On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
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1. Spring 2017 Semester Schedule
Week One: M W F
Why Write?
Myself
Winter Break In Class: Syllabus Reading Due BbLearn:
Jeremiah O'Hagan's
"Essaying"
Jan 9,11,13
In Class: Essay 1: A Time
When Words Failed You
Week Two: M W F
No Class, MLK Jr. Day Reading Due BbLearn: Alain
de Botton's "On Curiosity"; Ann
Lammott’s “Shitty First Drafts”
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical , Ch 2 “Exigence”
& “The Communicators,” p 6
- 8
Jan 16,18,20 Writing Due: Essay 1 Draft
Week Three: M W F
Why Write?
Those
Around Me
Reading Due Becoming
Rhetorical , Ch 6 “Everyday
Problems,” p 63 - 65
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical, Ch 6 “Identify
Stakeholders - Presence
Generator,” p 67 - 70
Reading Due BbLearn:
"Dear Sugar," The
Rumpus , 3 responses
Jan 23,25,27 Writing Due: Essay 1
BbLearn: "Dear Sugar," The
Rumpus , 3 letters
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetocial , “What It Means -
Why Rhetoric
Production,”p1-3
Week Four: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical , “Purpose -
Appealing to Emotion” p9-13
Reading Due: BbLearn: Bill
Clinton’s White House Speech
Reading Due BbLearn:
Excerpt Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 3 “Thinking -
Understanding How” p1-4
Jan30,Feb1,
3
Writing Due: Essay Prep -
An Issue
Reading Due: BbLearn:
Jennifer Lawrence “Why Do I..”
Writing Due: Essay Prep -
A Response
Week Five: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 1 p 4; Excerpt
Becoming Rhetorical Ch 8
“Explaining” p 1-4
Writing Due: Essay 2)
Apologia Rough Draft, hard
copy
In Class: Revisions
No Class - Instructor
Absence for Conference
2. Feb 6,8,10
Week Six: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 6 “Articulating
- For Discussion” p 70-73
Reading Due BbLearn:
"The Clan of the Nacirema"
Reading Due:
Feb 13,15,17
Week Seven: M W F
Why Write?:
A Larger
Perspective,
and What's
Mine?
No Class - President’s Day
Reading Due BbLearn: Photo
Essay on Syrian Refugee
Children
Reading Due BbLearn:
Ishmael ,pgs 21 - 54
Feb 20,22,24
Writing Due: Apologia Final
Draft due Sunday midnight
Reading Due Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 4 “Visual
Rhetoric,” pgs. 24 - 30
In Class: Small Prompt:
Going down the rabbit hole
Week Eight: M W F
Library Week
Meet in Library Lobby Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Feb 27,
Mar 1,3
Week Nine: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 10
“Evaluating” p XX
In Class: Annotated
Bibliography Lesson
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 12 “Research”
p XX
Mar 6,8,10
Week Ten: M W F
No Class - Spring Break
Mar 13,15,17
Week Eleven: M W F
Reading Due BbLearn:
Black Lives Matter
Writing Due: Essay 3)
Personal Annotated
Bibliography Journey Draft
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 7 “Rhetorical
Arguments” p XX
Mar 20,22,24 In Class: Peer Review
3. Week Twelve: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 5 “Multimodal”
p XX
Writing Due: Annotated
Bibliography Final Draft
No Class - Optional
Conferences
Mar 27,29,31
Week Thirteen: M W F
Reading Due: Article on
coming to a new perspective
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 11 “Proposing” p
XX
Apr 3,5,7
Week Fourteen: M W F
Reading Due BbLearn:
Activism, Organizations, etc
Apr 10,12,14
Writing Due: Research Paper
First Draft
Week Fifteen: M W F
Why Write?:
Beyond the
Page
No Class: Conferences No Class: Conferences No Class: Conferences
Apr 17,19,21
Week Sixteen: M W F
Apr 24,26,28
Writing Due: Research
Paper
Week Seventeen: M W F
Reading Due: Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 13 “Creating
Visual Comp.” p XX
May 1,3,5
In Class: Work on
Multi-modal Presentation
Week Eighteen: M W F
Presenting/ Activity Forum Presenting/ Activity Forum No Class OR Party
May 8,10,12
4. * The final weeks and readings are as yet only roughly planned; they will be more fully
scheduled when Jodie Nicotra has completed these last chapters towards the middle of next
semester. Highlighted sections include page areas unknown; as well, the pagination to complete
chapter reading will be spread out to nearby “blank” days.