Schedule – The Secret Language of Comics

Week	Date	Assignment	Writing due
1	1/26	Introduction to the class
	1/28	Andrea Lunsford, “Rhetorical Situations” and “Reading Rhetorically” from Everyone’s an Author Allie Brosh, “Adventures in Depression, Part One” from Hyperbole and a Half.	Create WordPress site Join the Slack workspace X-pages exercise
	1/31		Sketch 1: Avatar
2	2/2	Stitches — first 2/3rds of “I was six” (pages 8-63) Allie Brosh, “Adventures in Depression, Part Two“
	2/4	Sousanis, Nick. “The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some” and “The Shape of Our Thoughts,” from Unflattening. Stitches — rest of “I was six” and “I was eleven” (64-156)
	2/7		Sketch 2: Sunday Sketches
3	2/9	Dan Roam, “First Draw a Circle, then Give it a Name” (chpt 3) from Draw to Win Stitches — “I was fourteen” (157-242)	Literacy Narrative, part 1
	2/11	Hillary Chute, “Comics for Grown-Ups” from Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere Stitches — “I was fifteen” & “A few years ago I had the following dream. In the dream I was a boy of six again” (243-329)
	2/14		Sketch 3: Visual Note Taking
4	2/16	Scott McCloud Making Comics, chpt 1 Spinning — Prologue and chapters 1-3 (1-114)
	2/18	Spinning — chapters 4-5 (115-82)
	2/21		Sketch 4: Combophoto
5	2/23	Spinning — chapters 6-8 (183-318)	Literacy narrative comic storyboard (in class)
	2/25	Spinning — chapters 9-10 & author’s note (319-94)
	2/28		Sketch 5: Triptych
6	3/2	Hillary Chute, “Introduction: Women, Comics, and the Risk of Representation” from Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. Kindred — Introduction, Prologue, The River, The Fire (4-57)
	3/4	Kindred — The Fall (58-99)
	3/7		Sketch 6: What’s in your bag?
7	3/9	Kindred — The Fight & The Storm (100-209)
	3/11	Kindred — The Rope, Epilogue, About Octavia Butler & About the Adaptor and Artist (210-240)	Tracing Pages
	3/14		Sketch 7: Quadriptych
8	3/16	No class: “Rest Day
	3/18	Sabrina — 1-50
	3/21		Data gathering for sketch 8
9	3/23	Sabrina — 51-100	Literacy Narrative, part 2 [extra time]
	3/25	Sabrina — 101- 157
	3/28		Data gathering for sketch 8
10	3/30	Sabrina –158-204
	4/1	Good Talk chpts 1-10 (pp 3-85)	Literacy Narrative, part 3
	4/4		Sketch 8: Data viz from everyday life
11	4/6	Good Talk chpts 11-26 (pp 87-217)
	4/8	Good Talk chpts 27-35 (pp 218-294)
	4/11
12	4/13	Good Talk chpts 36-42 (pp 294-349)	Halfa Kucha, day 1
	4/15	Mister Miracle (pp. 1-36)	Halfa Kucha, day 2
	4/18		Sketch 9: Recreate a movie scene
13	4/20	Mister Miracle (pp. 37-158)
	4/22	Mister Miracle (pp. 159-205)
	4/25		~~Sketch 10: Tell a True Story~~
14	4/27	Mister Miracle (pp. 206-end)
	4/29	Conclusion	Revise projects, portfolio reflection letter, edit website
	5/2		Sketch 11: Assemblies
	5/10	Final Exam Period (no exam, but that’s when your final portfolio is due)	Final Portfolio and Reflection Letter

This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses. Changes will be indicated in the table above and I will also announce significant changes in a blog post.