Week 1 Lesson Plan Tuesday 8/28 -roll + waitlist students Office Hours, Email Contact -encourage students to come

e for Course Overview -reading a lot, 60-70 pages per week, Black Boy -writing a lot -focused on revisions, workshopping -particular focus is on poverty Course Policies: -2 absences, each further is -2%, more than 4 is grounds for failure -must still turn in work on days you miss -three trades = 1 absence, more than 20 minutes late = absence -minus half a letter grade for each day a paper is late. -my printer broke is not an acceptable excuse -email policies 24 hours/no drafts over email Overview of Assignments Participation: Just showing up gets you a C. There is no right answer. Asking a question = participation, saying you dont know or dont understand something. Come to class each day with some comment or some question to ask about the previous nights reading. Be respectful -must pass 3 out of 4 assignments to pass. Need a C- or better to pass. Difficulty Paper Introduce what this is. Introduce the idea of annotations Annotation involves WRITING ON THE TEXT. You should write about these things in the MARGINS OF YOUR TEXT: (1) Paraphrase difficult or packed sentences. (2) Define words, or historical allusions. (3) Summarize the action or list chronology; summarize ideas. (4) Ask questions: argue, show your confusion, talk back to the text. (5) Respond: show your feelings about reading something. (6) Mark sentences you like or might want to return to.

Have them practice annotation as a class, with the first page. Then have them do it on their own. Pages 4-5, 26-27, 33-36, 38-41 Diagnostic Thursday: Roll Difficulty Paper Activity Introduce Literacy Narrative -what is literacy -what is narrative Pass out Prompt What makes a good literacy narrative? Discussion of Rodriguez as a literary narrative -have students find concrete details, moments of analysis

3-Hour Class: -roll + waitlist students Icebreaker (Mars Rover Landing) Office Hours, Email Contact -encourage students to come for Course Overview -reading a lot, 60-70 pages per week, Black Boy -writing a lot -focused on revisions, workshopping -particular focus is on poverty Course Policies: -2 absences, each further is -2%, more than 4 is grounds for failure -must still turn in work on days you miss -three trades = 1 absence, more than 20 minutes late = absence -minus half a letter grade for each day a paper is late. -my printer broke is not an acceptable excuse -email policies 24 hours/no drafts over email Overview of Assignments Participation: Just showing up gets you a C. There is no right answer. Asking a question = participation, saying you dont know or dont understand something. Come to class each day with some comment or some question to ask about the previous nights reading. Be respectful -must pass 3 out of 4 assignments to pass. Need a C- or better to pass. Rhetoric of Poverty How do we define it? Talk about it? http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/pdf/bg2575.pdf http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2012/02/23/11042/deb unking-poverty-myths-and-racial-stereotypes/ Difficulty Paper Introduce what this is. Introduce the idea of annotations Annotation involves WRITING ON THE TEXT. You should write about these things in the MARGINS OF YOUR TEXT:

(1) Paraphrase difficult or packed sentences. (2) Define words, or historical allusions. (3) Summarize the action or list chronology; summarize ideas. (4) Ask questions: argue, show your confusion, talk back to the text. (5) Respond: show your feelings about reading something. (6) Mark sentences you like or might want to return to. Break Introduction of Literacy Narrative -What is Literacy -What is Narrative Pass out Prompt What makes a good literacy narrative Discussion of Rodriguez as literacy narrative.