Teaching Fellows 2009-2010

Documents

Convocation Book

Orientation

Meetings

Meetings

We will hold triweekly meetings on Wednesdays during the common meeting time, 12:30-1:45PM. Let me know beforehand if you have any issues that you want added to the agenda.

 

Fall 2009 Date Agenda/Location
Orientation
W, 8-12

Orientation Schedule
Week 1
M, 8-17

meeting in Library Room 241: Access!: English 1101
Week 2
W, 8-26
 
Week 3
W, 9-2
 
Week 4
W, 9-9

meeting in A&S 315
Week 5
W, 9-16
 

Week 6

W, 9-23
 
Week 7
W, 9-30

meeting in A&S 315, then move to A&S 349 for the Cengage Textbook Fair
Week 8
W, 10-7
 
Week 9
W, 10-14

Textbook Adoption Committee meeting (new Fellows let Alex, Rachel, or Nathan know their recommendations)

Bedford/St. Martin's Textbook Fair, 12:30-2:30PM in A&S 349

Book Orders Due Thursday, 10-15
Week 10
W, 10-21

meeting in A&S 315; discuss Regents' Test
Week 11
W, 10-28
 
Week 12
W, 11-4
 
Week 13
W, 11-11

meeting in A&S 315
Week 14
W, 11-18
 
Week 15
W, 11-25

Thanksgiving Break
Week 16
W, 12-2
 
Finals
W, 12-9

Finals

 

Spring 2010 Date Agenda/Location
Week 1
W, 1-13
 
Week 2
W, 1-20

Meeting: Evaluations, Grade Distribution, Sample Assignments
Week 3
W, 1-27

[No Meeting: Alex has Convocation Book Committee]
Week 4
W, 2-3
 
Week 5
W, 2-10

Meeting: Class Observations, Fall Textbooks, 2006 1101/1102 Proposal

Week 6

W, 2-17
 
Week 7
W, 2-24
 
Week 8
W, 3-3

[No Meeting: MFA Students meet with Mark Doty]

Week 9
W, 3-10

Meeting: Incompletes, Book Fair, Peer Response

Week 10
W, 3-17
 
Week 11
W, 3-24

Spring Break
Week 12
W, 3-31

Bedford/St. Martin's Book Fair

Week 13
W, 4-7
 
Week 14
W, 4-14
 
Week 15
W, 4-21

Meeting: Book Orders, Compliance, Student Opinion Surveys, Reflections, Suggestions
Week 16
W, 4-28
 
Finals
W, 5-5

Finals

Class Observations

The Coordinator will observe six instructors in the fall and six in the spring. New Fellows and Fellows desiring a teaching letter have observation priority fall semester. Experienced Fellows not requiring letters of recommendation will be observed in the spring.

 

Fall 2009 Instructor Date/Time/Room

Weeks 3-4

(8-31-9-11)

John Teschner

Tuesday, September 1, 12:30-1:45PM, Napier II 003

Weeks 5-6

(9-14-9-25)

Josh Ruffin Wednesday, September 23, 5:30-6:45PM, A&S 138A
Evan Allgood Thursday, September 24, 5:30-6:45PM, A&S 340B

Weeks 7-8

(9-28-10-9)

 Leah Norton

Tuesday, October 6, 9:30-10:45AM, Chappell Hall 105

Weeks 9-10

(10-12/10-23)

Rachel Marsom Friday, October 16, 9:00-9:50AM or 10:00-10:50AM, Chappell Hall 105

Weeks 11-12

(10-26/11-06)

    

Weeks 13-14

(11-09/11-20)

 Andrew Howard Thursday, November 12, 8:00-9:15AM, A&S 368
Joey Grisham Thursday, November 12, 12:30-1:45PM, A&S 167

 

Spring 2010 Instructor Date/Time/Room

Weeks 3-4

(1-25/2-5)

 

 

Weeks 5-6

(2-8/2-19)

   

Weeks 7-8

(2-22/3-5)

 Zach Burkhart Wednesday, March 3, 5:30-6:45PM, Arts & Sciences 150

Weeks 9-10

(3-8/3-19)

   

Weeks 11-12

(3-22/4-2)

    

Weeks 13-14

(4-5/4-16)

    

Book Orders

According to the Aim and Scope Supplement, Fellows teaching 1101 or 1102 for the first time, must use the reader and rhetorc selected by the Textbook Adoption Committee. Fellows teaching 1101 or 1102 for the second or third time may use the reader and rhetoric of their own choosing after having their selection approved by the Coordinator. Here is how to order textbooks from the University Bookstore.

 

Spring 2010 Instructor Reader Rhetoric Supplement
Allgood, Evan Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Blazer, Alex Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Burkhart, Zach      
Elliott, Marie Meyer, The Compact Bedford Gardner, Writing about Literature  
Emmert, Ashley Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader  
Grisham, Joey not teaching 1102    
Howard, Andrew
 Kirszner, Portable Literature included in reader

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises or

Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

Marsom, Rachel

Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader  
Norton, Leah Guth, Discovering Literature    
Ruffin, Josh Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader

Doty, School of the Arts

Kerouac, Big Sur
Teschner, John Shilb, Making Literature Matter included in reader Doty, Fire to Fire
Torrey, Will Kirszner, Portable Literature included in reader Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Tucker, Nathan Gardner, et al, Literature included in reader  

 

Fall 2010 Instructor Reader Rhetoric
Allgood, Evan

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Blazer, Alex

Jacobus, A World of Ideas

Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Burkhart, Zach    
Emmert, Ashley

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Hazelwood, Rebecca

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Hogelin, Abby

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Jurak, Matt

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising

Marsom, Rachel

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
McCormick, Stephan

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Ruffin, Josh

Latterell, Remix

Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Sollenberger, Roger

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Torres, Jonathan

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising
Wayson, Valerie

Miller, Acting Out Culture

 Kennedy and Muth, Writing and Revising

 

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