WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2011--be sure to define unfamiliar terms in the margins of your readings.
JR 1--due: (a) summarize Murray's essay, and (b) consider your own experiences as a student-writer: are Murray's propositions realistic? why or why not?
JR 2--due: (a) summarize Emig's essay, and (b) attempt to imagine why her 1977 essay might have disrupted English Departments' ways of viewing and teaching writing.
JR 3--in class: writing to learn versus writing to communicate.

MONDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2011--MEET IN ACKERMAN HALL 140 ON MONDAYS.
JR 4--due: (a) summarize Perl's research essay, and (b) attempt to explain why research like Perl's is important to an emerging discipline.
JR 5--due: how does Perl's Writing Studies research compare and/or contrast to the research conducted in Literature? in Linguistics? in Creative Writing? How do you make sense of the similarities and differences, as an English major?
JR 6--due: complete the "Forming Writing Groups" handout.
JR 7--in class: adjective freewrite.
JR 8--in class: dialogue format observations.
JR 9--in class: dialogue exercise.

WEDNESDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2011--MEET IN MOD 107 ON WEDNESDAYS.
JR 10--due: (a) summarize Hairston's essay, and (b) consider your own experiences as a student-writer in high school and/or college: what would Hairston say to your former teachers of writing?
JR 11--in class: local versus global response.
JR 12--in class: KMS's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 13--in class: brainstorming for literacy narrative.

MONDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140--Guest Speakers: (1) editor of Northwest Passage and (2) HUM 450 instructor, Dr. Paraskevas
PREPARING FOR THE PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT
JR 14--FOR ENGLISH MAJORS: (a) search through your archive of written work from classes in the English Core and your Track (i.e., Literature, Linguistics, or Writing); and (b) make a list of the *artifacts that you possess in each area (i.e., label one "English Core Artifacts" and the other "________ Track Artifacts"). NOTE: the Spotlight draft and final draft for the Literacy Narrative will serve as a process snapshot for your Portfolio.
*Artifacts can include journal entries and freewriting; graded papers; first drafts, middle drafts & final drafts of creative and "non-creative" projects; tests; in-class exams; New Media products; collaboraborative projects; notes; etc.)
JR 14--FOR WRITING MINORS: (a) search through your archive of written work from classes in your major; (b) make a list of the *artifacts that you possess from classes in your discipline; (c) search through your archive of written work from classes for the Writing minor; and (d) make a list of the *artifacts that you possess from Writing classes that count toward your minor. NOTE: the Spotlight draft and Final Draft for the Literacy Narrative will serve as a process snapshot for your Portfolio.
*Artifacts can include journal entries and freewriting; graded papers; first drafts, middle drafts & final drafts of creative and "non-creative" projects; tests; in-class exams; New Media products; collaboraborative projects; notes; etc.)
JR 15--in class: Michael M's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 16--in class: Kat's Spotlight Workshop.

WEDNESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2011--MOD 107
FOR ENGLISH AND NON-ENGLISH MAJORS: JR 17--due: create a WR 230 folder on your H drive or on a USB:
(a) place the following artifacts into the folder: (1) your best WR 230 take-home, typed JR, (2) a .pdf of WR 230 handwritten JR 13, and (3) at least 3 other WR 230 in-class, handwriten JRs in a continuous .pdf (to get help creating a continuous document, go to ITC 204 or Hamersly Library).
(b) place a minimum of 5 other artifacts/documents from your JR 14 catalog into the folder.
JR 18--in class: Kameron's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 19--in class: Brett's Spotlight Workshop.

MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140
JR 20--due: (a) summarize Hartwell's essay, and (b) explain what metalinguistic awareness is and why it is an important part of a writer's repertoire.
JR 21--in class: Doug's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 22--in class: Kate's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 23--in class: fragment exercise.

WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2011--MOD 107
JR 24--due: (a) summarize Shaughnessy's essay (and, yes, this is the same Shaughnessy that has been referenced in nearly every reading we've had, thus far), and (b) free response (make it a fabulous one!).
JR 25--due: list the 9 parts of speech and two examples of each in the context of sentences.
JR 26--in class: Rhiannon's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 27--in class: Rosie's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 28--in class: comma lesson.

MONDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140
JR 29--in class: Sarah's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 30--in class: Sean's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 31--in class: Grammar Game.

WEDNESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2011--MOD 107--NO OFFICE HOURS TODAY
JR 32--due: (a) summarize George's essay and (b) click on this image: consider the student as a producer, and, in your opinion, describe the context that would make this visual argument an appropriate final project in a first-year research-writing class?
JR 33--due: you must have a Google email account, either WOU Google or personal Google (we'll be establishing starting points for the digital composition project in Google Docs).
JR 34--in class: responding to digital compositions in Google docs.

MONDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2011--Meet in ITC 310
JR 35--due: read "Seven Elements in Digital Storytelling"--in your shared Google doc, identify yourself and (a) imagine at least 2 avenues for responding to the Digital Composition assignment, and (b) describe your special strengths/interests that may help you define your role in this project with your partners (e.g., you love writing scripts or creating short films or playing with digital media or composing/mixing music or writing poetry or acting or . . . ).

WEDNESDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2011--MOD 107
JR 36--in class: Dan's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 37--in class: Connor's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 38--in class: Gerry's Workshop.
JR 39--in class: Holt's Spotlight Workshop.

MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140
JR 40--due: as a group, make a decision: what is your tentative digital composition plan? Attempt to describe what you would like to do, and submit the description as a shared document (i.e., work in Google docs and download as a Word doc for submission).
JR 41--in class: Kristin C's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 42--in class: Michael B's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 43--in class: group scripting/storyboarding.

WEDNESDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2011--Meet in ITC 204
Bring your WOU student ID.
Check out some of these Common Craft shorts: Kimbel Library Instructional Videos. The scripts are AMAZING and the storyboarding is simple!!!!

MONDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140
JR 44--in class: Rosario's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 45--in class: Paige's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 46--in class: Heather's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 47--in class: Lydia's Spotlight Workshop.

WEDNESDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2011--MOD 107
JR 48--in class: Kristin M.'s Spotlight Workshop.
JR 49--in class: Konner's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 50--in class: Jade's Spotlight Workshop.
JR 51--in class: Merilyn's Spotlight Workshop.
Digital Portfolio directions OR final exam details.

MONDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2011--ACKERMAN HALL 140
JR 52--due: (a) summarize Flynn's essay, and (b) take your best guess: if Flynn were to read your literacy narrative, how might she respond? Be sure your guess is supported by the text, but have a good time with this response! :)

WEDNESDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2011--Off-Site Group Time--NO CLASS
Have a safe and joyful holiday!

MONDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2011--ITC 311--reminder: send me screen shot of evaluation completion confirmation.
Due: typewritten script and storyboard.
Due: in-class JR collection--organized, chronological, and stapled.
Due BY MIDNIGHT: send link to, or file of, Digital Composition Project to schmidtk@wou.edu.

WEDNESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2011--HL 107
Due: Digital Portfolio must be complete; bring a screen shot and self-assessment for submission.
Due: private work ratio.
Digital Showase--bring your popcorn!

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2011: 12:00-1:50--APSC 301
FINAL EXAM only for those who opted out of the Digital Portfolio Project.