Daily Schedule for Unit 1: Identity

Week	Day	In-Class Activities	Read by this date	Assignments Due; Notes
1	1/10			Snow Day, classes canceled
	1/12			Snow Day, classes canceled
	1/14	Review Syllabus		Last day late registration Find Saunders’s “The Braindead Megaphone” on uLearn and read for Friday Purchase texts
2	1/17			MLK Day, no class
	1/19	Discuss Saunders’s “The Braindead Megaphone”	“The Braindead Megaphone”
	1/21	Discuss method of text Discuss Barthes’ “Toys” (handout)	Signs: Intro to book PDF available on uLearn
3	1/24	Discuss reading Unit 1-A: Identity Possessions, contrived appearances FW: pre-writing techniques, etc.	Familiarize yourself with: Writers Reference Section C (Composing) pgs. 3-64 Signs: Consuming Passions 75-85 PDF available on uLearn Kron, “The Semiotics of Home Décor” p. 119 PDF available on uLearn Schneider, “Frumpy or Chic?” p. 139 PDF available on uLearn
	1/26		Signs: 2 essays TBA Twitchell, “What We Are to Advertisers” p. 192 Goewey, “Careful, You May Run Out of Planet” p. 147 Writer’s Reference 67-77 (summary and analysis)
	1/28		Williams, “Enough about You” p. 449 Simpson, “Multitasking State of Mind” p. 469 Signs: Writing about Popular Culture (p. 33-67) Read over weekend for your first paper	Summary & Analysis of any one essay read thus far; use Hacker’s 67-77 to accomplish this (600 words)
4	1/31	Unit 1-B: Identity Politics, gender, race, ethnicity	Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” p.  487	Due: paper 1-A Use Signs: Writing about Popular Culture section
	2/2		Mayer, “The New Sexual Stone Age” p. 312 Devon, “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes” p. 567
	2/4		Cahill, “The Case for Marriage Equality” p. 586 Tannen, “There is No Unmarked Woman” p. 620
5	2/7		Braxton “Hollywood BBFs 4-Ever” p. 667 Bernstein, “Goin’ Gangsta, Choosin’ Cholita” p. 691
	2/9	Unit 2:		Due: paper 1-B (will have read 6 essays for paper)