COURSE CALENDAR

M (8/31)
HW: Read CH. 2 “Her Point Is,” “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” (TSIS), “Learning Across the Curriculum” (WR)
W (9/2) Read “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” Paper # 1 Assigned: IS TV Good for you?
CAI Lab @ 7pm
HW: Read p 21-54 (WR)
Read “As He Himself Puts It” (TSIS)

M (9/7) Holiday. Class does not meet.
W (9/9) Thesis and Plan due for Paper #1 (bring two copies: one for peer review and one to turn in)
HW: Read p57-73 (WR)
“Yes/ No / Okay, But” & “And Yet” (TSIS)

M (9/14) Draft due for Paper # 1(bring two copies: one for peer review and one to turn in)
HW: Read p 73-93 (WR)
“Skeptics May Object” (TSIS)
W (9/16) In-class revisions CAI Lab @ 7pm
HW: “So What? Who Cares?” (TSIS)

M (9/21) CONFERENCES (Class does not meet. Come at your assigned conference time.)
W (9/23) CONFERENCES (Class does not meet. Come at your assigned conference time.)

M (9/28) Revision of Paper #1 due
HW: Read “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” and “Can You Hear Me Now?” (TSIS)

W (9/30) Paper # 2 Assigned: Life in the WWW CAI Lab @ 7pm
HW: Read “As A Result” (TSIS)

M (10/5) Thesis and Plan due for Paper # 2(bring two copies: one for peer review and one to turn in)
HW: Read “Ain’t So / Is Not” (TSIS)
W (10/7) Draft of Paper # 2 due(bring two copies: one for peer review and one to turn in)
HW: Read “In Other Words” (TSIS)

M (10/12) Draft of Paper # 2 due (bring two copies: one for peer review and one to turn in)

Prepare for Paper # 3, In-class essay: "Hidden Intellectualsim" by Gerald Graff, TSIS

Read and Annotate article
HW: Read “Entering Class Discussions” and “Reading for the Conversation” (TSIS)

W (10/14) Paper # 3 written in class CAI Lab @ 7pm

M (10/19) Paper # 3 revision due
HW: Read/Review MLA Documentation p 275-323 (WR)
W (10/21) Looking at Rhetorical Models: Jean Killbourne's Killing Us Softly

M (10/26) Revision of Paper #2 due; Read and discuss Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

W (10/28) MLA Documentation

M (11/2) Revision of Paper #3 due; (must use MLA documentation)

Read "Your Trusted Friends" by Eric Schlosser

Paper # 4 Assigned: Children and Advertising

W (11/4) Paper # 4 written in class

M (11/9) Revision of Paper # 4 due (must use MLA documentation);

Paper # 5 assigned: Reflective Essay

W (11/11) Thesis & Plan due for Paper # 5

M (11/16) Draft of Paper # 5 due
W (11/18) IN-CLASS ESSAY EXAM

M (11/23) Paper # 5 due
W (11/25) CAI Lab @ 7pm

M (11/30) PORTFOLIO DUE
W (12/2) Portfolio Reading (Class does not meet)

M (12/7) Conference for Portfolio results (Class does not meet; come at your assigned time.)