This schedule is subject to change. Students will be notified in writing of such changes.  

Please come to class having read/watched/listened and taken notes for discussion. 

Date	Theme/Topic	Readings Due	Assignments Due
Week 1	Beginnings	Syllabus No Meeting
Week 2 1/30	Why I Write	Why I write videoTerry Tempest Williams, Why I WriteAdichie videoHomework Reading: “Literacy Events and Literacy Practices” http://composing.org/wrd103aq2013/literacy-events-and-literacy-practices/ Handout on literacy as social practice	2/3 Zero draft of introductory literacy selfies due on your CUNY Commons Site
Week 3  2/6	What’s your history?	“Pointing” from Writing Analytically Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Coming into Language” MartinezAmy Tan, Mother Tongue	2/10 Introductory literacy selfie due
Week 4 2/13	No class
Week 5 2/20	Writing for our communities	Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts” and Brown, “Writing so Hard.”Community writing sample: Skim “Introduction” to Bettina Judd, Feelin  Paraphrase x 3 from Writing Analytically	2/20 Share a community writing artifact on Flipgrid (Alternatively, you may upload a video on YouTube and display it on your Commons site, but this is more challenging)
Week 6  2/27	How are we using writing technologies?	Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels”  PRIORITIZE THIS: The Rise of Writing: https://philosophyinpubliclife.org/2015/03/08/the-rise-of-writing-what-happens-when-people-write-more-than-they-read-with-deborah-brandt/  Claudia McCarron, “The Places we Write” http://www.sparksjournal.org/places-we-write/	2/27 End of window 1 for Occasional Paper 1
Week 7  3/6	Writing for change	“#StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement,” Elaine Richardson and Alice Ragland	Blog post due 3/10
Week 8  3/13	Looking into the power of writing	Introduction to Jackson, Baily, Welles, #Hashtag Activism	Unit 1 Project draft due 3/13 Bring to class: a meaningful hashtag not mentioned in the book.
Week 9 3/20	Whose English should we use?	Ebonics 101, http://www.blacklanguagesyllabus.com/ Young, “Should Writers Use They Own English”	3/23 Unit 1 project FINAL
Week 10 3/27	Social media is everywhere	Stacey Pigg, chapter 1 of Transient Literacies in Actionhttps://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/transient/chapter1.pdf “Communication and Rhetoric Science within Instagram,” https://medium.com/@sikes2/communication-and-rhetoric-science-within-instagram-48b437f0f0fc	3/31 Blog post response due
4/3	Writing with purpose	“The Pitch, the Complaint, and the Moment” from Writing Analytically Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, response to Rep. Ted Yoho, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4ueUtkRQ0 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez post about her response: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMrZIzAI1B/  “TikTokers’ Makeup Videos Feature AOC’s Powerful Response to Rep. Yoho’s Sexist Attack”https://nowthisnews.com/news/tiktokers-makeup-videos-feature-aocs-powerful-response-to-rep-yohos-sexist-attack  For reference: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-ofhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/politics/aoc-yoho.html	4/3 Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography due
Week 12 4/10	Spring Recess	No Class
Week 13   4/17	What do people expect of us and our writing?	Mike Mena, Translanguaging in 15 minutes, https://youtu.be/Xv6cXSna4RY  Alvarez, Wan, and Lee “Workin’ Language”	4/17 Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography due before class for workshop
Week 14 4/24	Revision	Sommers, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers”	4/28 Unit 2 project draft due
Week 15  5/1	Writing in the world of ChatGPT	“Labor” chapter from Crawford, Atlas of AI	5/1 End of window 3 for Occasion Paper 3
Week 16  5/8	What are our assumptions about writing?	Final Class. Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing (entire book) Digital portfolio workshop/presentations	5/12 Unit 2 due
Week 17 5/15	Catch up and turn things in.	No class.	5/19  Reflective letter due with digital portfolio