Schedule

Spring 2019 Course Schedule

Date Day Agenda Assignments Due Prepare for today’s class:
1.22.19 Tu Course overview; intro to Unit 1: Coming to terms with the beast;
1.24.19 Th Definitions: human, animal, beast; Writing Groups; LR “Intake” Reflection  

Kathryn Schulz  “Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them”

 
1.29.19 Tu The rhetorical situation; Beast fables Blog Post 1 Rewriting p. 1-12

 

Selections from Aesop’s Fables

 
1.31.19 Th  MLA documentation; tech on-boarding cont’d; Writing effective summaries; Rewriting  p. 13-24

 

 
2.5.19 Tu Bestiaries; genres, subgenres, hybridity Selections from David Badke’s The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages 
2.7.19 Th Summary vs. synthesis Blog Post 2 Selections from Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts
2.12.19 Tu Discussion of Project 1.1;  source evaluation Selections from Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts
2.14.19 Th Synthesis essay composition: from brainstorm to outline to draft Blog Post 3 Rewriting p. 24-33
2.19.19 Tu Millennial/GenZ beast fables; Visual rhetoric Meme captions

 

‘Beasts in the wild’

 
2.21.19 Th Peer Review Project 1.1 Project 1.1 draft Rewriting p. 34-39

 
2.26.19 Tu Conferences in FAC 16   *debrief peer review feedback

*3 specific questions
2.28.19 Th Begin Unit 2; reasons to trust, feel, and believe Project 1.1 Brainstorm on the beast & story content you will close read for P2.1
3.5.19 Tu Selections from David Yates & J.K. Rowling — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)*** JK Rowling “On Monsters, Villains, and the EU Referendum”
3.7.19 Th Selections from David Yates & J.K. Rowling — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)***

 

 Rhetorical Analysis chart for Fant.B film Identify a primary “text” for P2.1
3.12.19 Tu Identifying the claim, reasons, and evidence in viewpoint sources / Structure & elements of informational sources Blog Post 4 Rewriting p. 54-64

 
3.14.19 Th Analyzing evidence and reasons, drafting the analytical essay (strong thesis, context, organization) Blog Post 5 Selections from Rhetorical Animals
3.19.19

3.21.19

 Tu

Th

 Spring Break
3.26.19 Tu Peer review project 2 Bring 2.1 draft to class
3.28.19 Th Project 2.1
4.2.19 Tu LR Midterm Portfolio
4.4.19 Th Rewriting p. 64-72
4.9.19 Tu Begin Unit 3 – Rewriting and adaptation, planning your beast fable project, genre and archetypes Blog Post 6
4.11.19 Th Creating a poster/cover using Piktochart, organizing story elements around a clear purpose or message Selections from Roald Dahl — Fantastic Mr. Fox & the Wes Anderson film adaptation***

 
4.16.19 Tu Organizing ideas in a persuasive text Blog Post 7
4.18.19 Th Conferences in FAC 16 *Discuss plan for project 3

*final revision questions for 2.2
4.23.19 Tu P3.1 Peer review Project 3.1
4.25.19 Th Set presentation schedule; infographic + writing workshop Project 2.2 Bring P3.2 or P4 draft to class
4.30.19 Tu Presentations Project 4 (due @ class-start)****
5.2.19 Th Presentations

 

  
5.7.19 Tu Presentations  
5.9.19 Th Presentations; Revision & Portfolio workshop Project 3.2 Bring LR Final Portfolio draft to class;

 
5.10.19 *FRI* Final LR Portfolio

 

 

Fall 2018 Course Schedule

 

Date Day Agenda Assignments Due Prepare for today’s class:
8.30.18 Th Course overview
9.4.18 Tu Unit 1: Coming to terms with the beast: beast fables, definitions for human, animal, and beast, research skills, writing groups  

 

Kathryn Schulz  “Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them”

 
9.6.18 Th Research skills cont’d, summarizing, beast fables vs. bestiaries Blog Post 1 Rewriting  p. 13-24

Rewriting 1 – Coming to Terms

 

 
9.11.18 Tu Summary & definitions cont’d Selections from Aesop’s Fables
9.13.18 Th Bestiary vs. Beast Fable, summary vs. synthesis, drafting annotations, Selections from David Badke’s The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages & Canterbury Tales
9.18.18 Tu Research & secondary sources, drafting an annotated bibliography Blog Post 2 Selections from Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts
9.20.18 Th Style Selections from Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts
9.25.18 Tu Blog Post 3 Selection of youtube videos
9.27.18 Th Peer Review Project 1.1 Rewriting p. 24-33
10.2.18

10.4. 18

 Tu

Th

 Conferences

Conf. recap & 1.1 writing discussion
10.9.18 Tu Begin Unit 2—Political Beasts: the body, power, and the public good & the rhetorical situation  

Project 1.1

 Rewriting p. 34-39

 

Andrew Chow- “JK Rowling Says Fantastic Beasts Grew Out of World Events”
10.11.18 Th Visual rhetoric & rhetorical analysis Selection of LaFontaine’s Fables & illustrations

 
10.16.18 Tu Reasons to trust, feel, and believe Blog Post 4 Rewriting p. 39-48

 

 
10.18.18 Th Reasons vs. evidence – LaFontaine, illustrations, Rewriting, revision
10.23.18 Tu Analyzing evidence and reasons, drafting the analytical essay
10.25.18 Th Context and argument structure Blog Post 5  Rewriting p. 54-64
10.30.18 Tu Organization, self-editing
11.1.18 Th Peer review project 2 LR Midterm Portfolio

Project 2.1
11.6.18 Tu Begin Unit 3 – Writing the Beast: From Analysis to Authorship & arrangement Rewriting p. 64-72
11.8.18 Th Adaptations in the context of “rewriting” beast fables Blog Post 6 Selections from Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast & Disney version
11.13.18 Tu Infographics / posters Blog Post 7 Selections from Roald Dahl — Fantastic Mr. Fox & the Wes Anderson film adaptation

 
11.15.18 Th Organizing ideas in a persuasive text

Peer review for project 3

 Project 2.2  

Peer review prep
11.20.18  Tu  Conferences
11.22.18 Th Thanksgiving break
11.27.18 Tu Presentations Project 3.1, Project 4
11.29.18 Th Presentations
12.4.18 Tu Presentations &

Revision workshop
12.6.18 Th Revision & Portfolio workshop Project 3.2
12.11.18 Tu  (no class meeting) LR Final Portfolio