Week 1: WELCOME ! Tues. Aug 21

Course introduction and overview: Explore our class website; Purchase textbook."Tell It Slant." See class website at url below. http://www.public.asu.edu/~jvanasu/eng217/index.htm . There will be an online syllabus quiz on Thurs. 8/23 *All students must have an ASU email account.   SAVE ALL WORK in WORD

Thurs Aug 23 Exploring blackboard; Go to Myasu, on your class site you will find a Syllabus Quiz and directions.   
Choose groups.
Read “Tell it Slant” Pgs. 1-27. The Introcutions and first chapter. "
Read Slant, “Three Fragments. ” pg. 403.

Week 2 Tues 8/28: 
Reviewing the Syllabus Quiz
Narrative Writing Strategies
Four Possible Significant Events.
Read Slant Chapter 2 "Challenges . ." Read "The Fourth State of Matter." pg. 234. See pg. 197 for questions to help analyze the readings.

Thurs 8/30 Don't hesitate to email w/questions. jvan@asu.edu
Four scenes and character profiles.
Read Slant Chap. 3 " . . Memory"
Discussion "Fourth State of Matter."

Week 3: Tues Sept 4  
Talking about words, sentences,paragraphs . . .
Read "No Name Woman." pg. 348

Thurs 9/6   Workshop; Groups
Autobiographical Narrative Strategies
Discussion “No Name Woman.” pg. 348.
Read Slant Chap. 12 Process & Revision.  

Week 4: 9/11   Peer Edit of WP# 1
WP # 1 Due 9/13.  Late papers lose one grade per day and earn an absence for the class period.
Read: "Reading History to my Mother." pg325

Thurs 9/13  Final of WP#1 due.  
Introduce Assignment # 2.
Read Chapter 4 "Writing the Family"
Discussion of "Reading History to my Mother."

Week 5 Tues 9/18 UNIT TWO:
My Family, My Self: Family Interviews
*Final due Oct. 11
Read Chapter 11 "Personal Reportage." "The Personal Essay."
Proposal notes for WP 2 due on Blackboard 9/20

9/20 See Blackboard

Read Chapter 9. "The Personal Essay

Week 6  Tues 9/25. Invention work for WP#2. Submit interview questions.
Read Chapter 10 "The Lyric Essay."
Read "A Postcard Memior. pg. 411.

Thurs 9/27  
Discussion "A Postcard Memoir"

Week 7 Tues Oct 2.
TBA See Blackboard

Thurs 10/4 .    
Narrative Workshop

Week 8 Tues 10/9 .
Peer Edit RD of WP# 2

Thurs 10/11  Introduce WP3 
Final WP 2 Due    
 

Week 9 Tues 10/16

UNIT THREE: The ? Generation: Where Do I Fit?
Assignment introduction
Read "Gathering the Threads of History." pg. 93
Read "Total Eclipse." pg. 272

Thurs 10/18
 
Discussion "Total Eclipse."

Blackboard: Invention work for WP 3.

Week 10 Tues 10/23
Discussion of Wp3
MLA style sheet, and in text documentation
Read Chapter 8  "...the Larger World."
Read "Notes of a Native Son."

Thurs 10/25
Discuss WP# 3, Drafting Workshop

Discussion: "Notes of a Native Son." pg. 208

Week 11 10/30.

Read "Clan of One Breasted Women." pg 426

Thurs 11/1    
Writing workshop focusing on revision.

Discussion "Clan of One Breasted Women."

Week 12 11/6
Peer Edit WP 3

Thurs 11/8 WP#3 Final due
Introduce Assignment 4

UNIT FOUR: Analysis Essay and Portfolio
Week 13 11/13
Invention WP 4 

Read Nine Beginnings. Pg. 199

Thurs 11/15.  
Discussion "Nine Beginnings" pg. 199

Week 14 Tues 11/20
See Blackboard
Drafting WP4
Read: "Goodbye To All That." (no reading log due).

Happy Thanksgiving!! Only eight more days until all due date!

Week 15: 11/27  

TBA See Blackboard

11/29 Peer Edit WP 4

Week 16 Tues December 4.  ALL DUE* Portfolio, letter and Class Evaluations

Have a wonderful Holiday!