Tentative Agenda for ITC Meetings*

(*subject to change dependant on the evolving situation, needs of TAs, suggested amendments, lunar

cycle, committee whims)

February 3: Librarian talk – setting up library visit for assignment 2. Introducing and charting Postman;

structuring the prompt; PACES and Postman.

February 10: Managing discussion of Postman; ways of handling drafting (quotations, attributions, templates, mechanics, etc.)  Conferencing.  Rubrics. Class observations – discussion of what is involved.

February 17: Providing feedback on drafts; workshopping sample student papers; peer review; having students chart their own and others’ papers.

February 24: Structuring and explaining the second assignment. Pre-reading strategies and jigsaw work for Gladwell. Introducing and managing discussion of Gladwell.  Assigning students portions of Gladwell. Key sections of Gladwell to analyze, chart and use as “anchors” for outside sources.

March 3: Grade norming;  Modeling “illustrate, extend, clarify, complicate”; creating templates, drafting. Off the shelf texts that work well with specific sections from Gladwell. 

March 10 Drafting the Gladwell paper and managing sources continued.

March 17: Professional development: applying for teaching jobs and leveraging SDSU experience.  Applying for graduate school – the amazing, horrifying, true, behind the scenes story. How to talk about your teaching experience when applying to grad school.  End of year teaching portfolio

March 24: Explaining the rhetorical strategies assignment. Teaching visual texts. How to find and use strategies teaching materials from past semesters – drug company sequence, Parry, the CARS mode, etc.

“Genre bending” exercises and assignment options. 

March 31 Spring recess