October 1:  Teaching the ethnography unit. Choose one discussion group: Classroom activities for generating data; Site selection and project management; or Using the Odyssey Reader for developing the ethnography.

Assignment for October 8:
Write an entry for the Composition Cookbook. Locate a place in Notes for Teachers that you already have or plan to "play" with. Prepare a handout that directs your fellow 105 teachers to the section of Notes or UOR that you are drawing from. The handout should explain your classroom technique and specify when you used or plan to use it. Your description should be detailed enough that other teachers might go right into the classroom and DO IT. Be sure to include pertinent details: How are you going to set up the room? What prompts are you going to give the students? What are you going to say and do? What are you expecting the students to say or do? Keep in mind that everyone who will read this handout and use your ideas will not hear you talk about it. You might also want to prepare an additional handout that could be distributed directly to students.
Bring 30 copies of your handout to class on October 8, and come prepared to explain the activity described in your handout.

Week of October 4:  Class visit exchanges.  On October 1, sign up to visit a WRT 670 team member's class.  On October 8, give your group coordinator your written reflection on what you observed.  (Be sure to give a copy to the person whose class you observed, too.) 

October 8:  Affiliate group work. CCR students will meet in one group; creative writing in another; literary studies in another. Each group will plan a pedagogy presentation for October 22. The literary studies group might decide to explain how literary approaches to reading can inform the teaching of reading in 105 classes; the creative writing group, how creative writing pedagogy can be translated into the 105 classroom; the CCR group, how abstract rhetorical theory can aid the teaching of Writing 105.

Week of October 11:  Class visit exchanges.  In the week of October 11, a member of the 670 team will visit your class.  On October 22, she will give you her written reflection on what she observed. 

October 15:  No class meeting; FALL BREAK

October 22: NO CLASS MEETING; at 2:00 in 239 HBC, Ellen Cushman (University of Colorado-Denver) will speak about her ethnographic community literacy project in Troy, New York.

October 29:  Methods for teaching Unit III

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