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Meeting #  and Date

Preparation

Class Activities

1

8/23

• What do you want to accomplish?
• How will you reach your goals?
• How will your work in this course help you reach your goals?

Share learning stories and teaching self-portraits.  

Answer these three questions in writing:

• What do you hope to accomplish as an instructor of college-level English Studies?
• How will you attempt to reach those goals?
• How will your work in this course help you reach your goals? (Specify three personal goals for the course.)

Negotiate goals and expectations for the course and the course calendar.  

2

8/30

• "Epilogue" from Common Fire
  
• Intro & Chapter 1 from The Courage to Teach
  
• Broad, "Power in the Classroom: Theory, Pedagogy, and Politics"
  
• An important (to you) article about teaching English Studies

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Project Reports:

#1: _________________________

#2: _________________________

#3: _________________________

[Labor Day: Mon. 9/4]

3

9/6

• Ronald and Roskelly, Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Possibility of Teaching.

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Project Reports:

#4: _________________________

#5: _________________________

#6: _________________________

4

9/13

• Hawisher and Selfe, Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century
  Technologies

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Project Reports:

#7: _________________________

#8: _________________________

#9: _________________________

5

9/20

• Anson, et al. Scenarios for Teaching Writing

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Project Reports:

#10: _________________________

#11: _________________________

#12: _________________________

[Fri. 9/22: Last day to withdraw with a WX.]

6

9/27

• Slevin and Young, Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Compose practice comprehensive exam questions for first half of the group.  

7

10/4

• Sample overviews, reading lists, practice exam questions, and answers
• Sample internship proposals

Write:

• A pretty good draft of your overview, reading list, and exam question

Workshop overviews, reading lists, and practice exam questions

Talk more about "teaching philosophy" and "course design" projects.

8

10/11

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Write (informally) your observations regarding the strengths and successes of the course so far and your requests and suggestions for the rest of the course and/or for future versions of the course. (Note: To protect your anonymity during the mid-term chat, do NOT submit this writing. Write to learn.)

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 Mid-term Chat with Professor Jerry Savage:

• Strengths and successes of the course so far
• Requests and suggestions for the rest of the course and/or for future versions of the course

Sign up for mid-term evaluation conferences with Bob.

[Fri. 10/13: Mid-term Break]

9

10/18

• Karolides, Reader Response in Secondary and College Classrooms

Write a journal entry in response to the readings.

Prof. Nicholas Karolides visits (?)

10

10/25

Read the readings (TBA). 

Write a journal entry in response. 

Share journal entries.

Discuss readings and journals.  

Visitor: ______________________

11

11/1

#4: _________________________

#5: _________________________

#6: _________________________

Visitor: ______________________

12

11/8

#7: _________________________

#8: _________________________

#9: _________________________

Visitor: ______________________

[Fri. 11/10: Last day to withdraw from the University]

13

11/15

#10: _________________________

#11: _________________________

#12: _________________________

Visitor: ______________________

[Wed. 11/22: Thanksgiving Vacation begins at 5:30 p.m.  Darn!]

14

11/29

15

12/6

[Sat. 12/9: Last day of classes.]

16

12/13

Read your answer to the two big questions written on the first day of the course. Write new answers. Compare the two answers. Reflect on your writing process and on what you have learned. 

Read aloud a passage from your course portfolio.  

Re-visit the three big questions for this course:

• What do you hope to accomplish as an instructor of English Studies?
• How will you attempt to reach those goals?
• How did your work in this course help you reach your goals? (Remember your three personal goals for the course.)

Compare your answers to these questions now to your answers on the first day of the course. Reflect on the semester past and the years to come.

[Tuesday 12/19: Grades due, 9:00 a.m.]

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