Assignment+Schedule

Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research (HALR) All other articles accessible from wiki -
 * ENGL 515 – Literacy and Writing Instruction **
 * Assignments **

= SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS = (1) || Literacy Debate: Let’s Stop Teaching Writing Write: Prompts for Teacher as Reader Your goals || == Literacy: New Versions == || (2) || Read: HALR – Chapters 1 & 2
 * ** Date ** || ** Assignments ** || ** Topics ** ||
 * Jan. 10
 * Jan. 17

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Write: Post to Blog (weekly) || What is literacy? What is a literacy memoir? || (3) || Read: HALR – Chap 3
 * Jan. 24

Heath

Write: Post and respond to blogs (weekly)

//In-class// @Prompt
 * Draft of Literacy Memoir **

|| What is a literacy event? What is adolescence? || (4) || Read: HALR 4 & 5 Freire Gee:Discourse
 * Jan. 31

Write: Literacy Memoir Due

@Curriculum Analysis Format || How Do Schools Structure Literacy? || (5) || Read: HALR 11 & 12 Clark and Ivanic Review Frameworks- “Success,” ‘NAEP,’ Disciplinary Literacies, I.B., etc. @Social Work
 * Feb. 7

Write: (Post and respond to blogs) || How does Theory Generate Curriculum? || (6) || Read: HALR – Chaps 18-19 New London Group Write: : (Post and respond to blogs) (7) || Read: Chap 8 & 14 Anson, “Closed Systems” Neglected R
 * Feb. 14
 * Draft: Curriculum Framework Analysis of Standards ** || What is Multi-modal literacy? ||
 * Feb. 21

Ivanic policy Discourse

Write: : (Post and respond to blogs)
 * Curriculum Framework Analysis ** Due || What are the consequences of policy and assessment? ||
 * ** Feb. 27 ** || === ===

WINTER RECESS
|| ** Feb. 27 – 3/4 ** || (8) || Read: HALR Chap 17 Yancey, “Coming to Terms” Write: : (Post and respond to blogs) || What is College Readiness? Reading Groups will meet: What literacy theories are advanced in your elective reading? || (9) || Read: HALR 9 & 10 Gee. Ideology Write: (P ost /respond to blogs) || How does ideology govern literacy?
 * Mar. 6
 * Mar. 13

Reading Groups meet: How is literacy implemented in school settings? || (10) || Read: HALR 22 & 23 Write: (Don’t forget to post) || How are groups marginalized in school? Reading groups meet: Prepare Panel Presentation ||
 * Mar 20
 * ====Mar 27 ====

(11) || Read: HALR 6 & 7

**Panel Presentations on Elective Texts**
|| What is Disciplinary Literacy? || (12) || Read: HALR 15 & 16 Write: ** Draft of Literacy Event Analysis ** || How is writing different inside and outside School? What literacy proposal is inspired by your reading? || (13) || Write**: Literacy Event Analysis Due** Write: Literacy Action Proposal || What question or problem is framed by your literacy action proposal?
 * Apr 3
 * April 10

Listing and scheduling of topics || (14) || Read: Resources for Literacy Action Proposal Write: Draft of Literacy Action Proposal
 * April 17
 * April 17

Final posting/ response for Blo
|| @Literacy Forum ||
 * Apr. 24 || Read: Resources for Literacy Action Proposal
 * Write: ** Literacy Action Proposal Due

|| Literacy Forum Last seven Proposals presented w/ Q & A ||