English 303 Spring 2013 Schedule

Week 1 TR Jan 24 Introductions and course discussion, writing Week 2 T Jan 29 Read: Sunstein and Chiseri-Strater, Stepping In and Stepping Out: Understanding Cultures(readings on website) Discuss: Reading R Jan 31 Read: Sunstein and Chiseri-Strater, Researching Archives: Locating Culture (readings on website) and Zinnser, The Larger World (29-43) Discuss: Reading, Beginnings Week 3 T Feb 5 Due: Beginning Prompt started on Thursday Read: Rule and Wheeler, Writing about Places (147-50) and Zinnser, Writing about Places (63-81) Discuss: Readings TR Feb 7 Read: Rule and Wheeler, Writing about People (141-6) and Zinnser People Along the Way (81-99) and Kramer and Call, Interviewing (30-34) Discuss: Readings Week 4 T Feb 12 Snow Day TR Feb 14 Due: Beginnings Prompt Read: Read Rule and Wheeler, Ethics and the Writing Life (211-242) and Zinnser, How To Write a Memoir (157-175) Discuss: Reading, Readers Notes Week 5 T Feb 19 Due: Readers Notes Read: Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence (readings on website) and Joanne Beard, Fourth State of Matter (readings on website) and Kramer and Call, Personal Essay and First Person Character (78-81) Discuss: Reading TR Feb 21 Read: Kramer and Call, To Begin the Beginning (100-103) and Endings (116125) Due: Essay #1 for Workshop

Week 6 T Feb 26 Writing Group Conference Day

TR Feb 28 Due: Essay #1 and Readers Notes for Macdonald Read: Rule and Wheeler, Finding an Angle into Your Subject (74-7) and Macdonald, chapters 1-3 (pp. 1-78) Discuss: Reading

Week 7 T Mar 5 Due: Formal Essay #1 and Readers Notes Read: Macdonald, chapters 4-8 (pp. 79198) Discuss: Reading TR Mar 7 Due: Readers Notes Read: Kramer and Call Character (126-128) and Macdonald, chapters 9-11 (pp. 199-264) Week 8 Spring Break

Week 9 T Mar 19 TR Mar 21 : Readers Notes and Beginners Prompt Read: Obama Introduction and Part I, Origins, p1-52 and Kramer and Call, Writing About History (86-88) Discuss: Reading, Yvette Johnsons story

Week 10 T Mar 26 Due: Readers Notes Read: Obama Part I, Origins, p53-129 Discuss: Reading, Writing About History, Yvette Johnsons story TR Mar 28 Due: Readers Notes and Beginnings Prompt Read: Obama Part III, Kenya, p299366 and Kramer and Call, Hearing a Subjects Voice: Quotes and Dialogue (104-107) Discuss: Reading

Week 11 T Apr 2 TR Apr 4 Read: Obama Part III, Kenya, p367-430 Discuss: Reading

Week 12 T Apr 9 Due: Essay #2 for workshop/Writing Group Conference Day

TR Apr 11 Due: Essay #2 for workshop/Writing Group Conference Day

Week 13 T Apr 16 Due: Essay #2 Discussion: Yvette Johnson Skype session TR Apr 18 Due: Beginnings Prompt and Readers Notes Read: Beah, p1-151 Discuss: Reading Week 14 T Apr 23 Read: Beah, p152-218 Discuss: Reading TR Apr 25 Read: The Color of Water Excerpt and Kramer and Call Handling Time Discuss: Reading

Week 15 T Apr 30 Writing Group Conference Day TR May 2 Writing Group Conference Day Final Exam: Thursday, May 9, 11-1 Final Portfolios Due and Final Presentation Reading