Calendar for ENGL 505B

I reserve the right to make changes to the schedule as it is currently presented. The schedule
below is an outline; we will make changes and additions to the readings/discussions as
needed. Updates will be posted on the English 505B website.
Week

Tuesdays in BRNG B274

Thursdays in HEAV 111

(unless noted otherwise)

(unless noted otherwise)

Intro to 505B

Assignments Due

History of Composition
Programs

One
1/13, 1/15

Discussion Leader: Emily

Readings: Lauer, Dappled
Discipline

Two
1/19, 1/22

Grading Practices 2.0:

Extended Mentoring:

Developing rubrics, holistic

Responding to Writing (Bradley

approaches, and making

Dilger); WTHR 320

everything efficient

Tech Mentoring: Photoshop

Expressivism in Composition

Three
1/27, 1/29

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: Elbow, Writing
Without Teachers,Growing
Syllabus Approach

Four
2/3, 2/5

Extended Mentoring: What

Syllabus Approach Profiles

to Teach Next in ICaP; STEW

Presentations & Discussion

Profile Due

320

Tech Mentoring: Recording

Yourself & Observation
Five

Process Theory in Composition

Pedagogy

2/10, 2/12

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: Emig, Writing as a
Mode of Learning

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Six

Tech Mentoring: Copyright,

Cognitive Process Theory

Fair Use, and Creative

(Process 2.0)

Commons

2/17, 2/19

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: Flower & Hayes, A
Cognitive Process Theory of
Writing
Institutional Case Studies

Composition in the Academy

Seven
2/24, 2/26

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: Bartholomae,
Inventing the University
Tech Mentoring: Social Media

Grammar in Composition

and Microcomposition

Studies

Eight
3/3, 3/5

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: Hartwell, Grammar,
Grammars, and the Teaching of
Grammar
Observation Due
Developing Professional

Nine

Discussion of Observations

Materials and Teaching

3/10, 3/12

Philosophies

Ten

Spring Break

Spring Break

Tech Mentoring: Creating

Extended Mentoring: enCORE

professional portfolios

Theater Group presents

3/17, 3/19

Eleven
3/24, 3/26

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Handling Difficult Classroom

Situations; WTHR 320

Tech Mentoring:

Postmodernism, Cultural

Websites 1 (Building websites)

Studies, and Composition

Twelve

Discussion Leader: _______

3/31, 4/2

Readings: Berlin,
Poststructuralism, Cultural
Studies, and the Composition
Classroom

Thirteen

Tech Mentoring:

Liberation Pedagogy and

Websites 2

Composition

4/7, 4/9

Discussion Leader: _______

Readings: hooks, excerpt from
Teaching to Transgress
Recorded
Tech Mentoring:

Race, Gender, and Composition

Observations Due

Websites 3
Fourteen

Discussion Leader: _______

4/14, 4/16

Readings: Royster, When The

First Voice You Hear Is Not Your
Own & NCTE Students Right
to Their Own Language

Fifteen

Presenting Best Practices

Presenting Best Practices

4/21, 4/23
Digital Teaching
Sixteen

Presenting Best Practices

Presenting Best Practices

Portfolio Due

4/28, 4/30
Finals

Congrats on finishing your

Week

first year of teaching at

Purdue!!

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