Week | Date | Assignment | Writing due |
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1 | 8/29 | Introduction to the class | |
2 | 9/3 | Andrea Lunsford, “Rhetorical Situations” and “Reading Rhetorically” from Everyone’s an Author
Allie Brosh, “Adventures in Depression, Part One” from Hyperbole and a Half. |
Create WordPress site |
9/5 | Stitches — first 2/3rds of “I was six” (pages 8-63) | ||
9/8 | Sketch 1: Avatar | ||
3 | 9/10 | Sousanis, Nick. “The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some” and “The Shape of Our Thoughts,” from Unflattening.
Stitches — rest of “I was six” and “I was eleven” (64-156) |
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9/12 | Dan Roam, “First Draw a Circle, then Give it a Name” (chpt 3) from Draw to Win
Stitches — “I was fourteen” (157-242) |
Literacy Narrative, part 1 | |
9/15 | Sketch 2: Sunday Sketches | ||
4 | 9/17 | Hillary Chute, “Comics for Grown-Ups” from Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
Stitches — “I was fifteen” & “A few years ago I had the following dream. In the dream I was a boy of six again” (243-329) |
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9/19 | Spinning — Prologue and chapters 1-3 (1-114) | ||
9/22 | Sketch 3: Visual Note Taking | ||
5 | 9/24 | Spinning — chapters 4-5 (115-82) | |
9/26 | Scott McCloud Making Comics, chpt 1
Spinning — chapters 6-8 (183-318) |
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9/29 | Sketch 4: Combophoto | ||
6 | 10/1 | Spinning — chapters 9-10 & author’s note (319-94) | |
10/3 | The Best We Could Do — Preface and chapters 1-2 (i-vi, 1-60) | Tracing Pages | |
10/6 | Sketch 5: Triptych | ||
7 | 10/8 | Hillary Chute, “Introduction: Women, Comics, and the Risk of Representation” from Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics.
The Best We Could Do — chapters 3 & 4 (61-130) |
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10/10 | The Best We Could Do — chapters 5 &6 (131-210) | ||
10/13 | Sketch 6: What’s in your bag? | ||
8 | 10/15 | No class: Fall Break | |
10/17 | The Best We Could Do — chapters 7-10 (211-330) | ||
10/20 | Sketch 7: Quadriptych | ||
9 | 10/22 | Kindred — Introduction, Prologue, The River, The Fire (4-57) | |
10/24 | Kindred — The Fall (58-99) | ||
10/27 | Sketch 8: Human Document | ||
10 | 10/29 | Kindred — The Fight & The Storm (100-209) | |
10/31 | Kindred — The Rope, Epilogue, About Octavia Butler & About the Adaptor and Artist (210-240) | Literacy narrative comic storyboard (in class) | |
11/3 | Data gathering for sketch 9 | ||
11 | 11/5 | Sabrina — 1-50 | |
11/7 | Sabrina — 51-100 | ||
11/9
11/10 |
Potential make-up days | ||
11/10 | Sketch 9: Data viz from everyday life | ||
12 | 11/12 | Sabrina — 101- 157 | Literacy narrative, part 2 |
11/14 | Sabrina — 158-204 | ||
11/16
11/17 |
Potential make-up days | ||
11/17 | |||
13 | 11/19 | Daytripper — Introduction by Craig Thompson, One: 32, Two: 21 (7-56) | Halfa Kucha |
11/21 | Daytripper — Three: 28, Four: 41 (57-104) | ||
11/24 | Sketch 10: Tell a True Story | ||
14 | 11/26 | Daytripper — Five, Six: 33, Seven: 38 (105-176) | |
11/28 | No class: Thanksgiving | ||
12/1 | Sketch 11: Recreate a movie scene | ||
15 | 12/3 | Daytripper — Eight: 47, Nine: Dream, Ten: 76, Notes & sketches (177-256)Begin portfolio | |
12/5 | Revise projects, portfolio reflection letter, edit website | Literacy Narrative, part 3 | |
12/8 | Sketch 12: Assemblies | ||
16 | 12/10 | Conclusion | |
12/12
3:00 – 5:30p |
Final Exam Period | Final Portfolio and Reflection Letter | |
This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses. Changes will be indicated in the table above and I will also announce significant changes in a blog post.