WEEK 1 (21-25 Aug)
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Monday
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Introduction – Syllabus
Robert Louthan, "Heavy Machinery" (164)
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Wednesday
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My
First Literary Crush: The books famous people loved in college.
(Slate article online)
"Reading Strategies" (Norton
Field Guide 313-28)
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Friday |
Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life...
(235-9)
Writing A Literacy Narrative (Norton Field Guide 21-38)
Discussion of Paper 1 Assignment |
WEEK 2 (28 Aug - 1 Sept)
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Monday
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Library Day (tentative)
Find a resource you think you might use during your college career.
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Wednesday
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Mike
Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" (165-84)
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Friday |
Kruger
and Dunning, "Unskilled
and Unaware of It" (APA article online) |
WEEK 3 (4-8 Sept)
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Monday
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Labor
Day: No Class |
Wednesday
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Theodore Sizer, "What High School Is"
(85- 95)
Michael Moffatt, "What
College is REALLY Like" (292-308)
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Friday |
Peer
Review: How-to
"Getting Response and Revising"
(Norton Field Guide 213-4)
Paper
1 - Draft Due
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WEEK 4 (11-15 Sept)
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Monday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Wednesday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Friday |
Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
WEEK 5 (18-22 Sept)
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Monday
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bell hooks, "Engaged
Pedagogy" (67-73) |
Wednesday
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Paolo Freire, "The Banking
Concept of Education" (74-85) |
Friday |
Paper 1 Due |
WEEK 6 (25-29 Sept)
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Monday
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Mark Edmundson, "On
the Uses of a Liberal Education: I. As Lite Entertainment for Bored
College Students" (126-140) |
Wednesday
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Earl Shorris, "On the Uses of a Liberal Education:
II. As a Weapon in the Hands of a Restless Poor" (187-201) |
Friday |
Thomas
Merton, from Love and Living (on Blackboard)
"Arguing a Position" (Norton Field Guide 93-102) |
WEEK 7 (2-6 Oct)
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Monday
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Theresa McCarty, "Classroom and Community"
(280-292) |
Wednesday
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Andrea Fishman, "Becoming Literate: A Lesson
From the Amish" (140-9) |
Friday |
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. Literacy
Practices (60-5) |
WEEK 8 (9-13 Oct)
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Monday
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Peer
Review: How-To |
Wednesday
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Peer
Review
Paper
2 - Draft Due |
Friday |
Class
Cancelled - Instructor at Conference |
WEEK 9 (16-20 Oct)
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Monday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Wednesday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Friday |
Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
WEEK 10 (23-27 Oct)
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Monday |
Fun With Wikipedia Day:
"Can History
Be Open Source?" from The Journal of American History
and "Know
It All" from The New Yorker (You might also look at:
"Internet
encyclopaedias go head to head" from Nature) |
Wednesday |
Read MU
General Education Requirements
"Developing
a Research Plan" (Norton Field Guide 331-9)
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Friday |
Paper
2
Due
Class Cancelled - Instructor at Conference |
WEEK 10 (30 Oct - 3 Nov)
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Monday
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"Finding
and Evaluating Sources" (Norton Field Guide 340-54)
Guided Research Day
Vote for six articles
to be read during Unit Three |
Wednesday
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Alan
Wolfe: "When Ideas
Kill" |
Friday |
Mark
Lilla: "Un-American
Activities"
Propose a tentative topic/area of inquiry (on Blackboard) |
WEEK 11 (6-10 Nov)
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Monday
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Alison
Gopnik: "Let Them
Solve Problems" |
Wednesday
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Steven
Pinker: "The Matrix,
Revisited" |
Friday |
Michael
Bérubé: "Disabilities
Studies" |
WEEK 12 (13-17 Nov)
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Monday
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S.
Georgia Nugent: "Morality-Based
Learning" |
Wednesday
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Astrida
Orle Tantillo: "What
Professors Don't Tell You" |
Friday |
K.
Anthony Appiah: "Learn
Statistics! Go Abroad"
Paper
3 - Draft Due
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WEEK 13 (20-24 Nov)
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THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAYS
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WEEK 14 (27 Nov - 1 Dec)
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Monday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Wednesday
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Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
Friday |
Scheduled
Student Paper Conferences |
WEEK 15 (3-8 Dec)
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Monday
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Student
Presentations |
Wednesday
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Student
Presentations |
Friday |
Student
Presentations
Paper
3 Due |