Week 1
Day 1: Should First Year Composition (FYC) be required?
May 28 Tuesday
- The Beginning of the Journey
- The Abolitionist Movement
Day 2: Expressivism/Writing Process Theory
May 29 Wednesday
- Discuss freewriting
Day 3: A Vision for Teaching Composition
May 30 Thursday
- Begin Teacher Scholar web site
- Create a Composition Teaching Vision Statement
Week 2
Day 4: The History of Composition Studies I (Historical Accounts)
June 3 Monday
- Discuss important moments in the history of Composition Studies
- Your Teaching Vision Statement DUE
- The History of Composition Studies II (Historical Moments)
Day 5: Holistic Embodied Writing
June 6 Tuesday
- Guest Lecture
- Discuss embodied writing and memory
Day 6: Cognitivism
June 5 Wednesday
- Discuss models of the mental process that writers use
Day 7: Literacy Stories
June 6 Thursday
- Early literacy experiences
- Writing your Teacher Story
- Discuss “Writing Stories in College” by Gian Pagnucci
Week 3
Day 8: Social Constructionism
June 10 Monday
- Engage in the “conversation of humankind”
- Your Teacher Story DUE
Day 9: Language Theory
June 11 Tuesday
- Discuss Mikhail Bakhtin
- Discuss Lev Vygotsky
Day 10: Finding Forrester
June 12 Wednesday
- View film
Day 11: Post-Process Theory
June 13 Thursday
- Discuss how writing is public, situated, and interpretive
Week 4
Day 12: Poetry Writing
June 17 Monday
- Write a poem
- Theory of Teaching DUE
Day 13: Comic Book Pedagogy
June 18 Tuesday
- Writing Workshop
- Read and Respond to Theory of Teaching Papers
- The Avengers Save Composition
Day 14: Can Composition Save the World?
June 19 Wednesday
- Composition and Social Justice
- “Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World!” by Patricia Bizzell: College English, Volume 72, Number 2, November 2009
Day 15: Your Teacher Scholar Journey
June 20 Thursday
- The End of this Course Journey (but not the end of the journey)
- Class Celebration
- Writing Your Future
Day 16: Your Teacher Scholar Website DUE
June 26 Wednesday
- NO CLASS Meeting
- Your Teacher Scholar Website DUE