Schedule

Week Date Assignment Writing due
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.