Enrollment: 16

Typically, this class is discussion-based. Students engage in a lot of group work, write in some form almost daily, and discuss or present course material constantly. Writing is emphasized, and I use time to focus in on practicing skills they can use going forward (i.e., marking a text, close reading, developing a topic sentence, organizing paragraphs, peer review). Much of this work requires students to be next to each other—and since this won’t be possible, we will do a lot of remote work, because I think the peer-to-peer work is critical.

The graph below illustrates my current, tentative plan. Yellow is constant: what undergirds the work and what the scaffolded work is building toward—in that sense, both asynchronous and synchronous. Green represents weekly asynchronous tasks, blue synchronous.