Calendar/Schedule of Assignments

(This schedule is subject to change.)

All reading assignments are due on the weeks they are listed on the schedule
below. You are responsible for completing all assigned readings prior to
listening to or reading lectures and prior to participating in weekly
discussions/assignments. Each reading assignment is identified in the
Readings column.
Also note that assignment due dates are in the Assignments column.
Linked titles = electronic
readings. Click on links to access
and read essays.

TC = The Circle

Important Dates
August 26, 2016
September 7, 2016
October 28, 2016
December 13, 2016

Last day to add a class

Last day to drop a class with a refund
Last day to withdraw from a class with a grade of W
Final Exam Date (8:00 a.m. 10:40 a.m.)
This schedule is subject to change.

Week/Date
Week 1:
T 23 Aug

Readings

Th 25 Aug

Read: Diagnostic Essay Assignment Guidelines

Read: Cisneros, My Name excerpt
Read: Essay Formatting Guidelines

Week 2:
T 30 Aug

Assignments

Introduction to Course; introduction to Blackboard

Read: Rhetorical Situations (scroll to bottom of article

to view the slide show)
Read: audience, purpose, context, voice, media (click on
each linked item to access readings)

25 Aug: Syllabus and

Academic Honesty
Agreement
25 Aug: Diagnostic
Essay

Week/Date
Th 1 Sep

Week 3:
T 6 Sep

Th 8 Sep

Week 4:
T 13 Sep

Readings
Read: Tuan, Space and Place, Chapter 1 (PDF linked in
BB)
Read: Lack, An Interview with Yu Fi Tuan, Professor
Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Requires
MyReynolds Username and Password to access)

Assignments

Read: Berne, Where Nothing Says Everything

Read: Piper, Remembering Water
Read: Stegner, The Sense of Place
Read: paragraphs, introductions, conclusions (click on
each linked item to access readings)
In-class activity: creating blog site with about page.

8 Sep: 300- 600 word

S&P Short essay
posted to your blog
site by midnight

Read: Peer Review

Read: Responding to Other Peoples Writing
(Click on links to access and read articles)

Th 15 Sep

Read: Heskamp, 15 Words You Should Eliminate from

Your Vocabulary to Sound Smarter
In-class peer review of Space & Place Essay

15 Sep: Draft of S&P

essay at beginning of
class for in-class peer
review

Week 5:
T 20 Sep

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 1-59)

20 Sep: Completed
draft of S&P essay in
Blackboard by
midnight

Th 22 Sep

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 59-101)

F 23 Sep
Week 6:
T 27 Sep
Th 29 Sep

23 Sep: Weekly The

Circle reading
response in blog site
College-wide Convocation Day (class not in session)
Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 102-160)
Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 160-211)

F 30 Sep
Week 7:
T 4 Oct

30 Sep: Weekly The

Circle reading
response in blog site
Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 211-263)

Week/Date

Readings

Th 6 Oct

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 263-306)

F 7 Oct

7 Oct: Weekly The

Circle reading
response in blog site

Week 8:
T 11 Oct

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 309-361)

Th 13 Oct

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 361-417)

F 14 Oct

14 Oct: Weekly The

Circle reading
response in blog site

Week 9:
T 18 Oct

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 417-466)

Th 20 Oct

Read: Eggers, The Circle (pp. 466-497)

21 Oct: Weekly The
Circle reading
response in blog site

F 21 Oct
Week 10:
T 25 Oct

Th 27 Oct
Week 11:
T 1 Nov

Th 3 Nov

Week 12:
T 8 Nov

Assignments

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

25 Oct: Complete
draft of The Circle
Analysis Essay

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

27 Oct: Complete
draft of The Circle
Analysis Essay

Read: Proposals
Read: Proposal Writing Basics

1 Nov: Final revision

of The Circle
Analysis Essay by
midnight in
Blackboard

Read: Swift, A Modest Proposal(click on link to access

and read essay)
Read: Find Topic Ideas & Overview
Read: Refine a Topic
Library Scavenger Hunt (meet in library)

8 Nov: 300-600 word

Pitch in your blog site

Week/Date

Readings

Th 10 Nov

Meet in library computer lab for library instruction

Read: Module 3: Find Books
Read: Module 4: Find Articles
(Review contents in modules 3 and 4 before library
session)

Week 13:
T 15 Nov

Th 17 Nov
Week 14:
T 22 Nov
Th 24 Nov

Assignments
by midnight.

Read: Baron, Dont Make English Official: Ban It

Instead
Read: Fish, Whos in Charge Here?
Read: Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Read: Pollock, You Say You Want a Resolution?
Read: Document Review Guidelines (click on link to
access and read article)

22 Nov: Modest
Proposal Draft #1

Fall Break; classes not in session

~~ Fall Break: classes not in session 23-27 Nov ~~

Week 15:
T 29 Nov

Th 1 Dec
Week 16:
T 6 Dec

Th 8 Dec
Finals Week:
T 13 Dec

Read: DIY Media and Design: PowerPoint Proposal

(WITW, pp. 460-465)
Read: Delivering the Speech
Read: Speeches

29 Nov: Final
revision of Modest
Proposal essay by
midnight in
Blackboard

Watch: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Use class time to work on presentations
No reading assigned
In-class Presentations

6 Dec: Presentation
of Modest Proposal
Essay

No reading assigned
In-class Presentations

8 Dec: Presentation
of Modest Proposal
Essay

Presentations during final exam time (800 a.m. 10:40 13 Dec: Presentation
of Modest Proposal
a.m.)
Essay
Have a wonderful winter break!