TEDTalk Assignment
this is america discussion
Unit 4 Key Terms Wiki
English 101: Reading and Composition-Open For Antiracism (OFAR)
Overview
The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward.
Action Plan
Because antiracism requires direct action and confrontation of racist ideas, these materials are constructed to help students problematize and push back against notions of racism and white supremacy by tackling the "American Dream" concept and connecting this to a current sociopolitical issue and research question.
Course Description
English 101: Reading and Composition
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Specifically, the to be successful in this class, you will need to:
- Recognize and revise sentence-level grammar and usage errors.
- Read and apply critical-thinking skills to numerous published articles and to college-level, book-length works for the purpose of writing and discussion.
- Apply appropriate strategies in the writing process including dissecting and understanding prompts, prewriting, composing, revising, and editing techniques.
- Compose coherent, multi-paragraph, thesis-driven essays with logical and appropriate supporting ideas, including in-text citations.
- Demonstrate the ability to locate and utilize a variety of academic databases, peer-reviewed journals, and scholarly websites.
- Demonstrate the ability to write coherent, text-driven, tied in-class essays.
- Utilize MLA guidelines to format essays, cite sources in the texts of essays, and compile Works Cited lists.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Complete a research-based essay that has been written out of class and undergone revision. It should demonstrate the students’ ability to thoughtfully support a single thesis using analysis and synthesis.
- Integrate multiple sources, including a book-length work and a variety of academic databases, peer-reviewed journals, and scholarly websites. Citations must be in MLA format and include a Works Cited page.
- Demonstrate logical paragraph composition and sentence structure. The essay should have correct grammar, spelling, and word use.
Antiracist Assignment / Module
This English Composition class has a module that now has a theme of "Problematizing the 'American Dream'". A number of materials are attached here from the unit that bring antiracist content, theory, and approches into the class. Attached here are a few elements that were added to the unit to highlight antiracist pedagogy and curriculum.
Included are:
Community Agreements: Class Ground Rules: a community document in the "Start Here" module of the class. This allows students to contribute to the ground rules of the course and share their own goals, expectations, and limitations with the class.
Key Terms Wiki: a communal document to create a centralized list of key terms. It is a page in Canvas, but students have editiing capabilities.
Discussion: This Is America: This is a discussion board in the American Dream unit. This discussion uses pop culture (Childish Gambino's "This Is America") as a way to think about issues in the concept of the "American Dream". This activity is culturally responsive--giving students the opportunity to work with material (lyrics) that are outside of the Eurocentric canon, but explore important conceptual ideas connected to racism and the "American Dream".
TEDTalk Assignment: This is a non-disposable assignment to ensure that students see their own work and investment in the research paper through with the sharing and dissemination of their ideas.