Schedule

Week Date Assignment Writing due
1 8/30 Introduction to the class
2 9/4 Everyone’s an Author “Rhetorical Situations” and “Reading Rhetorically”
9/6 Scott McCloud Understanding Comics, chpt 1

(oops, linked to Making Comics by accident… roll with it)

 Create WordPress site
9/9 Sketch 1: Avatar
3 9/11 Maus, Book 1, Preface (“Rego Park, NY c. 1958”) and chapter 1 (“The Sheik”)

“Comics for Grown-Ups” from Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere by HIllary Chute
9/13 Maus, Book 1, chapters 2 & 3

Dan Roam, Draw to Win, chapter 3 (“First Draw a Circle, then Give it a Name”)

 Literacy Narrative, part 1
9/16 Sketch 2: Visual Note Taking
4 9/18 Maus, finish Book 1
9/20 Maus, Book 2, chapters 1 & 2

Scott McCloud Understanding Comics (for real this time)
9/23 Sketch 3: Sunday Sketches
5 9/25 Maus, Book 2, chapters 3 & 4
9/27 Maus, Book 2, chapter 5
9/30 Sketch 4: Human Document
6 10/2 Palestine, chapters 1 & 2 (1-50)
10/4 Palestine, chapters 3-4
10/7 Sketch 5: Triptych
7 10/9 Fall Break: No class
10/11 Palestine 5-6
10/14 Sketch 6: What’s in your bag?
8 10/16 Stitches, “I was six” (9-106)
10/18 Stitches, “I was eleven” (107-156)
10/21 Sketch 7: Tell a True Story
9 10/23 Stitches, “I was fourteen” (157-242)
10/25 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) Literacy narrative comic storyboard (in class)
10/28 Sketch 8: Combophoto
11/3

11/4

 Potential make-up days
10 10/30 Spinning, Prologue and chapters 1-3 (1-114)
11/1 Spinning, chapters 4-5 (115-82)
11/4 Data gathering for sketch 9
11 11/6 Spinning, chapters 6-8 (183-318) and

Hillary Chute, “Introduction: Women, Comics, and the Risk of Representation” from Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics.
11/8 Spinning, chapters 9-10 & author’s note (319-94) Literacy narrative comic final
11/11 Sketch 9: Data viz from everyday life
12 11/13 Climate Changed (1-74)
11/15 Climate Changed (74-146)
11/18
11/17

11/18

 Potential make-up days
13 11/20 No Class

Keep reading Climate Changed

 Comparing Stitches and Spinning
11/22 Thanksgiving: No class
11/25
14 11/27 Climate Changed (to end)
11/29 Drafting mapping climate changed assignment
12/2 Sketch 10: Recreate a movie scene
15 12/4 Begin portfolio Mapping Climate Changed &

Literacy Narrative, part 3
12/6 Revise projects, portfolio reflection letter, edit website
12/9 Sketch 12: Assemblies
16 12/11 Conclusion
12/17

3:00 – 5:00p

 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.