Week 3: Tue 9.1/Thu 9.3 – The Silent Generation and The Post-War Boom

Week 3: Tue 9.1/Thu 9.3 – The Silent Generation and The Post-War Boom 
Class: Lecture—“Crafting the Essay: Writing as a Process” 
Due: DIAGNOSTIC 

Upcoming:

Week 4: Tue 9.8/Thu 9.10 – Baby Boomers and Life in Suburbia 
Class: Presentation topic assignments; Lecture—“Building a Better Multimedia Presentation: An Annotated Look” 
Due: REFLECTION 1

Week 5: Tue 9.15/Thu 9.17 – Baby Boomers and The Onset of The Cold War 
Watch: eR—Media Pack 1 
Class: Lecture— Lecture—“You’re in College Now: The New Rules of University Writing,” “Ten Common Writing Mistakes—And How to Fix Them, “Inside the Narrative: Burke’s Dramatistic Pentad”

Week 6: Tue 9.22/Thu 9.24 – Baby Boomers and The Rise of The Counterculture 
Class: Lecture—“AI + College Writing: What to Know,” “Citing Sources in MLA: The Basics” 
Due: DRAMATISTIC PENTAD

Week 7: Tue 9.29/Thu 10.1 – Gen X and The Latchkey Way of Life 
Read: eR—" Managing Tips for a Multigenerational Workforce: From Baby Boomers to Gen Z” (Buisness.com), “An Old-School Belief About Money May Be the Real Reason Boomer Bosses Are So Hard to Work For (YouTango), “Boomers Stay Late, Millennials Burn Out, GenZ Set Boundaries: Welcome to Work Life in 2025” (Times of India), “Generational Productivity: When are Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X, and Boomer Workers Most Productive?” (Adobe), “Today’s Unprecedented Six-Generation Workforce” (Bentley University), “Five Generations in the Workplace: How to Manage Them All” (BetterUp) 
Class: Reading discussion; Lecture—“Reading for College: Seven Tips,” Finding the Middle Ground: The Rogerian Argument”

Week 8: Tue 10.6/Thu 10.8 – Gen X and The Collapse of the Cold War 
Read: eR—“Gen Z are Over Having Their Work Ethic Questioned: ‘Most Boomers Don’t Know What it’s Like to Work 40+ Hours a Week and Still Not be Able to Afford a House’” (Fortune), “Which Generation Has the Strongest Work Ethic—and Which is the Laziest?” (MoneyTalks News) 
Class: Reading discussion; Slide presentations; Lecture—“AI + College Writing: Best Practices” 
Due: THE ROGERIAN ARGUMENT

Week 9: Tue 10.13/Thu 10.15 – Gen X and The Rise of New Technologies 
Read: GENERATIONS—Chapter 1 (Introduction), Chapter 3 ("Boomers"), Chapter 4 ("Gen X") 
Class: Reading discussion; Slide presentations; Lecture—“On Wordiness: Exercises,” "What’s the Appeal?: Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion”

Week 10: Tue 10.20/Thu 10.22 – Millennials and The War on Terror 
Read: GENERATIONS—Chapter 5 ("Millennials"), Chapter 6 ("Gen Z"), Chapter 8 ("Conclusion/Future") 
Class: Reading discussion; Slide presentations 
Due: ARISTOTELIAN ANALYSIS

Week 11: Tue 10.27/Thu 10.29 – Millennials and The Arrival of Social Media 
Class: Slide presentations 
Watch: “Gen Z's Not Buying Houses and Boomers are Crashing Out” (imuRgency) 
Due: Reading discussion; Slide presentations, Lecture—“Framing Reality: On Goffman’s Frame Analysis”

Week 12: Tue 11.3/Thu 11.5 – Millennials and The Great Recession 
Class: Slide presentations; Baby Boomer guest speakers (TBA) 
Due: GOFFMAN’S FRAME ANALYSIS

Week 13: Tue 11.10/Thu 11.12 – Gen Z and The First Trump Administration 
Class: Slide presentations; Gen X guest speakers (TBA) 
Due: REFLECTIONS 2 AND 3

Week 14: Tue 11.17/Thu 11.19 – Gen Z and The COVID-19 Pandemic 
Class: Slide presentations; Millenial speakers (TBA)

Week 15: Tue 11.24/Thu 11.26 (No Class—Thanksgiving) – Gen Alpha and The Rise of AI 
Class: Slide presentations; Lecture—"The Reflective ePortfolio: A How-To” 
Due: REFLECTION 4 

Week 16: Tue 12.1/Thu 12.3* – Gen Alpha and The Future 
Class: Multimedia presentations; Course wrap-up 
Due: RESEARCH PROJECT

*Last regular class meeting for the semester

Final Exam Meeting Times:

Sec. 80 Thu 12.10: 1:00 – 3:00 PM 
Due: ENGLISH DEPT. REFLECTIVE ePORTFOLIO (SUBMIT VIA CANVAS BY MIDNIGHT)

Sec. 81 Thu 12.10: 3:15 – 5:15 PM 
Due: ENGLISH DEPT. REFLECTIVE ePORTFOLIO (SUBMIT VIA CANVAS BY MIDNIGHT)