English 306: Daily Schedule

Tuesday, 8/21 ML 412	Introduction and course overview.
For Thursday...	Read the Basic Guide to MOOing found online at: http://oldpueblomoo.arizona.edu/encore_guide.htm. Read all sections and follow all links.
Thursday, 8/23 CCIT 319	Introduction to the OldPuebloMOO.
For Tuesday...	Read essays by Rodriguez ("Late Victorians") and Kingsolver ("Creation Stories", "In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again") that I will provide for you in class. Take notes as you read and reflect upon how these authors have written about the spaces/places in their lives and what those spaces/places have signified for each.
Tuesday, 8/28 ML 412	Lived Spaces: Discuss essays.
For Thursday...	Read sections out of Anzaldua's Borderlands: The New Mestiza: (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 7). Compose a reader response (at least 2 pages) in which you reflect upon the physical and psychological "borders" of you life. How have these "borders" defined/confined you and how have you lived your life within them/in spite of them. You may refer to Rodriguez and/or Kingsolver in your response as well as Anzaldua.
Thursday, 8/30 CCIT 319	Border Spaces: Discuss readings and reader responses on the OldPuebloMOO. Post reader responses to the noteboard in the workroom you are assigned to on the day of class.
For Tuesday...	Read essay by Goss ("The Magic of the Mall..."). Write a three-page analysis of a "public" space of your choice. Start by describing the space and analyzing what aspects of the space work to influence the people who enter it. Then observe the people who enter the space and how they act within/respond to the design and apparent function of the space.
Tuesday, 9/04 ML 412	Public/Social Spaces: Present analyses.
For Thursday...	Read Chapter 9: "Virtuality and It's Discontents" out of Sherry Turkle's book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet.
Thursday, 9/06 CCIT 319	Virtual Spaces: Discuss Turkle on the OldPuebloMOO.
For Tuesday...	Visit the OldPuebloMOO spaces of Nojer (@join nojer) and Duff (@join duff). Pay close attention to the various ways these characters have used spatial imagery/metaphor to capture aspects of their identities within their spaces. Compose a response answering some/all of these questions about each space: How has the space been described? What aspects of the space stand out most? How is the space organized? What "rooms" is the space divided into and how is each "room" presented? How are objects and other descriptive elements used throughout the space and what conclusions can you draw about this person's character as a result? What about the character/owner of the space...how is he/she/it/they described and what impression does that description give you of the character's self? What is the overall impression you get of this character from his/her/it/their site and why?
Tuesday, 9/11 ML 412	Class Canceled.
For Thursday...	Look over Unit I Assignment Sheet.
Thursday, 9/13 CCIT 319	Discuss MOO space responses and Unit 1 Project.
For Tuesday...	Outline your MOO site for the Unit 1 project. Include a site layout, space descriptions, objects you'd like to include, etc.
Tuesday, 9/18 ML 412	Site-building session on the MOO.
For Thursday...	Think up a character to play for a day on the OldPuebloMOO. This character will not be the character you have already established for the class. You will need to brainstorm a new character that you will name and describe (at least one paragraph), and you will email this description to me before class on Thursday. For Thursday's class, you will log onto the MOO as a guest, click the 'options' button, and fill in the 'name' and 'gender' of your character, but not the character description. We will all spend the class socially interacting with each other in a designated space on the MOO while staying completely in character.
Thursday, 9/20 CCIT 319	OldPuebloMOO interaction. You may log onto the MOO in the lab or from another location.
For Tuesday...	Write a response reflecting on the experience of representing a character and interacting with others anonymously on the OldPuebloMOO.
Tuesday, 9/25 ML 412	Discuss OldPuebloMOO interaction. Unit I project work session (depending on time available).
For Thursday...	Read pgs. ix-43 in Joseph Williams' Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (includes Preface, Chapter 1: "Causes" and Chapter 2: "Clarity").
Thursday, 9/27 CCIT 319	Style Workshop #1.
For Sunday/Tuesday...	Continue working on MOO site and analysis essay. Prepare draft of Unit 1 project (essay and MOO site). Post your essay into your site by Sunday, September 30 at 8pm and email me a copy of your essay as a Word attachment or text file.
Tuesday, 10/2 ML 412	Essay Discussion and Work Session
For Thursday...	Continue revising essay and site. Final draft of Unit I Project is due as a part of your portfolio at the end of the semester.
Thursday, 10/4 CCIT 319	Class is canceled for conferences.
For Tuesday...	Read introductory selections from Foss' Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice (pgs. 3-59): The Nature of Rhetorical Criticism/Doing Rhetorical Criticism Neo-Aristotelian Criticism Nixon Analysis Hussein Analysis
Tuesday, 10/9 ML 412	Introduction to Unit II. Discuss Foss and the nature of rhetorical analysis/criticism.
For Thursday...	Please read Wilson's "War Message" (WWI), FDR's "War Message" (WWII), Johnson's "Renunciation Speech" (Vietnam), Nixon's "Vietnamization" (Vietnam), and George Bush's "Iraqi Aggression in the Persian Gulf" which you can find by clicking on the link below: http://www.tamu.edu/scom/pres/archive.html In addition to these speeches, please read/listen to the White House transcripts of President George W. Bush's two major addresses since the attack on the World Trade Center: Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People Presidential Address to the Nation Take notes on these speeches, comparing their organization and the imagery and word choice our presidents have used to characterize these conflicts, ourselves and our declared enemies. If you are not familiar with the context surrounding these speeches, please consult any number of sites on the web (an encyclopedia site, for one) to gain some perspective about the environment in which these presidents were speaking and to whom they were addressing their messages (obvious audience and others who would be watching).
Thursday, 10/11 CCIT 319	Rhetorical Analysis: Speech Class will be on the MOO so attendance in the lab is not required.
For Tuesday...	Revise Unit I Project
Tuesday, 10/16 ML 412	Rhetorical Analysis: Speech and Written Text. Introduction to Units II and III: The Medium is the Message
For Thursday...	Examine the photographs and artwork I have linked here. Take notes on what sort of reaction the images evoke in you and why.
Thursday, 10/18 CCIT 319	Rhetorical Analysis: Image and Design
For Tuesday...	Choose an image/document/site and write up a two-page rhetorical analysis.
Tuesday, 10/23 ML 412	Image/Design presentations.
For Thursday...	Read The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. Reflect on the way image and text interact within the design of the book and take note of McLuhan's theories about how media work upon us.
Thursday, 10/25 CCIT 319	Discuss McLuhan. Class will be on the MOO so attendance in the lab is not required.
For Tuesday...	Produce a page to add to McLuhan's text. What will you say? How will you design it? You can present your page in the form of descriptive text, image/design/text, etc. but be sure to keep in mind the rhetorical image/design principles we have discussed in class.
Tuesday, 10/30 ML 412	McLuhan Presentations.
For Thursday...	Prepare outline of Project for Units II and III
Thursday, 11/1 CCIT 319	Discuss evaluation standards for portfolio Conferences and Project Work Session.
For Tuesday...	Identify your favorite songs/artists/styles of music. Take notes where you attempt to articulate why those songs/artists/styles appeal to you. What do they do for you? Why do you listen? Also, visit a page I put together of quotes about music.
Tuesday, 11/6 ML 412	Rhetorical Analysis: Music.
For Thursday...	Read "Cheap Thrills: The Images of Music, Video, and TV" and "The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film" out of Signs of Life in the USA, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Soloman. Watch 1/2 hour of news and a 1/2 hour sit-com. Take notes on how the news program organizes and presents information to the viewer and how the sit-com is presented and how it compares to the episode of Friends that is discussed in the reading.
Thursday, 11/8 CCIT 319	Rhetorical Analysis: Television and Film. Class will be on the MOO so attendance in the lab is not required.
For Tuesday...	Choose an song, television program, or film element and write up a two-page rhetorical analysis.
Tuesday, 11/13 ML 412	Music/Television/Film Presentations.
For Thursday...	Prepare Draft of Unit II Rhetorical Analysis essay
Thursday, 11/15 CCIT 319	In-Class Review.
For Tuesday...	Read pgs. 45-79 in Joseph Williams' Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (includes Chapter 3: "Cohesion" and Chapter 4: "Emphasis"). Complete take-home Style Workshop #2
Tuesday, 11/20 ML 412	Style Workshop #2 Due. Conferences and Project Work Session.
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY!
For Tuesday...	Prepare Draft of Unit III Persuasive Artifact. Begin compiling materials for your portfolio
Tuesday, 11/27 ML 412	In-Class Review. Cover Letter Discussion.
For Thursday...	Prepare draft of Portfolio Cover Letter
Thursday, 11/29 CCIT 319	In-Class Review Conferences and Project Work Session.
For Tuesday...	Prepare presentation of Units II and III Project
Tuesday, 12/3 ML 412	Presentations
DEAD DAY!
Friday, 12/6 CCIT 319	Portfolios Due in my box in Modern Languages 445 by 5pm