| Week | Date | Reading Due | Writing Topics | Assignments Due |
| 1 | 8/27 | Icebreakers
Syllabus review Syllabus scavenger hunt |
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| 8/29 | Campus Scavenger Hunt Assignment completed during class | |||
| 2 | 9/3 | They Say, I Say Ch. 1 “They Say: Starting with What Others Are Saying” pgs 19-30 | Active Reading and Annotations; “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop | Campus Scavenger Hunt Assignment |
| 9/5 | No Class | |||
| 3 | 9/10 | They Say, I Say Introduction and Chapter 1 pgs 1-31 | Getting Started with The Course Blog and Google Docs (Reserved COW)
Collaborative Annotating |
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| 9/12 | In Class Essay 1: Close Reading | |||
| 4 | 9/17 | “The Next Environmental Revolution” from Welcome to Your World Introduction pgs 1-19 (Readings Page of Course site)
Image of the City Video (Readings Page of Course site) |
Contributions to Welcome to Your World Study Guide Google Doc (Study Guides Page of Course Site) | |
| 9/19 | They Say, I Say Ch. 2; pgs 30-42 | Summarizing and Quoting | ||
| 5 | 9/24 | They Say, I Say Ch. 3; pgs 43-52
Nonstop Metropolis Map 21: Public/ Private pgs 171-178 |
How to find and use quotations
The Sandwich Technique for Quotations |
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| 9/26 | They Say, I Say Ch. 4 “Yes/ No/ Okay/ But: Three Ways to Respond” pgs 53-66 |
Responding to others’ ideas
In Class Peer Review Accessing and Creating a Site on the Academic Commons (Writing Center Computer Lab) |
Essay 2: Summary and Evaluation Draft | |
| 6 | 10/1 | No Class | ||
| 10/3 | No Class | |||
| 7 | 10/8 | No Class | Essay 2: Summary and Evaluation Due | |
| 10/10 | Nonstop Metropolis Map 10: City of Women pgs 85-90 | Methods and modes of argumentation | ||
| 8 | 10/15 | Nonstop Metropolis Map 17: Trash in the City pgs 142-146 | MEAL plan for body paragraphs | |
| 10/17 | They Say, I Say Ch. 5 and 6 pgs 67-90 | Practice Making Arguments | ||
| 9 | 10/22 | Essay 3: In Class Midterm-Making an Argument | ||
| 10/24 | Choosing a Research Topic | |||
| 10 | 10/29 | How to Do Research: Library Day | Essay 4: Digital Essay Research Proposal | |
| 10/31 | Peer Review of Research Topics | |||
| 11 | 11/5 | They Say, I Say Ch. 7 pgs 91-100 | Creating a Working Thesis and Using it to Generate Research Terms | |
| 11/7 | Nonstop Metropolis Map 12: City of Walkers pgs 94-101 | Writing Effective Summaries for Citations | ||
| 12 | 11/12 | Nonstop Metropolis Map 20: Brooklyn Villages, pgs 165-170
They Say, I Say Ch 8, pgs 101-116 |
Making Connections | |
| 11/14 | Nonstop Metropolis, Map 18: Mysterious Land of Shaolin pgs 147-157
They Say, I Say Ch. 10 pgs 131-140 |
Practicing Metacommentary | Essay 4: Annotated Bibliography Due | |
| 13 | 11/19 | Draft Meetings with Me | Essay 4: Digital Essay Written Copy Draft Due | |
| 11/21 | Draft Meetings with Me | |||
| 14 | 11/26 | Nonstop Metropolis Map 15: Burning Down and Rising Up: The Bronx in the 1970’s pgs 119-13
They Say, I Say Ch. 11 pgs 141-160 |
Writing Effective Conclusions | |
| 11/28 | No Class | |||
| 15 | 12/3 | Computer Lab: Technical Issues and Digital Essays Peer Review | ||
| 12/5 | Final Exam Preparation | |||
| 16 | 12/10 | Final Exam Preparation | Essay 4: Digital Essays Due | |
| 12/12 | Final Exam Preparation |
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