This common syllabus is provided to support our newest instructors, as well as instructors interested in learning about the latest changes to the CO150 curriculum. Please follow the links below to view the syllabus materials:
Note: The following weekly and daily lesson plans provide varying levels of detail about suggested course goals and activities. The weekly lesson plans provide overviews of teaching and learning goals for each week. They become less detailed as the semester proceeds. Daily lesson plans are provided, for both Monday/Wednesday/Friday and Tuesday/Thursday sections, for the first portfolio.
Course
Goals
General Advice about Teaching
Introduction to Weekly and Daily Lesson Plans
Portfolio 1: Daily
Lesson Plans
Week 1: Monday, August 23 - Friday,
August 27
Monday | Tuesday
| Wednesday | Thursday
| Friday
Week 2: Monday, August 30 - Friday, September
3
Monday | Tuesday
| Wednesday | Thursday
| Friday
Week 3: Tuesday, September 7 - Friday,
September 10
Labor Day | Tuesday | Wednesday
| Thursday | Friday
Week 4: Monday, September 13 - Friday,
September 17
Monday | Tuesday
| Wednesday | Thursday
| Friday
Week 5: Monday, September 20 - Friday,
September 24
Monday | Tuesday
| Wednesday | Thursday
| Friday
Portfolio 2: Complete Weekly Plans
Week 6: Monday, September 27 - Friday,
October 1
Week 7: Monday, October 4 - Friday, October
8
Week 8: Monday, October 11 - Friday,
October 15
Week 9: Monday, October 18 - Friday,
October 22
Portfolio 3: Complete Weekly Plans
Week 10: Monday, October 25
- Friday, October 29
Week 11: Monday, November 1 - Friday,
November 5
Week 12: Monday, November 8 - Friday,
November 12
Week 13: Monday, November 15 - Friday,
November 19
Thanksgiving Break: Monday,
November 22 - Friday, November 26
Week 14: Monday, November 29 - Friday,
December 3
Week 15: Monday, December 6 - Friday,
December 10
Final Examination
Note: These documents provide rationales for each of the portfolios as well as the assignments themselves. We advise reading the overview for portfolios two and three prior to planning your class lessons.
Overview of Major Assignments for CO150
Portfolio
1: Goals and Overview
Portfolio 1: Assignment
Portfolio 2: Goals
Portfolio 2: Overview
Portfolio
2: General Guidelines
Portfolio 2: Topic Proposal
Portfolio 2: Personal
Position Analysis
Portfolio 2: Annotated Bibliography
Portfolio 2: Issue Analysis
Conference Preparation
Worksheet
Portfolio 3: Goals
Portfolio 3: Overview
Portfolio 3, Part A: Contributing to
the Debate about a Public Issue
for an Academic Audience
Portfolio 3, Part B: Contributing to the
Debate about a Public Issue
Admin Materials
How to Create a Writing Studio Account
Accessing
EReserve
CO150 Mid-Term Course
Evaluation
Grading Criteria for Summary and
Response Essay
Helpful Things
The Writing@CSU Teaching Activities
Bank
Rhetorical Terminology
Backward
Outline Analysis Directions
Backwards Outline Workshop
Revision
Anne Lamott's Bird
by Bird excerpt
Research Assistance
Some Sample Topics
Research Strategies
Issue Analysis Log
Argument Aids
Types of
Claims Overhead
Questions for Audience
Analysis
Mini-Debate Activity (Legalizing
Marijuana)
Workshops
Summary and Response Essay
Letter
to the Editor
Academic Context Argument
Public
Context Argument
Portfolio Samples
Portfolio 1: Summary Homework Drafts
Portfolio 1: Agree/Disagree Homework Drafts
Portfolio 1: Interpretive/Reflective Homework Drafts
Portfolio 1: Analytical/Evaluative Homework Drafts
Portfolio 1: Student Summary and Response Paper
Portfolio 1: Student Letter to the Editor
Portfolio 2: Student Topic Proposal
Portfolio 2: Student Personal Position Analysis
Portfolio 2: Student Annotated Bibliography
Portfolio
2: Student Issue Analyses
Portfolio 3, Part A: Student Academic Context Argument
Portfolio
3, Part B: Student Public Context Argument 1
Portfolio
3, Part B: Student Public Context Argument 2
