Calendar::Subject to Revision
Aug Today Next Class Other Work

Mo:: 24th

Triad Day

First Jobs, Cont: Munro's "The Turkey Season"

How to Read: Annotation

• Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description" [handout] DW

Read the core Policies and Requirements & annotate it.

Print out, fill out, and return the Student Questionaire.

Read the rest of the course site/syllabus; note your questions.

We:: 26th

Daily Writing 1 Due

Syllabus & Questions

Field Work & Thick Description

Work Crew Profile Project

 

 

 

Fr:: 28th

Field Work

Report back to class @ 12:00

• William Morris, "Useful Work Versus Useless Toil" (WIA 146) DW

 
Aug/Sept Today Next Class Other Work
Mo:: 31st

Daily Writing 2 Due

Analytical Tools: Useful Work vs. Useless Toil

(Possible further discussion of field work)

• Interview with Mike Lefevre (WIA 37)

• Interview with Delores Dante (WIA 47)

 
We:: 2nd

Portraits of workers (& their self-analysis) via Studs Terkel

From portrait to profile

• Dan Faulkner-Bond [handout]

Draft your profile.

Sept Today Next Class Other Work
Mo::78th

A Profile of Wilson Working

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

 

Complete your workshop draft and make a copy
We:: 9th

DUE: Workshop Draft Essay 1 (2 copies)

Peer Workshop

• Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (WIA 104) DW

 

Fr:: 11th

Daily Writing 3 Due

Bartleby's work preference

Writing to Heal In prep for Wellness session on Monday

Complete Wellness Quiz ( In prep for Wellness session on Monday)

Revision weekend

Sept Today Next Class Other Work
Mo:: 14th

DUE: Essay 1, Final Draft
Include your workshop draft.

WELLNESS TRANSITION SESSION

• Hesiod, from "Works and Days" (WIA 167) DW

• Plato, from The Republic (WIA 172) DW

 

 
We:: 16th

Daily Writing 4 Due

Plato's Body of Work
A Work Instinct?

• Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing" (WIA 138)