Schedule of Task Two

English 100: Introduction to College Writing

Task Two

Week Four
(M) Sept. 20 - Task One due. Introduce Task Two.

Homework for Sept. 22:
Read “A Road to Success” by Brittani Booker (253).

Respond to your blog, subjects that you are interested in interviewing and writing about for Task Two.

• Why are you interested in these subjects?
• What makes him/her interesting and unique?
• What sort of questions would you ask and why?
• What sort of problems do you think may arise for Task Two?
• What do you anticipate? Why?
• What questions do you have for Task Two?

(W) Sept. 22 - Discuss Booker’s essay in connection to Task Two. Interview process: What should I ask? What is an open-ended question?

Homework for Sept. 24:
Read “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou (92). To your blog, draft a response to one of the questions outlined under Writing Topics (98).

(F) Sept. 24 – Discuss Angelou’s essay in connection to Task Two. Writer’s Workshop: Workshop your ideas and interview questions.

Homework for Sept. 27:
Read “Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” by Judith Ortiz Cofer (131). To your blog, draft a response to one of the questions outlined in Questions for Reflection and Writing (136).

Week Five
(M) Sept. 27 - Discuss Cofer’s essay in connection to Task Two.

Homework for Sept. 29:
Respond to your blog, a list of at least five questions you will ask or have asked of your subject. Explain to us why you have chosen these questions.

Read “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (242).

(W) Sept. 29 - Writer’s Workshop: Making since of your research.

Homework for Oct. 1:
Respond to your blog, how the interview process went.

• What questions still remain?
• How did it go?
• Where did you conduct it?
• What did you learn?
• How do you intend to transition to the writing process?
• What concerns do you have?
• How do you expect to overcome them?

(F) Oct. 1 - By this day, you should have conducted your interview(s).

Homework for Oct. 4:
Read “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin (106).

Week Six
(M) Oct. 4 - Discuss Baldwin’s essay in connection with Task Two.

Homework for Oct. 6:
Read “Becoming Educated” by Barbara Jordan (212). To your blog, draft a response to one of the questions outlined in A Writer’s Response (214).

(W) Oct. 6 – Discuss Jordan’s essay in connection with Task Two.

Homework for Oct. 8:
Prepare rough drafts of Task Two for peer critique.
Read Chapter 21 and 16 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

(F) Oct. 8 - Rough drafts of Task Two due/Writers Workshop
Review Chapters 21 and 16 in “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”
(This will be the only time that I will accept rough drafts of Task Two. Please provide me with a hard copy by this date)

Homework for Oct. 11:
Continue working on task papers.
Review Chapters 18, 19 and 25 of “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

Week Seven
(M) Oct. 11 - Writers Workshop
Review Chapters 9, 10 and 13 of “A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.”

Homework for Oct. 13:
Prepare final drafts of Task Two for evaluation
To your blog, draft a brief evaluation about Task Two. The evaluation is in the same format as Task One. I will upload it to the class blog as time approaches.

(W) Oct. 13 – Task Two due