Calendar
“Life and the Journey”
English 101 College Composition I
Autumn 2007
Instructor:
M. G. Aune |
Office: 223
Azorsky Hall |
Office
Phone:
724.938.4341 |
Office Hours MWF 2.30 – 3.30 |
Calendar
Subject to change. WtJ –
Writing the Journey; CtW –
The Call to Write;
CdV -
Carnet de Voyage; TwC –
Travels with Charley
Part 1 Beginnings, What is a travel narrative?
What is a memoir?
Week 1
27
August Introductions and interviews
29
August Introductions and interviews, con’t.
Read: “The Road Not Taken” WtJ
17
31
August Read: CtW Chapter 5
Discuss: elements and structure of the narrative and the memoir
Week 2
3
September Labor Day: no class
5
September Discuss: Elements and structure of memoir, con’t: use of details,
setting, characters, how to annotate (CtW
34); Be sure to bring
CtW and
WtJ
7
September Read: “From On the Road”
WtJ 130-35
Discuss: On the Road as a memoir
Week 3
10
September Discuss: Paper 1, genre, detail, brainstorm (sketching),
narrative, outline, preview rubric
Be sure to bring the questionnaire from the first week of class
12
September Due: Typed outline of Paper 1 intro, body, conclusion, preview
peer review
14
September Due: Complete, typed version of Paper 1.
In class we will side shadow and peer review.
Week 4
17
September Due: Final draft of Paper 1, including the outline, the side
shadowed version and the peer review sheet
Part 2 How do we conduct a rhetorical analysis?
19
September Read: CtW Chapter 2
Discuss: close reading, analyzing the rhetorical situation, preview
questions, annotation/summarizing, outlining, be sure to bring
WtJ
21
September Discuss: CtW Chapter 2
Week 5
24
September Read: Continue Chapter 2, Read: Ted Conover, “from
Rolling Nowhere”
WtJ 135-38. Analyzing
the rhetorical situation of the travel narrative
26
September Continue discussion of Conover
28
September Read: William Least Heat Moon, “from
Blue Highways’ WtJ 138-46
Moon, rhetorical situation of the travel narrative
Week 6
1
October Continue discussion of Moon, introduce Paper 2
3
October Due: Typed outline of Paper 2 intro, body, conclusion, preview peer
review
5
October Due: Complete, typed version of Paper 2.
In class we will side shadow and peer review.
Week 7
8
October Due: Final version of Paper 2, including the outline, the side
shadowed version and the peer review sheet.
Part 3 Reviews
10
October Read and Discuss: CdV,
rhetorical analysis
12
October Discuss: CdV, visual
language
Week 8
15
October Mission Day, no class
17
October Read and Discuss: CtW
Chapter 11
19
October Continue CtW Chapter 11
discuss Paper 3
Week 9
22
October Due: Outline of Paper
24
October Due: Typed draft of Paper 3, side shadow and peer review
26
October Revision Day, no class
Week 10
29
October Due: Final version of
Paper 3, including the outline, the side shadowed version and the peer
review sheet.
Part 4 Research, Sources, Citation, Plagiarism
31
October CtW Chapter 14 Finding and
evaluating sources
2
November In computer classroom?
Form groups
Week 11
5
November Read & discuss: Travels with
Charley, Part 1
7
November Read & discuss: TwC, Part
1, research project
9
November TwC, Part 2
Week 12
12
November Read & discuss:
TwC, Part 2, research project
14
November Read & discuss: TwC, Part
3
16
November Read & discuss: TwC, Part
3, research project
Week 13
19
November Read & discuss: TwC, Part
4
21
November no class Thanksgiving
23
November no class Thanksgiving
Week 14
26
November Read & discuss: TwC Part
4, research project
28
November Read & discuss: TwC Part
4
30
November Discuss: Final Paper, bring Paper 1 to class
Week 15
3
December Due: Typed draft of Paper 4, side shadow and peer review
5
December Final class Due: Final version of Paper 4, including the outline,
the side shadowed version and the peer review sheet.
This site
was created for the use of students enrolled at
California University of Pennsylvania by M.G. Aune. Last updated:
6 September 2008.