Week 1

No class meeting. Sign up for WordPress blog and visit class wiki. Purchase textbooks and read pages due week 2.

Week 2

M 8/29: EA “Intellectual property, academic integrity, and avoiding plagiarism” (536-547) The Classic Fairy Tales Introduction (ix-xviii). Using library resources. 

W 8/31: Diagnostic—In-Class Essay

Week 3

M 9/5: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Labor Day. Read “Evaluations” (284-334), “Evaluating and Using Sources” (549-565)

W 9/7: EA “The Burden of Laughter” (313-325) Freewriting. The Classic Fairy Tales LRRH (3-24) 

Week 4

M 9/12: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Draft of Essay 1 Evaluation Due. Peer Review online. MLA style EA 567-585. 

W 9/14: Revision checklist. The Classic Fairy Tales LRRH (317-332), “The Struggle for Meaning” (269-273) 

Week 5

M 9/19: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Essay 1 Evaluation Due. MLA Works Cited worksheet and vocabulary quiz. EA “Introducing Argument” (3-15), “Structuring Arguments” (171-200). “What Counts as Evidence?” (493-513) 

W 9/21: The Classic Fairy Tales BATB (25-50) 

Week 6

M 9/26: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Library databases. What’s in your name? EA Firoozah Dumas “The ‘F’ Word” (751-54) 

W 9/28: The Classic Fairy Tales BATB (50-73) 

Week 7

M 10/3: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Mind maps. EA “Argumentative Fallacies” (515-535). 

W 10/5: Draft of Essay 2 Due. Peer review online. The Classic Fairy Tales SW (74-89) 

Week 8

M 10/10: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Reading evaluation. EA “Style in Arguments” (417-439). 

W 10/12: Essay 2 Due. The Classic Fairy Tales SW (90-100), “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother” (291-297) 

Week 9

M 10/17: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Mike Truong will demonstrate how to create a WordPress blog. Archetypes. EA “Arguments of Definition” (249-267), “Figurative Language and Argument” (426-439),

W 10/19: Identifying archetypes. The Classic Fairy Tales Cinderella (101-127) 

Week 10

M 10/24: In-class draft of Essay 3. Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki.  EA “Rhetorical Analysis” (95-130). Tan “Mother Tongue” (763-68). 

W 10/26: Introduction cover letter.  Peer review in class. The Classic Fairy Tales Cinderella (127-137) 

Week 11

M 10/31: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Vocabulary Quiz. Gender Roles: My New Family. EA Montgomery “Kitchen Conferences and Garage Cubicles” (1008-1021). “Bien Pretty” (743), Agosín “Always Living in Spanish” (745-749). 

W 11/2: Process cover letter. Essay 3 Due. The Classic Fairy Tales Bluebeard (138-156), “Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales” (364-373) 

Week 12

M 11/7: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. EA “Presenting Arguments” (EA 466-489). Presentation techniques and rubric. Assign Popol Vuh sections. Group brainstorming. 

W 11/9: Rhetoric cover letter. The Classic Fairy Tales HAG (179-211) 

Week 13

M 11/14: Diagnostics Essay in class. Group presentation report and outline.

W 11/16: Collaboration cover letter. Group powerpoint/prezi presentations. 

Week 14

M 11/21: Weekly vocabulary word on class wiki. Ethics cover letter. Draft of Essay 4 Due.  Peer review online. 

W 11/23: The Classic Fairy Tales “Hansel and Gretel” (273-280) Craft cover letter. 

Week 15

M 11/28: Eportfolio (with cover letters on your blog) Group Review. Vocabulary Quiz. 

W 11/30: Individual presentations 

Week 16

M 12/5: Essay 4 Due. Individual presentations. 

W 12/7: Individual presentations. Eportfolio Due.