Determining Your Final Course Grade
Your grade will be comprised of the points your individual writing assignments accrue.
Assignments and Points – Advanced Composition for Future Teachers
Pts. Possible Assignment Type Due Date
Blog/Vlog Postings
Blog 1: “Theoretical Foundations” 10 Reading Response Friday, January 29
Blog 2: “Reading Classrooms…” 10 Reading Response Friday, February 5
Blog 3: “We Want to Work…” 10 Reading Response Friday, February 12
Blog 4: Freedom Writers Response 10 Reading Response Friday, February 19
Blog 5: “Ideology and Life…” 10 Reading Response Friday, February 26
Blog 6: “Engaging Apolitical… “ 10 Reading Response Friday, March 5
Blog 7: The Partials 10 Reading Response Friday, March 12
Spring Break
Blog 8: English 130 Syllabus Response 10 Reading Response Friday, March 26
Blog 9: Classroom Observation 10 Reading Response Friday, April 2
Blog 10: 30 Ideas for teaching 10 Reading Response Friday, April 9
Blog 11: Picking a Genre 10 Reading Response Friday, April 16
Blog 12: “We Know What…” 10 Reading Response Friday, April 23
Blog 13: Reflection on Writing 10 Reading Response Friday, April 30
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Blogs are worth a total of 130 points and 13% of your grade.
Microtheme Papers
Microtheme #1 170 ________ Mini Paper Sunday, February 14
Microtheme #2 170 ________ Mini Paper Sunday, March 28
Microtheme #3 170 ________ Mini Paper Sunday, April 25
Microtheme essays are worth a total of 510 points and 51% of your grade.
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Essays
Midterm Video Response 150 ________ Sunday, March 14
At Mid-term each of you will create a 6-minute video that highlights one of our course materials and how you conceptualize using the ideas in that source in your own classroom. This video should analyze and synthesize how the pedagogy we have read informs us about the classroom. You should be able to think of possible directions for this video through the Microtheme Essays and the daily Blog postings. They should be an in-depth look at how the classroom and especially, reading and writing within it, works. This video will be executed.
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The Mid-term Video Response will be worth 150 points and 15% of your grade.
Final Project 210 ________ Friday, May 21st
5 pm
The final in our class will be a project where you create a course design for either an elementary, middle-school, high-school, or college writing classroom.
This project will also include a pedagogical response that explains why you have utilized the materials you have chosen in your course design. Both the course design and the pedagogical response are due for the final. The same rules apply correct MLA or APA format, in-depth in scope, clean and clear grammar and spelling.
Your course design can be completed through many mediums (website, Word doc, Google Slides, Prezi, Excel Spreadsheet…).
The Final Course design and pedagogical response are worth 220 points and 22% of your grade.
I will ask everyone to meet with me for one 15minute meeting during the last three weeks of the semester to talk about your final project.
Points Possible 1000 My Points __________________