Weekly Schedule
Consult this calendar for daily assignments and expectations, keeping in mind that what you see here is not
set in stone. In other words, this course calendar deserves the freedom to go where it needs to go. You should
expect adjustments and amendments to what followsand you can even suggest changes! Keep these
requirements in mind:
Blog post deadlines: post your assigned blog work at 8am on the morning of each due date listed
below
Comments on classmates blog posts: for each blog post assignment, choose at least two of your
classmates blogs (in your section or the other FYS section for this course) and comment with at
least three sentences that evaluate, respond to, or otherwise engage each blog entrys
viewpoint/content. Your comments on the blogs will count as part of your participation grade for the
course
Posting reflections of your ongoing reading of a professional blog: Every Friday, we will spend a
few minutes sharing our reflections on the professional blogs we have chosen to follow this term.
Make sure to post a one-paragraph reflection from your reading of your chosen blog by 8am every
Friday (see the list and assignment sheet for details)
Key
TSIS----------They Say, I Say
AWR-------------A Writers Resource
TSCY--------------The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Week 1
M 1/5
W 1/7
In Class:
Homework:
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
F 1/9
Week 2
M 1/12
In Class:
Homework:
In Class:
Homework:
W 1/14
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
**Special Event
F 1/16
SWA #3
Continue discussion of King, Jr.s Letter
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #3
Complete first full draft of Essay Assignment #1
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
Week 3
M 1/19
Tu 1/20
W 1/21
F 1/23
In Class:
Homework:
Week 4
M 1/26
In Class:
Homework:
W 1/28
DUE:
In Class:
Discuss readings
Update the class on your readings in the blog youve chosen to follow
Sign up for voluntary/optional conference with Mr. Wright
Read and annotate Part 1: Essay Assignment #2
Read AWR Unit 6 (explore the foldout and all pages from 287339, including example MLA essay at the end of the unit)
Post to blog one in-text and one Works Cited entry for your Essay 1
F 1/30
Homework:
In Class:
Homework:
Week 5
M 2/2
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #4
Discussion of readings and peer review of SWA #4
Read and annotate Part 2: Essay Assignment #2
Read AWR (pp. 126-130) and What Is an Argument? handout
SWA #5 Analyzing Arguments/Reasoning
W 2/4
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #5
Discuss argument/reasoning and peer-review SWA #5
Read AWR (pp. 130-136)
SWA #6 Analyzing Appeals, Fallacies, and Visual Arguments
F 2/6
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #6
Fallacies/appeals group presentations
Crawford and Avula Acculturation and Health (pp. 99-119)
Ritter and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp.72-101)
SWA #6 Interpreting Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Due:
In Class:
SWA #6
Discuss CAM and peer review SWA #6
Guest speaker
Read and annotate Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
Read TSIS (pp. 55-77)
Prepare brief oral response/presentation to Berry
Week 6
M 2/9
Homework:
W 2/11
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
F 2/13
Week 7
M 2/16
Due:
In Class:
Presentation
Presentations
Discuss Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
Read TSIS (pp. 55-77)
Homework:
Presentation
Presentations
Discuss Part 3: Essay Assignment #2
SWA #7 Post a rough draft of argument critique/response to your blog
Due:
SWA #7
T 2/17
W 2/18
F 2/20
In Class:
Homework:
Week 8
M 2/23
Discuss reading
Plagiarism quiz
Q & A on Essay Assignment #2
Read and annotate Schwartz Elegy for an Optimist (handout) and Ritter
and Hoffman Multicultural Health (pp. 104-132)
SWA #8 Two-page narrative that describes and interprets one of
your experiences as a patient in a hospital (with a serious illness) or your
experience with someone close to you in a hospital (with a serious illness)
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #8
Discuss readings and peer review SWA #8
VonDras Religion and Health: Ideological Contexts and Their Influences
on Health-Associated Behaviors (pp. 137-154)
SWA #9: Preview The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (TSCY)
Post a response to the reading on you blog
W 2/25
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #9
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #9
Complete final revision of Essay Assignment #2
Read and annotate TSCY (Preface and pp. 3-11)
F 2/27
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
Essay Assignment #2
Discuss reading (possible quiz)
Read handout on kinds of arguments
Post to your blog 3-5 questions you would like to explore in Essay #3
Read and annotate Essay Assignment #3: Argument Essay
In Class:
Homework:
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #10
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #10
Read and annotate Using Evidence Effectively (handout) and Booth
Booth Claims and Evidence (handout)
Post 3-5 claims you plan to make in your argument essay, followed by
evidence with which you plan to support these claims
Week 9
M 3/2
W 3/4
F 3/6
In Class:
Homework:
Week 10
3/9-3/13 No Class Spring Break
Week 11
M 3/16
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #11
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #11
Complete Draft of Essay #3
W 3/18
T 3/19
F 3/20
In Class:
Homework:
In Class:
Homework:
W 3/25
In Class:
Homework:
F 3/27
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #12
Discuss readings and peer review SWA #12
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 171-210)
Post a response to the reading on your blog
In Class:
Homework:
W 4/1
In Class:
Homework:
F 4/3
Due:
In Class:
Homework:
SWA #13
Discuss reading and peer review SWA #13
Prepare presentation
Read and annotate TSCY (pp. 289-303)
Week 12
M 3/23
Week 13
M 3/30
Due:
In Class:
SWA #14
Discuss reading and your letter
Begin presentations
W 4/8
In Class:
Presentations
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F 4/10
In Class:
Presentations
Evaluations
Essay #3 Due by April 13 at 8am