F 10/2 Due: Blog

Read: DVD and CD examples
Discuss: Interviews, reading

Week 7
M 10/5 Discuss: Mid-term Portfolios and websites, Culture and Society Essay

W 10/7 Due: Blog (about website building/reading)

Read: portfolio examples
 Discuss: Thesis statements, using quotes, websites

F 10/9 fall break

Week 8 Conference week: Mid-term Portfolios due by midnight Sunday 10/18. Post the
link to your website on scholar.
M 10/12 website in class work day

W10/14 Conferences- regular class will not meet

F 10/16 conferences- regular class will not meet

Week 9
M 10/19 Read: Comp 162-171
Discuss: Meaning Essay. Rhetorical appeals and context

W 10/21 Library day.

Read: 124-127

F 10/23 Read: RC 220-226, Chu article on Scholar

Discuss: reading
Due: Blog

Week 10
M 10/26 Discuss: ad examples

W 10/28 Read: Comp 62-63

Discuss: drafting thesis statements, writing about your ads

F 10/30 Due: Blog about your ad.

Discuss: Interview

Week 11
M 11/2 Read: MLA on Purdue Owl
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Discuss: documentation

W 11/4 Due: Meaning Essay for workshop.

F 11/6 Due: Meaning Essay
Discuss: Review Essay, review writing

Week 12
M 11/9 Library Day.
Due: Movie for review

W 11/11 Read: Comp 171-179, RC 364-369

Discuss: Reading, components of a movie review

F 11/13 Read: Handout: movie reviews

Due: Blog.
Discuss: Reading

Week 13
M 11/16 Read: Sample movie reviews
Discuss: Magazine layout, Word 2007

W 11/18 Due: Review Essay 4 for workshop

Discuss: Workshop

F 11/20 Due: Review Essay, blog

Thanksgiving

Week 14
M 11/30 Discuss: Final Portfolio

W 12/2 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

F 12/4 Final Portfolio Workshop/in-class conferences

Due: Blog

Week 15
M 12/7 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

W 12/9 Due: Final Portfolios due by the end of the class period.
Final Exam: