WEEK 0	Reading/in-class activities	homework
Wed 9/30	First Day of Instruction Course introduction, syllabus, outcomes, assessment
Thu 10/1	Wayne Booth, “Boring from Within” William Zinsser, “The Sound of Your Voice” Discussion Board	Discussion Board, due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 1
Mon 10/5	Nobel Prize Banquet Speeches by Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Nadine Gordimer, Orhan Pamuk, Kazuo Ishiguro EWP Outcome	Start reading Bone and keeping your reading journal
Tue 10/6	Discussion Board	Discussion Board
Wed 10/7	Philip Roth, “My Life as a Writer” Kathy Pollitt, “Does a Literary Canon Matter?”	Start drafting your preliminary essay
Thu 10/8	Ann Lamott, “Shitty First Draft” Discussion Board	Discussion Board Preliminary Essay due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 2
Mon 10/12	Bone chapter 1-6, EWP Outcome One
Tue 10/13	Discussion Board	Discussion Board
Wed 10/14	Bone chapter 7-8, EWP Outcome One
Thu 10/15	Discussion Board	Discussion Board
WEEK 3
Mon 10/19	Bone chapter 9-12, EWP Outcome One, SA 1 prompt
Tue 10/20	Discussion Board	Discussion Board
Wed 10/21	Bone chapter 13-14 and “Introduction” to Island Historical contextualization
Thu 10/22	Discussion Board	Discussion Board SA 1 due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 4
Mon 10/26	Severance prologue & chapter 1-5, EWP Outcome Two
Tue 10/27	EWP Outcome Four & Peer Review-SA1	Peer Review
Wed 10/28	Severance chapter 6-8, EWP Outcome Two, SA 2 prompt
Thu 10/29	Discussion Board	Discussion Board Mid-quarter submission of your reading journal with 8 entries
WEEK 5
Mon 11/2	Conferences (A)
Tue 11/3	Conferences (A)
Wed 11/4	Severance chapter 9-15, EWP Outcome Three
Thu 11/5	Discussion Board	Discussion Board SA 2 due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 6
Mon 11/9	Severance chapter 16-19 EWP Outcome Three, SA 3 prompt
Tue 11/10	Peer Review-SA2	Peer Review
Wed 11/11	NO CLASS: Veteran’s Day
Thu 11/12	Discussion Board James Berger, excerpt from “Thinking the Post-Apocalypse”	Discussion Board
WEEK 7
Mon 11/16	Conferences (B)
Tue 11/17	Conferences (B)
Wed 11/18	Severance chapter 20-26 EWP Outcome Three
Thu 11/19	Discussion Board	Discussion Board SA 3 due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 8	wrap up second sequence
Mon 11/23	Lauro and Embry, “A Zombie Manifesto” Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, “Alien-Nation” Collaborative Project prompt Critical/Creative Conversation: zombie, capitalism, and the pandemic present
Tue 11/24	Peer Review-SA3	Peer Review
Wed 11/25	Walter Benjamin, excerpt from “Theses on the Philosophy of History” Critical/Creative Conversation: history in Bone & Severance
Thu 11/26	NO CLASS: Thanksgiving	Collaborative Project Proposal due by Sunday midnight Reading journal submission with 14 entries in total
WEEK 9	don’t forget to give course evaluations
Mon 11/31	Group Conferences
Tue 12/1	Group Conferences
Wed 12/2	Critical/Creative Conversation: trauma and apocalypse in Bone & Severance
Thu 12/3	TBD	Collaborative Project due by Sunday midnight
WEEK 10	don’t forget to give course evaluations!
Mon 12/7	Final Portfolio Introduction	Creating Online Portfolio Submit Portfolio link on Canvas
Tue 12/8	Revision & Reflection
Wed 12/9	Revision & Reflection
Thu 12/10	Course Wrap-up	Completing Final Portfolio

Note: This schedule is still under progress and may be readjusted as the quarter proceeds.

Portfolios Due no later than Monday, 12/18

Last Day of Instruction for University: Fri 12/11

Finals Week: Sat 12/12-Fri 12/18