Monday, December 5, 2011

2019 Fall M/W/F Schedule




Session
Class Focus
Assignment
August
Week 1

M/ 26
(no class)

W/ 28

"Theme for English B," Langston Hughes

“Eleven,” Sandra Cisneros

Apply for "Level 1" volunteering in order to tutor here:

F/ 30
Course Rationale:



Groups formed, topics chosen

September
Week 2

M/ 2
Labor Day (no class)

W/ 4

Topic 1: The Teaching Profession
Topic 1 reflection email DUE before class session
F/ 6
Topic 1, Freire continued

Choice text 1
Read, share choice text 1 in-class
September
Week 3

M/ 9
Topic 2: Educational Philosophies

Topic 2 reflection email DUE before class session
W/ 11
Topic 2 continued

F/ 13
Group assignment workshop in-class

September
Week 4

M/ 16

W/ 18
Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education
Topic 3 reflection email DUE before class session
F/ 20
Thomas Jefferson on Education (http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/01/idealistic-and-elitist-roots-of-public.html) and “The American Scholar,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm)

Choice text 1
Read, share choice text 1 in-class
September
Week 5

M/ 23
Corridor of Shame (documentary)

W/ 25
Topic 4: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Poverty/Privilege, Class, and Race

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The danger of a single story
Topic 4 reflection email DUE before class session
F/ 27

A Talk to Teachers, James Baldwin

Choice text 1
Read, share choice text 1 in-class
September/
October
Week 6

M/ 30

W/ 2
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (documentary) continued

F/ 4
LRC discussion

Midterm assignment/explanation

October
Week 7

M/ 7
Choice text 1
Read, share choice text 1 in-class
W/ 9
Group Presentations Workshop

F/ 11
Midterm


Email to professor BEFORE class 5-10 key talking points from your first choice supplemental reading with evidence (quotes and/or page numbers).

Connect as many aspects of the first half of the course as possible—topic readings, class discussions, documentaries, tutoring.

Have key points in class to discuss in small groups before opening discussion to the whole class.
Email to professor BEFORE class 5-10 key points per midterm assignment
October
Week 8

M/ 14
Fall Break (no class)

W/ 16
Group Presentations
1. Sex ed/ religion in schools
2. Funding


F/ 18
Group Presentations
3. SAT/ACT
4. Teachers
5. Public/private

October
Week 9

M/ 21
Topic 5: Legal, Political, and Financial
Topic 5 reflection email DUE before class session
W/ 23
***NO CLASS MEETING***

F/ 25
Choice text 2

Topic 5 continued

Cited essay, APA discussion
Read, share choice text 2 in-class
October/
November
Week 10

M/ 28

W/ 30
Ruby Payne, deficit perspective

Return of the Deficit, Curt Dudley-Marling


F/ 1
Deficit perspective continued

November
Week 11

M/ 4
Choice text 2

Read, share choice text 2 in-class
W/ 6
Topic 6: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Topic 6 reflection email DUE before class session
F/ 8
Topic 6 continued


November
Week 12

M/ 11
Choice text 2
Read, share choice text 2 in-class
W/ 13
Topic 7: Current Issues and the Future of Education
Topic 7 reflection email DUE before class session
F/ 15
Topic 7 continued

Essay WORKSHOP


November
Week 13

M/ 18
Essay draft DUE

In-class peer review
Essay draft DUE
W/ 20
Virtual Schools Report DUE/ share in class
Virtual Schools Report DUE
F/ 22
[NCTE] (no class)

November
Week 14

M/ 25
Choice text 2
Read, share choice text 2 in-class
W/ 27
Thanksgiving (no class)

F/ 29
Thanksgiving (no class)

December
Week 15

M/ 2


W/ 4
Hard Times at Douglass High (documentary) continued

F/ 6
HTDH dicussion

December
Week 16

M/ 9
Tutoring share

Choice text 2
Read, share choice text 2 in-class
W/ 11
(no class)

F/ 13
(no class)

December
EXAMS

W/ 18
8:30-11:00
Final Portfolio





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