11:00 am section

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12:30pm section

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Week One (1/3 and 1/5)

Content

• About Kevin (Video)
• Intro to the Course (Video)
• Read Bunn “How to Read Like a Writer”
• Read Lynch, “The Undertaking”
• Read Green, “Introduction”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Read the Course Website
• Do the Initial Survey
• Writing Metaphors
• Have your first group meeting
  • Do the Icebreaker
  • Person Essay Initial Thoughts
  • Discuss this week’s readings and videos
• Write your first Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write your first Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Two (1/10 and 1/12)

Content

• Week Overview (Video)
• Read Hall, “Instagram Intimacy”
• Read Landon, “The Women in My Family Had to Be Good With Money”
• Watch PhilosophyTube, “Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Complete Person Essay Brainstorming/Style Exercise
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Sign up for a meeting with Kevin for Week Three

Week Three (1/17 and 1/19)

Content

• Week Overview (Video)
• Read Smiley, “The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe it Came to This”
• Read Didion, “Why I Write”
• Read Als & Didion, “The Art of Nonfiction”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Meet with Kevin (sign up if you haven’t already)
• Photographs of You Style Exercise
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Four (1/24 and 1/26)

Content

• Week Overview (Video)
• Read Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”
• Read Murdock, “Orange is the New Peach”
• Read Kinney, “Lessons from a ‘Local Food’ Scam Artist”
• Read Diamond, “Snowed in with a Ghost”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Meet with your group
• Peer Review
• Person Essay due by Sunday 1/30, 11:59pm
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Five (1/31 and 2/2)

Content

• Read Green, “The Hall of Presidents”
• Read Green, “Indianapolis”
• Read Green, “Bonneville Salt Flats”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Place Essay Initial Thoughts
• Style Exercise
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Six (2/7 and 2/9)

Content

• Read Gutkind, “The 5 Rs of Creative Nonfiction”
• Read Thielen, “How I Learned to Cook in a Kitchen With No Electricity or Running Water”
• Watch Jenny Nicholson: “Star Wars Land: An Excruciatingly In-Depth Prequel”
• Read Levin, “When the Techies Took Over Tahoe”
• Link to in-class activities for this week

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Place Essay Brainstorming
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)
• OPTIONALLY, sign up for a meeting with Kevin for week 7

Week Seven (2/14 and 2/16)

Content

• Read Saramandi, “Death Takes the Lagoon”
• Read Hubbell, “There Has Been Blood”
• Read Hoy, “The Epic Landscape Art of Tiny Inakadate, Japan”
• In Class Activities for This Week

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• OPTIONALLY, sign up for a meeting with Kevin for this week
• Meet with your group
• Peer Review
• Place Essay due by Sunday 2/20 Wednesday 2/23 11:59pm
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Eight (2/21 and 2/23)

Content

• Read Zhang, “The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation”
• Watch Innuendo Studios, “Tomatoes, or How Not to Define ‘Art'”
• Read Joy, “Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards”

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Thing Essay Initial Thoughts
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)

Week Nine (2/28 and 3/2)

Content

• Read Alfonso, “Long Before Internet Porn, This Pervy Pixelated Playground Prevailed”
• Read Micciche, “Writers Have Always Loved Mobile Devices”
• Read Green, “The QWERTY Keyboard”
• Link to in-class stuff for this week

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Thing Essay Brainstorming
• Something You’ve Lost
• Meet with your group
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)
• OPTIONALLY sign up to meet with Kevin during Week Ten

Week Ten (3/7 and 3/9)

Content

• Read Barnes, “Shipwreck”
• Read Green, “Plague”
• Read Green, “Humanity’s Temporal Range”
• Link to in-class stuff for this week

Tasks

• See here for the detailed agenda for the week!
• Meet with your group
• Peer Review
• Write Participation Notebook (by Friday 11:59pm)
• Write Commonplace Book entry (by Friday 11:59pm)
• OPTIONALLY sign up to meet with Kevin this week

Finals Week

Content

• Material for your other classes, probably

Tasks

• Any Revision/Reflection EWO due Wednesday 3/16 11:59pm
• Thing Essay due by Wednesday 3/16, 11:59pm