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fall 2023 Prof L Overman's English 355 Mondays

WEEKLY SCHEDULE 7-11
Class Day What We Will Do in Class Today CLASS Homework:Readings done prior to Class Writing Projects

MONDAY

Wk 7:

10/9

 

Literary elements to connect these two genres: Graphic novel & memoir

maus11cover

 
  1. Group Presentation:Grace Nuce,Daniel Tavarez
    Maus II, Art Spiegelman
  2. Group Presentation:Steven Martinez, Sabrina Silva,Vincent Pingul - The Stable Boy of Auschwitz, Oster & Ford
  3. Canvas: Additional Reading Module -Review of Christopher Browning's book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
  4. Canvas: Essay 2 prompt in Major Essays module  

Print, read, review handouts from Projects link above:

  • Compare & Contrast
  • Dr. Henry Oster bio

Due in class:

  • Presentation Responses

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 1155p.m prior to subsequent class:

  • Click on Dicussion 2 due for this week, read prompt & reply.
  • Must also post a minimum of ONE reply to a classmate.

 

Wk 8:

10/16

 

 

 

Honored guest and speaker: Susan Oster wife of the author of The Kindness of the Hangman --the late DR. HENRY OSTER

 

 
  1. Complete reading of The Stable Boy of Auschwitz & Maus II
  2. Canvas: The Milgram Experiment--Review link in Additional Readings module
  3. Writing Compare/Contrast (38-40)

 

Due in class:

  • Prior to class upload in Canvas-List of three prepared questions for our speaker

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 1155PM prior subsequent class:

  • Upload in Canvas Essay 2 Scratch Outline/Thesis follow examples modeled for you
    on 186-189
  • DUE FRI 1155PM Reply to each assigned group member's draft

 

Wk 9:

10/23

Intro to Poetry: Understanding Poetry

  1. "Defining Poetry" (657) "Reading & Writing About Poetry" (661-666), "The Sonnet" (817-818)
  2. "Ballad" & Ballad Stanza" (816-817)
  3. SYMBOL (853-861)
  4. "Writing an Explication" (43-47)
  5. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (973)
  6. "To His Coy Mistress" (776)
  7. "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day" (758)
  8. "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (754)
  9. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (891)
  10. CANVAS: SONNET forms dylan thomas handout in Additional Reading Module 
  11. CANVAS: Scanning Poems handout in Additional Reading Module 

Print, read, review handouts from Projects link above:

  1. Poetry Worksheet

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class:

  • Essay 2 due
    Upload final draft in turnitin.com via Canvas

 

Wk 10:

10/30

 

What does the Image/Voice in a poem evoke for us?

  1. "Ballad" & Ballad Stanza" (660)
  2. WORD CHOICE/WORD ORDER (713-737)
  3. VOICE: "The Speaker in the Poem" (676)
  4. "Ballad of Birmingham" (708) Randall
  5. "Suicide Note" (683) Mirikitani
  6. Group Presentation:Montserratt Elvir, Max Levin "After great pain a formal feeling comes--"(972) Dickinson
  7. Group Presentation: Gerardo Escobar, Domenico Sanchez "The Red Wheelbarrow" (742) Williams
  8. Canvas: Essay 3 prompt in Major Essays module

Due in class:

  • Presentation Response

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 11:55 p.m prior to subsequent class:

  • Click on Discussion 3 due for this week, read prompt & reply.
  • Must also post a minimum of TWO replies to classmates.

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Wk 11: 11/6

And to what end do Symbols in a poem deepen our understanding?

 
  1. READ ALL Essay 3 selections
  2. Writing About Poetry (661-666)
  3. VOICE (711)
  4. IMAGERY (739-756)
  5. SOUND/RHYTHM (792-811)
  6. Canvas: Scannning Poems in Additional Reading Module
  7. Group Presentation: Riona Mahawan,Kevin Lima "Facing it "(906)
  8. Dulce et Decorum Est (902)
  9. "Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art" (PS1) glossy pages between pp 660-661. (Digital copy pp.708-715)
  10. "Sonnet in Primary Colors" (PS2) glossy pages
  11. Canvas: Frida Kahlo Short Bio in Additional Reading Module
  12. Group presentation: Dakota Farley, Grace Wilmarth "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" (799)

 

Due in class:

  • Presentation Responses

Due outside of class---All discussions/shortwrites and/or essays due Thursdays 1155PM prior to subsequent class :

  • Upload Essay 3: Thesis/Scratch Outline on ONE POEM ONLY from Essay 3 list. Follow example modeled for you on pg 666.
  • Due: FRI 1155pm Reply to each assigned group member's draft