Overview of What We'll be doing Each Week

Week 1-- Orientation Week

Introduction to the course: texts, themes, Canvas (our online course platform), policies
Read Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Canvas)
Read Chapter 1 of our Online Textbook: How Arguments Work
Meet your classmates (and me!)

Week 2--Begin Literal Prisons Unit

Begin reading Understanding Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore, chapters 1-3 (book)
Read "Our Awful Prisons" by Adam Hochschild (Canvas)
Read "Writing in the Age of Distraction" by Cory Doctorow (Canvas)
Read Chapter 2 of How Arguments Work

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6--Complete Literal Prisons Unit

Week 7--Begin Figurative Prisons Unit

Week 8

Read Mind Over Mood by Greenberger and Padesky, chapters 3-4
Read "It's All for Your Own Good" by Jeremy Waldron (Canvas)
Read Chapter 6 of How Arguments Work
Final version of Essay 1 due/Project 1 due (including Course Participation Rubric)
Project 2 Assigned
Write Timed/In-class Essay 2

Week 9

Read Mind Over Mood by Greenberger and Padesky, chapters 5-7
Read "Think You Love Your Valentine? What’s Beneath the Surface May Be More Complicated" by Vivian Zayas & Yuichi Shoda (Canvas)
Read Chapter 7 of How Arguments Work
Complete Library Workshop 5

Week 10

Read Mind Over Mood by Greenberger and Padesky, chapters 8-9
Read "How to Increase Your Chances of Sticking with Your Resolutions" by Camilla Nonterah (Canvas)
Annotated Bibliography for Project 2 due

Week 11--Complete the Figurative Prisons unit

Week 12--Begin the Prisons We Create Unit

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15--Complete the Prisons We Create Unit

Week 16--Final Presentations